AsanaWork & Project Management for Human-Agent Teams

ShortcutFast project management for software teams and their agents

Comparison · Project Management · weekly run Nov 3

Asana vs Shortcut

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Asana is the stronger AI pick in Project Management: it has a visibility score of 60.9 versus 0.3 for Shortcut, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.

Choose Asana if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (60.9 vs 0.3)
AI answers describe it more positively (42% vs 0% positive)
You need FedRAMP Moderate (Asana Gov) coverage
You prefer a larger, established vendor (1,001–5,000 employees)

Choose Shortcut if…

You want a lower entry price ($8.5 vs $10.99)
You need GDPR or HIPAA (BAA on Business and Enterprise plans) coverage

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	Asana	Shortcut
Visibility score	60.9%	0.3%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in Project Management	#1	#43
Share of voice	11.7%	0.2%
Mentions this run	64	1
Positive in AI answers	42%	0%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

Asana 0pp · Shortcut 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Asana leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

64.8%

0.9%

AI Mode

54.8%

Perplexity

63%

AsanaShortcut

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

1Asana ranked higher

0Shortcut ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Asana	Shortcut
Top project management tool options for B2B SaaS companies	ChatGPT	#3	#8

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Asana	Shortcut
Pricing model	Per seat	Per seat
Entry price	Free; paid from $10.99 per seat / mo	Free; paid from $8.5 per seat / mo
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud-based
Integrations	100+	—
Compliance	SOC 2 Type 2, FedRAMP Moderate (Asana Gov)	SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, HIPAA (BAA on Business and Enterprise plans)
Support	Help Center, Community, Asana Academy, Customer Success	Help Center, Community Slack channel, Email support@shortcut.com, Premier support SLAs on Enterprise plan
Founded	2008	2014
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, United States	New York, NY, United States
Employees	1,001–5,000	51–200
Funding	Series E	Seed rounds · $39M raised
Best for	Individuals and teams from small groups up to large organizations scaling cross-functional work across departments.	Software teams, including product and engineering teams, that want lightweight project management with issue tracking.

Plans side by side

Asana

Personal$0free forever

Starter$10.99per user per month, billed annually

Advanced$24.99per user per month, billed annually

EnterpriseCustomcontact sales

Asana pricing

Shortcut

Free Plan$0per user/month

Team Plan$8.5per user/month

Business Plan$12per user/month

Enterprise PlanCustom

Shortcut pricing

Pros and cons

Themes from the AI answers that mention each brand

Asana

Strong for cross-functional structured execution and milestone tracking
Easy to adopt and use, with clean design
Goal tracking and cross-team accountability
Strongest general-purpose project management choice
Asana Intelligence summarises status and spots bottlenecks; AI agents for coordination