Linear vs. monday dev

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Linear
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Linear is a purpose-built issue tracking and project management system designed for software engineering teams. It prioritizes high-performance synchronization and keyboard-driven workflows to streamline the product development lifecycle from initial triage to feature release.
$12
per month per user
monday dev
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
monday dev is a product to plan, track, and ship software while staying connected to the business, featuring AI capabilities that allow it to analyze bugs as they are submitted, summarize product documents, and automatically assign tasks.
$36
per month 3 seats (minimum)
Pricing
Linearmonday dev
Editions & Modules
Basic
$12
per month per user
Business
$18
per month per user
Enterprise
Custom
Basic
$12
per month per seat
Standard
$14.5
per month per seat
Pro
$25
per month per seat
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Linearmonday dev
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.Plans start at 3 seats. Yearly save 18%
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Features
Linearmonday dev
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Linear
-
Ratings
monday dev
8.0
10 Ratings
6% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings8.110 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings8.110 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings8.59 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings7.89 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Document Management00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
Email integration00 Ratings7.88 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings8.29 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings7.99 Ratings
Change request and Case Management00 Ratings7.89 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings7.86 Ratings
Search00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings7.810 Ratings
Agile Development
Comparison of Agile Development features of Product A and Product B
Linear
-
Ratings
monday dev
7.8
10 Ratings
1% below category average
DevOps Tool Integrations00 Ratings7.59 Ratings
Code Review00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
Code Collaboration00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
Velocity Calculation00 Ratings8.17 Ratings
Dependencies and Blockers00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
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User Ratings
Linearmonday dev
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(8 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.3
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Linearmonday dev
Likelihood to Recommend
Linear
If you are a product based company, Linear is the most powerful fine-tuned platform. Their methodology really works well. It's fast, got nice UI/UX, feels modern, ability to manage projects, love how they show comments as a thread, the integrations like Figma works really well But if you are a software service company and have multiple client projects, it is hard to manage that in Linear plus you would have to pay for guests if you are inviting client stakeholders to overlook progress.
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monday.com
I find Monday helpful for lead management. It's great because details like phone, email, and addresses are specific columns from which we can grab data and pull it into other areas. It's great to see who is assigned what and to know what the next steps are for your leads. We use a different scheduling tool with our team, as that calendar view isn't as robust.
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Pros
Linear
  • Managing the high level goals and roadmap of our product
  • Manage the tasks for dev, QA and design teams
  • Visualise the progress of the sprints and projects
  • Collaborate on tasks
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  • Managing specific objectives
  • Automation
  • Integration and interaction with GitHub
  • Scheduling and feedback effectively
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Cons
Linear
  • Linear is missing documentation features like Jira Confluence. We can use Notion but it would have been great if Linear offered more comprehensive solution
  • Eventhough we can manage releases with projects, it is hard to manage them when there are multiple projects being released at the same time. The initiatives feature kind of handles this but if we can assign tasks to a release that would be awesome
  • Being able to invite guests without costing extra money. Platforms like Clickup allow you to invite a limited no of guests without costing extra money.
  • Linear is not good if you are software services company and want to manage multiple client projects. Linear is built for product teams.
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monday.com
  • Sometimes, it's a little technical to set up. Someone who isn't particularly savvy will have a hard time setting it up.
  • Sometimes there are glitches in the automations.
  • The comments areas can be confusing- how they nest. Things can get lost in there.
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Likelihood to Renew
Linear
No answers on this topic
monday.com
We are very likely to renew, because it has been really useful
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Usability
Linear
Linear is the most UI/UX friendly, modern and well though project management tool out there. I've used ClickUp, Jira, Monday, Asana in the past.
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monday.com
I give a ten for monday dev's usability because it was a really smooth transition coming from Jira to monday dev. All team members also felt that way. When managing projects, the quality and various options I am able to customize views and columns for each task is really a dealbreaker. Approved.
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Support Rating
Linear
No answers on this topic
monday.com
Good engagement from account manager
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Implementation Rating
Linear
No answers on this topic
monday.com
No I wasn't involved
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Alternatives Considered
Linear
Even though platforms like ClickUp are pretty flexible, Linear is fast, simple, has a lot of keyboard shortcuts, better UI/UX, modern product development concepts built into it, listens to user feedback
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monday.com
It is at least as good as these tools, in many ways, it is better because it is easier to use and setup. It doesn't require a full-time admin like these tools do. It does lack some of the detailed reporting and such that these offer, but the product is still young and growing. These are much more well-developed tools
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Return on Investment
Linear
  • Linear decreased the time we take for releases of features
  • Linear has helped us work on multiple projects saving time
  • Customer support cases are handled well through Linear which improved customer satisfaction
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monday.com
  • Although the initial operational cost is usually somewhat high, it is really worth considering in an environment with more than 10 employees working together.
  • In project costing (web development) it is quite acceptable and falls within the scope of the final product quote.
  • I don't have exact numbers or percentages (because I'm not in charge of that section) but I can say that it falls within a good to acceptable ROI range.
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