Asana is a project and portfolio management platform focused on strategic team coordination. Excellent for tracking complex projects, it is however not designed for operational field resource planning.
Pricing
Starting at EUR25/month (all-inclusive, 10 users).
Free plan (personal). Paid plans on request (Starter, Advanced, Enterprise).
Hosting
Self-hosted or cloud in France (ISO 27001, HDS)
Cloud only
Target market
SMB to mid-cap, multi-industry, project and field teams
Medium to large teams, project portfolio management
Feature
In detail
Conversational AI vs automated AI
Humble Planning integrates 30+ MCP tools accessible in natural language from ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini: create, modify and analyze your tasks by voice or text. Asana offers pre-configured AI Teammates for specific workflows, but without an open conversational interface.
Field planning vs project management
Humble Planning is designed for who does what, when and where: view by users, places, resources, with automatic conflict detection. Asana is optimized for tracking projects, milestones and strategic portfolios — a higher level of abstraction.
Simplicity vs feature richness
Humble Planning can be learned in minutes with an intuitive planning-oriented interface. Asana offers impressive functional richness (goals, portfolios, automations) but requires significant adaptation time for field teams.
What Asana does well
Asana excels in managing complex project portfolios with timeline views, strategic goals and multi-team tracking. For organizations managing dozens of simultaneous projects with dependencies, it's a formidable tool.
Humble Planning is right for you if...
- You plan field resources (who, where, when)
- You want open conversational AI (MCP), not pre-configured agents
- You're looking for the simplicity of a dedicated planning interface
- You need to control where your data is hosted
- Your team needs visual drag & drop on a planning board