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Jira vs Linear comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 4, 2026

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Jira
Ranking in Project Management Software
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
277
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (1st), Application Requirements Management (2nd)
Linear
Ranking in Project Management Software
34th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Akhil Viswam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Agile workflows have streamlined sprint planning and tracking for faster feature delivery
Jira has a very good interface and it is very easy to manage sprints, tasks, and epics. The main feature is the hierarchy, as features can be converted into epics and topics, allowing bigger tasks to be partitioned into smaller ones. The hierarchy feature in Jira helps the team significantly compared to other tools that have been used, such as Trello, which is mainly useful only for a waterfall model. For modern Agile practices, Jira is the most adapted tool in the industry. Another valuable feature is that Jira APIs have been used for data science projects to analyze tasks and get insights. This has also been very helpful in the project.
Malte Landwehr - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Seo at idealo Internet GmbH
Unified project tracking has streamlined cross‑team work and improved remote collaboration
Linear offers many best features, as it is very fast. It looks very good, has a very sleek design, a very nice looking UI, very good filtering, and very good integration with GitHub that makes a lot of sense, with really good hotkeys if I want to quickly go through something. The GitHub integration in Linear helps my team day to day, as I can see in Linear what is the status of the PR that is attached to the Linear ticket, and I can quickly go from Linear to GitHub. Linear has positively impacted my organization, as we are able to manage our tasks without the usual overhead that something like Jira would bring. It gives transparency to everyone, enables remote workers to know what to work on, allows the product managers to plan a sprint, gives a central place for engineers, designers, and product managers to drop their topics, and allows us to have feature requests.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Government
8%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business105
Midsize Enterprise56
Large Enterprise150
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Questions from the Community

Is Jira better or would you go with Micro Focus ALM Octane?
Hi Netanya, Basically , it all depends on the use cases for your environment and the business needs. Hope the below data may be relevant to you for identifying your needs and deciding on the approp...
Which is better - Jira or Microsoft Azure DevOps?
Jira is a great centralized tool for just about everything, from local team management to keeping track of products and work logs. It is easy to implement and navigate, and it is stable and scalabl...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jira?
Jira itself is fairly priced for the features it provides, but pricing is a bit higher than some alternatives, mostly because many plugins and add-ons are paid and licensed per user. So even if onl...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Linear?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that I don't have a lot of details there; it's all reasonable, and the setup is very easy.
What needs improvement with Linear?
Linear can be improved, but honestly, I think it is very close to perfect. I don't want anything to change. They should not add any feature; that's my only wish. Linear is indeed perfect for me, an...
What is your primary use case for Linear?
I use Linear as a project management tool for both teams that work in traditional Agile sprint software development, as well as data science teams and more operational teams like marketing, office ...
 

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