Linear Pricing & Free Plan Limits
Complete pricing breakdown for Linear including all plans, hidden costs, and limitations.
Pricing score: 70/100
Is Linear free?
Yes — the Free plan costs nothing.
The free plan includes
- Unlimited members
- 2 teams
- 250 issues
- Linear Agent and agent platform
- GitHub, Slack and other integrations
Free plan limits
- Users: Unlimited members
- Storage: 10MB per file upload
- 2 teams, 250 issues, 10MB uploads, no admin roles, no private teams or guests
Watch out: Over 250 issues you can't create new issues until you upgrade or reduce the count. Every user is an Admin on Free.
Plans & Pricing
- Unlimited members
- 2 teams
- 250 issues
- Linear Agent and agent platform
- GitHub, Slack and other integrations
User limit: Unlimited members
Storage: 10MB per file upload
- Everything in Business
- SAML and SCIM
- Granular admin controls
- Advanced org modeling
- Migration and onboarding support
- Priority support
- Invoice/PO billing
User limit: Unlimited
Storage: Unlimited
- Everything in Free
- 5 teams
- Unlimited issues
- Admin roles
- Loops
- 1 level of sub-teams
User limit: Unlimited
Storage: Unlimited uploads
- Everything in Basic
- Unlimited teams
- Private teams and guests
- Linear Insights
- Triage Intelligence
- Code Intelligence
- Linear Asks
- Zendesk and Intercom integrations
- Up to 5 levels of sub-teams
User limit: Unlimited
Storage: Unlimited uploads
Pricing Issues Reported by Users
Why did Linear raise prices? Basic now $10, Business $16
Between Oct 2025 and Jan 2026 Linear raised Basic (formerly Standard) from $8 to $10 per user/month (+25%) and Business from $14 to $16 (+14%), both billed yearly. Earlier, in Q4 2024, the 20% annual discount was removed. Monthly billing costs more and is not listed on the pricing page.
Linear free plan limited to 250 issues and 2 teams
The Free plan allows unlimited members but only 2 teams, 250 issues and 10MB uploads. Once a workspace has more than 250 issues you can't create new ones until you go back under the cap or upgrade, so active startups hit the wall within months.
Linear AI coding sessions need extra AI credits
Linear bundles its agent features into seat plans, but Coding sessions and Loops consume separately purchased, usage-based AI credits, which makes the real monthly bill harder to predict.