# Asana vs Plane (slim)

> Asana scores 70.1 (BB) on agent readiness against Plane's 67.6 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Plane leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. 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 Plane's 67.6 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Plane leads on reliability and agent ergonomics. Both do tasks create.

- Asana: BB 70.1, rank #141 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/asana.min.md
- Plane: B 67.6, rank #204 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.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 Schema & documentation, 91 against 80; Transparency & trust, 83 against 74. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No incidents deducted, where Plane loses 5 points for them.
- Plane, good for Teams that want an issue tracker they can also self-host, with an agent creating and updating work items, cycles, modules and pages over MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 89 against 72; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 71. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Asana | Plane |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 72 | 89 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 91 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 71 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 83 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Asana | Plane |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Asana, Inc. | Plane Software, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.asana.com/api/1.0` | `https://api.plane.so` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Asana's terms and API terms. The JavaScript and Python client libraries on GitHub are MIT | Plane Community Edition is AGPL-3.0, and the MCP server and the Python and Node SDKs are MIT. Plane Cloud and the Commercial Edition are proprietary under Plane's Terms of Service |
| Tools exposed | 27 | 30 |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-01-01 | 2026-04-09 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | 2026-04-09 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 344k npm/wk, 805k PyPI/wk | 61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk |