All three charge per person per month and look very much alike on the front page. They separate in three concrete places: Monday.com publishes a three seat minimum, Asana unlocks the timeline and dependencies on its first paid plan, and ClickUp reserves full access to those same features for its second paid tier.
The three pricing models, side by side
Before looking at a single figure it is worth setting the frame, because all three pricing pages are built to make comparison hard. All three charge per person, all three have a free plan underneath, and all three keep the information that actually decides which is dearer in the small print.
| ClickUp | Asana | Monday.com | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billing unit | Per user per month | Per user per month | Per seat per month |
| Currency of the page read | Dollars | Euros | Euros |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes, up to 2 users | Yes, up to 2 users |
| Paid plans with a printed price | Two | Two | Three |
| Top tier | Contact us | Contact us | Contact us |
| Published seat minimum | None | None | Three |
| Full Gantt and timeline access | Second paid plan | First paid plan | Second paid plan |
| Dependencies between tasks | Second paid plan | First paid plan | Third paid plan |
| AI add-ons priced separately | Yes, two of them | Credits included per plan | Credits included per plan |
With that frame on the table, the monthly billing amounts look like this.
| Tool | First paid plan | Second paid plan | Third paid plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| ClickUp | $10 per user | $19 per user | Contact us |
| Asana | 13.49 € per user | 30.49 € per user | Contact us |
| Monday.com | 9 € per seat | 12 € per seat | 19 € per seat |
Prices checked on 8 September 2026: ClickUp, Asana, Monday.com.
ClickUp publishes its prices in dollars while the Asana and Monday.com pages were read in euros, so the three columns cannot be added or subtracted against each other without first fixing an exchange rate and saying what it is. This comparison deliberately does not do that: each figure appears in the currency its provider publishes it in.
ClickUp and Asana also publish an annualised price that brings the table figures down, and Monday.com has a fourth tier you have to ask about. The rule when comparing is always the same: same billing period, same number of people, currencies kept apart. Any table that ignores one of those three is not comparing tools, it is arranging them in the order somebody already preferred.
One more thing worth noticing in the first table: the free plans are not equivalent either. Two of them cap the number of users outright, which makes them demos rather than places to operate from, and the third caps storage instead. Whichever way it is capped, no team running client work stays on a free tier past the first month, so the interesting comparison is between paid plans from the start.
The seat minimum only one of them publishes
Monday.com sets a minimum of three seats on Basic, Standard and Pro. It is the only one of the three that publishes an explicit minimum, and it deserves credit for putting it where you can see it rather than saving it for the checkout screen.
The consequence is arithmetic and it only affects small teams. Somebody buying Pro on their own pays 57 € a month instead of 19 €, because the plan is not billed below three seats. For a team of ten the minimum is irrelevant and should not enter the decision at all. For the freelancer starting out and the two person studio, it is a third more from the first invoice and for as long as they remain two.
ClickUp and Asana publish no minimum, so a team of two pays for two. That is a clear point in favour of both, and it is exactly the sort of fact that never appears in comparisons that only look at the headline price. Monday.com's full ladder, with the minimum applied to each tier, is in the piece devoted to Monday.com.
Where Gantt unlocks, which is the expensive question
Here sits the difference that moves the most money and that the fewest people check before signing.
Asana unlocks the timeline, the Gantt chart and task dependencies all at once, on Starter, its first paid plan. Monday.com splits them: timeline and Gantt arrive on Standard, and dependencies climb to Pro, one tier further up. ClickUp lets you sample all three from the free plan, but in trial mode, and full access arrives on Business, its second paid plan.
That completely changes which plan you should be comparing. A team that plans by dates and chains tasks together is not going to stay on ClickUp's first tier or Monday.com's middle one, so lining up the cheapest plan of each in the same row produces a number that looks nothing like the real invoice. An honest comparison pits the plan each tool needs to do the same job, and in that exercise Asana arrives first.
It is also worth separating two things that get confused. A timeline is a way of seeing dates. A dependency is a rule: this task does not start until that one finishes, and moving one drags the other. The second is what prevents the Monday morning meetings, and it is the one that arrives latest on two of the three. The detail of ClickUp's trial modes is worked out in the piece devoted to ClickUp.
What is paid for separately
All three have something outside the ladder and in all three it is worth a look before you forecast a year.
ClickUp sells two artificial intelligence add-ons with their own per user monthly price, plus extra credits in packs. It is the most explicit model of the three and also the one that can grow the most if the whole team switches them on.
Asana includes credits for its artificial intelligence studio inside each plan, with the amount published and rising as you move up, and sells a timesheets and budgets add-on with its own price. That add-on is published in dollars while its ladder was read in euros, so adding it in means declaring an exchange rate.
Monday.com also quantifies its artificial intelligence credits per plan, and on top of that publishes how many automation actions and how many API calls each tier carries. That is the level of detail that lets you budget without calling anyone, and it is welcome.
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Try it freeWhich team suits which tool
There is no winner, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something. All three solve the problem they were built for, and the differences that matter only appear when they meet the concrete working habits of a concrete team.
Asana suits a team that plans on schedules and wants the fewest tollgates per tier. Its first paid plan already carries what most people need, and its portfolios and workload management are among the best in the category for anyone coordinating a lot of people at once. The trade off is that its second tier is the dearest of the three in the table above.
Monday.com suits processes that change often and model well as boards: a sales pipeline, an inventory, a hiring process. Its flexibility is enormous and its pricing page is the most detailed of the three. The trade off is the three seat minimum and the fact that dependencies live on its third tier.
ClickUp suits whoever wants a single tool with many views and does not mind spending time configuring it. It is the most malleable of the three and the one that lets you try the most before paying. The trade off is that same configurability: a badly assembled ClickUp workspace is hard to use, and assembling it well takes weeks. The piece devoted to Asana goes into the detail of its packaging.
How to compare without fooling yourself
Four checks before deciding, in this order.
- Count the people honestly, including the ones who only come in to read. On all three, a reader with permissions costs the same as somebody doing the work, except where a free viewer role exists.
- Choose the plan by the feature you need, not by the headline price. If you are going to use dependencies, compare the tier where each one really unlocks them.
- Fix one period and one currency and do not mix them. Annual against monthly is the most common mistake in the spreadsheets that circulate, and it always flatters the option you already wanted to pick.
- Add up the rest of the stack. A work manager rarely travels alone: next to it there is usually a chat tool, file storage and, in an agency, a publishing tool. That total is the figure that matters.
On that last check one note is owed, and it is the only thing this article will say about the house. GoFeed is not a general purpose project manager and does not compete with the three above on configurability, portfolios or automations: it carries tasks with dependencies, a timeline, recurrences and subtasks, but glued to the editorial calendar and to the post that closes them, and it charges per workspace rather than per seat. For projects that do not end in a published post, the three compared here are the better tool. If your work is content for brands, then it is worth also reading the comparison with Notion, which asks the same question from the other end.