How much does Linear cost?

Linear starts at $10 a month on its Basic plan, billed annually. That figure was read from linear.app's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.

Does Linear have a free plan?

Yes. Linear publishes an ongoing free tier — not a countdown trial. Limits vary by plan, so check what the free tier covers before you commit.

What are the best alternatives to Linear?

The closest alternatives in the same category are Notion, Asana, monday.com, ClickUp. Notion starts lower at $0 a month; monday.com starts lower at $9 a month. Notion, Asana, monday.com and ClickUp publish a free plan.

Linear

Issue tracking that respects your time

Free plan availableProject ManagementSince 2019

from $10/moVisit linear.app

What Linear is

Keyboard-driven issue tracker for software teams — cycles, projects, roadmaps and a famously fast interface. Opinionated by design.

What Linear has cost

We have read this pricing page 13 times since Jan 2021, including archived copies of it. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.

$8/moJan 2021 – Aug 2021 · Standard · 2 readings · archived page
$8/mo*Jan 2022 – Jul 2022 · Standard · 2 readings · archived page
$8/moJan 2023 – Jan 2024 · Standard · 3 readings · archived page
The entry plan changed name here, from Standard to Basic. That is a different plan, so the two prices are not a rise or a cut.
$8/mo*Aug 2024 – Jul 2025 · Basic · 2 readings · archived page
$10/mo*Jan 2026 – Sept 2026 · Basic · 4 readings · archived page

The Basic plan moved from $8 to $10 (+25%) somewhere between Jul 2025 and Jan 2026 — we read it at both ends and cannot narrow it further.

* That reading is the effective monthly cost when paying for a year up front, which is what the page published at the time.

Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.

People use it to

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Free plan

Free plan, no card required

Ongoing free tier published by the vendor. Limits vary by plan.

Linear alternatives

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Notion

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FreeFree plan

Asana

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from $13.49/moFree plan

monday.com

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from $9/moFree plan

Where Linear sits on price

Entry prices across Project Management, cheapest first.

What Project Management costsEntry price a month, cheapest first

Notion
Free
GearDex
$3.25
Trello
$6
Shortcut
$8.50
monday.com
$9
Linear
$10
ClickUp
$10
Wrike
$10
Asana
$13.49
Optivation
$19

12 of these 12 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page. The median is taken across the 12 verified prices in Project Management. Showing the 10 cheapest.

Linear pricing questions

How much does Linear cost?: Linear starts at $10 a month on its Basic plan, billed annually. That figure was read from linear.app's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
Does Linear have a free plan?: Yes. Linear publishes an ongoing free tier — not a countdown trial. Limits vary by plan, so check what the free tier covers before you commit.
What is Linear used for?: Keyboard-driven issue tracker for software teams — cycles, projects, roadmaps and a famously fast interface. Opinionated by design. People mainly use it to track bugs, plan sprints, manage a product roadmap.
What are the best alternatives to Linear?: The closest alternatives in the same category are Notion, Asana, monday.com, ClickUp. Notion starts lower at $0 a month; monday.com starts lower at $9 a month. Notion, Asana, monday.com and ClickUp publish a free plan.