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Architecture comparison

Asana vs Notion

Asana runs closer to the foundational model (Direct API) than Notion (Direct API). Shared foundation: OpenAI · GPT (highlighted).

Asana

Productivity

Proximity
Direct API
Models
OpenAI · GPT
Cloud · datastore
HybridMySQLAmazon Aurora (MySQL-compatible)Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouse (inferred)
Compliance
SOC 2 (inferred)ISO 27001 (inferred)GDPRCCPA
Architecture

Asana runs a large-scale, stateful, microservice-style backend with autoscaling infrastructure and a dedicated Production Infrastructure pod for observability and platform reliability, layered behind a multi-region, hybrid cloud deployment. Its data stack separates transactional MySQL/Aurora stores from analytical event pipelines and a cloud data warehouse used by growth and analytics teams.

Notion

Productivity

Proximity
Direct API
Models
OpenAI · GPTAnthropic · Claude
Cloud · datastore
AWSPostgreSQL (sharded)
Compliance
SOC 2HIPAAGDPR
Architecture

Block-based docs stored in a heavily sharded PostgreSQL fleet on AWS (publicly documented re-sharding to hundreds of shards). Notion AI routes to OpenAI and Anthropic models.

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