Asana vs ClickUp vs monday AI agents: we priced 450 runs for a 10-person team.

It depends on one number: how many times a month your agent runs. Under about 50 runs, Asana is cheapest and you know the bill in advance. At hundreds of simple runs, monday is cheapest by a wide margin. ClickUp sits in the middle on per-run cost but charges the most just to switch AI on, so it never wins on agent price alone.

A disclosure first. I am a Certified ClickUp Consultant and we build ClickUp workspaces for clients, so I have a reason to like ClickUp. That is why the ClickUp column below is the least flattering one, and why every number comes from the vendors, not from us. The prices are from Asana's pricing page, ClickUp's pricing page and monday.com's pricing page. The per-run credit figures are from ClickUp's AI Credits article and monday's AI credits article. All were read on 5 October 2026. The arithmetic and the opinions are ours. We have not benchmarked the three agents against each other on the same task, so this is a cost comparison, not a quality test.

Three calls drive the verdict:

• Asana is the only flat meter. One successful unit of work is one AI request, whatever it took. Failed, timed-out and canceled tasks do not count. That makes Asana the easiest bill to forecast and the most expensive one at volume.
• monday is the cheapest meter and the most sensitive one. A simple task can cost a tenth of an Asana request. A complex one can cost five times more. How you write the agent decides the bill.
• ClickUp's cost is mostly the seat, not the run. Brain AI is $9 per user per month on annual billing, on every seat, before an agent does anything. Runs themselves are cheap, at 100 to 300 credits each at $0.001 a credit.

For one busy triage agent running 450 times a month, monday comes to about $154, ClickUp $240 to $330 and Asana about $310. For one weekly research agent running about 43 times a month, Asana comes to $109.90, monday about $152 and ClickUp $210.

We used two agents that monday itself publishes credit figures for, so at least one column is the vendor's own number rather than our estimate:

• Agent A, request router. Reviews every new request on an intake board, assigns it to the right person and posts an update. monday's article puts it at about 5,400 credits a month at 15 runs a day. We used 15 runs a day for 30 days, so 450 runs.
• Agent B, research and synthesis. Researches 10 topics a week, writes a doc and updates the board. monday's article puts it at about 5,160 credits a month. That is about 43 runs a month.

Assumptions, stated so you can change them: 10 seats, annual billing, the cheapest plan that runs agents properly, one Asana AI request per agent run, ClickUp at its published 100 to 300 credits per Super Agent run, and monday at its own published figures for these two agents.

Read the two rows together and the pattern is clear. Asana is the cheapest tool until you pass its 50 included requests, then every run costs up to five times what the same run costs on ClickUp. monday is cheapest when the work is simple and frequent. ClickUp starts $90 to $100 a month behind because the AI add-on is charged on every seat, and it never makes that back at this team size. On Everything AI instead of Brain AI, ClickUp would cover Agent A inside its 50,000 included credits at the low end, but the seats alone would be $400 a month.

If the job runs hundreds of times a month and the decision follows a rule you could write down, make it an automation, not an agent. An automation run costs nothing extra on Asana Starter and almost nothing on ClickUp Business, and it gives the same answer every time.

Our request router is the honest example. If "assign by request type" is a dropdown value, that is a rule, and every tool here has rules. The allowances matter, though:

• Asana Starter includes unlimited automations, so a 450-a-month routing rule is free.
• ClickUp Business includes 5,000 automations a month, which covers it with room to spare.
• monday Standard includes only 250 automation actions a month. A 450-a-month rule does not fit, so you either move to Pro at $19 a seat with 25,000 actions, or you route through an external tool.

Use the agent for the part that needs judgement: reading a messy request, working out what it is really about, drafting the first reply. Run that on fewer items and the agent bill falls into the "included" row on every tool. Anything that crosses tools, such as a CRM update or a client email, is usually sturdier in n8n or Make than inside any PM tool. That split between rules and judgement is the core of our Automation stage, and we cover what ClickUp's own agents do well in ClickUp AI agents in chat for SMB ops.