NoaBox vs Linear
An Honest Comparison
Choose NoaBox if
- Your team is growing and you'd rather pay one flat price than per seat
- You want pages and a file drive in the same project as the work items
- Your free plan needs to hold more than 250 issues (Linear Free's limit)
- You want time logged right on the work item
LChoose Linear if
- Speed and keyboard-driven design matter more than anything else
- You want deep GitHub automation: pull-request status updates and two-way GitHub Issues sync
- You want AI agents that can start coding sessions on issues
- You need native iOS and Android apps, GitLab, Sentry or Zendesk, or a one-click Jira importer
NoaBox And Linear
Side By Side
| Feature | NoaBox | Linear |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat monthly price per workspace: Free up to 10 members, $19 up to 20, $49 up to 50 | Per user per month; yearly prices published ($10 Basic, $16 Business); monthly rate not published |
| Free plan | Up to 10 members, 1 project, 10 AI credits a month, 1 GB | Unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues, 10 MB uploads; every user is an admin |
| Sprints | Built in on every plan: a backlog and sprints with a goal and dates (labelled groups in the app) | Cycles: automatic, 1 to 8 weeks long |
| AI | Noa on every plan: drafts tickets from a spec for you to confirm, answers questions about your work | Linear Agent on every plan; coding sessions billed from prepaid AI credits |
| GitHub | Commits that mention a work-item key link themselves (Starter and up); no pull-request tracking | Pull requests and commits update issue status; two-way GitHub Issues sync |
| Slack | Notifications as DMs (Starter and up); @NoaBox in threads and DMs (Pro) | Create issues from messages, synced threads, notifications and @Linear |
| Limits | 1 on Free, 5 on Starter, 10 on Pro, unlimited on Enterprise | Free: 2 teams; Basic: 5 teams; Business: unlimited |
| Time tracking | Time logs on every work item | Not covered on Linear's pricing page |
| SSO | Not available; sign-in by email code or Google | Google sign-in on every plan; SAML and SCIM on Enterprise |
| Apps | Web app | Web, iOS and Android |
Linear details checked on October 9, 2026 from their own site. See the sources below, and their current pricing.
What Your Team Would Pay
Each Month
Linear publishes only yearly prices, so it's shown at Basic ($10 per user a month) billed yearly; its monthly-billing rate isn't on its pricing page. NoaBox bills monthly. AI credits for Linear coding sessions are extra.
10 people
NoaBox$19
Starter (or Free, with one project)
Linear$100
Basic, billed yearly
30 people
NoaBox$49
Pro
Linear$300
Basic, billed yearly
50 people
NoaBox$49
Pro
Linear$500
Basic, billed yearly
Where Each One
Is Stronger
Where Linear is stronger
Speed and design
Linear is built for speed, with nearly everything a keystroke away. It's the benchmark for how a tracker should feel.
Git automation
Pull requests and commits move issue status on their own, and GitHub Issues sync both ways. NoaBox links commits only.
Agents that write code
Linear Agent can start coding sessions on well-scoped issues, and third-party agents can be assigned work.
A generous free plan for big teams
Unlimited members on Free, limited by issues and teams instead.
Apps and integrations
Native iOS and Android apps, plus GitLab, Figma, Sentry, Zendesk and a Jira importer.
Where NoaBox is stronger
A flat price
30 people cost $49 a month on NoaBox Pro, against $300 a month on Linear Basic billed yearly.
Pages and files per project
Specs and decisions as pages, with password-protected pages encrypted in the browser, and a drive with previews.
No issue cap on Free
NoaBox Free is limited by members and projects, not by the number of work items.
Spec to tickets from a file
Attach a PRD, spreadsheet or CSV and Noa proposes tickets with acceptance criteria for you to confirm.
Time on the ticket
Log time on any work item and see it in its Time Logs tab.
Moving From Linear
Without Losing The Backlog
- 1
Export from Linear
Export the issues you're moving from Linear as a CSV.
- 2
Let Noa propose the work items
Attach the CSV in Ask Noa. It proposes the work items and you confirm each one, so this suits up to a few hundred issues (500 rows per sheet). There's no one-click importer yet.
- 3
Connect and invite
Connect GitHub and Slack, then invite the team at no extra cost per person inside your plan's limit.
NoaBox vs Linear
If your team is growing and per-seat pricing hurts, or you want pages and files next to the work, NoaBox is a strong fit. If speed, Git automation and coding agents are what you value most, Linear is hard to beat.
Linear Basic is $10 per user a month billed yearly, so 30 people cost $300 a month. NoaBox Pro covers up to 50 members for a flat $49 a month, billed monthly.
Yes: unlimited members, 2 teams and up to 250 issues, with 10 MB uploads. NoaBox Free covers 10 members and one project with no cap on work items.
There's no one-click importer yet. Export your issues as a CSV and attach it in Ask Noa: Noa proposes the work items and you confirm each one.
Where These Facts
Come From
- Linear pricing
- Linear docs: billing and plans
- Linear docs: Linear Agent
- Linear docs: AI credits
- Linear docs: GitHub
- Linear docs: Slack
- Linear docs: cycles
- Linear mobile
Checked October 9, 2026. Linear is a trademark of its owner. NoaBox is not affiliated with or endorsed by Linear. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it.