7 Asana alternatives compared on price and free-plan limits
Teams leave Asana for two reasons, and both are numbers: the free Personal plan stops at two users, and the first paid tier is $10.99 per user per month billed annually, rising to $24.99 on Advanced. With one honest drawback named for each, Taskee included, the seven tools below are compared on exactly those axes: where the free plan ends and what the first paid tier costs.
Pricing and limits verified: 2 September 2026
| Tool | Free plan — users | Free plan — storage | First paid tier (annual) | Native time tracking | Gantt / timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taskee | Unlimited | Up to 10 GB | No paid tier | Yes | No |
| Trello | 10 collaborators per Workspace | Unlimited, 10 MB per file | $5/user/mo | No | Timeline on Premium |
| ClickUp | Not capped by seat count | 60 MB | $7/user/mo | On Unlimited ($7/user/mo) | Trial only on Free |
| monday.com | 2 seats | Not published | $9/seat/mo | On Pro ($19/seat/mo) | From Standard ($12/seat/mo) |
| Notion | Limited for teams | 5 MB per file | $10/mo billed monthly | No | Not stated on the pricing page |
| Jira | 10 users | 2 GB | $7.91/user/mo | Not stated on the pricing page | Timeline included from Free |
| Basecamp | 5 users | 1 GB | $25/mo flat | Not stated on the pricing page | Not stated on the pricing page |
Asana itself, for reference: free for 2 users, 100 MB per file, Starter $10.99 per user per month billed annually, Advanced $24.99. Native time tracking arrives on Advanced; Timeline and Gantt from Starter.
Source: asana.com/pricing
What Taskee does not have yet
Taskee is a young product and the honest list of what it does not do is short but real, as of 2 September 2026:
- No standalone mobile app. The FAQ says it plainly: Taskee is adapted for the mobile browser and can be saved to the home screen, but there is no iOS or Android app.
- No native connectors. There is a documented REST API with 140 endpoints and a published OpenAPI 3.0 specification, plus CSV export, but no ready-made Slack, Google or Jira integration and no webhooks — see Taskee integrations.
- No Gantt chart or timeline view.
- No automation rules.
- Several features are marked “Soon” on the site — project budgeting, quick tasks, personal projects, custom reports and others. Roadmap is not delivery, and nothing on this page counts them as shipped.
The seven alternatives, one by one
1. Taskee — best if you need unlimited free seats
Free with an unlimited number of users and up to 10 GB of storage; there is no paid tier, and donations are
voluntary. Boards, native time tracking, reports with CSV export and configurable roles are included. A REST
API with 140 endpoints and a published OpenAPI 3.0 specification covers what connectors would otherwise do.
Honest drawback: no Gantt, no automation rules, no native connectors, no webhooks and no
mobile app — the mobile browser is the mobile experience.
Free for unlimited users, up to 10 GB. No paid tier, no trial countdown.
2. Trello — best if boards are the whole job
Free for up to 10 collaborators and 10 boards per Workspace, unlimited cards, 10 MB per file, 250 automation
runs a month. Standard is $5 per user per month billed annually, the lowest first step in this list.
Honest drawback: no native time tracking, and the 10-board ceiling arrives fast for teams that
open a board per client. See Taskee vs Trello.
3. ClickUp — best if you want the most features per dollar
Free Forever is not capped by seat count, but it is capped at 60 MB of storage, with 5
Spaces, 3 whiteboards, one form and 100 automation runs across 5 active rules; Gantt charts and dashboards are
trial-only on the free plan. Unlimited is $7 per user per month billed annually, $10 monthly.
Honest drawback: 60 MB is roughly one shared folder of screenshots, so the free plan is a
demonstration rather than a workspace.
4. monday.com — best if you will build your own process
The Work Management product — not monday CRM, which has a different price grid — is free for
2 seats, 3 boards and 3 documents. Basic is $9 per seat per month billed annually, Standard
$12, Pro $19, and the pricing page shows those figures for 10 seats. Honest drawback: the seat
model makes growth expensive, and the free tier is the narrowest here after Basecamp.
5. Notion — best if tasks live next to documents
Free personal use with a 5 MB file upload limit, 7-day page history and 10 guests; Plus is
$10 per month and Business $20 per month billed monthly, with annual totals not published on the pricing page.
Honest drawback: no native time tracking, and a Notion workspace is something you assemble
before it works like a tracker.
6. Jira — best if the team runs an engineering process
Free for 10 users and 2 GB; Standard $7.91 per user per month with 250 GB; Premium $14.54
with unlimited storage, 24/7 support and a 99.9% uptime SLA; automation runs 1,000 rules per user per month on
paid tiers. Honest drawback: the configuration surface — schemes, workflows, permissions
— is a project of its own for a team that only wanted task tracking.
7. Basecamp — best if you would rather pay a flat fee
The only product here that does not charge per user on paid plans: Free covers 1 project, 1 GB and 5 users;
Freelancer is $25 per month; Studio $59 per month with unlimited users, 10 projects and 25 GB; Pro $99;
Unlimited Edition $299 per month billed annually with 1 TB. Honest drawback: the free plan is
a single project, and Basecamp’s way of working is opinionated — message boards and check-ins
rather than a configurable board.
How to choose
- Count the people first. If the team is over two and the budget is zero, the free plans
that survive are Taskee, Trello (up to 10 collaborators), Jira (up to 10 users) and ClickUp (any number of
people, 60 MB). - Then count what you store. A design or marketing team dies on 60 MB and on a 5 MB file
cap; that rules out ClickUp Free and Notion Free faster than any feature list. - Decide whether you need a timeline. If dependencies and dates drive the work, the honest
answers are Asana Starter, monday or Jira — not Taskee, which has no timeline view. - Check how the tool charges when you grow. Per user (Asana, Trello, ClickUp, Jira,
monday), flat per month (Basecamp), or not at all (Taskee). - Ask what happens to the data later. A documented API or a CSV export is what makes the
next migration cheap; see the Taskee API and CSV export.
Head-to-head pages: Taskee vs Asana and
Taskee vs Trello. Features referenced above:
time tracking, reports. Taskee’s
own pricing is set out on the Taskee pricing page.
