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OrgOrg vs Linear · Issue tracking and project planning for product and engineering teams
Free for teams of up to 5. Every app, no feature gates, no credit card. Past 5 people, Pro is $10 per member per month.
Linear is the issue tracker product and engineering teams pick for its speed: issues, projects, cycles, and initiatives, free for 250 issues with unlimited members, then $10 and $16 per user a month billed yearly. OrgOrg Tasks is lightweight task tracking for the whole company inside a suite that is free for up to 5 people. This page lays out the honest tradeoffs.
When OrgOrg is the right pick
Teams that track work across the company, not only in engineering: a launch, an office move, a hiring plan, the follow-ups from a customer call. OrgOrg is the right pick when a task needs an owner, a due date, a priority, and a project, when a task should sit on the CRM contact or company it concerns, and when the tracker is one app among the directory, go links, on-call, and the rest of the suite.
When Linear is the right pick
Engineering teams whose work is issues: a keyboard-first app, cycles and triage, SLAs and triage rules on Business, issue sync and diffs from the code, and an agent platform with Linear Agent and coding sessions. Linear is the safe pick when developers live in the tracker all day, when support tickets and customer requests must become issues, and when the per-user price is worth the depth.
Where OrgOrg wins
- A task has an owner, followers, a priority from P0 to P3, a start date, a due date, a status, and a project, for anyone in the company, not only engineers.
- A task can sit on a CRM contact or company, so the follow-up from a sales call lives beside the deal, and a task keeps a link to the page it came from.
- Comments, attachments, dependencies, and a history on every task; a board view, standups, and an insights page for the team; private projects for the work that stays small.
- File a task from Slack with one command, and the owner gets the inbox row, the email, and the Slack message from one notice.
- One flat price for the suite: tasks beside the directory, the org chart, go links, on-call, and recognition, free for up to 5 people.
Where Linear wins
- A free plan with unlimited members, 2 teams, and 250 issues, with the agent platform, Linear Agent, and Loops included.
- Issues, projects, cycles, initiatives, triage, customer requests, issue sync, diffs, and the API and webhooks on every plan.
- Issue SLAs, triage rules, triage responsibility, Triage Intelligence, Code Intelligence, and releases with 15 pipelines on Business, unlimited pipelines on Enterprise.
- Linear Asks turns Slack messages and emails into issues on Business, with web forms, several Slack workspaces, and private channels on Enterprise.
- Private teams, guest accounts, sub-teams, Insights, and the Zendesk and Intercom integrations on Business; SAML, SCIM, an audit log, IP restrictions, domain claiming, and HIPAA compliance on Enterprise.
Feature comparison
What this table says about Linear comes from Linear's own pricing and documentation pages, listed under Sources at the foot of this page, each read on or after 2026-11-01. A row marked unverified states what we could not find on their site.
| Feature | OrgOrg | Linear |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Every app, up to 5 people | Free: unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues, 10 MB file uploads |
| Price past the free plan | $10 per member a month, the whole suite | Basic $10 and Business $16 per user a month, billed yearly; Enterprise by quote, annual billing only |
| Issues, projects, cycles, and initiatives | tasks, projects, standups, and a board; no cycles and no initiatives | yes, on every plan; sub-initiatives on Enterprise |
| Triage | no triage queue: a task starts with an owner or in a project | yes on every plan; triage rules, triage responsibility, and Triage Intelligence on Business |
| Issue SLAs | no; a due date and a priority on each task | Business and Enterprise |
| Intake from Slack and email | a Slack command files a task on the spot | Linear Asks on Business: Slack intake and email intake; web forms on Enterprise |
| Code integration | no code integration; a task keeps a link to its source page | issue sync and diffs on every plan, guided reviews from Basic, Code Intelligence from Business |
| Support and sales tools | tasks on the contacts and companies of OrgOrg's own CRM | Zendesk and Intercom integrations on Business; a Salesforce add-on on Enterprise |
| Private teams and guests | private projects for members; no guest accounts | Business and Enterprise |
| Reporting | an insights page for the team's tasks | progress reports on every plan; Insights on Business; dashboards on Enterprise |
| AI and agents | an MCP server and a public API for the suite | the agent platform, MCP access, Linear Agent, coding sessions, and Loops on every plan; the sessions and Loops take AI credits |
| SSO and provisioning | Google and Microsoft sign-in, SAML, and SCIM | Google sign-in on Free, Basic, and Business; SAML and SCIM on Enterprise |
| Discounts | free for up to 5 people, for everyone | 75% off Basic and Business for non-profits and university staff; up to 6 months of Business free for startups in its partner program |
| Bundled with org chart, profiles, go links, on-call… | yes | noUnverified |
- Free plan: Linear's billing docs say a workspace that cancels with more than 250 issues can no longer create new ones until it is back under the limit or on a paid plan.
OrgOrg pricing
Included in the flat-priced suite. Free for teams of up to five, then $10 per member per month.
Linear pricing
Free for 250 issues with unlimited members, then $10 per user a month on Basic and $16 on Business, billed yearly, and Enterprise by quote on annual billing.
Linear plans, as its pricing page lists them
Read on 2026-11-01 at Linear's pricing page, the first entry under Sources. OrgOrg has one price: Free for teams of up to 5. Every app, no feature gates, no credit card. Past 5 people, Pro is $10 per member per month.
| Plan | Price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, free for everyone | Unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues, 10 MB file uploads, the agent platform, Linear Agent, and Loops. |
| Basic | $10 per user a month, billed yearly | 5 teams, unlimited issues, unlimited file uploads, admin roles, guided reviews, and third-party app management. |
| Business | $16 per user a month, billed yearly | Unlimited teams, private teams and guests, issue SLAs, triage rules, Triage Intelligence, Code Intelligence, Insights, Linear Asks, releases, and the Zendesk and Intercom integrations. |
| Enterprise | Custom, annual billing only | SAML and SCIM, invoice and PO billing, granular admin controls, an audit log, IP restrictions, HIPAA compliance, dashboards, priority support, and account management. |
Linear's pricing page shows the yearly prices. Its billing docs say a workspace is billed for its unsuspended users, monthly or yearly, and Enterprise yearly only. Coding sessions and Loops take AI credits on every plan.
How to move from Linear to OrgOrg
Issues move as a list: a title, a description, a status, a priority, an owner, a project. Export them from Linear, create the projects in OrgOrg, and point the Slack intake at the new place. A team that keeps engineering in Linear can still move the rest of the company's work.
- Export the issues. Linear's import and export is on every plan. Export each team's issues with their status, priority, assignee, project, and due date, and drop the ones closed more than a quarter ago; the archive stays readable in Linear.
- Create the projects. An OrgOrg project holds the tasks of one effort, with its own followers and a private setting when the work should stay small. A Linear initiative becomes a project, and its projects become the tasks under it or projects of their own.
- Map the fields. Urgent, High, Medium, and Low become P0 to P3. An assignee becomes the owner, the people who should hear about it become followers, and a target date becomes the due date. A link to the pull request or the design goes on the task as its source.
- Move the intake. Where a Slack message became a Linear issue through Asks, the OrgOrg Slack command files a task in the same channel. The owner gets one notice in the inbox, by email, and in Slack.
- Keep what Linear does better. A developer team that lives on cycles, SLAs, and issue sync can stay on Linear's free plan under 250 issues or on Basic, while the company's other work runs in OrgOrg. Let the Business seats lapse where the features went unused.
The verdict
Linear is the better pick for an engineering team whose day is issues: the free plan covers a small team, and Business adds SLAs, triage rules, Asks, and the code intelligence a developer team feels every day. OrgOrg is the better pick when the whole company tracks work in one place, when a task belongs on a customer, and when the tracker should come with the directory, go links, and on-call. One price covers it: free for up to five people, then $10 per member a month.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Linear free?
- Yes, for a workspace with unlimited members, 2 teams, and 250 issues, with 10 MB file uploads. Basic is $10 per user a month and Business $16, billed yearly, and Enterprise is quoted on annual billing. OrgOrg is free for teams of up to 5 people with every app included, then $10 per member a month.
- Is Linear good for teams outside engineering?
- It can hold any work as issues, and its free plan has no member limit. Its depth is built for product and engineering: cycles, triage, SLAs, issue sync with the code, and the agent platform. A marketing or operations team pays the same per-user price for features it rarely opens, which is where a lighter tracker in a suite fits.
- Does OrgOrg have cycles or sprints?
- No. OrgOrg Tasks has tasks with statuses, priorities, start and due dates, owners, followers, projects, a board view, standups, and an insights page. A team that plans in two-week cycles with velocity and SLAs is better served by Linear.
- Can I move my issues from Linear to OrgOrg?
- Yes. Export the issues from Linear, which offers import and export on every plan, create the projects in OrgOrg, and map the priorities to P0 to P3, the assignee to the owner, and the target date to the due date. Closed issues can stay in Linear's archive.
- Does Linear have an API?
- Yes. The API and webhook access, MCP access, and the agent platform are on every plan, including Free. OrgOrg has a public API and an MCP server for the suite, including tasks.
- What does OrgOrg lack that Linear has?
- Cycles, initiatives, triage, SLAs, releases, issue sync and diffs from the code, Linear Asks, guest accounts, and the agent platform with coding sessions. OrgOrg's price covers the whole suite, which is the better deal only when the team uses more of it than the tracker.
Sources
What this page says about Linear was read on Linear's own pages, on the dates below.
- linear.app/pricing, read 2026-11-01
- linear.app/docs/billing-and-plans, read 2026-11-01