Choose Linear if
- You only need a fast issue tracker and planning tool for engineering
- You're happy to decide what to build outside your tracker
- You mainly want coding agents picking up issues you've already written
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Devplan vs Linear
Linear tracks and ships the work. Devplan decides what's worth building from customer evidence, writes the code-grounded spec, then creates the issues in Linear.
The short answer
Which one fits your team?
Choose Devplan if
- You want to know what to build before it becomes an issue, ranked by real customer evidence
- You want PRDs and specs grounded in your code, with a source on every line
- You want issues created in Linear for you, with status and risks read from the real work
- You want one product brain across Linear, Jira and the rest of your tools
Side by side
How they differ.
What Linear is: The product development system for teams and agents: issues, projects, cycles, roadmaps and code review, with customer requests captured from support and sales tools.
LinearDevplan
Built forIssues, projects, cycles and roadmaps for teams and agentsTurning customer feedback into shipped features, grounded in your code
Customer feedbackCustomer requests from Intercom, Zendesk, Slack, email and CRM tools, linked to issuesRead automatically from calls, tickets and Slack, grouped into ranked proposals with the evidence counted
Specs and PRDsProject docs written by your team; partner agents like ChatPRD can helpPRDs and tech specs from customer evidence and your code, with a source on every line
Code contextGitHub and GitLab for pull requests, code review and issue syncReads GitHub or Bitbucket, so specs and estimates match what's built
AI coding agentsLinear Agent, plus coding agents like Cursor and Codex working from issuesProduct, code and customer context for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex via MCP
TrackingCycles, projects and Insights on team performanceStatus and risks from real work in Jira or Linear; customers told when it ships
PricingFree tier, then priced per userOne shared credit pool, no per-seat charge; start free with $100 in credits
Based on Linear's own website, as of October 2026. See Linear for their latest details. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
Your call
Works with Linear, or on its own.
Keep Linear and let Devplan create the issues there, or run planning, specs, issues and tracking in Devplan on its own. Devplan doesn't do release management yet, so teams that need it keep Linear for releases.
See integrations →- 01
Hear
Customer signals
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Rank
Proposals
- 03
Spec
PRD with sources
- 04
Build
Your tickets, your agents
Questions
Devplan vs Linear, answered
Is Devplan a Linear alternative?
Yes. Devplan is a Linear alternative that also decides what to build: it reads customer feedback from calls, tickets and Slack, ranks it with the evidence counted, writes code-grounded specs and tracks the work. You can keep Linear for issues and cycles and let Devplan create the issues there, or run everything in Devplan; release management stays in Linear for now.
Does Devplan integrate with Linear?
Yes. Devplan reads issues and projects from Linear, turns specs into fully formed Linear issues and reads status back from real work.
What does Devplan add on top of Linear?
Devplan adds the step before the issue. Linear captures customer requests and links them to issues; Devplan groups feedback from every source into ranked proposals, drafts PRDs and tech specs grounded in your code with a source on every line, and gives coding agents the product and customer context behind the work.
How is Devplan priced compared with Linear?
Devplan uses one shared credit pool with no per-seat charge, and you can start free with $100 in credits. Linear has a free tier and per-user plans; see linear.app/pricing.
See it on your own feedback and code.
$100 in free credits, no credit card.