Asana

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Dependencies, milestones and deadline alerts, a real-time Workload capacity view with drag-and-drop rebalancing, and cross-project Portfolios are all evidenced, plus unlimited free guests on Starter and guest permission controls on Enterprise. The gripes: capacity is measured on task count alone (hours and points are listed as coming soon), and the planning layer — Workload, Portfolios, resource management — sits behind the Business tier, so first-class planning is paid for, not given. 7 8 2 1

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Universal Reporting gives cross-project dashboards with workload, budget and timing data, a chart template library plus a custom chart builder, drill-through to the underlying work, and credible export paths including Power BI, Looker Studio and full-domain export through the API. Timesheets and budgets as a dedicated capability are an Enterprise add-on, though, and I found no public information on scheduled report delivery. 10 9 2 3

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A claimed 200+ apps with Slack and Teams, a REST API that is free to every account with documentation and a developer site, and a first-party CSV importer that carries task dependencies, followers and custom fields over from Smartsheet, Monday.com, Wrike and Trello — the exit and entry paths are genuinely there. What keeps this short of the top band: I found no public information on webhooks or on automation-platform support anywhere in the captured pages, and the API still shows key-based authentication. 11 7 12 13 2

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Free trial with no credit card required, a free-forever tier for one or two people, signup through Google or Microsoft, a template gallery, and an importer that migrates existing projects with a preview step — signup to a working project inside an hour is credible, and the free Academy teaches the deeper features as a team grows. The free tier caps at two users, so a real team is paying from day one; we found no public information on guided in-product setup. 7 2 14 13 15

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A Delaware-incorporated, NYSE-listed company headquartered in San Francisco owns the product, and the privacy policy states plainly that data is transferred to regions where subprocessors and partners are located. European data centers exist only as an opt-in, paid feature on the top tier, we found no public information on the region of the default hosting, and the subprocessor exposure is not confirmed on the captured pages — GDPR and ISO badges aplenty, substance thin. 5 2 6 3

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A free Asana Academy with fifteen on-demand courses, quizzes and certificates, a community forum, a help center, and a security FAQ of 58 answers make the learning surface genuinely healthy, and product announcements are publicly visible. But the published 24/7 priority support and 99.9% uptime commitment are Enterprise-only, and I found no public information on chat support or response times for customers on the lower tiers. 15 4 3 16

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The self-serve tiers are on the page — Personal at €0 free forever, Starter at €10.99 per user per month billed annually, Advanced at €24.99 per user per month billed annually, with the yearly saving stated at up to 18% — but the headline numbers are annual-billed figures, we found no public information on tax treatment, and Enterprise is contact-sales while audit logs, data residency and timesheets live as Enterprise add-ons doing real work. Add AI metered at $0.60 per AI request, billed monthly (or $0.50 per AI request, billed upfront) and a stated no-refunds policy, and the invoice is only roughly predictable from the page. 2

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