Linear vs Asana

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.

Compared on	Linear Free plan · from $10/user/mo Visit Remove	Asana Free plan · from $10.99/user/mo Visit Remove
What it is	Issue tracking and product planning for software teams, with a built-in agent that can write code	Work management with prebuilt AI Teammates, an AI chief of staff, and unlimited automations from Starter
Free plan	Unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues, 10MB file uploads; includes the agent platform, Linear Agent and MCP access	Personal plan: free forever for 2 users, unlimited tasks and projects, list, board and calendar views, unlimited storage (100MB per file), status updates and 100+ free integrations. No AI features.
Cheapest paid plan	$10/user/mo billed annually (Basic)Linear pricing	$10.99/user/mo billed annually (Starter)Asana pricing
What it covers	$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.	$10.99 per user a month billed annually, or $13.49 billed monthly. No seat limit. Seats are added in increments: 1 at a time from 2 to 5 users, 5 at a time up to 30, 10 up to 100, 25 up to 500 and 50 above 500. Includes AI Teammates and Asana Dash (5 AI requests per user a month, up to 50 per account) and 50K AI Studio credits a month.
Free trial	None stated	None stated
Platforms	Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, API	Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	100+ free integrations, including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Slack
Open source	No	No
Good for	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	Cross-functional teams tracking projects with timelines and dependencies Teams that want built-in AI agents to plan, triage and report on work Linking daily tasks to company goals and portfolios
Watch out for	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	The free Personal plan allows 2 users and has no timeline, Gantt, dashboards or AI features AI Teammates and Dash include 5 requests per user a month, capped at 50 per account on Starter and Advanced; more costs $0.50 to $0.60 per request Goals, portfolios, approvals and time tracking need Advanced; SAML and SCIM need Enterprise
Made by	Linear Orbit, Inc.	Asana, 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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