Linear Pricing
- Development pricing
- $10/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
Linear pricing starts at $10 a month, which is $120 over twelve months. There is a free plan, and a trial on the paid tiers: 14 days on Business. Every figure below was read from the vendor's pricing page on 9 August 2026.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
Linear ranking and coverage
- In Development
- #7 of 18
- Overall
- #41 of 122 tied
- Terms score
- 6.3 /10
- Referenced here
- 1 page
Cost position 5 · Portability 5 · Subscription flexibility 9 - Ranked on published terms only: entry price against category peers, portability and subscription flexibility, equally weighted. This is not a quality score.How the rank is calculated.
Linear pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free for up to 250 issues; Basic $10 per user/month |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $10 a month, or $120 a year |
| How that is reached | Basic at $10 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | 14 days on Business |
| How it charges | freemium |
| Priced plans published | 4 rows on the vendor's page |
| Affiliate programme | No |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 9 August 2026 |
Every Linear plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 9 August 2026. Charged as freemium. Free trial: 14 days on Business.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | per month | Unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues, agent platform |
| Basic | $10 | per month | per user, billed yearly - 5 teams, unlimited issues and file uploads, admin roles |
| Business | $16 | per month | per user, billed yearly - Unlimited teams, private teams, Triage Intelligence, Linear Insights |
| Enterprise | Custom | Negotiated | Annual billing only. SAML, SCIM and granular admin controls |
What Linear actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basicper user, billed yearly | per month | $10 | $120 |
| Businessper user, billed yearly | per month | $16 | $192 |
Linear pricing over time
Read from 12 archived captures of the vendor's pricing page , spanning July 2020 to September 2026. Every figure below links to the capture it came from, so you can check it against the page as it stood on the day.
- Basic changed once between 17 September 2024 and 2 September 2026, from $8 per user to $10 per user, up 25% overall.
- Business changed once between 17 September 2024 and 2 September 2026, from $12 per user to $16 per user, up 33.3% overall.
Basic
Business
6 archived captures with no price we could read
The capture exists, but the figures on it could not be extracted - usually a page that renders prices in JavaScript, or a currency selector the archive did not record. Listed rather than dropped, because a gap in a price history reads as "nothing changed" and these are not that.
- 1 July 2020 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 12 May 2021 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 10 May 2022 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 1 February 2023 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 28 January 2024 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 10 May 2025 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
Compiled 18 September 2026 from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Plan names were matched against the archived page text and the first currency-anchored figure within 160 characters was recorded, rejecting any figure with a competing plan name standing between it and the name it was matched to. The currency and the unit were read from each capture rather than assumed: captures served in a currency other than $, and captures where no plan name sat beside a figure, are listed as unread rather than dropped. Archived pages show the price as served to the archive's crawler, which may differ by region from the price you are shown.
Linear pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against Linear |
|---|---|---|---|
| ClickUp | $7 a month | Yes | −$3 a month (−30%) |
| Jira | $7.91 a month | Yes | −$2.09 a month (−21%) |
| Linear | $10 a month | Yes | This product |
Which Linear plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A small team wants to try it | Free | Unlimited members but only 250 issues. The issue cap is what forces the upgrade, not team size. |
| You ship software continuously | Basic | $10 per user billed yearly for unlimited issues and 5 teams. |
| You need unlimited teams, private teams and Insights | Business | $16 per user, and where larger engineering organisations land. |
| You need SAML and SCIM | Enterprise | Annual billing only, and an identity requirement rather than a workflow one. |
| You track marketing or operations work | Do not buy Linear | Linear is opinionated about software delivery. Asana or ClickUp fit non-engineering work far better. |
| You need configurable approval workflows | Consider Jira instead | Linear's opinions are the point, and they exclude bespoke workflow configuration. |
Verdict by who you are
Product and engineering teamYes
Fast, keyboard-driven and opinionated. Teams that left Jira for being slow generally do not go back.
Startup wanting to move quicklyYes
No administrator required, because the workflow decisions are already made for you.
Marketing or operations teamNo
Wrong shape entirely. This is built for shipping software.
Enterprise needing configurable processNo
Jira is configurable; Linear deliberately is not.
Team needing capacity planningCompare first
Insights help, but detailed resource planning is not what Linear does.
Should you buy Linear?
Buy Linear if…
- Product and engineering teams shipping continuously
- Teams that abandoned a heavier tracker for being slow
- Organisations happy to adopt an opinionated workflow
Do not buy Linear if…
- Non-software work such as marketing or operations
- Organisations needing configurable approval workflows
- Teams requiring detailed resource and capacity planning
What leaving Linear would cost
moderate lock-in
Linear scores on public API. Portability 5/10 ; lock-in is the inverse. How this is calculated.
The free tier caps issues, not people
Unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues. That combination is unusual and deliberate: everyone can participate, but an active team will pass 250 issues within a couple of months. Basic at $10 removes the cap and raises the team limit to five.
It is a well-designed trial. You experience the whole product with your real team before the constraint arrives.
Why speed is a feature and not a detail
Every tracker fails the same way: people stop updating it because updating it is tedious. Linear’s entire design premise is that if changing an issue takes a keystroke rather than three clicks and a page load, the board stays accurate. That sounds superficial and is the single most consequential difference between a tracker that reflects reality and one that does not.
What you give up against Jira
No custom workflows with arbitrary states and transitions. No configurable approval gates. No scripting. Linear has opinions: issues move through a small set of states, work happens in cycles, and projects span teams. Organisations with regulated delivery processes that must be encoded and audited genuinely need Jira, and should not read Linear’s speed as a reason to fight that.
Business is bought for two things
Unlimited teams and Linear Insights. If you run more than five teams, Basic stops working structurally rather than gradually. Insights gives delivery analytics, which is usually what an engineering manager wants when they ask for reporting. The Zendesk and Intercom integrations on Business also matter for teams routing support escalations into engineering.
Linear questions, answered
- Is Linear worth it?
- Linear is the clearest example in this directory of constraint as a feature.
- How much does Linear cost?
- Free for up to 250 issues; Basic $10 per user/month. The cheapest paid tier we recorded is Basic, published at $10 a month, which works out at $10 a month or $120 over a year. Verified against the vendor's pricing page.
- Does Linear have a free plan or free trial?
- Linear has a free plan. A free trial is available: 14 days on Business.
- What is the best Linear alternative?
- It depends on the job. Jira: Far more configurable, and the reason many teams moved to Linear. GitHub Projects: Free and adequate when work already lives in GitHub. Shortcut: A middle ground with more flexibility than Linear and less than Jira.
- Can I self-host Linear?
- No. Linear is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Every claim below is about our work, not about Linear. A "no" is recorded rather than omitted, because the difference between a tested review and careful desk research is the reader's to weigh. How we research a profile.
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Prices read from the vendor : yes
Read from Linear's own pricing page on 9 August 2026
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Plans and terms recorded : yes
4 rows, each with its billing period
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Original screenshots : yes
2 captured by us: pricing page, homepage
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Sources cited and dated : yes
1 primary source, each with the date it was read
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Product used first-hand : no
Not tested. This profile is desk research from primary sources
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Alternatives used first-hand : no
None, so comparisons here rest on published facts rather than use
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Vendor contacted : no
Not contacted for this profile
Where Linear appears on this site
One other page here references Linear, and it is listed below.
- Another profile Plane names it as a competitor
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Provenance and freshness
When each fact was last checked
- Pricing ·
- Plans ·
- Free trial
- Features
- Platforms
- Integrations
- Affiliate programme
- Company details
What has changed
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August 2026
- Per-user pricing verified, including the 250-issue free tier cap
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Linear pricing - checked 9 August 2026
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