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As captured from asana.com on July 29, 2026: Personal is $0, free forever, for up to 2 users — described as "For one or two people managing personal projects." Starter is $10.99 per user/month billed annually ($13.49 billed monthly). Advanced is $24.99 per user/month billed annually ($30.49 billed monthly). Enterprise and Enterprise+ publish no price — both route to contact sales. Asana AI is listed as available on all paid tiers, and AI Studio — Asana's no-code automation — is metered in credits per billing account per month: 50K on Starter, 75K on Advanced, 200K on Enterprise and Enterprise+. What a single credit buys is not addressed on the pages we track.

The comparison that matters for an agile team of five: Asana Advanced — the lowest tier whose published description covers portfolio-and-goals management — comes to $124.95 a month at the annual-billing rate, or $152.45 billed monthly. AgileHero Pro is $39 a month for the same five people — $12 base plus $9 for each seat beyond the two free ones — with estimation poker, retrospectives, whiteboards, the roadmap, delivery metrics, and the wiki all inside. Yearly billing is roughly two months cheaper, every Pro module has a 14-day trial without a card, and if you ever cancel, your data stays — premium modules are paywalled on downgrade, never erased.

Asana's product page describes project management in general terms — "Track work from start to finish, so every team stays in sync and on schedule to hit their goals" (asana.com/product, captured July 29, 2026). If the board is where your team lives, that generic framing is worth weighing before you commit.

In AgileHero the board is the center of the product: drag-and-drop kanban with a dedicated backlog beside it, rich cards with checklists, files, threaded comments, and @mentions, epics that group cards into initiatives with live progress, and per-list WIP guidance that shows the count against the limit without ever blocking anyone. Every change appears live for the whole team, and two seats use all of it free, forever.

Asana's tracked pages describe an operating system for companies: goals and reporting that ladder up to company objectives, resource management for workloads and timelines, portfolios across departments, and AI teammates (asana.com, captured July 29, 2026). What they do not describe is the scrum layer: no estimation or story points, no retrospective boards, no velocity or cumulative-flow charts, and no whiteboard appear in Asana's published feature set as of July 29, 2026. Teams running agile ceremonies typically assemble that layer from side tools — a retro app here, an estimation app there — each with its own tab, account, and bill.

AgileHero's answer is one product where the board, the estimation session, the retro, the whiteboard, and the delivery metrics share the same cards, the same epics, and the same real-time sync. Velocity and flow analytics run over the interval that matches your sprint length — so the sprint is one workflow, not five subscriptions.

Our record of Asana's published pages covers pricing, product, AI, and MCP documentation — not cancellation or account deletion — so the honest version is generic: annual and monthly rates differ (Advanced was $24.99 per user/month billed annually against $30.49 billed monthly, captured July 29, 2026), so check which billing cycle you are on and your renewal date before it rolls over, and export anything you need while your plan is active. Deleting an account is usually a separate step from cancelling a subscription — check your account settings for both.

Starting on AgileHero takes minutes: a working workspace, project, and board exist the moment you sign up. Recreate your columns and open cards as you go — or connect an AI assistant over MCP and let it file the structure for you. There is no one-click Asana import today; we would rather say that plainly than surprise you. Two seats are free forever, and the 14-day Pro trial needs no credit card.