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Linear Pricing 2026: Free, Basic & Business Plans Compared

What each Linear tier costs per seat, why the free plan’s 250-issue cap arrives faster than anyone expects, and which AI features are billed in credits rather than dollars.

Updated August 20267 min read

💰 Quick Pricing Summary

Free: $0 — unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues, agent platform and Linear Agent. Basic: $10/user/month billed yearly — 5 teams, unlimited issues, unlimited file uploads, admin roles. Business: $16/user/month billed yearly — unlimited teams, private teams and guests, Triage Intelligence, Insights, Asks. Enterprise: custom, annual billing only.

Every paid tier is per user per month. Linear reports more than 40,000 companies on the platform; the plan you need is decided by team structure and guest access far more often than by volume.

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Linear Plans Compared

FeatureFreeBasicBusinessEnterprise
Price (billed yearly)$0$10/user/mo$16/user/moCustom
MembersUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Issues250 totalUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Teams25UnlimitedUnlimited
File Upload10MBUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Sub-TeamsNo1 level5 levels5 levels
Private Teams & GuestsNoNoYesYes
Triage & Code IntelligenceNoNoYesYes
Linear Insights & DashboardsNoNoYesYes
Agent Platform & MCP AccessYesYesYesYes
SSOGoogleGoogleGoogleGoogle + SAML
SCIM, Audit Log, HIPAANoNoNoYes

Prices verified August 2026 on Linear's yearly billing toggle. Coding sessions and Loops additionally require AI credits — confirm the current plan matrix on linear.app/pricing before you commit to a year.

Understanding Each Plan

Free — $0

Unusual in that it has no seat limit at all. What it limits is the workspace itself: 2 teams and 250 issues. That is enough to run a real project and not enough to run a real company.

What you get:

  • Unlimited members — the whole team can be in from day one
  • Issues, projects, cycles and initiatives
  • The agent platform, Linear Agent and MCP access
  • API and webhook access, import and export
  • Google SSO

What you don't get:

  • More than 250 issues, ever — the count is cumulative
  • More than 2 teams or files above 10MB
  • Admin roles, sub-teams or triage workflows

Basic — $10/user/month billed yearly

The tier bought to make a limit disappear rather than to unlock a feature. Unlimited issues is the entire pitch, and for most small teams that is genuinely all they need.

Worth it when:

  • You have hit — or can see — the 250-issue ceiling
  • Five teams is enough structure for your org
  • You need admin roles to stop everyone reconfiguring workflows
  • File attachments matter and 10MB keeps blocking you

Skip it when:

  • Contractors or clients need scoped access — that is Business
  • Support tickets need to flow in from Zendesk or Intercom

Business — $16/user/month billed yearly

The tier that turns Linear from an engineering tool into a company-wide intake system. Almost everything here is about people who are not engineers filing, viewing or reporting on work.

  • Unlimited teams and 5 levels of sub-teams
  • Private teams and guest accounts for contractors and clients
  • Linear Asks — Slack intake, email intake and web forms
  • Triage Intelligence, Loops and Code Intelligence (beta)
  • Linear Insights and dashboards, plus data warehouse sync
  • Zendesk and Intercom integrations, Microsoft Teams support
  • Issue SLAs, triage rules and unlimited release pipelines

Enterprise — custom, annual billing only

Where procurement joins the conversation. Nothing here changes how the tool feels day to day; all of it changes whether your security team will sign.

  • SAML and SCIM provisioning, IP restrictions, domain claiming
  • Audit log, third-party app management, HIPAA compliance
  • Advanced org modeling and granular admin controls
  • Invoice/PO billing, custom terms and an uptime SLA
  • Migration and onboarding support, priority support, account management

What the Pricing Page Doesn't Tell You

250 issues is cumulative, not concurrent

The instinct is to read it as “250 open issues” and assume completing work buys headroom. It does not. A team that files ten issues a day crosses the line in about five weeks — which is precisely when everyone has already migrated their workflow across.

Guests force a whole-workspace upgrade

One contractor who needs scoped access moves the entire org from Basic to Business. On a twelve-person team that is $72 a month of additional spend to accommodate a single external collaborator. Decide the access model before you pick a tier.

AI credits are a separate meter

Coding sessions and Loops both consume AI credits on top of the seat price. The agent platform itself is free on every plan, which makes it easy to build a workflow around agents and only discover the variable cost in month two.

SAML is Enterprise, not Business

Every other tier is limited to Google SSO. If your security policy requires SAML or SCIM provisioning, no amount of paying for Business gets you there — you are in a sales conversation on annual-only billing. Check this before running a pilot.

Which Linear Plan Should You Pick?

Stay on Free if:

  • You are evaluating, or running one small project end to end
  • Two teams covers your structure
  • You will realistically stay under 250 issues

Choose Basic ($10/user/mo yearly) if:

  • Linear has become the place work actually lives
  • Everyone filing issues is an employee
  • Five teams and one level of sub-teams is enough

Choose Business ($16/user/mo yearly) if:

  • Contractors, clients or guests need scoped access
  • Support or sales need to file work without a full seat workflow
  • You want Insights dashboards or warehouse sync for reporting

Talk to sales about Enterprise if:

  • SAML, SCIM or an audit log is a hard requirement
  • You need HIPAA compliance or IP restrictions
  • Procurement needs invoice billing and custom terms

Not sure? Answer one question: will anyone outside your payroll need to see an issue? If yes, you are on Business and the only open question is when. If no, Basic covers almost every team under fifty people.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does Linear cost per month?
Billed yearly, Linear Basic is $10 per user per month and Business is $16 per user per month. The Free plan is $0 and Enterprise is custom-quoted on annual billing only. All paid tiers are per seat, so a six-person team on Business is $96 a month, not $16.
Is Linear free?
Yes, and the free plan is more generous than most: unlimited members, 2 teams, the agent platform and Linear Agent itself. The ceiling is 250 issues total — not per month, total — plus a 10MB file upload limit. For a small team shipping regularly, 250 issues is a matter of weeks, which makes Free a genuine trial rather than a permanent home.
What happens when I hit Linear's 250-issue limit?
The cap counts issues in the workspace, so archiving and completing work does not reset it the way people expect. Once you reach it the practical options are deleting old issues or moving to Basic, which makes issues unlimited. Plan for this: teams that adopt Linear enthusiastically tend to hit the wall in the first month, right when the tool has become load-bearing.
What is the difference between Linear Basic and Business?
Basic lifts the issue cap and gives you 5 teams, unlimited file uploads and admin roles. Business removes the team limit entirely and adds private teams and guests, Triage Intelligence, Loops, Code Intelligence (beta), Linear Insights dashboards, Linear Asks, and Zendesk and Intercom integrations. The dividing line is usually organisational, not volumetric: Business is what you buy when non-engineers start filing work.
Does Linear charge for guests?
Guest accounts are a Business-tier feature, and that is the point worth budgeting for. If you work with contractors or clients who need visibility into a single team, the requirement pushes the whole workspace to Business rather than just adding a cheap seat. Private teams sit on the same tier, so agency-style access control is a Business decision.
Do Linear's AI features cost extra?
The agent platform, MCP access and Linear Agent are on every plan including Free. But coding sessions and Loops require AI credits, which are consumed separately from the subscription. Treat any AI-heavy workflow as a variable cost layered on the per-seat price, and check your credit consumption in the first month before you assume the seat price is the whole bill.
Is Linear cheaper than Jira?
At list price they land in similar territory for small teams, and Jira's free tier supports more users. The honest comparison is not the sticker price but what you stop paying for: Linear's opinionated defaults mean most teams never buy the plugins, automation add-ons and admin time that make a Jira instance expensive in practice. If you want deep customisation, that argument runs the other way and Jira wins.
Can I get Linear on monthly billing?
The $10 and $16 rates are the yearly-billed prices; monthly billing is available at a higher rate on Basic and Business. Enterprise is annual billing only. If your headcount is volatile, price the monthly option honestly rather than comparing the annual rate against a competitor's monthly one — that mistake makes almost every issue tracker look cheaper than it is.

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