Trello vs Asana 2026: Pricing, Free Plans and Which to Pick for 10 Users

Trello is the cheaper tool at every tier and the better free plan for a small team: Standard costs $5 per user a month billed yearly, or $600 a year for 10 people, and the free plan holds 10 collaborators. Asana Starter costs $10.99 per user a month billed yearly, or $1,318.80 for the same 10 people, and its free plan stops at 2 users. Asana earns the difference when the work needs timelines, workload, goals and unlimited automations.

Trello only partly matches that on Premium at $10, and prices were read on both vendors' pricing pages on 26 October 2026. For each product on its own, read the Trello review and the Asana review; this page is the head to head.

The products are built differently. Trello is a board of cards that grows features as you pay, and its cheapest paid tier already removes the board cap. Asana is a work graph of tasks, projects and portfolios, and its paid tiers lift limits on people and views rather than adding quotas. Which one costs less is settled; which one is worth paying for depends on whether your team manages a list or a plan. The table below prices both ladders for the same 10-person team.

Toolradar data: Toolradar, the software directory we run, tracked 368 project management tools as of 26 October 2026, and the median cheapest paid plan across the 136 that publish one is $15.50 a month. Trello Standard sits at a third of that median and Asana Starter at two-thirds, so both are cheap entries to a crowded category, and the choice is about shape rather than price band. Directory pages: Trello on Toolradar and Asana on Toolradar.

Price at a glance for 10 users

The yearly totals are our arithmetic: the listed per-user price times 10 users times 12 months. Trello Enterprise is sold as a $210 annual price per user, which the page expresses as $17.50 a month. Asana's monthly rates are printed beside the yearly ones, so a team that wants to stay month to month knows the premium: 23% on Starter and 22% on Advanced, against 20% on Trello Standard and 25% on Premium.

How Asana's seat blocks change the bill

Asana sells seats in increments, so 10 is a clean number and 12 is not. Asana's pricing FAQ says you add seats one at a time between 2 and 5 users, then in blocks of 5 up to 30 users. Above that the blocks grow: 10 up to 100 users, 25 up to 500 and 50 beyond. A team of 12 therefore buys 15 Starter seats, which is $1,978.20 a year on yearly billing by our arithmetic, and pays for three empty chairs until it hires into them. A team of 35 buys 40 seats.

Trello prices per user with no block rule on its self-serve plans, so 12 people on Standard pay $720 a year and 35 people pay $2,100. The practical rule: on Asana, plan headcount to land on a block boundary, and on Trello, add and remove people as they come. Both plans ladders are broken down tier by tier in the Trello pricing guide and the Asana pricing guide.

Round 1: free plans. Trello wins

Trello Free allows up to 10 collaborators per Workspace, 10 boards, unlimited cards, unlimited Power-Ups per board, built-in automation with 250 Workspace command runs a month, 10 MB per file and two-factor authentication. A 10-person team can run its whole process on it until it needs an eleventh board or a Calendar view.

Asana Personal is free forever for 2 users with unlimited tasks and projects, list, board and calendar views, 100 MB per file, status updates and 100 or more integrations. It is a personal to-do tool with a second seat, not a team plan: the third person forces Starter. For a team of 3 to 10 that will not pay, Trello is the only one of the two that works.

Round 2: entry paid tier. Trello wins on price, Asana on scope

Trello Standard at $5 removes the board cap, adds AI features, card mirroring across boards, custom fields, advanced checklists, a planner, 250 MB per file, 1,000 command runs a month and single-board guests. It is still a board tool: Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map views wait for Premium.

Asana Starter at $10.99 removes the user limit, adds timeline and Gantt views, unlimited automations, custom fields, reporting dashboards and unlimited free guests, with AI Teammates included at 5 requests per user a month up to 50 per account. A 10-person team pays $718.80 a year more than Trello Standard for that and gets a planning tool rather than a bigger board. If the team needs a timeline, the honest Trello comparison is Premium, and then the gap closes to $118.80 a year. Both sit under the entry tiers priced in our ClickUp pricing guide and monday.com pricing guide, which is why these two are the usual shortlist for a first paid tool.

Round 3: mid tier. Trello Premium vs Asana Advanced

Trello Premium at $10 adds the five views, Workspace-level Table and Calendar views, unlimited command runs, admin and security features, Workspace templates, collections, observers and data export, with 24/5 premium support. For 10 users it is $1,200 a year, under Asana Starter and well under Asana Advanced.

Asana Advanced at $24.99 adds goals, unlimited portfolios, resource management, approvals and proofing, forms branching, time tracking with hourly rates and 250 AI requests per account, at $2,998.80 a year for 10. That plan is for a manager who runs several projects against capacity and reports upward; a team that wants a calendar over its boards does not need it. Our Asana vs monday.com comparison prices the same tier against monday's Pro, and monday.com vs ClickUp covers the two tools most teams shortlist next.

Round 4: automations and integrations. Asana wins on volume

Trello meters automation by Workspace command runs: 250 a month on Free, 1,000 on Standard and unlimited from Premium. A busy 10-person Standard Workspace can hit 1,000 runs with a few rules on card moves and due dates, and the fix is the step to Premium. Power-Ups are unlimited on every plan, with more than 200 integrations, and some partner Power-Ups carry their own subscription.

Asana includes unlimited automations from Starter, plus 100 or more free integrations on every plan and a Jira Cloud sync. AI is the metered line instead: 5 requests per user a month up to 50 per account on Starter and 250 on Advanced, with prepaid packs at $0.50 a request on paid plans. For rules-heavy workflows Asana's unlimited automations are the cheaper path; for AI-heavy ones, Trello's AI features are included in Standard without a request counter on the pricing page.

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Round 5: guests and clients. Asana wins

Asana gives unlimited free guests on every paid plan, so clients and contractors join projects without a seat. Trello Standard allows single-board guests and Enterprise adds multi-board guests, so an agency sharing several boards with one client either buys the client a seat or waits for the $17.50 tier. For client work that difference is worth more than the sticker gap. The best project management software for agencies ranking covers the tools built around that use case.

Round 6: admin and security. Tie at the top, Trello cheaper below

Trello Premium brings admin and security features, observers and simple data export at $10, and Enterprise adds organization-wide permissions, unlimited Workspaces, attachment permissions, Power-Up administration and free SSO with user provisioning through Atlassian Guard at $17.50. Asana Enterprise is a custom quote with service accounts, guest invitation permissions, SAML and admin controls, and Enterprise+ layers SIEM integrations, data residency and audit logs on top. A company that only needs SSO gets a printed price from Trello and a sales call from Asana.

Who should pick which

Strengths and weaknesses

Trello: the lowest price on every tier, a free plan that fits a real team, unlimited Power-Ups, and printed prices up to Enterprise. Against it, views are a Premium feature, automation is metered until Premium, guests are single-board until Enterprise and files are capped at 10 MB on Free.

Asana: timeline and automations from the entry tier, unlimited free guests, goals and workload on Advanced, and monthly prices printed beside yearly ones. Against it, the free plan is two seats, paid seats come in blocks of 5 and 10, AI is metered per account, and Enterprise has no public price.

How we checked

Every price above was read on Trello's pricing page and Asana's pricing page on 26 October 2026, in USD. The 10-user totals multiply the listed per-user price by 10 and by 12, and the 12-user Asana figure applies the seat increments from Asana's own FAQ. Feature lists come from the plan cards and comparison tables on the same pages. We re-check these pages when either vendor changes a plan. Our editorial policy explains how comparisons are produced.

Cite this: Techpresso, "Trello vs Asana 2026: Pricing, Free Plans and Which to Pick for 10 Users", November 2026.

FAQ

Is Trello or Asana cheaper in 2026?

Trello, on every tier. Trello Standard is $5 per user a month billed yearly and Premium $10, while Asana Starter is $10.99 and Advanced $24.99. For 10 users on yearly billing that is $600 or $1,200 a year at Trello against $1,318.80 or $2,998.80 at Asana, by our arithmetic on prices read in October 2026.

Which has the better free plan, Trello or Asana?

Trello. Its free plan allows up to 10 collaborators per Workspace, 10 boards, unlimited cards and 250 automation runs a month. Asana Personal is free for 2 users with unlimited tasks and projects, so any team of three or more pays for Asana from the first day.

How does Asana's seat billing work?

Asana adds seats in increments: one at a time from 2 to 5 users, then blocks of 5 up to 30, blocks of 10 up to 100, blocks of 25 up to 500 and blocks of 50 beyond. A team of 12 buys 15 Starter seats, or $1,978.20 a year on yearly billing by our arithmetic. Trello charges per user with no block rule on its self-serve plans.

Does Trello have a timeline view?

Yes, on Premium at $10 per user a month billed yearly, which adds Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map views. Standard at $5 is still board-only. Asana includes timeline and Gantt views from Starter at $10.99.

Can I add clients as guests?

Asana includes unlimited free guests on every paid plan. Trello Standard allows single-board guests, and multi-board guests arrive on Enterprise at $17.50 per user a month, so an agency sharing several boards with one client pays for that client's seat on the lower tiers.

Does Trello or Asana include AI?

Both, differently. Trello Standard and above include AI features such as AI-generated boards and AI capture from email, Slack and Teams, without a request counter on the pricing page. Asana includes AI Teammates on every paid plan at 5 requests per user a month, capped at 50 per account on Starter and 250 on Advanced, with prepaid packs at $0.50 a request.

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