--- title: "The Best Asana Alternative for Teams in 2026 | Orangescrum" description: "Looking for an Asana alternative? Orangescrum gives you projects, boards, Gantt, and sprints at a flat monthly price with unlimited users." canonical: https://www.orangescrum.com/best-asana-alternative --- # The Best Asana Alternative for Teams in 2026 | Orangescrum > For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://www.orangescrum.com/llms.txt). [Home](/) / [Compare Orangescrum](/compare-orangescrum) / Asana alternative Orangescrum vs Asana # The Best Asana Alternative for _Teams That Stopped Counting Seats_ Plan, track, time, and bill the work in one product at a flat monthly price. Unlimited users on every plan, and a self-hosted edition if the data has to stay on your own servers. Orangescrum Pro Unlimited$69_/month flat_Unlimited users Asana Starter$13.49_/user/month_per user [Start free trial](/sign-up?utm_source=site&utm_medium=alt&utm_campaign=best-asana-alternative) [See pricing](/pricing) 14 day trial. No credit card. Cloud or self-hosted. ## The short answer Asana is a well made product and one of the easiest tools to get a non-technical team using. Teams leave it for three reasons. The bill grows every time someone new needs access, the delivery detail a software or services team needs sits on higher plans or outside the product, and there is no way to run it on your own infrastructure. Orangescrum covers the same planning ground at a flat price for the whole team, keeps sprints, time, cost, and invoicing in the same place, and ships a self-hosted edition. If none of those three is your problem, stay on Asana. ## When Asana is _the better choice_ We would rather you find this out here than three weeks into a trial. - **Your team is not technical and the interface has to carry them**Asana's interface is more polished than ours and it shows most with people who do not use project tools all day. If adoption is the risk you are managing, that polish is worth something real. - **You track company goals, not just projects**Asana Goals and portfolios are built for rolling work up to objectives across a whole organisation. If leadership reporting is the main job, that is a stronger fit than what we offer. - **You lean on no-code rules and a wide app list**Asana's rules builder and its catalogue of connected apps go further than ours. If your process is held together by automations between tools, moving it is real work. - **You are two people**Asana's free Personal plan covers up to 2 users with unlimited tasks and projects. Our free cloud plan is one project and one user, so for a pair, theirs is more generous and we would rather say so. ## Why teams move from _Asana_ ### The bill stops moving with headcount One flat monthly price for the whole team instead of a rate per person. Adding someone costs nothing, which changes who gets invited into the work. ### Clients and contractors are not a line item Unlimited users on every plan, so reviewers, clients, and part time people sit inside the project rather than being sent updates about it. ### You can run it yourself Asana states it does not plan to offer an internally hosted version. Our Self-Hosted edition runs on your own servers, private cloud, or an air gapped network. ### Delivery detail is in the product Gantt with dependencies and critical path, sprint backlogs, story points, burndown, velocity, and defect tracking, without adding another tool. ### Time, cost, and invoicing in one place Timesheets, budgets, billable rates, and invoices come from the same task data, so the numbers you bill match the work that was logged. ### Migration is done for you Our team maps and moves projects, tasks, subtasks, users, custom fields, and comment history, and validates it with you before cutover. There is no charge for it. ## Orangescrum compared with _Asana_ Asana figures were read from [their pricing page](https://asana.com/pricing) on 2026-08-03. Prices change, so check before you decide. | | Orangescrum | Asana | | Price for a team of 25Asana Starter at its published monthly rate | $69 per month, flat | $337 per month at list | | Users included | Unlimited on every plan | Charged per user | | Free plan | 1 project, 1 user | Personal, up to 2 users | | Self-hosted editionAsana states it does not plan to offer an internally hosted version | Yes | No | | Free and open source edition | Yes | No | | Kanban boards, list, and calendar | Yes | Yes | | Gantt chart with critical path | Yes | Timeline with dependencies | | Sprint backlogs, story points, burndown | Yes | Templates and custom fields | | Time tracking and timesheets | Yes | On higher plans | | Budget, cost, and invoicing | Yes | No | | Resource and workload management | Yes | Workload on higher plans | | Test case management | Yes | No | | Document management with approvals | Self-Hosted | No | ## What it costs _as the team grows_ Asana Starter at $13.49 per user per month on monthly billing, against Orangescrum Pro Unlimited at $69 per month for the whole team. | Team size | Asana | Orangescrum | Difference per year | | 10 people | $135_/mo_ | $69_/mo_ | $791 less | | 25 people | $337_/mo_ | $69_/mo_ | $3,219 less | | 50 people | $675_/mo_ | $69_/mo_ | $7,266 less | | 100 people | $1,349_/mo_ | $69_/mo_ | $15,360 less | Figures use Asana's published monthly billing rate for its Starter plan and assume every person needs a seat. Annual billing is cheaper on most tools, including theirs. This compares list prices, not negotiated ones. ## Moving off Asana Migration is the part everyone worries about, so we do it rather than hand you an importer and wish you luck. There is no charge for it. 1. **Tell us what you have**Number of projects, roughly how many tasks, which custom fields matter, and whether attachments and comment history need to come across. 2. **We map it**Projects, sections, tasks, subtasks, custom fields, and users are mapped to Orangescrum, and we show you the mapping before anything moves. 3. **Trial run**We import into a sandbox so your team can check that the data landed where they expected it to. 4. **Cutover**The real import runs, we validate it with you, and your team starts working. Keep Asana read-only for as long as you want the safety net. ## Orangescrum vs Asana FAQ Is Orangescrum a good alternative to Asana? For most teams that want the same planning without per user pricing, yes. You get projects, tasks, subtasks, Kanban, calendar, Gantt with dependencies and critical path, sprints, time tracking, budgets, and invoicing in one product, with unlimited users on every plan. If your main job is company wide goal tracking, or your process runs on Asana rules and connected apps, Asana is probably still the right answer. How much does Orangescrum cost compared with Asana? Orangescrum is a flat monthly price for the whole team: $29 Basic, $69 Pro, $349 Premium, all with unlimited users. Asana Starter is $13.49 per user per month on monthly billing, and Advanced is $30.49. At 25 people, Starter is about $337 a month against our $69. Every person you add widens the gap, because our price does not move. Can I migrate my Asana data? Yes, and we do it for you at no charge. Projects, tasks, subtasks, assignees, due dates, custom fields, attachments, and comment history are mapped and validated with your team, with a sandbox run before the real cutover. What does Asana do better? Three things, honestly. The interface is more polished, which matters most for teams who are not used to project tools. Goals and portfolios are stronger for rolling work up to company objectives. And the rules builder and app catalogue go further than ours. If any of those is central to how you work, that is a real reason to stay. Can I run Orangescrum on my own servers? Yes. Orangescrum Self-Hosted runs on your own infrastructure, private cloud, or an air gapped network, with SSO and LDAP, document management, and risk management included. Asana states it does not plan to offer an internally hosted version, so this is not a like for like choice, it is the difference between having the option and not having it. Does Orangescrum handle Scrum properly? Yes. Product and sprint backlogs, sprint planning with story points, sprint boards, burndown, and velocity, all built from real sprint data rather than a custom field you maintain by hand. Sprints and the agile framework are on the Cloud Pro plan and above, and included in Self-Hosted. Is there a free version of Orangescrum? Two. A free forever cloud plan for one project and one user, and the Community Edition, which is free and open source under AGPL with no limit on users or projects. Asana's free Personal plan covers up to 2 users, which is more generous than our free cloud tier for a pair, but it has no self-hosted equivalent. Do clients and contractors cost extra? No. Every plan includes unlimited users, so a client reviewing work or a contractor on a six week engagement costs the same as nobody at all. Roles and permissions control what each of them can see. ## Try it before you commit to anything Free 14 day trial, no credit card. Free guided migration from Asana when you are ready. 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