The short version
Terms comparison from both official pricing pages, captured in USD on October 4, 2026. No accounts were created.
Both products bill per person, but they bill for different people. Notion charges members and frees guests; Asana charges users and only frees guests at its top self-serve tier. That is the structural difference that matters more than the price tags.
Pricing side by side
| Notion | Asana | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 per member/month, 10 free guests | $0 Personal, for 2 users |
| Entry paid | Plus $10/member/mo yearly · $12 monthly | Starter $10.99/user/mo yearly · $13.49 monthly |
| Upper paid | Business $20 yearly · $24 monthly | Advanced $24.99/user/mo yearly · $30.49 monthly |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom |
| AI included | Trial on Free and Plus; full from Business $20 | Starter: AI Teammates and Asana Dash, 5 requests per user/month up to 50 per account, 50K credits; Advanced: 75K credits |
| Guests | 10 on Free, unlimited on every paid plan | “Unlimited free guests” listed on Advanced |
| Storage | Free: 5 MB/file; paid: unlimited (~5 GB) | Free: 100 MB max per file |
| Billing | Per member | Per user |
Read the AI row twice. Asana Starter at $10.99 includes Asana AI with 50,000 AI Studio credits per billing account per month. Notion’s $10 Plus tier lists “Trial of Notion AI.” The first Notion tier with real AI is Business at $20.
Free tiers, precisely
Asana Personal is $0 forever but capped at 2 users — the page states “For one or two people managing personal projects.” It includes unlimited tasks and projects, list/board/calendar views, unlimited storage at 100 MB per file, status updates, and 100+ free integrations. It is a strong personal to-do tool and nothing more.
Notion Free has no user cap but prints two limits on the same page: uploads cap at 5 MB per file, and blocks are only unlimited while you are the sole member. Ten guests can read for free on Notion; on Asana, a third person forces a paid plan.
The guest math that decides agencies and client work
This is the clearest case for one product over the other. Take a workspace of 8 editors and 40 external readers:
- Notion Plus: 8 × $10 = $80/mo. The 40 guests cost nothing on any paid plan.
- Asana Starter: users are billed individually. Unlimited free guests appear on Advanced at $24.99; below that, client access is another seat.
If your workspace is mostly readers, Notion’s seat model is cheaper by a wide margin. If everyone in the workspace is a contributor, Asana’s per-user price is the only number that applies.
What you get for the money
Asana Starter ($10.99) adds unlimited seats, timeline and Gantt views, reporting dashboards, unlimited automations, and Asana AI with 50K credits. Advanced ($24.99) adds unlimited portfolios, Goals, resource management, approvals and proofing, forms with branching logic, time tracking, scaled security, and Salesforce/Tableau/Power BI connectors.
Notion Plus ($10) adds unlimited file uploads, database charts, custom forms and sites, and basic connections. Business ($20) adds Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search, SAML SSO, granular database permissions, private teamspaces, and domain verification.
Asana is deeper on project mechanics — portfolios, goals, resource management, dependencies. Notion is deeper on documents, wikis and publishing. Our Notion terms check covers that side in full.
Verdict
Asana wins on project-management depth and includes AI at its $10.99 tier, where Notion requires $20. Notion wins on the seat model — free guests on every paid plan, versus Asana’s guest allowance arriving only at $24.99 — and on document editing and publishing.
Decide by audience shape, not by feature checklist: mostly readers and writers, stay or move to Notion; mostly assignees tracking goals and capacity, Notion vs Asana ends in Asana’s favour.
Pricing verified against asana.com/pricing and notion.com/pricing on October 4, 2026.
