Self-hosted Asana MCP alternatives
Asana's MCP server runs only as a hosted endpoint reached over OAuth. There is no build you install and run yourself. If you need the server process and its credentials on your own machine or network, you need a different one.
Every server below installs locally and talks to your agent over stdio. Self-hosting controls where the process and tokens live. The workspace data still travels to each product's own API, except Obsidian, which reads local files, so its content stays on your disk.
The 8 best self-hosted alternatives
Boards run the show in monday.com, and its official server can run on your own infrastructure, covering items, boards, columns, and groups plus raw API queries. A self-hosted tracker for board-style work.
Set up monday.com →Open-core and project-shaped, Plane's server can run locally and exposes its full project API: work items, cycles, modules, and more. The closest self-hostable match to Asana's projects.
Set up Plane →Built for software teams, Shortcut's official server can run locally and finds, creates, and updates Stories, Epics, Iterations, Objectives, and Docs. A self-hosted option for product engineering.
Set up Shortcut →Anthropic's reference Fetch server runs locally and retrieves a URL into clean markdown. A utility for reading linked docs, kept on your own machine.
Set up Fetch →The reference Memory server keeps a persistent local knowledge graph of entities, relations, and observations on your machine. Notes across a session, stored locally.
Set up Memory →The reference Time server runs locally and handles current-time lookups and timezone conversion using the IANA database. A small local utility, unrelated to project work.
Set up Time →Of everything here, Obsidian keeps the most on your disk: the vault is local Markdown, and the server edits it through the Local REST API plugin without the content leaving your machine.
Set up Obsidian →Run it yourself and the community Slack server reads history, DMs, and search over stdio with no workspace bot to install. The local option when the work is really conversation.
Set up Slack →
How to choose
Asana itself cannot be self-hosted, so any of these is a switch in tool as well as in hosting. Plane is the closest self-hostable match to Asana's projects, with monday.com and Shortcut covering boards and software work. Obsidian keeps notes local, Slack covers chat, and Fetch, Memory, and Time are local utilities. Remember the data still reaches each product's API, except Obsidian's local files.
FAQ
- Can the Asana MCP server be self-hosted?
- No. Asana offers only a hosted server reached over OAuth, with no self-installable build. If running the server yourself is a hard requirement, you have to pick one of the alternatives here that ships a local stdio command, such as Plane or monday.com.
- Does self-hosting one of these keep my data on my own infrastructure?
- It keeps the server process and its credentials on your infrastructure, which is usually the point for audit and access control. The workspace data still goes to each product's API, with monday.com, Plane, and the rest. Obsidian is the exception: it reads local files, so the content stays on your disk.