# Linear MCP vs Plane (slim)

> Plane scores 67.6 (B) to Linear MCP's 53.8 (D) for issues and tasks. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Plane scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Linear MCP's 53.8 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do issues and tasks.

- Linear MCP: D 53.8, rank #698 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/linear-mcp.min.md
- Plane: B 67.6, rank #248 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/plane.min.md
- Linear MCP, good for Teams on Linear who want an agent to triage, file and update issues under the user's permissions, with a hard read-only option. Also No incidents deducted, where Plane loses 5 points for them.
- Plane, good for Teams that want an issue tracker they can also self-host, with an agent creating and updating work items, cycles, modules and pages over MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 89 against 60; Schema & documentation, 80 against 51; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 38; Maintenance & community, 80 against 57. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.

| Category | Linear MCP | Plane |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 89 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 51 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 38 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 71 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 57 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 71 | 74 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Linear MCP | Plane |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Linear | Plane Software, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.linear.app/mcp` | `https://api.plane.so` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Your plan | Freemium |
| Licence | proprietary | Plane Community Edition is AGPL-3.0, and the MCP server and the Python and Node SDKs are MIT. Plane Cloud and the Commercial Edition are proprietary under Plane's Terms of Service |
| Tools exposed | none | 30 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `app.linear/linear` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-08-13 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-06-09 | 2026-04-09 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-03-17 | 2026-04-09 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 61k stars, 2.6k npm/wk, 7.5k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |