Asana vs Motion: which one fits your team?
One of these answers when, for one person, automatically. The other answers how is it all going, for the organisation. They are on different floors of the same building.
It turns on whether the problem you are solving belongs to a person or to a management layer.
Pick Asana if
your company runs many teams and somebody above them needs the view from above. Where it stops: it tracks status, it does not lay out your hours.
Pick Motion if
your calendar is chaotic, you mostly work alone, and you would rather software reconciled it than do it yourself. Where it stops: the plan is the algorithm’s, and the price is set for people who want that.
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Asana is about $659.40 a year, Motion is about $1140 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT. Between the two of them Asana is $480.60 a year cheaper at that size.
Asana: Free up to 2 users. $10.99 Starter and $24.99 Advanced per user per month billed annually. Motion: Around $19 to $29 per seat per month billed annually, more monthly. No free plan.
Where they part company
Asana does more on 8 of them
- portfolio and agile reporting
- having a free plan
- being the place the tasks actually live
- dependencies and a timeline
- showing who has room
- turning email and chat into tasks
- linking pull requests to the work
- rules that fire on their own
Motion does more on 5 of them
- time blocking on a calendar
- having a plan for today
- two way calendar sync
- booking links
- being useful before you configure it
Side by side
| What it does | Asana | Motion | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | No | Core. The blocks are placed by the algorithm, not by you. | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | Partly. A My Tasks list sorted by due date, not a day against real hours. | Core | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | Partly. A calendar view of due dates, and one way feeds out. | Core | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | Core | Yes | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | Yes | Partly | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | Yes | Partly. Team features are layered on an individual first product. | Core |
| Booking links | No | Yes | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | Partly | Partly | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | Yes | Partly | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | Partly | No | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | Partly | Partly | Partly. Docs live on a project, they are not a wiki you would run a company from. |
| Portfolio or agile reporting | Core. Portfolios and goals that roll up, which is the reason people buy it. | Partly | Partly. Team workload and project progress, not portfolios that roll up to a board. |
| Rules that fire on their own | Core | Yes | Yes |
| AI that does the work, not just the scheduling | Partly | Partly. The AI schedules the work. It does not do the work. | Yes. AI teammates you assign a task to. The work comes back on the task for review. |
| Useful before you configure it | Partly | Yes | Core |
| A free plan | Yes | No | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 3: turning meetings into tasks, docs and a wiki inside and AI that does the work rather than the scheduling.
And where UnaTask sits
UnaTask solves the person’s problem in a way the team can see, without the rollout a platform asks for.
It does more than both of them on showing who has room, turning meetings into tasks, linking pull requests to the work, AI that does the work rather than the scheduling and being useful before you configure it.
Common questions
Asana vs Motion: which should I pick?
Pick Asana if your company runs many teams and somebody above them needs the view from above. Pick Motion if your calendar is chaotic, you mostly work alone, and you would rather software reconciled it than do it yourself.
What is the biggest difference between Asana and Motion?
The clearest gap is time blocking on a calendar, where Motion does more than Asana. Underneath that, Asana is a configurable platform several departments can shape to their own process, and Motion is software that arranges your calendar for you and defends what it put there.
Is Asana or Motion cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Asana is about $659.40 a year, Motion is about $1140 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT. Between the two of them Asana is $480.60 a year cheaper at that size.
What do Asana and Motion have in common?
They answer the same on 3 of our 16 axes: turning meetings into tasks, docs and a wiki inside and AI that does the work rather than the scheduling. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Asana and Motion?
UnaTask does more than both on showing who has room, turning meetings into tasks and linking pull requests to the work. It is free on your own and €10 per seat for a team, with every feature included. Where it does less: it is not an issue tracker with sprints and burndown, and it is not a documentation workspace.
Details checked 2 August 2026 and June 2026.