Asana MCP alternatives
Asana's official remote MCP server lets an agent search, read, create, and update tasks, projects, and portfolios. It is hosted and closed source, tied to Asana's particular model of work organised into projects and portfolios.
Teams look past it when they track work in a different tool, when they want a server they can self-host or audit, or when they need documents rather than tasks. The picks below are mostly project trackers worth lining up against Asana, plus a few reference utilities that round out an agent's toolkit.
The 8 best alternatives
Atlassian's official remote server covers Jira and Confluence: read, search, create, and update issues and pages. The pick for teams whose work and docs both live in the Atlassian suite.
Set up Atlassian (Jira & Confluence) →Boards are the unit in monday.com, and its official server creates and updates items, manages boards, columns, and groups, and queries the API. A fit when work is modelled as boards rather than projects.
Set up monday.com →Open-core and full-featured, Plane's server exposes its entire project API: work items, cycles, modules, and more. The pick for teams wanting a tracker they can also self-host.
Set up Plane →Built for software teams, Shortcut's official server finds, creates, and updates Stories, Epics, Iterations, Objectives, and Docs. Sharper than Asana's general tasks for product engineering.
Set up Shortcut →Anthropic's reference Fetch server retrieves a URL and converts the page to clean markdown. A utility for reading linked docs, not a project tracker.
Set up Fetch →The reference Memory server gives an agent a persistent local knowledge graph of entities, relations, and observations. It keeps context across a session rather than managing tasks.
Set up Memory →The reference Time server handles current-time lookups and timezone conversion using the IANA database. A small utility an agent keeps on hand, unrelated to project work.
Set up Time →Searching, reading, and writing across a workspace over OAuth is what the hosted Notion server does. The move when the work you tracked in Asana is really documents and loose databases.
Set up Notion →
How to choose
For a direct project-tracking swap, Atlassian, monday.com, Plane, and Shortcut are the real comparisons, with Atlassian broadest and Shortcut sharpest for software teams. Plane is the pick if you also want to self-host. Notion fits when the work is really documents. Fetch, Memory, and Time are reference utilities, useful alongside a tracker but not substitutes for it.
FAQ
- What is the closest alternative to the Asana MCP server?
- Atlassian and monday.com are the nearest project-tracking matches, both creating and updating work over a hosted endpoint. Shortcut is sharper for software teams, and Plane is the pick if you want a tracker you can self-host as well.
- Are all of these project-management servers?
- No. Atlassian, monday.com, Plane, and Shortcut are project trackers, and Notion handles documents and loose databases. Fetch, Memory, and Time are reference utilities that sit alongside a tracker rather than replacing Asana's task and project tools.