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Linear pricing for 25 seats: real monthly and yearly cost

Short answer

At 25 seats on the Basic tier with annual billing, Linear costs $200 per month, or $2,400 per year. Higher tiers and monthly billing change the math; the full per-tier breakdown is below.

Last verified: 2026-05-16 Model: member/month Official pricing

Linear at 25 members usually means a product engineering team that already standardized on it. The decision is Basic versus Business, not Linear versus Jira.

Per-tier cost at 25 seats

These figures use the official published per-seat price and multiply by 25. Custom-quote tiers are flagged; usage and add-on costs are not included.

Tier Per member (annual) 25-seat monthly (annual billing) 25-seat yearly
Free $0 / member/month $0 $0
Basic $8 / member/month $200 $2,400
Business $14 / member/month $350 $4,200

Recommended tier for a 25-person team

Basic is the cheapest tier with a real published per-seat price, landing at $200 per month for 25 seats on annual billing.

Business adds team-specific cycles, triage responsibility rules, and SLAs that matter once you have more than one engineering squad. Below that, Basic is enough.

What is not in the 25-seat math

  • Enterprise security, priority support, and large-team procurement terms are custom.

Linear at 25 seats: buyer notes

Business is the public benchmark against Jira Premium for product teams that prefer Linear's workflow.

Alternatives at 25 seats

Same issue tracking category, computed at the same team size on each tool's cheapest published per-seat tier with annual billing.

Tool Cheapest paid tier 25-seat monthly (annual billing)
Jira Standard $197.75

Sources

Pricing changes frequently. Confirm directly with the vendor before purchase.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Linear cost for 25 seats per month?

At 25 seats on the Basic tier with annual billing, Linear runs $200 per month, or $2,400 per year. Monthly billing typically adds 15 to 25 percent on top.

How much does annual billing save on Linear at 25 seats?

Switching from monthly to annual billing on the Basic tier saves $50 per month, or $600 per year, about 20 percent off the monthly rate.

What is NOT included in the Linear price for 25 seats?

Enterprise security, priority support, and large-team procurement terms are custom.

Why would a 25-engineer team pay for Linear Business over Basic?

The single biggest reason is triage automation. Business lets you assign incoming bug reports to a rotating triage owner per team, which removes a daily judgement call from engineering leads.

What are the closest Linear alternatives at 25 seats?

Jira, Shortcut, Height are the alternatives most procurement teams shortlist when they compare Linear at this team size.