Structure work around your process

Custom task types and fields from Starter. Not on Personal.

Work item types with custom properties, required fields, defaults, visual identity, and activity history.

Track what ships across projects

No release object in Asana’s core product.

Named releases gather work across projects with a lead, target date, status, and changelog, from Business.

Plan and measure timeboxed work

No native sprints in the core product. Asana’s own guide builds them as projects, with burndown charts made by hand.

Cycles on every plan, with unfinished-work transfer. Pro adds burn-down charts and manual start and stop.

See schedules, blockers, and knock-on effects

Timeline and dependencies from Starter. Critical path only on Advanced and above.

Finish-to-start, start-to-start, and finish-to-finish dependencies, with dates that move when upstream work changes. Critical path shows on the Timeline.

Hours logged against the work

Native time tracking only on Advanced and above.

Log time on work items and review worklogs across the workspace, from Pro.

Rules and triggers that move work

Rules and Workflow Builder from Starter. None on Personal.

Trigger-and-action rules, agents, and Plane Runner scripts for custom logic.

Recreate repeatable work automatically

Recurring tasks. Custom project templates from Starter.

Recurring work items and project templates, from Business.

Turn live work into reports

No dashboards on Personal. Portfolio dashboards only on Advanced and above.

Dashboards from Pro, with PQL filters and click-through charts. Business adds advanced widgets.

Coordinate work across projects

Portfolios only on Advanced and above.

Initiatives connect projects across teams with owners, states, dates, and updates. Teamspaces show each team’s work across projects.

Connect delivery to business outcomes

Goals only on Advanced and above.

Initiatives connect projects to higher-level outcomes, and project states and updates report delivery health.

Find and filter complex work

No query language.

Plane Query Language for precise filters, saved views, and dashboards, from Pro. Plane AI writes PQL from plain language.

Require sign-off before work moves

Approval tasks only on Advanced and above. No enforced gate on status changes.

Designated approvers sign off before work moves, with a fallback state for rejected work.

Control how work moves

Rules and Workflow Builder from Starter. Approvals don’t block status changes.

Control who moves work between states, with type-specific workflows and designated approvers.

Native agile mechanics

No sprints, epics, or modules in the core product. Built from generic tasks.

Cycles and Modules on every plan. Epics from Pro.

Decide who can see and change what

Custom roles only on Enterprise+ or with a paid add-on.

Admin, Contributor, Commenter, and Guest roles per project. Custom roles and granular permissions on Enterprise Grid.

Trace changes and actions

Audit Log API only on Enterprise+, or on Enterprise with a paid add-on.

Tamper-evident, API-enabled audit logs of workspace actions, with CSV export.

Collaborate without adding full seats

Free guests from Starter, in organizations only.

5 per paid member on Pro and Business. Custom guests on Enterprise Grid.

Keep documentation beside the work

Pages on every plan. Asana says it isn’t a full wiki yet, and pages can’t be shared externally.

Project Pages plus a workspace Wiki with nested pages, collections, page locking, external publishing, and Notion/Confluence imports.

Turn requests into triaged work

Forms from Starter. Email intake only on Enterprise.

In-app Intake starts on Free. Business adds email intake and public forms that need no account.

Connect work to delivery tools

GitHub without Enterprise Server support. GitLab and Bitbucket only through a paid third-party sync.

GitHub (including Enterprise Server) and GitLab (including self-managed) with two-way sync, plus Bitbucket, Slack, and Sentry, from Pro.

Give AI a job to own

AI Teammates on paid plans only. Cloud only.

Plane Agents take assignments and mentions, run on schedules or work item events, and show up in the same activity trail as people.

Let external AI clients act on work

Hosted by Asana only. Not self-hostable.

MIT-licensed MCP server, hosted by Plane or run on your infrastructure.

Your provider and your keys

No customer keys. AI runs on Asana’s model list.

Self-hosted Plane (Commercial Edition) uses your OpenAI or Anthropic keys, AWS Bedrock, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Run in your infrastructure

No. Cloud only.

Deploy Plane on your infrastructure using Docker or Kubernetes.

Run without external network access

No

Yes. Run Plane fully isolated, with no external network dependencies. Updates come from your own registry.

Controls procurement expects

SAML and SCIM only on Enterprise. No LDAP.

SAML and OIDC with any identity provider. LDAP, granular access controls, and API-enabled audit logs on Enterprise Grid, plus IdP group sync on self-hosted.

Moving from Asana

Not applicable

Asana importer brings tasks, sections as states, labels, priorities, users, comments, and attachments. Enterprise Grid adds migration and implementation services.