Asana vs Celoxis: Features, Pricing and Reviews Compared
- Starting price
- $10.99/user/mo · free plan
- Ease of use
- 8.8
- Functionality
- 8.7
- Value for money
- 7.6
- Customer support
- 8.0
Best for
- Marketing, operations and product teams juggling dozens of projects with shared people
- Managers who need portfolio and goal roll-ups, not just a task list
- Teams that want a polished mobile and desktop experience
- Starting price
- $10/user/mo
- Ease of use
- 7.2
- Functionality
- 7.7
- Value for money
- 6.8
- Customer support
- 7.2
Best for
- PMOs standardizing portfolio governance
- Project-driven firms tracking budgets and margins
- Organizations that need resource capacity visibility
Our verdict
Asana comes out ahead at 83/100 versus Celoxis at 73. Flexible views of the same work: list, board, timeline, calendar. Asana is the better fit for cross-functional teams that need clear ownership. Celoxis makes more sense if you need a 14-day free trial with no credit card, opening on a sample portfolio with the full Business feature set or you want to start cheaper ($10/user/mo vs $10.99/user/mo).
On Asana: Asana is the project tool we recommend for teams that run many concurrent projects and need to see how they roll up into goals and portfolios. Task management is fast and keyboard-friendly, views are flexible, and the automation builder is approachable. The weakness is cost: the useful views live on Starter, the planning features live on Advanced, and per-user pricing adds up for large teams who could get by on monday.com or ClickUp.
Features comparison
The 8 project management capabilities we check on every product, ordered by importance to buyers.
| Feature | Importance | Asana | Celoxis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanban boards | 88% | Included | Included |
| Mobile app | 71% | Included | Not included |
| Automations | 67% | Included | Included |
| Gantt charts | 64% | Included | Included |
| Time tracking | 59% | Included | Included |
| Guest access | 55% | Included | Included |
| Docs & wikis | 48% | Not included | Included |
| API access | 33% | Included | Included |
What stands out in each
Tasks, subtasks and views
Every task has an assignee, due date, custom fields and subtasks, and the same project can be viewed as a list, board, timeline, calendar or Gantt chart. The interface is quick and the keyboard shortcuts make bulk editing fast.
Workflow builder and rules
Starter includes a visual builder for intake-to-done workflows with triggers and actions (assign, move section, set field, notify Slack). Automation counts are capped per month by plan.
Goals, portfolios and workload
Advanced adds portfolios that roll projects up with status, owner and progress, goals linked to the work that drives them, and a workload view that shows who is over capacity. This is the layer that justifies Asana over cheaper tools.
Reporting
Project dashboards with charts of tasks by status, assignee and custom field; Advanced extends to cross-project reporting. Exports to Tableau and Power BI exist for deeper analysis.
Intake and prioritization
Requests from email, web forms, and spreadsheets land in one queue and are scored against business KPIs. Scoring, what-if analysis, and approval routing help decide which work is funded before any hours are committed.
Interactive Gantt scheduling
Plans include dependencies of all four types, lead and lag, and a critical path. Automatic scheduling uses work calendars, so holidays, shifts, and slipped predecessors move the dates.
Capacity and resource planning
Workload is read across every project a person is booked on, with overload alerts raised before a booking is saved. Analytics can break down availability by role, skill, or custom field.
Timesheets and expense tracking
Built-in timers and a weekly timesheet grid support multi-level approvals and reminders for missing entries. Approved time and expenses flow into costing and billing without a second entry.
Pricing comparison
Asana starts at $10.99/user/mo with a free plan (30-day trial); Celoxis starts at $10/user/mo (Free trial). Plans are shown as the vendors publish them; the BSR Value subscore reflects what you get for the money.
Personal
Up to 10 users. Tasks, lists, boards and calendar.
- Up to 10 teammates
- Unlimited tasks and projects
- List, board and calendar views
- Basic integrations
Starter
Timeline, Gantt, workflow builder, dashboards and 250 automations a month.
- Timeline and Gantt views
- Workflow builder
- Project dashboards
- Custom fields and forms
Advanced
Goals, portfolios, workload, approvals and 25,000 automations.
- Goals and portfolios
- Workload management
- Time tracking
- Approvals and proofing
Enterprise
SAML, admin controls, audit logs and data residency.
- SAML SSO and SCIM
- Admin console
- Audit log API
- Data residency
Paid plans are billed per user with a minimum of two seats, and seats come in bundles at some sizes. The free Personal plan caps collaborators at ten. Monthly billing costs about 20% more than annual. Asana AI features are included on paid plans but some advanced AI capabilities are limited by tier.
Value for money: 7.6/10 · Monthly, Annual, Minimum 2 seats · Vendor pricing page ↗
Core
For teams that need structured planning and reporting.
- Gantt charts and advanced scheduling
- Project templates and baselines
- Dashboards and BI reporting
- 2 read-only users included
Essentials
For teams planning both projects and people.
- Resource workload and capacity planning
- Timesheets included
- Job roles and work calendars
- Team-member users at $18, timesheet users at $12
Professional
For PMOs managing demand, risk, and financials.
- Project intake management
- Risk management and issue tracking
- Expenses and project costing
- Team-member users at $24
Business
For organizations managing clients, billing, and governance.
- Project billing
- Free client portal
- Advanced security and expanded administrative controls
- Team-member users at $29, timesheet users at $14
Every plan includes a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, and the trial opens on a sample portfolio with the Business feature set. A minimum of 5 full-access users applies. Jira, Azure DevOps, QuickBooks Online, and Zapier are paid add-ons on Core through Business and included on Enterprise.
Value for money: 6.8/10
Integrations comparison
7 integrations in common · 13 only in Asana · 18 only in Celoxis. Logos link to our review when we cover the tool.
Both connect to
Which one is best for my use case?
Who each product is built for, who should look elsewhere, and the jobs it gets bought for, from our editorial review and the vendor's own customer profile.
Ideal for
- Marketing, operations and product teams juggling dozens of projects with shared people
- Managers who need portfolio and goal roll-ups, not just a task list
- Teams that want a polished mobile and desktop experience
Not for
- Very small teams who need Gantt or timeline views; the free plan lacks them
- Budget-conscious teams that need Advanced features (workload, time tracking) at scale
- Teams that want a database-style tool with heavy customisation (consider monday.com or Notion)
Common use cases
Sells to: Small businesses, Mid-size companies, Enterprises, Nonprofits. Common industries: Marketing and creative, SaaS and technology, Operations, Education, Healthcare, Financial services.
Ideal for
- PMOs standardizing portfolio governance
- Project-driven firms tracking budgets and margins
- Organizations that need resource capacity visibility
Not for
- Teams that require a free plan
- Groups with fewer than five full-access users
- Teams that only want a lightweight task board
Common use cases
Sells to: Small businesses, Mid size businesses, Enterprises.
Support, training and setup
How you get help, how you learn the product, and how fast you can be running.
- Support score
- 8.0/10Leads
- Ease of use
- 8.8/10Leads
- Support channels
- Email and chat (paid plans)
- Help center
- Community forum
- Priority support (Enterprise)
- Training
- Asana Academy
- Documentation
- Live webinars
- Customer success (Enterprise)
- Deployment
- Cloud / SaaS
- iOS app
- Android app
- Mac app
- Windows app
- Typical setup
- Same day
- Languages
- English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese +7
- Support score
- 7.2/10
- Ease of use
- 7.2/10
- Support channels
- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Chat
- Training
- In Person
- Live Online
- Documentation
- Videos
- Deployment
- Web
- Typical setup
- Not published
- Languages
- English, French, Spanish, German
Security and reliability
Certifications and controls as published by each vendor. We list them; we don't audit them.
- Security
- SOC 2 Type II
- ISO 27001
- GDPR
- HIPAA (Enterprise)
- SSO (SAML)
- Two-factor authentication
- Data residency (Enterprise)
- Public API
- Yes
- Mobile apps
- iOS · Android
- Company
- San Francisco, CA · 1,800+ employees · founded 2008
- Security
- SOC 2
- ISO 27001
- GDPR alignment
- Role-based access
- Audit logs
- Custom security roles
- Advanced security (Business and Enterprise)
- Encrypted off-site backups
- SSO via Okta integration
- Public API
- Yes
- Mobile apps
- None published
- Company
- founded 2001
Pros and cons
Our editors' pros and cons for each product. No user reviews have been published for these products yet.
Pros
- Flexible views of the same work: list, board, timeline, calendar
- Clear task ownership and dependency tracking
- Large integration library and a mature API
Cons
- Free plan caps collaborators and lacks timeline view
- Pricing climbs quickly for larger teams
- No built-in wiki or long-form documents
Pros
- A 14-day free trial with no credit card, opening on a sample portfolio with the full Business feature set.
- The Core plan starts at $10 per user per month billed annually and includes Gantt scheduling, baselines, and BI reporting.
- Schedules recalculate from work calendars when holidays, shifts, or slipped predecessors change the dates.
- Approved timesheet hours flow into costing, billing, and QuickBooks Online without re-entry.
- The same product can run as a cloud service on U.S. or EU data centers or on-premise.
Cons
- There is no free plan, and the paid tiers require a minimum of five full-access users.
- Billing, the client portal, advanced security, and custom apps are reserved for the Business and Enterprise plans.
- Jira, Azure DevOps, QuickBooks Online, and Zapier connections are paid add-ons on the Core through Business plans.
- API requests are capped per hour, ranging from 150 on Core to 1,800 on Enterprise.
Full side-by-side table
Asana leads in 7 of 9 rows where they differ. Green marks the leader in each row.
| Feature | Asana Best for cross-functional teams that need clear ownership | Best for PMOs and project-driven firms that need budgets, capacity, and portfolio reporting in one system |
|---|---|---|
| Scores | ||
| BSR score | 83 | 73 |
| Ease | 8.8 | 7.2 |
| Features | 8.7 | 7.7 |
| Value | 7.6 | 6.8 |
| Support | 8.0 | 7.2 |
| Pricing | ||
| Starting price | $10.99/user/mo | $10/user/mo |
| Free plan | Included | Not included |
| Free trial | 30-day trial | Free trial |
| Features | ||
| Features included | 7 / 8 | 7 / 8 |
| Kanban boards | Included | Included |
| Gantt charts | Included | Included |
| Time tracking | Included | Included |
| Guest access | Included | Included |
| Automations | Included | Included |
| Docs & wikis | Not included | Included |
| API access | Included | Included |
| Mobile app | Included | Not included |
| Details | ||
| Biggest strength | Flexible views of the same work: list, board, timeline, calendar | A 14-day free trial with no credit card, opening on a sample portfolio with the full Business feature set. |
| Biggest weakness | Free plan caps collaborators and lacks timeline view | There is no free plan, and the paid tiers require a minimum of five full-access users. |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac | Web |
| Best fit | 2–5,000 users | Small businesses, Mid size businesses, Enterprises |
Not a match?
Other project management software we list, ranked by BSR score.
Asana vs Celoxis: FAQs
Is Asana better than Celoxis?
Asana scores 83/100 against Celoxis's 73, a 10-point lead. Flexible views of the same work: list, board, timeline, calendar. Celoxis is the better pick if a 14-day free trial with no credit card, opening on a sample portfolio with the full Business feature set matters more to you.
Which is cheaper, Asana or Celoxis?
Celoxis has the lowest starting price at $10/user/mo. Asana starts at $10.99/user/mo. Per-user pricing, annual discounts and add-ons change the real total, so price out your actual seat count.
Which has more features?
Asana covers 7 of the 8 project management features we track, including Mobile app which Celoxis lacks.
Do Asana and Celoxis integrate with the same tools?
Both connect to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, GitHub, Dropbox and 2 more. Only Asana lists Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Gmail; Only Celoxis lists QuickBooks Online, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Zendesk Suite.
How this comparison was made
Each product was scored on the same four subscores (Ease, Features, Value, Support) from the vendor's published pricing and documentation, our editorial review, then combined into a 100-point BSR score. Hands-on tested: Asana. Feature checks use one list per category; plans, integrations, support and security come from what each vendor publishes and are refreshed when listings change. Green marks the leader in a row. Sponsored placements are labeled elsewhere on the site and never touch a comparison. Full methodology →