Asana is a well-made task manager. Projects, sections, assignees and due dates are clean, and a team can be productive in it on day one. For a lot of agencies, that's enough.
The gap for a small agency founder is usually not the tasks. It's everything that happens around them: knowing what each person actually did today, seeing when a job is running long, telling the client where things stand, and paying per seat for Asana and per seat again for chat.
How the two differ
Asana is a work management platform for teams of any kind, with strong planning tools as you move up its plans. Suprwork is one workspace for running a small service business. Tickets and time sit next to team chat, daily check-ins, a client portal, proposals and invoicing, at one flat price with everyone on the team included.
The cost for 10 and 25 people
As listed on asana.com/pricing in November 2026: Starter is $10.99 per user a month billed yearly ($13.49 monthly), Advanced is $24.99 billed yearly ($30.49 monthly). The free Personal plan is for up to 2 users. Asana sells seats in increments of 5 between 5 and 30 users, so 10 and 25 are both available.
For chat we've added Slack Pro at $7.25 a user a month billed yearly, as listed on slack.com/pricing in November 2026.
Suprwork, from our pricing page: Starter $49, Basic $99, Plus $199, Max $249 a month, everyone on the team included. Plans differ on monthly AI usage and storage. We assumed Basic for 10 people and Plus for 25.
| Monthly cost | 10 people | 25 people |
|---|---|---|
| Asana Starter ($10.99/user, yearly) | $109.90 | $274.75 |
| Asana Advanced ($24.99/user, yearly) | $249.90 | $624.75 |
| Starter + Slack Pro | $182.40 | $456.00 |
| Advanced + Slack Pro | $322.40 | $806.00 |
| Suprwork (Basic for 10, Plus for 25) | $99 | $199 |
| Suprwork, one plan up (Plus, Max) | $199 | $249 |
On Asana Starter alone, the difference for 10 people is about $11 a month, which is close to nothing. The difference grows with the team and with each tool you add next to Asana, because every one of them is priced per person.
What changes day to day
The first thing most founders notice is the morning. Instead of reading through projects or asking in chat, you read one written summary of the team. Each person checks in with their plan and checks out with what got done, typed or spoken, and Check-ins pull out blockers and flag patterns over recent weeks. Spoken check-ins in another language are transcribed and translated to English.
Time is part of the ticket. Start a timer on a ticket from the browser, the desktop app or your phone, or log hours afterwards. The estimate accuracy report compares estimates with logged hours person by person, and the workload view shows who's overloaded. That's where you catch a job stretching past what you quoted, before the invoice makes it obvious. If that's a problem you know well, how to spot a project going over budget walks through the warning signs.
Clients get their own view. The client portal gives each client a written summary of progress, deliveries waiting for their sign-off, and, for projects linked to invoicing, what they owe. When they ask for changes, those become change requests.
Chat is in the same app, so the conversation about a ticket and the ticket are one click apart. Proposals, invoicing, hiring, time off and reviews are there when you need them, without another subscription.
Moving from Asana
In Asana, open each project, export it as CSV, then upload all the files to the migration assistant in Suprwork's settings. Each project becomes a project. Sections become lists, or statuses when they read like To do, Doing and Done. Tasks keep assignees, dates, tags, notes and subtasks.
Asana's CSV export doesn't include comments or attachments, so they don't come across. If an old thread matters, save it before you go.
When Asana is the better choice
Stay with Asana if these sound like you.
You run planning across many teams. Asana's higher plans are built for organisations coordinating lots of projects at once, and that's more than Suprwork attempts.
Your work depends on integrations. Asana lists more than 100 integrations even on its free plan. Suprwork connects to far fewer tools.
You only need tasks. If the team is two people, Asana's free plan is the cheapest answer. Suprwork starts at $49 a month after a 14-day trial.
You need a CRM. Suprwork is not one: it has proposals, but no lead pipeline.
You've invested in rules, forms and templates that your team relies on. Moving means rebuilding them, and that cost is real.
How to decide
Ask which question you can't answer today. If it's "what's due this week," Asana answers that well. If it's "what did everyone actually do, and is this project running over," that's the gap Suprwork is built for. Import one project, run check-ins for two weeks, and compare how often you had to ask.
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