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Hive AI vs. monday AI, ClickUp Brain and Asana AI

Hive AI vs. competitors

Buzz, Hiveโ€™s AI assistant, reads your projects, email, meetings and Salesforce, then takes the next step, so your team spends less time updating work and more time finishing it.

Works from your real data

Follows your workspace rules

You approve every email

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Celia Ordoyne

Corporate Marketing

5 hours saved per week in proofing edits.

"Hive has taken our proofing process to the next level with AI-powered support, helping us catch small details and reinforce our brand standards."

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The short answer.

Pick Hive if you want AI that does the work across projects, email, meetings and Salesforce in one place, and you want to approve every email before it goes out. Already deep in another tool? Hereโ€™s when that one fits better.

Pick Hive ifโ€ฆ

You want one AI across projects, chat, email, meetings, CRM and finance, with workspace AI rules for everyone and no email sent without your OK.

Pick monday ifโ€ฆ

Your team already lives on monday boards and wants agents that work from the docs, boards and forms you choose.

Pick ClickUp ifโ€ฆ

You want Super Agents with their own memory and youโ€™re fine with credits that scale by plan, up to 10,000 per user on Max.

Pick Asana ifโ€ฆ

Your work already runs in Asana and youโ€™re ready to pay for AI Teammates as an add-on.

How Hive AI compares

Last updated November 2, 2026

Capability

Hive

monday

ClickUp

Asana

Salesforce

Buzz can query, create, update and merge records, and convert leads.

Salesforce integration for managing leads and opportunities.

Salesforce MCP template for search, read, create and update.

Connects to AI Teammates through a custom MCP app.

Email

Turns email into actions and drafts replies. Emails from Buzz chat wait for your approval.

monday Sidekick writes and sends through Gmail and Outlook.

monday monday Sidekick writes and sends through Gmail and Outlook.

Brain connects to Gmail and Outlook.

AI Teammates connect to Gmail and Outlook Mail.

Meetings

Sidekick handles prep, live coaching and follow-ups.

AI Notetaker gives transcripts, summaries and action items.

AI Notetaker gives transcripts, summaries and linked tasks.

Notes come from apps like Zoom. AI Studio can turn transcripts into tasks.

Rules and memory

Workspace AI rules for everyone, AI Memories for each person.

Agents work from knowledge you choose: docs, PDFs, boards and forms.

Super Agents have instructions, knowledge and memory.

AI Teammates come with preloaded skills and context.

MCP

Connect outside MCP servers to Buzz.

Outside assistants can read and act on monday data.

Works both ways: outside assistants and Super Agent tools.

MCP server for outside agents, custom MCP apps for AI Teammates.

AI included

1,000 to 5,000 credits a month per workspace, by plan. Buy more anytime.

500 free credits a month per account.

500 per workspace on Free, up to 10,000 per user on Max.

Allowances vary. AI Teammates are a paid add-on.

Based on each vendorโ€™s public pages and help docs as of November 2, 2026. AI features and credit rules change often, and credits arenโ€™t equal across vendors, so check with each one for current details. monday.com, ClickUp and Asana are trademarks of their respective owners.

How AI credits work

Every Hive workspace gets a fresh allowance of AI credits each month. Need more? Buy a credit pack, and any credits you buy roll over to next month.

Free

Included on Free. Enough to try Buzz on real work.

Starter

For small teams putting Buzz to work.

Teams

For teams that run on Buzz every day. Free trials get this too.

Enterprise

Starts at 5,000. Talk to us about a larger allowance.

Hive AI, head to head

The quick version of each matchup. The full breakdowns go deeper on features and pricing.

Hive AI vs. monday AI

Both connect to Salesforce and your inbox. Buzz adds workspace AI rules for the whole team and memories for each person, so answers sound like you. monday gives each account 500 free AI credits a month.

Hive AI vs. ClickUp Brain

ClickUp has strong agent tools and two-way MCP. Buzz is built around approvals, so drafts wait for you, and it works across CRM and finance in the same workspace.

Hive AI vs. Asana AI

Asanaโ€™s AI Teammates are a paid add-on that reach other tools through custom MCP apps. Every Hive plan comes with a monthly AI credit allowance, and Buzz connects to outside MCP servers directly.

Buzz in action

You ask. Buzz does the busywork. Hereโ€™s what that looks like on a normal Tuesday.

Turn an email into a project

Buzz builds the project, adds the first tasks and owners, and drafts a reply for you to approve.

โ€œMake a project from this client brief and assign the first tasks.โ€

Walk in prepared

Sidekick pulls open tasks, recent emails and notes from the last call into one brief.

โ€œWhat do I need to know before my 2pm with Acme?โ€

Update Salesforce without the tab

Buzz updates the record from the work youโ€™re already in. No copy, no paste.

โ€œMove the Acme opportunity to negotiation and log todayโ€™s call.โ€

Get the week in one answer

Buzz reads your projects and tells you what moved, whatโ€™s late and whoโ€™s waiting on whom.

โ€œWhat moved on the launch this week?โ€

Built for security reviews

AI only helps if your security team signs off. Hereโ€™s what theyโ€™ll want to know.

Audited every year.

Hive is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and reviewed by an independent auditor each year.

Encrypted at rest.

Your data is encrypted with 256-bit AES and stored across multiple availability zones.

You approve first.

Buzz shows you every email before it sends. Want a check on everything else? Turn on approvals in AI settings.

Plays well with your tools.

Buzz reads your email, updates Salesforce and preps your meetings, so nothing gets copied by hand.

โ€œBefore, we could have 20โ€“30 approval rounds. Using Hive to handle our quality control ensures we are crossing off all the little details.โ€

โ€œBefore, we could have 20โ€“30 approval rounds. Using Hive to handle our quality control ensures we are crossing off all the little details.โ€

David Gielchinsky, Director of Health Operations at McKinney Health

David Gielchinsky

Director of Health Operations, McKinney Health

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saved in the first 10 months

AI questions, answered.

Does Hive have AI?

Yes. Hiveโ€™s AI assistant is called Buzz. It reads your projects, email, meetings and Salesforce, then takes the next step, like creating tasks, drafting replies or updating records.

What is Buzz?

Buzz is the AI built into Hive. It follows your workspace AI rules, remembers each personโ€™s preferences and asks for your OK before it sends an email.

How does Hive AI compare with ClickUp Brain?

Both can act on your work. ClickUp leans on Super Agents with their own memory. Buzz works across projects, email, meetings, CRM and finance in one workspace, and emails wait for your OK.

Is ClickUp Brain free?

ClickUp includes 500 AI credits per workspace on its Free plan and up to 10,000 per user on Max, based on its public pages as of November 2, 2026.

Can AI update Salesforce?

In Hive, yes. Buzz can query, create, update and merge Salesforce records, and convert leads, from the work youโ€™re already in. Connect your own Salesforce account so Buzz can make changes for you.

How do AI credits work in Hive?

Every workspace gets a monthly allowance: 1,000 credits on Free, 3,000 on Starter and 5,000 on Teams and Enterprise. Need more? Credit packs start at 5,000 credits for $100, and credits you buy roll over each month.

Is Hive secure?

Hive is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, audited by an independent firm every year, and encrypts your data at rest with 256-bit AES.

What can Buzz connect to?

Buzz works with Salesforce, Gmail and Outlook, and you can connect outside MCP servers. It also sees everything already in Hive, from projects and chat to proofing, CRM and finance.

How we compared.

We read each vendorโ€™s public pricing pages and help docs on November 2, 2026, and compared what teams ask about most: Salesforce, email, meetings, memory, MCP and AI credits. AI tools change fast, so we update this page when they do.

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