Complete comparison
See how Plane and Linear compare across project management, AI agents, planning, reporting, and pricing. Explore deployment options from cloud to airgapped, along with what it takes to move your work.
50,000+ teams run on Plane, from startups to the Fortune 500
Alignment from plan to delivery
For us, the biggest benefit is visibility and alignment. Product requirements can move into design, pass through approval gates, and then flow into engineering without losing context. It reduces coordination overhead, makes ownership clearer, and gives the team a reliable view of what is planned, what is blocked, and what is ready for delivery.
CIO, Fortune 500 financial services company
Where Plane goes further than Linear
One workspace for every team
Plane runs product, engineering, design, and business teams in one workspace, with docs and intake beside the work. Linear is built only for product development.
Built for the agentic era
Plane’s MIT-licensed MCP server can run on your infrastructure, and self-hosted Plane uses your own model provider and keys. Linear’s agents and MCP run only in Linear’s cloud.
Runs where you need it
Run Plane in Plane Cloud, on your infrastructure, or fully airgapped, with the Commercial and airgapped editions at full parity with Cloud. Linear is cloud-only.
Enterprise controls, included
SAML and OIDC from Business, plus LDAP, custom roles, approval flows, and API-enabled audit logs on Enterprise Grid. Linear has no custom roles or approval flows on any plan.
Let agents run your busywork
Agents take the work nobody wants: triage, status updates, and spec drafts. The team reviews everything in the activity trail.
Dashboards, a Wiki, and time tracking in one place.
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Plane vs Linear, feature by feature
Compare twenty-two capabilities across execution, planning, governance, collaboration, AI, and deployment.
Capability | Linear |  |
Run the work | ||
Work models and custom properties How different kinds of work are structured | One fixed issue model. No custom fields or work item types on any plan. | Work item types with custom properties, required fields, defaults, visual identity, and activity history. |
Cycles Timeboxes, progress, and unfinished work | Cycles run per team on a fixed cadence. | Project-based cycles with manual start and stop, burn-down charts, and unfinished-work transfer. An active-cycles view spans projects. Business adds automatic scheduling. |
Dependencies What blocks what when plans change | Blocking links on issues. Projects support end-to-start only. | Finish-to-start, start-to-start, and finish-to-finish dependencies, with dates that move when upstream work changes. Critical path shows on the Timeline. |
Keyboard-first execution The speed people feel every day | Command menu and keyboard shortcuts. | Power K and shortcuts for navigation, search, filters, and common work-item actions. |
Time tracking Hours logged against the work | No native time tracking. | Log time on work items and review worklogs across the workspace, from Pro. |
See the whole picture | ||
Cross-project planning How work rolls up across the organization | Initiatives group projects. Sub-initiatives only on Enterprise. | Initiatives connect projects across teams with owners, states, dates, and updates. Teamspaces show each team’s work across projects. |
Project updates How leaders see progress and risk | Project and initiative updates with a health status. | On-track, at-risk, and off-track updates with ownership, dates, and progress, rolled up to initiatives. |
Dashboards Reporting people can open themselves | No Insights on Free or Basic. Dashboards only on Enterprise. | Dashboards start on Pro. Business adds advanced widgets for analysis across projects and teams. |
Keep control | ||
Custom workflows Rules for how work moves | Statuses per team inside fixed categories. No transition rules. | Control who moves work between states, with type-specific workflows and designated approvers. |
Approval gates Required sign-off before work moves | No | Designated approvers sign off before work moves, with a fallback state for rejected work. |
Roles and permissions Who can see, manage, and change work | Fixed roles, no custom roles on any plan. Guests are billed as full members. Owner role only on Enterprise. | Admin, Contributor, Commenter, and Guest roles per project. 5 free Guests per paid seat on Pro and Business. Custom roles and granular permissions on Enterprise Grid. |
Configuration as code Review project structure in Git | No native config as code. | Plane Compose defines states, workflows, types, labels, and custom fields in YAML for Git review, versioning, and reuse. |
One workspace | ||
Cross-functional work Every team in one workspace | Built for only product development teams. | Engineering, product, operations, marketing, and support run their own projects and workflows in one workspace. |
Docs and wiki Long-form context beside the work | No workspace wiki. Documents sit on teams, projects, and issues. | Project Pages plus a workspace Wiki with nested pages, collections, page locking, external publishing, and Notion/Confluence imports. |
Request intake Turn outside requests into trackable work | Slack and email intake only from Business. Web forms only on Enterprise, and requesters must sign in. | In-app Intake starts on Free. Business adds email intake and public forms that need no account. |
Git hosting Pull requests linked to work | GitHub and GitLab only. No Bitbucket. GitHub Enterprise Cloud only on the Enterprise plan. | GitHub (including Enterprise Server) and GitLab (including self-managed) with two-way sync. Bitbucket Cloud and Data Center for pull request automation. |
AI in the work | ||
Assignable agents AI teammates that take work | Linear Agent and third-party agents can be assigned. Cloud only. | Plane Agents take assignments and mentions, run on schedules or work item events, and show up in the same activity trail as people. |
MCP server Use AI clients with your workspace | Hosted by Linear only. Not self-hostable. | MIT-licensed MCP server, hosted by Plane or run on your infrastructure. |
Bring your own model Your provider and your keys | No. Linear’s model list only. | Self-hosted Plane (Commercial Edition) uses your OpenAI or Anthropic keys, AWS Bedrock, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. |
Yours to run | ||
Self-hosted deployment Run in your infrastructure | No | Deploy Plane on your infrastructure using Docker or Kubernetes. |
Airgapped deployment Run without external network access | No | Yes. Run Plane fully isolated, with no external network dependencies. Updates come from your own registry. |
Identity and audit Controls procurement expects | SAML, SCIM, IP restrictions, and audit logs only on Enterprise. | SAML and OIDC with any identity provider, from Business (Pro on self-hosted). LDAP, granular access controls, and API-enabled audit logs on Enterprise Grid, plus IdP group sync on self-hosted. |
Your Linear history comes with you
Map your Linear states, then import issues, comments, attachments, cycles, and projects with authorship intact. Many teams finish a first dry run in under three hours, and re-runs pick up new Linear changes.
Lower price, fewer upgrade walls
Pro is $6 per seat per month vs Linear Basic at $10, both billed annually. On Linear, Dashboards, web forms, and SAML need a custom Enterprise contract. On Plane, Dashboards start on Pro.
Run Plane anywhere
Choose Plane Cloud, deploy with Docker or Kubernetes, or go airgapped with zero external calls and offline updates. Self-hosted deployments support your models and keep logs local.
Ready for procurement
Plane is ISO 27001 certified and SOC 2 Type II audited, with support for GDPR and HIPAA requirements. Data is encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit. Self-hosted, your data never leaves your infrastructure.
Ready to switch from Linear?
Bring your Linear history into Plane, rebuild the workflows your team needs, and move at your own pace. Enterprise Grid adds hands-on migration services.
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