How does Linear compare with the alternatives?
Choose Linear when engineers and coding agents are the tracker's main users, and keep Jira when departments must encode their own workflows, custom fields, and approvals. Linear hands issues to third-party coding agents or its own coding sessions; Jira's paid plans add Rovo agents.
Pay for Linear when planning spans many repositories and teams. Until then, GitHub Issues and Projects come with the repository at no extra seat price, and Copilot cloud agent can start work from an issue. Linear adds cycles, initiatives, Triage, and delegation to several agent vendors for a per-user fee.
