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Index Vendors › Asana · September 2026 Edition
6 categories · Ranked

Asana

69Judge labels
3First choices
29Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
6Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
7% in Goals and OKRs for small business buyers
Rank 19 of 54 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 29% of its 14 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In goals and okrs · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Asana for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Goals and OKRsPerformance and talent management0%19 of 5429%14criticized challenger
Employee onboardingOnboarding and employee experience0%99 of 10450%6under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29%
Contingent workforce managementWorkforce planning and analytics0%44 of 970%1under 10 labels · led by SimpleVMS at 35%
Org charts and org designWorkforce planning and analytics0%27 of 810%1under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 27%
Workforce planningWorkforce planning and analytics0%69 of 89100%1under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 31%
Workforce schedulingCore HR and payroll0%34 of 940%1under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Asana yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Asana across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501102
GPT-5.4 mini02002
Gemini 3.5 Flash01124
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small01225
DeepSeek V4 Flash00123
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash10326
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct8 labels1
Paraphrase17 labels2
Comparative11 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative23 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative69 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Project Scheduling: Use Asana or ClickUp for general business” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Workforce scheduling · negative prompt · first choice
“This works well if you need a platform that combines goal management with broader work management.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Goals and OKRs · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“using their built-in Goals modules bridges the gap between daily tasks and high-level strategy” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Goals and OKRs · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Best if OKRs should live inside your broader work-management stack: Asana” GPT-5.4 mini · Goals and OKRs · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid using your internal tools (like Asana, ClickUp, or Monday) as customer-facing onboarding portals.” Mistral Small · Employee onboarding · negative prompt · hard negative
“avoid running customer onboarding through internal PM tools like Monday.com, Asana, ClickUp” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Employee onboarding · negative prompt · hard negative
“these are dangerous to rely on for HR due to security concerns” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Employee onboarding · negative prompt · hard negative
“Many PM tools (e.g., Asana, standard Monday.com boards, ClickUp basics) offer "goal features" that are often described by users as "half-baked" or superficial.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Goals and OKRs · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Asana, over the 69 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Asana was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Monday.com30 of 691Not in the top three
ClickUp26 of 692Not in the top three
Perdoo19 of 693Not in the top three
Lattice18 of 693Not in the top three
WorkBoard17 of 692Not in the top three
Tability16 of 695Not in the top three
Quantive16 of 690Not in the top three
Weekdone16 of 690Not in the top three
Profit.co15 of 694Not in the top three
Trello13 of 690Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Asana. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 44 of the 69 answers that named Asana and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

okrstool.com19
tability.io19
mooncamp.com18
gartner.com16
g2.com15
asana.comYour site14
peoplemanagingpeople.com13
capterra.com11
profit.co10
guideflow.com9

130 of the 144 domain citations in answers naming Asana came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Asana

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Asana; a claim can dispute any of them.
Asana Goals 1
Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Asana's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Asana, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at asana.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.