Both products put team work in one shared place, and both price per seat, but the two pricing pages describe different objects. Linear's page counts issues, teams and file uploads; Notion's page counts members, blocks and page history. That difference decides which one fits before any feature comparison starts.
TL;DR
Linear sells seats on an issue tracker: Free at $0 with unlimited members but 2 teams and 250 issues, Basic at $10 per user a month billed yearly with 5 teams, Business at $16 with unlimited teams plus Triage Intelligence, Code Intelligence and Linear Insights, and an Enterprise tier sold only on annual billing. Notion sells seats on a workspace: Free at $0 per member with databases but blocks limited once two or more members share it, Plus at $10 per member a month, Business at $20 with SAML SSO and Notion Agent, and Enterprise by quote. Pick Linear when the work is a queue of issues that move through cycles; pick Notion when the work is a document or a structured record that people read as well as edit.
Linear runs Free at $0 for everyone, with unlimited members across 2 teams and 250 issues, plus Linear Agent on the free tier. Basic costs $10 per user a month billed yearly and raises the account to 5 teams with unlimited issues, unlimited file uploads and admin roles. Business is $16 per user a month billed yearly and lifts the team limit entirely, adding private teams and guests, Triage Intelligence, Loops, Code Intelligence, Linear Insights, Linear Asks, and the Zendesk and Intercom integrations. Enterprise is custom-priced and annual-billing only: invoice and PO billing, SAML and SCIM, granular admin controls, advanced org modeling, migration and onboarding support, priority support and a named account manager. The page states the product is used by more than 40,000 companies.
Notion's page lists Free at $0 per member a month for individuals, with databases that carry subtasks, dependencies and custom properties. Plus is $10 per member a month and adds custom forms, custom sites, unlimited charts, unlimited collaborative blocks, unlimited uploads and basic connections. Business, marked recommended, is $20 per member a month and adds Notion Agent, AI Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search, SAML SSO, granular database permissions, private teamspaces, domain verification and premium connections. Enterprise is quoted by sales and adds SCIM user provisioning and zero data retention with LLM providers. Yearly billing is advertised as saving up to 20% against monthly. Notion's AI layer is metered separately: free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits, and a Workers beta lets teams build custom code on top of the workspace.
| Feature | Linear | Notion |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free at $0: unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues, Linear Agent | Free at $0 per member: individual use, blocks limited for 2+ members |
| Entry paid plan | Basic at $10 per user/month billed yearly | Plus at $10 per member/month billed yearly |
| Mid tier | Business at $16 per user/month billed yearly | Business at $20 per member/month billed yearly, marked recommended |
| Enterprise | Custom, annual billing only: SAML and SCIM, invoice or PO billing, granular admin controls | Custom pricing: SCIM provisioning, zero data retention with LLM providers |
| Free-tier ceiling | 250 issues, 2 teams, 10MB file uploads | Block limits once 2+ members share the workspace |
| AI pricing | Linear Agent on Free; Triage Intelligence, Code Intelligence and Linear Asks from Business | Free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits |
| Core object | Issues in cycles, projects, initiatives, with intake and triage | Pages backed by databases with relations, views and properties |
| Integrations | API and webhooks on Free; Zendesk and Intercom integrations from Business | Basic connections on Plus, premium connections on Business |
| Billing note | Prices shown billed yearly; Enterprise is annual only | Yearly billing advertised at up to 20% below monthly |
Pick Linear if
Linear charges $10 then $16 per user a month billed yearly and puts cycles, triage and agent-run issue work in front of everything else. Teams that live in a queue of next actions, want Code Intelligence and Triage Intelligence in the same seat, and need SAML or invoice billing through the Enterprise tier get a narrower product that does one job at a higher floor than a free workspace.
Pick Notion if
Notion holds $0, $10 and $20 per member a month and keeps writing, databases and project records in a single editor. Teams whose output is a spec, a research database or a wiki that other people read will find the structure here, with the trade-off that every editor is a seat and issue-style tracking has to be built out of database views.
No user reviews, ratings or quotes were gathered for this pair. Every figure above comes from linear.app/pricing and notion.com/pricing as fetched for this page; vendor feature claims are presented as claims, not as measured outcomes.
At the entry tier both are $10 per seat a month billed yearly. The mid tier separates them: Linear Business is $16 per user a month while Notion Business is $20 per member a month. Linear's lower number comes with a 5-team cap on Basic; Notion's higher number includes SAML SSO and Notion Agent.
Yes. Linear's Free tier costs $0 and covers unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues, 10MB file uploads and Linear Agent. The limits that push teams to the $10 Basic tier are the 2-team and 250-issue ceilings.
Notion's Free plan is aimed at individuals: it includes databases with subtasks, dependencies and custom properties, but blocks are limited once two or more members share the workspace. A shared team workspace starts at Plus, $10 per member a month billed yearly.
Notion can model issues as database rows with views and properties, which works for light tracking. What it does not include is Linear's cycle planning, triage queue and agent-run issue workflows, which are built into the product rather than assembled from database configuration.
Mixed teams usually land in Notion, because documents, wikis and structured records share one editor and a viewer costs less than an editor. Teams that are mostly engineers and want issues, cycles and code-linked workflows tend to stay with Linear at $10 to $16 per user a month.
Yes. Linear bills per user and Notion bills per member, and both count editors rather than viewers. The difference at the top: Linear's Enterprise tier is custom and annual-billing only, while Notion's Enterprise is quoted by sales with SCIM provisioning and zero data retention with LLM providers.
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