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Linear
02 DecisionsYes once more than one person — or one agent — touches your backlog. Linear is where the decision about what ships this cycle gets made and owned, and since the Agent API it is the only planning tool in this stack where Claude Code, Cursor, and Devin show up as assignable workspace members instead of tabs you switch to. The free plan caps at 250 issues, which makes it an honest trial rather than a home; the AI that changes the workflow — Triage Intelligence, Insights — sits on Business at $16/user/mo.
The job in the stack
The work-decision seat: where a lean team decides what actually ships this cycle, and where AI coding agents get assigned issues like teammates.
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 250 non-archived issues, 2 teams, unlimited members; Agent platform and Linear Agent included |
| Basic | $10/user/mo | Billed yearly; unlimited issues, 5 teams, unlimited file uploads, admin roles |
| Business | $16/user/mo | Billed yearly; unlimited teams, private teams, guests, Triage Intelligence, Linear Insights, Linear Asks, Loops, Code Intelligence (beta) |
| Enterprise | custom | Annual only; SAML/SCIM, granular admin controls, advanced org modeling, migration and account support |
Pricing verified 2026-07-27. Plans change — the source of truth is Linear's own pricing page.
Models & versions
- Linear AgentBuilt-in agent that triages, assigns, and updates issues; available from the free plan
- Agent APIThird-party agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Devin, Copilot — join the workspace as first-class members and can be assigned issues directly
- Triage IntelligenceAI issue routing, duplicate detection, and auto-classification (Business and up)
- Linear InsightsAnalytics on team velocity and cycle performance (Business and up)
The honest read
What works
- +Agents are assignable members, not a bolted-on chat box — the handoff from decision to work is one action
- +Triage Intelligence clears the pile of unsorted requests that quietly stalls small teams
- +Keyboard-first and fast enough that recording a decision costs nothing
- +AI landed inside existing seat prices — no per-agent or per-resolution meter
What breaks
- −The AI worth paying for (Triage Intelligence, Insights) is Business-tier only
- −250-issue cap makes Free a trial, not a home
- −Engineering-shaped vocabulary — marketing and client-service teams will push back on it
- −No customer-feedback intake of its own; that decision lives in Productboard
Use it for
- →Lean product and engineering teams deciding what ships this cycle
- →Operators delegating work to coding agents alongside people
- →Teams whose backlog decisions currently live in Slack threads nobody can find
Skip it if
- ×You're solo and the backlog fits in a list — Taskade or Motion covers it
- ×You need customer feedback scored into a roadmap — that's Productboard
- ×Your work isn't software-shaped
Questions operators ask
?Linear or Productboard?
Different decisions. Productboard decides what to build from customer evidence; Linear decides what gets worked on this cycle and who owns it. A team with real customer intake needs both. A team without one needs Linear.
?Is the free plan enough?
For a look, yes — it includes unlimited members and the agent platform. But 250 non-archived issues arrives faster than you'd think, and the AI triage that justifies the tool is Business-only. Treat Free as the trial it is.
?Does assigning an issue to an AI agent actually work?
For scoped, well-described work, yes — the agent picks up the issue, works, and reports back in the thread. It is not a substitute for a spec. Weak Decisions create endless creation, and an agent with a vague ticket produces exactly that, faster.
What changed
- Added to the stack, taking the 100th seat (work-decision seat, Decisions layer). Verified against the official pricing page: Free (250 issues, 2 teams, unlimited members, Agent platform included), Basic $10/user/mo, Business $16/user/mo — both billed annually — and Enterprise custom. Added because agent delegation gave the seat a job nothing else here holds: Claude Code, Cursor, and Devin are already in this stack, and Linear is where they get assigned work.
Give Linear a job
The work-decision seat: where a lean team decides what actually ships this cycle, and where AI coding agents get assigned issues like teammates.
Try Linear →Alternatives with different jobs
Productboard
02 DecisionsThe product-prioritization seat: customer feedback, support tickets, and sales notes clustered by AI and ranked into a roadmap you can defend.
Motion
02 DecisionsThe auto-scheduling seat: tasks, projects, and meetings compressed into a calendar the AI continuously replans.
Taskade
02 DecisionsThe light-workspace seat: task lists, outlines, and mind maps with AI agents woven in — for operators who find Notion heavy.