Operations · Projects
VanVed vs Asana
for Projects
Why businesses choose VanVed over Asana
VanVed ties delivery to money in the same database: a won CRM deal becomes a project, time is logged in minutes against its tasks, and unbilled minutes turn into a draft invoice without leaving the tenant. Asana stops at the task — billing lives in another product entirely. Time tracking and the Gantt view cost nothing extra here.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | Asana |
|---|---|---|
| Gantt / timeline with dependencies | Yes — bars from task start/due dates, with add/remove dependency edges and cycle protection | Timeline from the paid Starter tier up |
| Time tracking on tasks | Built in, free — minutes logged per task or project | Native time tracking only on Advanced |
| Billable time to invoice | One click — unbilled minutes × project hourly rate become a draft invoice, entries marked billed | No invoicing; export or integrate a billing tool |
| Board / kanban view of tasks | A drag-and-drop kanban board over the same tasks — a drop changes the status, though cards do not reorder within a column | List, board, calendar and timeline views |
| Workload and capacity planning | Not built — no per-person capacity or allocation view | Workload and portfolios on Advanced |
| Project templates and recurring tasks | Recurring tasks (daily, weekly or monthly, generated by a scheduled command) and duplicate-a-project, which clones its tasks and their dependencies — but no template library | Templates, rules and recurring tasks |
| Milestones and budgets | Milestones with their own dates on a project; still no budget field, and a milestone carries no tasks of its own | Milestones native; budget via custom fields |
| Cost to run a 10-person team | Included in the platform fee — projects is one module of ~40 on one tenant | Starter ~$11/user/mo, Advanced ~$25/user/mo, billed annually |
| Delivery linked to the sale | A CRM deal converts straight into a project; the same tenant also holds the invoice | Needs a Salesforce/HubSpot integration |
Where Asana is ahead of us today
Asana is a far deeper work-management tool. It has board, calendar and timeline views of the same tasks, workload and capacity planning, portfolios, goals, project templates, recurring tasks, custom fields, forms, approvals and a workflow builder with unlimited automations — and 30+ AI teammates on top. VanVed now has the task table, a kanban board, a Gantt, milestones, recurring tasks and project duplication — but no template library, no budgets, no custom fields, no forms, no automation of any kind, and no workload or capacity view.
We publish this because a comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing to you. If one of these gaps is the thing you actually need, Asana may well be the better buy.
What VanVed's Projects module does
- Projects and tasks
Break work down and track status.
- Time entries
Log time against a task; project totals roll up from entries.