Linear pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Linear (linear.app) is a project management tool. Per user per month on paid plans (all unsuspended users billed), with monthly or yearly billing; Enterprise is custom and yearly only.. Free plan: Free plan: unlimited members but only 250 issues, 2 teams and 10MB file uploads..
What Linear costs
- 10 users: $100/mo (Basic $10/user x 10 (price as shown, billed yearly; Free fails the 250-issue cap))
- 1 user: $10/mo (Basic, 1 seat at $10/user/mo (billed yearly price))
- 25 users: $250/mo (Basic $10/user x 25 (billed yearly price))
Plan compared: Basic. Prices are total USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for the cheapest plan that fits the scenario: 10 or 25 full members with no practical cap on projects, tasks or storage, or one user on the cheapest paid plan. A free plan counts as $0 only when it meets the same limits.
Linear price hikes
- Linear capped Business sub-team depth at 1 level, down from 5 · Jul 2026
In the 2026 Q2 capture, Business sub-teams were limited to 1 level of depth (5 levels stays on Enterprise). Release pipelines on Business show as 15, which had been raised from 5 in May 2026. - Linear raised Basic from $8 to $10 per user and Business to $16 · Jan 2026
Between the Oct 3, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026 page captures, Basic went from $8 to $10 per user/month (+25%) and Business from $14 to $16 (+14.3%). Issue SLAs moved from Enterprise down to Business. - Linear raised its Business plan from $12 to $14 per user · Jan 2025
Between the Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025 page captures, Business went from $12 to $14 per user/month (+16.7%) and the 20% annual-discount message was dropped from the page. Basic was unchanged.
Cheaper alternatives to Linear
At a 10-person team, Linear costs $100/mo. 2 project management tools cost less:
Linear alternatives: 4 project management tools compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Jul 2026 · Limits cut: In the 2026 Q2 capture, Business sub-teams were limited to 1 level of depth (5 levels stays on Enterprise). Release pipelines on Business show as 15, which had been raised from 5 in May 2026.
- Jan 2026 · Price increase: Between the Oct 3, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026 page captures, Basic went from $8 to $10 per user/month (+25%) and Business from $14 to $16 (+14.3%). Issue SLAs moved from Enterprise down to Business.
- Jan 2025 · Price increase: Between the Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025 page captures, Business went from $12 to $14 per user/month (+16.7%) and the 20% annual-discount message was dropped from the page. Basic was unchanged.
Sources
Pricing page: linear.app/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices come from linear.app/pricing (Oct 2026), which shows only billed-yearly rates; Linear's billing docs confirm monthly billing at non-discounted rates, but the monthly price isn't published, so points may understate monthly cost. Change history is from PricingSaaS diffs; the WebSearch budget ran out, so news coverage was not checked.