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Sahnga vs Linear
Genuinely the fastest tool for engineers — and everyone else pays full price to watch.
Linear prices checked July 2026, quoted at their best published rate — annual where they offer one. Sahnga: $5 a person, flat, monthly.
Sahnga vs Linear at a glance
| Sahnga | Linear | |
|---|---|---|
| Advertised entry price | Free for one maker, then $5 a person | Basic — $10/user/mo |
| Price with everything included | $5 a person — the same number, because there is no tier above it | Business — $16/user/moA floor, not a quote — SSO needs a sales call. |
| Monthly bill for 10 people | $45 | ≥ $160A floor, not a quote — SSO needs a sales call. |
| SSO & SAML | On every plan when it lands — never an upcharge. We don't tax security and we never will. | Enterprise-only, no add-on path, no published price |
| Guests & clients | Unlimited and free — only people who create or edit ever count | Bill as full seats — no read-only role |
| Automation & usage limits | No usage meters, anywhere. Nothing counts down. | Not metered like the spreadsheet tools; the Free limits are on tasks and teams instead |
| Free plan | One maker, unlimited viewers and guests, the whole feature set | 250 active issues, 2 teams |
| How the bill scales | $5 × your makers, flat — no tiers, no minimums, no upsells, and nothing else in the formula. | Per seat too — through the tiers and add-ons above |
Competitor prices checked July 2026 and quoted at each vendor's best published rate — annual where a vendor offers one, and their cheapest number, not ours. Every figure links to the page it came from. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it. The full 13-tool parity table lives on the pricing page.
What Linear gets right
Linear set the pace bar for the entire category. The speed, the keyboard-first craft, the restraint — it deserves the reputation, and sub-100ms is a merge gate here partly because Linear proved it was possible.
The honest take
The scope is the catch, not the quality. There's no read-only role, so guests bill as full seats — a client who only wants to see status either pays a full seat or sees your internal discussion. SAML is Enterprise-only with no add-on path and no published price. Marketing, ops and support teams usually end up feeling like guests in someone else's tool. And Business went from $14 to $16 and Basic from $8 to $10 — a quiet 20–25% rise.
The bill, in plain words
Linear pricing in 2026, decoded
Free with limits → Basic $10 → Business $16 per user on annual billing, then Enterprise by quote for SAML.
Free covers 250 active issues (their word for tasks) and 2 teams.
Basic is $10 a user and Business $16 on annual billing — quietly raised from $8 and $14, about 20–25%.
SAML SSO is Enterprise-only with no add-on path, and Linear publishes no Enterprise price.
Guests bill as full seats — there is no read-only role, so a client either pays full price or sees internal discussion.
Competitor prices checked July 2026 and quoted at each vendor's best published rate — annual where a vendor offers one, and their cheapest number, not ours. Every figure links to the page it came from. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it.
Run the numbers
What Linear costs as your team grows
5 people
$20/mo
$5 a person, first maker free
≥ $80/mo on Linear Business. That’s 4×+ our bill.
15 people
$70/mo
$5 a person, first maker free
≥ $240/mo on Linear Business. That’s 3.4×+ our bill.
65 people
$320/mo
$5 a person, first maker free
≥ $1,040/mo on Linear Business. That’s 3.3×+ our bill.
Sahnga's arithmetic never changes: $5 a month for every maker after the first — the same rate at 10 people, at 200, at 1,000, with no tier to climb and no Enterprise number to negotiate. Linear bills per seat the whole way up too — the difference is what the seat includes, and who never counts. Viewers, commenters, guests and clients are free on our side at any size.
The switch
Why teams switch from Linear to Sahnga
Under 100ms perceived latency is a merge gate here too — we took the speed lesson seriously.
$5 a person, with viewers, guests and clients free instead of billed as full seats.
No AI in the product. We don't upsell a chatbot, we never train on your work, and you bring the tools you already trust through MCP. Just fast, calm software.
Moving your work off Linear
Linear exports to CSV from its own settings, and Sahnga imports CSV — titles, descriptions, assignees, due dates and status map across, and cycles become projects or goals depending on how you worked. Marketing and ops get real seats on the other side, not a compromise.
Receipts: docs/research/competitive-landscape.md — Linear profile (price rises, guest-seat policy)
Questions
Sahnga vs Linear FAQ
Is there a flat-priced Linear alternative?+
Sahnga is flat where it counts — the seat, not the total: $5 for each person who creates or edits, one maker free, and that rate never climbs a tier at 10 people or 1,000. The total isn't one fixed number; it's your maker count times $5 and nothing else — no minimums, no rungs, no add-ons, and viewers, commenters, guests and clients never count. There are no tiers to climb: unmetered automations, timeline and dependencies, time tracking, full history, the API and one-click export are in every plan, including Free.
How much does Linear cost for a team of 10?+
Ten people on Sahnga is $45 a month — $5 each with the first maker free, and unlimited viewers, guests and clients on top at no charge. Matching that feature-for-feature on Linear means Business, which comes to about $160 a month for ten at their best published rate. And it's a floor, not a quote: SSO is only sold through a sales call, so the real number is higher.
Does Sahnga import from Linear?+
Linear exports to CSV from its own settings, and Sahnga imports CSV — titles, descriptions, assignees, due dates and status map across, and cycles become projects or goals depending on how you worked. Marketing and ops get real seats on the other side, not a compromise.
Does Linear charge extra for SSO?+
SAML is Enterprise-only, and unlike Trello or Jira there's no add-on you can buy to get it — you negotiate an Enterprise contract, and Linear publishes no price. When SAML and SSO land, they're on every plan — Free included — at no extra cost. We will never charge you for logging in securely.
Does Linear charge for guests?+
Yes — guests bill as full seats and there is no read-only role, so a client who only needs to watch progress either costs you a full seat or gets access to internal discussion. Sahnga's viewers, commenters, guests and clients are unlimited and free forever.
Is there a Linear alternative for non-engineering teams?+
That's the gap most teams describe: Linear is superb for the engineers and awkward for marketing, ops and support, who end up as second-class users in someone else's workflow. Sahnga uses plain words — tasks, projects, goals — so the whole company works in the same place at the same price.
Bring your team over in an afternoon.
$5 a person, every feature on every plan, and a full export whenever you want it. Linear stays exportable too — you lose nothing by trying.