# Asana vs OpenProject (slim)

> Asana scores 70.1 (BB) on agent readiness against OpenProject's 57.4 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do tasks create. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Asana scores 70.1 (BB) on agent readiness against OpenProject's 57.4 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do tasks create.

- Asana: BB 70.1, rank #154 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/asana.min.md
- OpenProject: C 57.4, rank #550 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openproject.min.md
- Asana, good for Teams already on Asana that want an agent to create and update tasks, comment, post status updates and read project and portfolio summaries. Ahead on Reliability, 72 against 52; Schema & documentation, 91 against 76; Security & auth, 65 against 59; Maintenance & community, 80 against 75. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where OpenProject loses 5 points for them.
- OpenProject, good for Teams that want a self-hostable or EU-hosted project tool with Gantt, time tracking and budgets, and an agent working through a documented REST API. Also Open source.

| Category | Asana | OpenProject |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 72 | 52 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 91 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 83 | 87 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Asana | OpenProject |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Asana, Inc. | OpenProject GmbH |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.asana.com/api/1.0` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Asana's terms and API terms. The JavaScript and Python client libraries on GitHub are MIT | GPL-3.0 for the OpenProject source. Enterprise add-ons need a paid token, and OpenProject Enterprise cloud runs under OpenProject's Terms of Service |
| Tools exposed | 27 | none |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-01-01 | 2026-08-06 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 344k npm/wk, 805k PyPI/wk | 16k stars |