Monday vs Asana UK: prices, free plans and automation compared

Prices compared

Prices are per seat (monday.com) or per user (Asana) a month, as shown on the official pricing pages on 27 October 2026 from a UK connection: monday.com in pounds, Asana in US dollars (Asana doesn’t show pounds to UK visitors). They exclude VAT. We haven’t converted currencies.

Some notes on these figures:

• Currency. From a UK connection, monday.com showed pounds and Asana showed US dollars. monday.com says “the price is determined by the user’s billing country”. Standard and Pro yearly prices were marked as a special offer. For Asana, check the amount in pounds at checkout.
• Seats on monday.com. monday.com’s help centre says plans start at 3 seats and then go up in multiples of 5. So a team of 4 needs the 5-seat option, and a team of 6 needs 10. Its pricing page says you can ask for a quote above 40 seats.
• Seats on Asana. Asana’s pricing FAQ says the smallest paid plan is 2 seats. You add seats 1 at a time up to 5, then in steps of 5 up to 30, steps of 10 up to 100, and bigger steps after that. Free guests don’t add to your licence count.
• Yearly billing. Both charge less per seat if you pay yearly. On monday.com’s prices in the table, yearly works out about 15% (Standard) to 27% (Basic) cheaper than monthly, so up to about 27%. Asana says you save up to 18%.
• Asana’s UK offer. Asana’s UK discount terms offer 11% off Starter on yearly billing, and 3% off monthly or 19% off yearly on Advanced. It’s open to UK residents who are new customers or free users upgrading. It covers the first term only, and Asana can change or withdraw it at any time.
• Trial. monday.com’s pricing page says “Start free, no credit card needed” and gives no trial length. Its help centre said, when we checked on 27 October 2026, that signing up starts a 14-day free trial of Pro. Asana’s pricing page showed no trial details.
• VAT. monday.com says its prices don’t include tax. Asana says it may need to charge VAT, and that VAT-registered businesses can add their VAT number at checkout.
• Refunds. Asana’s pricing FAQ says it doesn’t offer refunds. If you cancel, you keep paid features until the end of your current billing period.

Free plans

Both free plans are fine for 2 people trying things out, but not for a whole team.

• monday.com Free: up to 2 seats, up to 3 boards and up to 3 Docs, with 200+ templates and the iOS and Android apps. Its help centre says the Free plan is only offered on its main work platform.
• Asana Personal: 2 users, unlimited tasks and projects, list, board and calendar views, unlimited storage (100MB per file) and 100+ free integrations.

Automation: built-in rules and their limits

This is the biggest difference between the two.

monday.com includes automations and integrations from Standard upwards, but not on Free or Basic. Each plan comes with a monthly allowance of actions, counted separately for automations and integrations:

monday.com’s own help article says 250 actions a month “is typically exhausted within days” for accounts whose automations notify several people or fill in several columns. It also warns that the Gmail and Outlook integrations can use up a lot of actions. Admins get an email alert at 50%, 75% and 100% of the allowance. Its automations page lists code-free automations for notifications, date reminders, assigning people and creating tasks, built from ready-made recipes or your own.

Asana includes unlimited automations from Starter upwards. Its pricing page lists unlimited rules and a workflow builder from Starter, two-way sync with Jira Cloud from Advanced, and Script Actions on Enterprise. Script Actions let a rule run your own Node.js code that calls the Asana API.

If your team will rely on automations, Asana Starter gives you more room on its first paid plan. On monday.com, budget for Pro if the Standard allowance looks tight.

Zapier, Make and n8n

Built-in automations only work inside each tool. To link monday.com or Asana to your CRM, forms, email or accounting software, you can use an automation platform. The three main ones all have connectors for both:

• Zapier: Zapier's monday.com integrations and Zapier's Asana integrations
• Make: Make's monday.com integrations and Make's Asana integrations
• n8n: n8n's monday.com integration and n8n's Asana integration

monday.com’s pricing page also lists a daily API call limit by plan (1,000 a day on Standard and 10,000 on Pro), so ask whoever builds your flows how they will count towards it. Our n8n vs Make vs Zapier guide explains how the three platforms compare on price and hosting. You can also read our monday.com, Zapier, Make and n8n pages.

Integrations and AI

• Integrations. monday.com lists 850+ integrations and apps, plus no-code platforms, APIs and an MCP server for AI tools (monday.com's integrations page). Asana lists 100+ free integrations, including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Slack, and adds Salesforce, Tableau and Power BI on Advanced (Asana's apps directory). The two count integrations differently, so the totals aren’t a like-for-like comparison.
• AI. Both include some AI on paid plans, with limits. monday.com lists monthly AI credits per plan (1,000 on Basic, 2,000 on Standard, 3,000 on Pro). Asana includes AI Studio and AI Teammates on Starter, with 5 requests per user a month (up to 50 per account), and sells extra requests.

Which one suits you

Both have a free plan, so the easiest test is to run one real project in each with your team for a week.

When to get help

You can set up either tool yourself. It can be worth paying for help if you’re moving lots of projects over from spreadsheets or another tool, or want monday.com or Asana connected to your CRM, forms and finance tools.

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