Asana vs Trello: kanban or workload

Atlassian names Jira, Confluence, and Loom on its regulated-cloud pages — and says nothing at all about Trello

Atlassian’s data-residency product list names Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, and Loom; its FedRAMP, Government Cloud, and HIPAA BAA eligibility pages instead name Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management. Neither list matches the other, and neither one names Trello: that is a silence, not a stated exclusion. Asana, meanwhile, contradicts itself on the same ground, claiming a FedRAMP Moderate authorized status that its own help article states more cautiously. Scope compared, criterion by criterion. Checked 7 September 2026.

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Trello vs Asana: scope compared, criterion by criterion — checked September 7, 2026
Trello	Asana
What the tool answers
What it measures or produces
Cards placed on the lists of a board: due date, checklists, assignee, custom fields — no effort and no cost	Progress: task status, goal advancement, and the gap between estimated and actual time, aggregated into charts
The job it equips
Atlassian names teams, never a job title: marketing, engineering, design and remote teams, each working from a shared board	Project leadership and the PMO: the vendor describes team bandwidth surfaced at project level
What it cannot tell you
Whether a late task blocks another one: Atlassian states that dependency management is not built in	Neither cost, margin nor project profitability without the paid add-on: only elapsed time against an estimate
Running the work
Available views
Kanban is the only view on every plan. Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map arrive on Premium, at $10 per user per month	List, board and calendar from the free tier. Timeline and Gantt start at Starter. Workload only begins at Advanced
Task dependencies
None, on any plan. Atlassian says so and suggests standing in for the link with a checklist item and reciprocal card attachments	From Starter up, with blocking and blocked-by links, and automatic date shifting that preserves the gap between tasks
Workload and capacity
No per-person workload view: the published Workspace views stop at Table and Calendar, and Planner blocks personal time rather than measuring team capacity	The workload view requires Advanced. Universal workload and capacity planning are reserved for Enterprise and above
Time tracking
No timer and no timesheet in the feature lists published on 2 September 2026. The only quantitative field is a Number custom field, from Standard up	Native from Advanced up, timer or manual entry, adding two fields to the project: estimated time and actual time
Automations
250 runs a month on Free, a thousand on Standard, unlimited on Premium — yet the quota page caps that same tier at 250,000 operations per Workspace	Rules begin at Starter. The pricing page says unlimited; the help centre caps them at fifty per project, at every tier
Guest and client access
A single-board guest is free and non-billable; from the second board of a Standard or Premium Workspace that guest consumes a full seat	Guests are free and unlimited and do not count toward the membership total. View-only licences require Enterprise
Reports and dashboards
The Premium dashboard covers a single board and four tiles: cards per list, per due date, per member, per label. Cross-board aggregation goes through Dashcards	Up to twenty charts per dashboard: bar, line, burnup, burndown, donut and number, with up to four metrics each
What comes out of it
Export formats
JSON for any board member. CSV requires Premium and leaves archived cards out; whole-Workspace export is Premium admins only	JSON or CSV for a project, and also a search view or My Tasks. Portfolios export to Google Sheets
Shareable reports
No scheduled or white-labeled report in the documentation. Sharing means making the board public: anyone with the link can view, search engines cannot index	Dashboards share inside the tool. Outward, sharing runs through a CSV, JSON or Sheets export
API access
A public REST API with no paid tier gate, capped at 300 requests per ten seconds per API key and 100 per token	Open even on the free tier at one hundred fifty requests per minute, against fifteen hundred on a paid domain
What it connects to
Native integrations
More than two hundred Power-Ups advertised on the Enterprise page, installed board by board. The public catalogue returned nothing readable	A directory of over two hundred partners. The three that matter: Slack, Google Drive and Microsoft Teams
Google tools it connects to
A Drive Power-Up creates Docs, Slides and Sheets from a card; Google Calendar is read-only, through an iCal feed that can take twenty-four hours	Single sign-on on every tier, Calendar sync, Drive attachments, tasks from Gmail, portfolio exported to Sheets
Bringing your existing data across
No generic import tool: Atlassian points to pasting a spreadsheet column, the API, or third-party Power-Ups, with no field mapping	Import through a CSV file, with documented paths from monday.com, Trello, Airtable, Smartsheet, Wrike and ClickUp
Getting started, and the fine print
Support
A ticket requires an active subscription, free users go to the community. Atlassian carves Trello out of its cloud support tiers and publishes no response time for it	A chatbot, then a ticket. The two-business-hour response commitment is English-only, and Enterprise-only
Where the data is hosted
Trello is absent from the data-residency product list, which names only Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence and Loom	European residency in Germany with backup in Ireland, but profile data stays in the US. Enterprise+ or a paid add-on
What happens if you leave
On downgrade to Free the ten most active boards stay open and the rest are closed but not deleted; a refund covers the first purchase only, within thirty days	Thirty days after termination to request the export. Past that, the vendor has no obligation to retain anything
Minimum seats billed
No published minimum on Standard and Premium, which bill per user. Enterprise starts at fifty seats, with a stated ten-thousand-dollar minimum spend	Two seats at the floor, then fixed buckets: three, four, five, then steps of five, ten, twenty-five and fifty
Data residency and regulated cloud
As of 2026-09-07, Trello is absent from Atlassian's data residency lists, its FedRAMP/Government Cloud scope, and its HIPAA BAA eligibility pages — which name Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management, never Trello.	Asana claims a FedRAMP Moderate “authorized” status for Asana Gov, which its own help article states more cautiously, without that word. A HIPAA BAA is obtained on the Enterprise+ tier, activated within 24 hours in the Admin Console. Contradiction: its privacy page lists the US among its data centers; its Trust Center page does not.
Interface languages shipped
As of 2026-09-07, Trello advertises 'over 20 languages' and lists 21, English shown with no regional variant. Documentation isn't translated (points to browser translation); mobile follows the device's system language.	Two of Asana's help pages disagree: one lists fourteen interface languages, the other thirteen, omitting Bahasa Indonesia. English stays a single entry, with no US or UK variant and no partial translation flagged.
What it costs
The entry price and what it includes
$5 per user per month billed annually, $6 monthly: unlimited boards, custom fields, a thousand automation runs, 250 MB per file	$10.99 per user per month billed annually on Starter, $13.49 monthly. No workload and no time tracking at that tier
What pushes the bill up
The multi-board guest, billed like a full member from the second board on, and Atlassian Guard Standard at $4.20 per user per month for SSO outside Enterprise	Rounding up to the next seat bucket: a team of thirty-two pays for forty seats. Then the jump to Advanced
Sales tax and nexus
As of 2026-09-07, Atlassian charges US sales tax based on the card's ZIP code; nexus shifts as it hires, no effective date given. Exemption needs documentation. Trello isn't a sales tool; no local-jurisdiction calculation.	Asana charges sales tax at state and local level from the billing address, no published state list; only exemptions are named, a form for New York, an affidavit for Colorado. The Terms place the tax burden on the customer.

Key takeaways

Two Atlassian pages, two different lists, the same missing name

Atlassian’s data-residency product list names five products: Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, and Loom. Its FedRAMP, Government Cloud, and HIPAA Business Associate Agreement eligibility pages instead name three: Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management. The two lists do not agree with each other, and Trello sits on neither one.

A silence is not a stated exclusion

Nowhere does Atlassian write that Trello is excluded from data residency, government cloud, or the HIPAA agreement; its pages simply do not mention Trello at all, on two lists that already disagree with each other as of the seventh of September, twenty twenty-six. That absence is dated, not declared, and could read differently were either page updated.

Asana claims a status its own help page will not confirm

Asana Gov’s page claims a FedRAMP Moderate “authorized” status; Asana’s own help article for the same product states it more cautiously, without using that word at all. Both versions stand as published; neither is treated as the one that governs.

One Asana page places the United States on the map, another erases it

Asana’s privacy page lists the United States among its data centers; its own Trust Center page does not. The same company, describing the same infrastructure, gives two different answers depending on which page is read.

Twenty-one languages listed, one detail never given on either side

Trello advertises “over twenty languages” and lists twenty-one, English shown with no regional variant; its documentation is not translated, pointing instead to browser translation, and its mobile app follows the device’s own system language. Asana’s own count fares no better: one of its help pages lists fourteen languages, another lists thirteen, the difference being Bahasa Indonesia.

A ZIP code decides one company’s tax, a billing address decides the other’s

Atlassian charges US sales tax based on the card’s ZIP code, and states that its own nexus shifts as the company hires, with no effective date given; exemption needs documentation, and Trello itself is not treated as a sales tool with any local-jurisdiction calculation. Asana instead charges sales tax at the state and local level from the billing address, with no published state list, naming only two exemption routes, a form for New York and an affidavit for Colorado.

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Does Trello appear on Atlassian’s FedRAMP or HIPAA BAA eligibility pages?

No: Trello is absent from Atlassian’s data residency lists and FedRAMP scope, which name Jira, Confluence, and Jira Service Management, but never Trello. Asana claims a FedRAMP Moderate status for Asana Gov and gets a HIPAA BAA on the Enterprise+ tier, activated within 24 hours. Only Asana names a path.

How does Trello’s parent, Atlassian, determine which state’s sales tax applies?

Atlassian charges US sales tax based on the card’s billing ZIP code, with nexus shifting as it hires, and no effective date given; since Trello is not a sales tool, no local calculation applies to it specifically. Asana charges tax from the billing address, with no published state list. Both tie tax to the billing address.

Do Trello and Asana agree internally on their own language count?

Not entirely: Trello advertises over 20 languages and lists 21, with its documentation pointing to browser translation instead. Asana disagrees with itself: one help page lists fourteen interface languages, another lists thirteen, omitting Bahasa Indonesia. Asana’s own pages do not even match each other.