Jira vs Linear

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 21 October 2026.

Written head to head: Jira vs Linear, with when to choose each side.

Compared on	Jira Free plan · from $9.70/user/mo Visit Remove	Linear Free plan · from $10/user/mo Visit Remove
What it is	Atlassian's project and issue tracker with Rovo AI agents on paid plans and a free plan for 10 users	Issue tracking and product planning for software teams, with a built-in agent that can write code
Free plan	Up to 10 users, unlimited goals, projects, tasks and forms, backlog, list, board, timeline, calendar and summary views, 150 automation steps per subscription per month, 2 GB storage, 100 email notifications a day, community support. No Rovo AI.	Unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues, 10MB file uploads; includes the agent platform, Linear Agent and MCP access
Cheapest paid plan	$9.70/user/mo (Standard)Jira pricing	$10/user/mo billed annually (Basic)Linear pricing
What it covers	$9.70 per user a month on monthly billing for users 1 to 100; lower graduated rates above 100 users (the page shows an average of $8.48 at its default of 300 users). Annual billing is priced by user tier instead, for example $2,450 a year for 16 to 25 users. Includes 25 Rovo credits and 400 automation steps per user a month, 250 GB storage.	$10 per user a month billed yearly; 5 teams, unlimited issues and file uploads, admin roles, Loops. Billed for unsuspended users. Coding sessions and Loops use prepaid AI credits on top.
Free trial	7-day free trial of Standard or Premium; no payment information required	None stated
Platforms	Web, iOS, Android, CLI, API	Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)	3,000+ integrations in the Atlassian Marketplace	Not stated
Open source	No	No
Good for	Software teams planning sprints and tracking work items Organisations already using Confluence and other Atlassian products Coordinating dependencies across many teams on Premium	Software product teams planning cycles and roadmaps Engineering teams that assign issues to coding agents Startups that want an issue tracker with a usable free tier
Watch out for	Free plan: 10 users, 2 GB storage, 150 automation steps a month for the whole subscription and no Rovo AI Annual billing is sold in user tiers, and Enterprise is annual only and priced from 801 users Cross-project dependencies, approvals and the 99.9% uptime SLA need Premium	The free plan is capped at 250 issues and 2 teams The pricing page shows only yearly-billed prices, although the docs say monthly billing is available Coding sessions and Loops draw on a prepaid AI credit balance on top of seat fees
Made by	Atlassian	Linear Orbit, Inc.

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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