Atrix AI vs Linear
Linear is a fast, focused issue tracker for product and engineering teams, with cycles, projects and its own agent. Atrix AI covers the rest of the company too: chat, calendar, customers and hiring, with AI that writes the spec and a requirements audit that tracks it.
Free plan · no card · two seats included
Atrix AI
- Issues plus the rest of the company
- Specs written and tracked to done
- One monthly price, seats included
Linear
- Focused issue tracking
- Cycles and triage
- Priced per user
Compared as of September 2026
The short answer
An engineering tool, or a company workspace.
Choose Linear if…
- Your engineering team wants a dedicated issue tracker built only for them.
- You plan in cycles and need triage for incoming requests.
- You want AI triage and code intelligence inside the tracker.
- The rest of the company is well served by other tools.
Choose Atrix AI if…
- You want engineering, sales, scheduling and hiring in one workspace.
- You want AI to write requirements and track each one to done.
- You want non-engineers to work in the same place as the board.
- You want a flat monthly price with seats included.
Feature by feature
What each one does
Only capabilities we could confirm for both products are listed.
| Atrix AI | Linear | |
|---|---|---|
| Issue tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Cycles (sprints) | No | Yes |
| Project documents | Yes | Yes |
| AI agent | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server for AI assistants | Yes | Yes |
| Desktop app | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile apps | iPhone; Android in beta | iOS and Android |
| Free plan | Two seats, three projects | Unlimited members, 250 issues |
| How pricing works | Flat monthly price, seats included | Per user, per month |
Compared as of September 2026
Where Atrix AI differs
Requirements audit
Nothing agreed gets quietly forgotten
Freeze the agreed requirements as a baseline, then see which have no work against them, which are in progress, which are done and which changed or were dropped since.
- Agreed requirements frozen as a baseline
- No work, in progress or done, per requirement
- Changes and drops since the freeze, flagged
To do
Doing
Done
Messages
The whole company in the loop
Sales, operations and hiring work in the same place as engineering, so the people who asked for a feature can see where it is.
- Channels for every team
- A CRM, calendar and hiring built in
- One place to see every product
Can we ship booking by Friday? @Moeid
Yes — webhooks land Thursday.
Pricing
What it costs
Atrix AI
- Free: $0 with 2 seats, 3 projects and 5 AI runs a month.
- Builder: $39 a month for the workspace, with 3 seats and 100 AI runs.
- Studio: $149 a month for the workspace, with 10 seats and 500 AI runs.
Linear
- Free: $0, with unlimited members, two teams and 250 issues.
- Basic: $10 per user/month, billed yearly.
- Business: $16 per user/month, billed yearly.
- Enterprise: custom, annual billing only.
Compared as of September 2026. Competitor prices are in US dollars as shown on the vendor's pricing page and can vary by country, billing period and promotion. Check their site before you decide.
The workspace
Everything a small company runs on.
Built for teams running several products at once — each with its own work, documents and people, and one place to see all of it.
Getting started
Trying Atrix AI after Linear
Start with a product where the spec matters as much as the issues.
- 01
Create the project
Open a free workspace and a project for one product, and invite a teammate.
- 02
Write the spec first
Run Develop on your brief to get requirements, an architecture and a planned set of issues on the board.
- 03
Freeze the baseline
Once the requirements are agreed, freeze them and let the requirements audit show what has no work yet.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Is Atrix AI as fast as Linear for issue tracking?
Linear is built only for issue tracking and is very good at it. Atrix AI's board is simpler and sits next to chat, docs, the calendar, a CRM and hiring. Engineering-heavy teams may prefer Linear's depth.
Does Atrix AI have cycles?
No. Work in Atrix AI has assignees, due dates, a board and a list, but no cycles.
Can AI assistants work in both?
Yes. Both have an MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients can read and update work with your permission.
What does Atrix AI's requirements audit do?
It compares a frozen baseline of agreed requirements with the work: which have no work, which are in progress or done, and which changed or were dropped since. It does not scan code.
Run the whole company from one place.
Start on the free plan. Bring your team, your calendar and your code when you are ready.