sjTasks vs Asana
Asana is built for organisations running a lot of structured work across many teams: timelines, portfolios, goals, workload, and rules that move work along on their own. It is deep, it connects to a great many other tools, and it rewards the time spent setting it up. If someone on your team has the job of running the system, Asana will repay them.
sjTasks is smaller on purpose. It does the part an agency and its clients use every day — tasks, files, notes, time, and straight answers about the numbers — and charges one flat price for all of it.
Where they differ
| Topic | Asana | sjTasks |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per user. Starter is $10.99 per user a month billed annually, or $13.49 billed monthly; Advanced is $24.99, or $30.49; Enterprise is by quote. Seats are added one at a time up to 5 users, in fives up to 30, and in tens up to 100. | Flat. Team is $29 a month for up to 15 people and 50 GB; Business is $79 for unlimited people and 500 GB. The eleventh person costs nothing extra. |
| Clients and guests | Free and unlimited on Starter and above, and their page says guests do not affect the user count. On the free Personal plan, guests count toward its 2-user limit. | Free, unlimited and never counted, on every plan — Free included. |
| Features by tier | Timeline and Gantt, reporting dashboards, rules, forms and custom fields arrive at Starter; Portfolios, Goals, Workload, time tracking and approvals at Advanced; single sign-on and provisioning at Enterprise. | None. Every plan does everything. |
| Free plan or trial | A free Personal plan for up to 2 users. Their pricing page does not state a trial length. | A Free plan with every feature and no card — 3 people, 2 active projects, 1 GB. |
| 10 people and 20 clients | 10 Starter seats: $109.90 a month billed annually, or $134.90 billed monthly, with the 20 clients as free guests. Time tracking needs Advanced, which makes it $249.90 a month billed annually. | Team, $29 a month, with time logging and reporting included. |
What Asana does that we do not
- Timeline and Gantt views, and a Workload view of who has capacity.
- Portfolios and Goals, so many projects roll up into one picture.
- Rules that automate work, forms that create it, and custom fields to shape it.
- More than a hundred integrations, and an AI Studio.
- Approvals and proofing on the Advanced plan.
- Board and calendar views, and apps for iOS and Android.
What we do that Asana does not
- A board and a list of the same project, on every plan — neither one behind a tier.
- Ask a question in plain words — "what is late for Jane this week" — and get a table back.
- Work from anywhere, on any device: a fast web app built for a phone on a bad connection, with nothing to install and nothing to update.
- Tasks that arrive by email and by Slack, and notifications you can reply to.
- Estimates, logged time and the reports that compare them, on every plan from the first day — Free included. On Asana, time tracking begins at Advanced.
- Guests free and uncounted on Free as well as the paid plans.
- A flat price. Adding a person is a seat count, not a change to the invoice, until the sixteenth moves you to Business.
- One daily or weekly summary email that carries the content, rather than a notification per change.
- A task with a handful of fields and nothing to configure, so a client can use it on day one without a walkthrough.
- Almost nothing is destroyed: work is canceled, projects are archived, and what an admin does delete waits 30 days in a trash.
Try it on a real project
The Free plan is every feature, your clients invited as guests at no charge, and no card. Pay only when you outgrow the room.
Start for freeAsana’s prices and plan details were read from their pricing page on 2026-08-30 and may have changed since; anything that page did not say is left out rather than guessed. Ours are on our pricing page. Asana is the name of a product that is not ours.