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Zenoba vs monday.com / ClickUp / Asana
monday.com, ClickUp and Asana are adopted in an afternoon and marketing and operations teams love them. Zenoba adds a planning engine and contextual AI, with a grid per Management license rather than per contributor.
- For whom — monday.com / ClickUp / Asana
- Teams that coordinate tasks and campaigns rather than scheduled projects, and want colorful boards and simple automations.
- For whom — Zenoba
- Organizations managing real projects that want a choice of hosting in Québec, hosting in France or local installation.
Where they are strong — monday.com / ClickUp / Asana
- Adoption: pleasant interface, hundreds of templates, immediate onboarding
- No-code automations and integrations
- Multiple views: board, calendar, workload, timeline
Where Zenoba stands out
- Critical path, resource leveling, earned value, baselines: the professional grade they lack
- AI that builds the plan from a document and knows your organization — not a generic credit-based assistant
- Management license: people who execute, observe or approve remain included within plan limits
When to stay with monday.com / ClickUp / Asana
- If your work is a flow of requests without dependent dates or budget: a board is enough, and theirs is better.
- If you rely on their marketing templates and native integrations: that is their ground.
Reference price — Surveyed 2026-08
monday.com / ClickUp / Asana
monday US$9–19/seat/month (3-seat minimum); Asana US$10.99–35/user; AI credits extra
Per seat with a three-seat minimum; AI is paid in credits (Asana AI Studio Plus: US$150 per month). ClickUp: comparable order of magnitude.
Zenoba
CA$59 per Management license per month (Pro); contributors, observers and approvers are included within plan limits
Starter is free; Pro CA$59, Team CA$129 and Enterprise CA$249 per Management license per month, with displayed minimums. Beta reference grid; private deployment on annual quote.
Public prices surveyed in August 2026 in the vendor’s currency, annual billing unless stated; they vary by country and volume and change often — the source is authoritative. Zenoba’s grid is a beta reference per Management license; no payment is collected yet.
The seventeen criteria, side by side
Yes = native; Partial = through an add-on, a paid module or on request; No = absent
| Criterion | monday.com / ClickUp / Asana | Zenoba |
|---|---|---|
| A complete plan from a document | No | Yes |
| AI that knows the organization and the project | Partialgeneric, credit-based | Yes |
| Automatic PMBOK quality review | No | Yes |
| Knowledge base per industry | No | Yes8 industries, 700 sections |
| References adapted to the workspace country | No | Yes |
| Critical path, baselines, four link types | Partial | Yes |
| Resource leveling | No | Yes |
| Earned value (EVM), S-curve | No | Yes |
| Persistent seven-day undo, scenarios | No | Yes |
| Governance reports (steering committee, PowerPoint) | Partial | Yes11 reports, PowerPoint |
| Timesheets, expenses, budget | Partialpaid modules | Yes |
| Forms, workflows, fields, lists | Yes | Yes |
| Project templates, “create from” | Yes | Yes |
| Hosting in Québec or France | No | YesQuébec (OVH Beauharnois); France option on request |
| On-premise installation | No | YesDocker, on quote |
| Sovereign AI or customer key | No | Yes |
| Complete native French | Partial | Yes+ English + Spanish |
See Zenoba next to monday.com / ClickUp / Asana
Thirty minutes, your requirements document: you see the plan Zenoba draws from it, and you decide.
Sources — 2026-08
- monday.com — prix par siège, minimum 3 sièges
- Asana — plans
- Gantt — ClickUp vs Asana vs Jira
- zenoba.ai/pricing
The capabilities of the products cited change every quarter; this page is a dated snapshot that we correct as soon as a reader reports an error: contact@zenoba.ai. “To our knowledge” applies to every “no” attributed to a competitor.