Asana vs Jira at a glance

Key facts

• Asana’s paid plans have no seat limits; Personal is free for up to 2 users.
• Asana lists portfolios and resource management on Advanced ($24.99 per user per month, annual) and capacity planning on Enterprise.
• Asana integrates with Jira Cloud through a two-way sync, which means two systems of record.
• Capacity Planning, Release Management, Roadmaps & Timeline is licensed on the Jira site’s user tier, like every Marketplace app.

What running Asana next to Jira costs

Many software organizations keep engineering in Jira and put the PMO or product team in Asana Advanced to get portfolios and resource management. Here is what that costs compared with doing the same planning in Jira:

On a 50-user Jira site, both Divim editions cost less than 10 Asana Advanced seats. On a 200-user site, Divim Standard is about $2,000 cheaper and Divim Advanced is about the same as 25 Asana Advanced seats. On a 1,000-user site with 40 Asana seats, Asana costs less on license price, because the Jira app is licensed for every Jira user. The savings that do not show in the table: no two-way sync to maintain, one set of dates, and no second vendor in your security review. The Standard edition covers probabilistic release forecasting, capacity-aware planning, scope risk and dependency analysis. The Advanced edition adds the Portfolio view, the Product Roadmap timeline, multi-board and multi-product releases, multi-team assignment and overcommitment warnings (features by edition).

For every Asana plan price, billed annually and monthly, and the scenarios where Asana Starter or Advanced costs less than planning in Jira, see Asana Pricing 2026: Plans, Seat Costs and What Jira Teams Pay Instead.

When Asana is the better choice

If most of the work being planned is not software — marketing campaigns, operations, HR programs — Asana is built for that and Jira is not. The Divim app plans Jira work only. For software releases, see also monday.com vs Jira and Smartsheet vs Jira.

Frequently asked questions

Is Asana cheaper than Jira?

It depends on what you compare. Asana Starter is $10.99 and Advanced $24.99 per user per month on annual billing. For teams already on Jira, the relevant cost is what you add on top of Jira to get portfolio and capacity planning.

Which Asana plan includes portfolios and resource management?

Asana’s pricing page lists portfolios and resource management on the Advanced plan and above; capacity planning is listed on Enterprise.

Can Jira do portfolio and capacity planning without Asana?

Yes. Marketplace apps such as Capacity Planning, Release Management, Roadmaps & Timeline add capacity planning, release forecasting and, on the Advanced edition, a portfolio view and roadmap timeline inside Jira.

Does Asana integrate with Jira?

Asana lists an integration with Jira Cloud with two-way sync. That keeps two copies of the work in sync rather than planning in one place.

Sources and method

Prices were read from each vendor’s public pricing page and from the Atlassian Marketplace live pricing feed. Last verified: October 11, 2026. Vendors change prices; confirm before you budget.

• Asana pricing
• Atlassian Marketplace listing, Marketplace live pricing feed (release.planning.editions) and Divim’s published edition price list
• Divim app user guide

Try it in your own Jira

Capacity Planning, Release Management, Roadmaps & Timeline installs from the Atlassian Marketplace with Atlassian’s 30-day free trial; the Standard edition is free for Jira sites with up to 10 users. It runs on Atlassian Forge (Runs on Atlassian, Cloud Fortified), so your Jira data stays in Atlassian’s cloud (security details). See all comparisons in the Atlassian-only planning stack.

Rob Borges

Rob Borges spent the first half of his career hunting waste as a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and wrangling portfolios as a PMI Portfolio Manager — until he realized the tidiest process on earth still can't out-plan an optimistic human. So he switched sides and became an Agile Coach. These days he helps Kanban, Scrum, and Agile-at-Scale teams trade gut-feel deadlines for flow data, turning "we'll probably ship sometime in Q3" into release dates leaders can actually take to the board. His rule of thumb: hope is not a forecast, but your throughput history usually is.

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