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https://linear.app/pricing
Linear: Steadily increased tier prices while restructuring plans and limits over time.
Linear has consistently adjusted its pricing and packaging since 2020. Core paid tiers have seen regular price hikes, such as the Business plan increasing from $12 to $16 per user by late 2025, alongside structural shifts that introduced stricter team limits on lower tiers.
Based on 8 archived pricing pages, 2020-07-01 → 2026-09-02.
4
price increases
2
plans killed
2
limits tightened
+25%
biggest single hike
Monthly price by plan
Prices in the page's currency. "Custom" / contact-sales plans are not charted.
Planning & Defense
What to do about it, based on Linear's track record.
- Next hike
- Likely within 12 months, around late 2026 or early 2027, driven by recent annual cadence hikes on Basic and Business tiers.
- Contract strategy
- Lock into an annual contract now to freeze the current Basic ($10) or Business ($16) pricing against recurring upward adjustments.
- Architecture defense
- Isolate issue tracking and project metadata behind internal repository abstraction layers to enable rapid migration to competing tools.
What changed
8 of 13 changes went against the customer.
- 2021-06-10
- Limit cutFree plan added a explicit 250 issues limit.
- Plan killedEnterprise plan (Custom pricing) disappeared
- New planNew Plus plan at $12 per user per month
- 2023-05-29
- Price upPlus: $12 per user/month → $14 per user/month (+17%)
- New planNew Linear Enterprise plan at Contact Sales
- 2024-05-16
- RenamedStandard renamed to Basic
- RenamedLinear Enterprise renamed to Enterprise
- Limit cutFree plan restricted collaboration to only 2 teams.
- Plan killedPlus plan ($14 per user/month) disappeared
- New planNew Business plan at $12 per user/month
- 2025-03-11
- Price upBusiness: $12 per user/month → $14 per user/month (+17%)
- 2025-12-02
- Price upBasic: $8 per user/month → $10 per user/month (+25%)
- Price upBusiness: $14 per user/month → $16 per user/month (+14%)