NoaBox vs Asana
An Honest Comparison
Choose NoaBox if
- Your team plans in sprints from a backlog and wants that built in
- You want one flat monthly price instead of paying for every seat
- You want an AI assistant that drafts tickets from a spec and names the work items behind its answers
- You want specs, decisions and files inside the same project as the tickets
AChoose Asana if
- You run cross-functional programs with portfolios, goals and resource management
- You plan on timelines and Gantt charts and rely on automations and forms
- You need SAML SSO, SCIM or data residency
- You depend on a large integration catalog (Asana lists 200+ apps)
NoaBox And Asana
Side By Side
| Feature | NoaBox | Asana |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat monthly price per workspace: Free up to 10 members, $19 up to 20, $49 up to 50 | Per user per month; above 5 users, seats are bought in blocks of 5 (10 above 30) |
| Free plan | Up to 10 members, 1 project, 10 AI credits a month, 1 GB | Personal: up to 2 users |
| Entry paid plan | Starter: $19 a month for up to 20 members | Starter: $13.49 per user a month, or $10.99 billed yearly |
| Projects | 1 on Free, 5 on Starter, 10 on Pro, unlimited on Enterprise | Unlimited |
| Sprints and backlog | Built in on every plan: a backlog and sprints with a goal and dates (labelled groups in the app) | Assembled from projects, custom fields and rules, as Asana's sprint-planning guide describes |
| Timeline and Gantt | Not available | From Starter |
| Automations | Not available | Unlimited from Starter |
| AI | Noa on every plan: drafts tickets from a spec for you to confirm, answers questions about your work | Asana AI on paid plans: 5 requests per user a month, up to 50 per account on Starter and Advanced |
| GitHub | Commits that mention a work-item key link themselves (Starter and up); no pull-request tracking | Pull-request status synced to tasks |
| SAML SSO | Not available; sign-in by email code or Google | Enterprise plan |
Asana details checked on October 9, 2026 from their own site. See the sources below, and their current pricing.
What Your Team Would Pay
Each Month
NoaBox bills monthly, so Asana is shown at its monthly-billing Starter price, its cheapest plan for teams of three or more. Tax and extra AI requests are excluded.
10 people
NoaBox$19
Starter (or Free, with one project)
Asana$134.90
$109.90 billed yearly
30 people
NoaBox$49
Pro
Asana$404.70
$329.70 billed yearly
50 people
NoaBox$49
Pro
Asana$674.50
$549.50 billed yearly
Where Each One
Is Stronger
Where Asana is stronger
Portfolios, goals and resources
Asana Advanced adds unlimited portfolios, goals, resource management, approvals and proofing. NoaBox has nothing comparable.
Timeline, Gantt and automations
Asana Starter includes timeline and Gantt views, dashboards, unlimited automations and forms. NoaBox has no Gantt view or automations.
Integrations
Asana lists 200+ apps, including GitHub, GitLab, Slack and Jira. NoaBox connects to GitHub and Slack only.
Enterprise identity
SAML and SCIM on Asana Enterprise, data residency on Enterprise+. NoaBox has no SSO today.
Free guests
Unlimited free guests on Asana Starter and above, handy for clients.
Where NoaBox is stronger
The price stays flat
30 people cost $49 a month on NoaBox Pro, against $404.70 on Asana Starter billed monthly.
Sprints are a feature, not a recipe
A backlog, sprints with a goal and dates, and epic, story, task, bug and subtask types are built in on every plan.
A bigger free plan
NoaBox Free covers 10 members; Asana Personal covers 2.
AI that drafts, and shows its work
Noa turns a PRD, spreadsheet or CSV into proposed tickets you confirm one by one, and answers questions naming the work items by key.
Docs and files in the project
Pages and a file drive sit beside the tickets, with password-protected pages encrypted in the browser.
Moving From Asana
Without Losing The Backlog
- 1
Export from Asana
Export the project you're moving as a CSV from Asana.
- 2
Let Noa propose the work items
Attach the CSV in Ask Noa. It proposes the work items and you confirm each one, so this suits up to a few hundred items (500 rows per sheet). There's no one-click importer yet.
- 3
Connect and invite
Connect GitHub and Slack, then invite the whole team. On a flat price, adding people inside your plan's limit costs nothing extra.
NoaBox vs Asana
For engineering-first teams that plan in sprints from a backlog, often yes: sprints are built in, docs sit beside the work, and the price is flat per workspace. If your work depends on portfolios, goals, Gantt charts or automations, Asana does more.
NoaBox is a flat monthly price per workspace: $19 for up to 20 members and $49 for up to 50. Asana Starter is $13.49 per user a month billed monthly ($10.99 billed yearly), so 30 people cost $404.70 a month on Asana billed monthly, against $49 on NoaBox.
There's no one-click importer yet. Export the project from Asana as a CSV and attach it in Ask Noa: Noa proposes the work items, and you review them before anything is created.
No. NoaBox has backlog, board, list, calendar and archive views. If your planning lives on a Gantt chart, Asana is the better fit.
Where These Facts
Come From
- Asana pricing (plans, seats, AI allowances)
- Asana AI
- Asana integrations
- Asana for GitHub
- Asana help: sprint planning
Checked October 9, 2026. Asana is a trademark of Asana, Inc. NoaBox is not affiliated with or endorsed by Asana. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it.