Freemium
9 votes
About Linear
Linear is an issue tracker for software teams, organised around teams, issues, projects and cycles. The plan tiers are drawn mostly around how many teams a workspace can hold rather than around long feature lists, so the shape of the organisation tends to decide the tier.
The Free plan costs nothing, allows 2 teams, caps a workspace at 250 issues and limits file uploads to 10MB. Basic, at $10 per user per month billed yearly, raises that to 5 teams and removes both the issue count and the file upload caps. Business, at $16 per user per month billed yearly, allows an unlimited number of teams and adds private teams and guest accounts. Enterprise is custom priced and billed yearly.
Triage is a per team inbox that collects issues arriving from integrations and from people outside the team, and its contents are excluded from normal views until someone deals with them. Each item can be accepted, marked duplicate, declined or snoozed with a single keystroke, and triage duty can rotate automatically through PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Rootly or Incident.io. The effect is that bug reports from support tools or monitoring never land unreviewed in a team's working backlog.
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A few capabilities sit higher up the tiers than expected. API and webhook access starts on Basic. The Zendesk and Intercom integrations, along with Code Intelligence and Triage Intelligence, require Business or Enterprise. SAML single sign on, SCIM provisioning, the audit log, and HIPAA support with a Business Associate Agreement are Enterprise only.
The public API is GraphQL, and it is the same API the vendor uses for its own applications, which is a reasonable signal of how complete it is. Personal API keys can be scoped to Read, Write, Admin, Create issues or Create comments, and restricted to named teams. OAuth applications are created and managed in workspace settings. Webhooks fire on changes to issues, comments, documents, projects, cycles, labels and users, and the payload carries the whole data object plus the previous values of any changed properties, so a receiving system can work out what changed without keeping its own copy of prior state.
The integration directory lists over 50 integrations across 12 categories, including GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Figma, Sentry, Zendesk, Intercom, Zapier, Notion and Datadog. A workspace can be pinned to a United States or a European Union data region. Data is encrypted in transit and the databases are encrypted at rest. Linear is SOC 2 Type II certified and states GDPR compliance.
Key features
- Collects issues from integrations and non-team members in a per team Triage inbox, hidden from normal views.
- Accepts, declines, snoozes or marks a Triage item duplicate with a single keystroke.
- Rotates Triage responsibility automatically through PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Rootly or Incident.io.
- Exposes a GraphQL API, the same one Linear uses for its own applications.
- Scopes personal API keys to read, write, admin or issue creation, and restricts them to named teams.
- Fires webhooks on issue, comment, document, project, cycle and label changes, carrying previous values.
- Pins a workspace to a United States or European Union data region.
- Connects to over 50 integrations across 12 categories, including GitHub, Slack, Figma, Sentry and Notion.
- Encrypts data in transit and at rest, holds SOC 2 Type II certification and states GDPR compliance.
- Adds SAML single sign on, SCIM provisioning and an audit log on the Enterprise plan.
- Caps a free workspace at 2 teams, 250 issues and 10MB file uploads.
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Key facts
| Category | Productivity |
|---|---|
| Pricing | Freemium |
| Free tier | Yes |
| Upvotes | 9 |
| Listed | 22 August 2026 |
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