Gript vs. Asana

Asana Advanced costs $24.99 a seat. Gript Business costs $8.

Time tracking, invoicing, approvals, workload, automations. All included.

For teams that bill the work, not just track it. Bring your Asana data over in one click and see the gap on the first invoice.

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Same 10-seat team. One year.

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Gript Business
$960 /yr
10 seats, $8 per seat per month, annual
  • Time tracking, timesheets
  • Native invoicing, P&L
  • Workload & resources
  • Approval workflows
  • All 8 board views
  • Automations, no monthly cap
3.1× cheaper $2,040 saved per year
Asana Advanced
$2,999 /yr
10 seats, $24.99 per seat per month, annual
  • Time tracking, timesheets
  • Native invoicing
  • Workload
  • Approvals (basic)
  • Workload, Timeline gated to Advanced
  • 50 rules / project cap

Asana Starter is $10.99 a seat, but it strips time tracking, workload, custom rules, and goals. The features you actually need land on Advanced. Gript ships them on the entry plan.

Sources: published Asana pricing, 2026. Gript pricing locked at $8 per seat per month, annual.

Everything Asana gates to Advanced. Plus the invoice.

The depth Asana ships at $24.99. We ship at $8.

The features that turn Asana from a status tracker into a real work tool, all paywalled to Advanced. Plus the ones Asana doesn't ship at any price.

Advanced tier on Asana Time tracking
Advanced tier on Asana Workload & Timeline
Advanced tier on Asana Goals & Portfolios
Advanced tier on Asana Custom Rules
Not on Asana, at any price Native invoicing
Not on Asana, at any price SLA tracking
Not on Asana, at any price Forms with signature, payment
50 rules / project cap on Asana Automations, no cap
The five reasons Asana teams switch

What the pricing ladder actually buys.

Ranked by what real Asana users hit the wall on. Each one ships in Gript on the Business plan.

01 / Native invoicing

The feature Asana refuses to ship.

Tracked time becomes a billable line item. Filter by client, by date, by retainer. Draft a PDF invoice with your branding. Send it. The pipeline lives in Gript. P&L and portfolio financials roll up automatically.

On Asana: no native invoicing at any tier, ever. You track hours in Asana, export them, rebuild the bill in a separate tool. Two seats per person, two sources of truth, manual reconciliation every month.
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Gript invoicing modal sitting over a timesheet with live invoice preview
02 / Time tracking that doesn't cost $24.99

Native timer, billable, retainers. On the entry plan.

Start a timer on any item. Mark hours billable or non-billable. Tag by client, category, retainer. Roll up to timesheets in the same tool. Included from day one, on every plan.

On Asana: time tracking is on Advanced ($24.99). On Starter ($10.99) you integrate a separate time tracking tool at its own per-seat fee. Asana is the most expensive way to log an hour.
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Gript time tracking interface showing billable toggle and client tag on a task
03 / Forms that finish a transaction

Signature. Payment. Calculated. Conditional.

Twenty-four field types, including signature, consent, file upload, rating, calculated, and hidden. Conditional logic with real operators. Build a contract intake, a quote builder, or a client onboarding flow that arrives complete.

On Asana: forms are basic. No payments. No signatures. No calculated fields. Conditional logic was the top forum request for years and is still limited.
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Gript form builder showing advanced field types including signature, consent, and calculated fields
04 / Automations that don't stop at 50

No rule cap per board. No monthly action limit.

Workspace Automation Hub across every board, with retry, dead-letter queue, idempotency, and bulk enable-disable. Chain automations across boards. See per-automation success and failure counts on one screen.

On Asana: 50 rules per project, monthly action limits on Starter, and rules cannot chain across projects. Serious teams end up paying for a third-party automation tool on top of Asana.
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Gript automation wizard with trigger and action steps
05 / Every view on every plan

Eight views included. No Timeline upgrade. No Workload tier.

Table, Kanban, Calendar, Gantt, Dashboard, Timesheet, Workload, Zen. Switch with one click on any board. Save layouts per person or per team. The view you need is never one tier away.

On Asana: Timeline (Gantt) and Workload are gated to Advanced ($24.99). The first time you need Workload, you discover it is a $14 per seat per month upsell.
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Gript board showing all view tabs: Table, Kanban, Calendar, Gantt, Dashboard, Timesheet
Built for billable work

Asana fits internal teams. Gript fits client work.

Asana's case studies are Bayer, T-Mobile, Spotify, NASA. Internal cross-functional teams running campaigns, launches, and roadmaps. That's the work Asana was built for, and it's good at it.

Service businesses live on a different rhythm: estimate, track, deliver, invoice, repeat. Asana was never built for that loop. Gript was.

Asana measures updates. Gript measures delivery.
AgenciesConsultantsPhotographersFreelancersStudiosContractorsEvent plannersRenovations
And the rest

Six more things you stop bolting on.

The features Asana sends you to a plugin or a second tool to get. Built in.

Multi-stage approval workflows

Define stages, sequential or parallel. Set who approves what. Reject paths, audit trail, and reusable templates across boards.

Asana: needs a plugin or homegrown subtask hacks.

SLA tracking

Set response and resolution clocks per item, on business hours. See risk before the customer does. Every breach logged.

Asana: not a feature.

Update Requests

Send a secure link to a client or freelancer. They update the items you choose, no login, no seat on your plan. You see the changes live.

Asana: guest seats or email back-and-forth.

Public Board Share, live and themed

Share a real-time, themed board with a client. Updates land the second you make them. Mirrored columns, files, and updates included.

Asana: public link to a snapshot, no live updates.

Bulk Date Shift

Project slipped two weeks. Select items, shift by N days, skip weekends, exclude completed. Preview every change before applying.

Asana: open each task or build a custom rule.

Notebooks with live embeds

Meeting notes, briefs, knowledge base, all in one notebook environment. Embed live tasks and boards in the page. Diagrams included.

Asana: task descriptions and a doc tab.
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Authorize once, pick the workspaces, map the custom fields and statuses. Tasks, sub-tasks, projects, sections, and assignees come across. Keep working while it runs.

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Side by side

What you get for $8 vs. $24.99.

Gript Business at $8 per seat compared to Asana Advanced at $24.99 per seat. The plan where Asana's real features land.

FeatureGript BusinessAsana Advanced
Pricing terms
Price per seat per month, annual$8$24.99
Annual cost at 10 seats$960$2,999
Scale down without 5-seat blocks✓5-seat blocks above 5 users
Time, money, capacity
Native time tracking✓Advanced tier
Billable hours, categories, timesheets✓Advanced tier
Native invoicing, P&L, retainers✓—
Workload and resource view✓Advanced tier
SLA tracking with breach alerts✓—
Multi-stage approval workflows✓Plugin or hack
Project views
Table, Kanban, Calendar✓✓
Gantt / Timeline view✓Advanced tier
Built-in Dashboard with 20 widget types✓Basic, gated
Timesheet view✓—
Forms and intake
E-signature field✓—
Calculated fields✓—
Conditional logic with operators✓Branching only
External collaboration
Update Requests, public update portal✓—
Public board share, live and themed✓Snapshot only
Platform
Automation rules per boardNo cap50 per project
Monthly automation action capNoneLimits by tier
Workspace automation hub, one screen✓—
Migration
One-click import from Asana✓n/a

Asana Starter at $10.99 strips time tracking, workload, and goals. The features above require Advanced at $24.99. Prices sourced from Asana's pricing page, May 2026.

Pricing

One flat seat price. 14 days to try it.

Annual billing shown. Monthly is $7 and $10. Two-year is $4 and $6.40.

Private
$5
per account, billed annually

For one person who runs a lot of work.

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  • Unlimited boards, items, notes
  • 20 GB storage
  • All views, all column types
  • Time tracking, recurring, reminders
Business
$8
per seat, billed annually

For teams that bill clients, hit deadlines, and need approvals.

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  • Everything in Private
  • 100 GB storage
  • Update Requests, Public board share
  • SLA tracking, Native invoicing
  • Approvals, Workload, Resources
  • Automation Hub, Public API

No credit card to start. Keep your data on export if you leave.

Run the work. Bill the work. Same tool. A third of the price.

Import your Asana projects in the trial. Send your first invoice. Decide on day 14.

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