Alternatives to Asana
Asana alternatives for agencies: thirty-one people, thirty-five seats.
Asana adds seats in increments once you pass five people: fives, then tens, then twenty-fives.
Asana
Spodus- How seats are bought
- In blocks above 5 people
- One at a time, above a 3-seat floor
- Timeline, dependencies and portfolios
- Included
- Not offered
- Workload and goals
- Included
- Goals only
- Integration library
- Included
- CSV and Excel import, REST API, webhooks, mail and calendar sync
What actually pushes people off Asana.
One pricing mechanic, one gating pattern, and one thing it was never built to do.
Seats round up to the next block
Above five people, seats are added in increments: fives up to thirty, tens up to a hundred, twenty-fives beyond that.
The planning features are two tiers up
Timeline and custom fields arrive at Starter; portfolios, goals and workload are Advanced.
It manages work, not customers
There is no pipeline, no invoice, no ticket queue and no employee record in Asana, and there never will be, because that is not what it is.
What a Spodus seat is instead.
Seats you buy one at a time, and the work attached to the customer.
No blocks once you clear the floor
Free takes up to three people, and every paid plan starts at a three-seat floor.
The work sits on the customer
A board, a table or a calendar in Spodus is a view over records that also carry the deal, the invoice, the ticket and the person responsible.
Nothing important behind a tier
Custom fields, dashboards, automations, the customer portal, public forms and all five products are in every plan.
What you would be giving up.
Asana is a better project manager than Spodus and it is not a close call.
Side by side.
| Spodus | Asana | |
|---|---|---|
| How seats are bought | One at a time, above a 3-seat floor | In blocks above 5 people |
| Timeline, dependencies and portfolios | ||
| Workload and goals | Goals only | |
| Integration library | CSV and Excel import, REST API, webhooks, mail and calendar sync | |
| Table, board and calendar views | ||
| Purpose-built CRM | ||
| Invoicing, tax rates and recurring schedules | ||
| Help desk with SLAs, HR and org chart |
Asana's pricing structure above was read from their own pricing page on 28 August 2026. Spodus is priced per seat, from a three-seat minimum; customers in the support portal are free.
Projects come over as objects.
Export an Asana project to CSV and it lands as a Spodus custom object: tasks as records, custom fields mapped, sections as a status field, assignees matched on email.
Thinking about the rest of the stack?
The same honest read on the other tools teams try to leave.
Two ways
to start
Start fresh today, or bring the clients, deals and history you already have.
Start fresh
Free for up to three people.
You get every product: CRM, invoicing, support, team, chat and Spodus AI, which asks before it changes anything. Upgrade when your team grows.
Start for freeBring your data
Bring your data from the tool you use now.
Your deals arrive with their stages, owners and dates. Connect your work email, and each client's emails land on their record. On a paid plan, we'll move it all for you, free.
Try it before you cancel anything.
Start today, or bring your own data to a demo and see it there.
Questions, answered
Not fully, and we would rather say so. There is no timeline with dependencies, no portfolio view and no workload balancing. Spodus does boards, tables and calendars over records with automations and dashboards, which covers process work rather than programme planning.
On paid plans, yes: three seats to start. Free has no minimum and takes up to three people. Above that floor, seats are bought one at a time at the same rate — never rounded up into Asana's blocks of five, ten or twenty-five.
Yes, and for a lot of teams that is the right answer: Asana for delivery, Spodus for the customer, the money, the tickets and the people. There is no integration between them, so the join is manual.
Yes, by CSV, one project at a time, with a mapping step for custom fields and statuses.