Kill Asana
$22/mo+ (2-seat min)
Asana started as a generous free tool and spent five years slowly taking features away. The free plan now caps at 2 users and blocks Timeline, automations, and custom fields. The paid plan starts at $10.99/seat with a two-seat minimum - and a 250-automation monthly cap that burns faster than you'd expect. Plane is open source, unlimited users, and $5/month on Railway.
Why Replace Asana?
- ×The free plan dropped from 15 users to 10 to 2 - it's now effectively a trial that times out by headcount instead of days
- ×Solo users who need Timeline or automations pay the two-seat minimum: $21.98/month for features you'd get free elsewhere
- ×Automations are capped at 250/month on Starter - a team with a few status-change triggers burns through that in two weeks, then automations silently stop
- ×The jump from Starter ($10.99/seat) to Advanced ($24.99/seat) is 127% more per seat just to get reliable automations
What People Use Asana For
Replacement Stack
Plane
Open source project management with 46,000 GitHub stars. Unlimited users on the Community Edition. List, kanban, spreadsheet, Gantt/timeline, and calendar views. Cycles (sprints), modules, pages, intake, and REST API. Covers the full surface area of what a small team uses Asana for, including Timeline view.
Railway
Hosts the full Plane stack with one-click deploy. Approximately $5/month for the complete setup including PostgreSQL and Redis.
Kill Checklist
Create a Railway account
~5 minsPlane deploys on Railway with one click. The full stack - frontend, backend, workers, PostgreSQL, and Redis - provisions automatically.
https://railway.com?referralCode=killyoursaas →Deploy Plane on Railway
~10 minsUse the one-click Plane template on Railway. It provisions the full Plane stack: Next.js frontend, Django backend, Celery workers, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Takes about 5-8 minutes.
https://railway.com/deploy/MrCqPF?referralCode=killyoursaas →Add domain and create workspace
~10 minsIn Railway project settings, add a custom domain like tasks.yourdomain.com. On first load, Plane walks you through workspace setup. Create your workspace, invite your team, and set up your first project. Invite as many people as you need - there's no cap.
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