Moxboard vs Linear: engineering tool or whole-company board?

Linear is the better choice if your team is mostly engineers who live in GitHub, run work in cycles and want an issue tracker that is fast on the keyboard. Moxboard is the better choice if the board has to hold product, ops, marketing, agency work and client feedback in one place, at one price for the whole team, with every feature included. For 8 people, Linear Basic is $80/month and Moxboard Team 10 is €25/month. They solve different problems; the overlap is the kanban view.

TL;DR

• Linear wins on speed, keyboard-first UX, cycles, roadmaps, triage, Git and Slack integrations, Insights, SLAs and an API. It is built for engineering.
• Moxboard wins for mixed teams: kanban-first, task types including Feedback, a client field, read-only guests that cost nothing, 4 languages, and one price per workspace.
• 8 people, annual billing: Linear Basic $80/month, Linear Business $128/month, Moxboard Team 10 €25/month (checked November 2026).

Moxboard vs Linear at a glance

Here are the facts side by side. Moxboard is a simple kanban board for small teams, with one price per workspace, set by team size, instead of per-user billing. Linear is an issue tracker for software teams, priced per user, with cycles, roadmaps and deep Git integration.

Prices checked November 2026. Prices change; check the official pricing page before deciding: linear.app/pricing.

[Image: Moxboard board for project MOX with 12 cards across To do / In progress / In review / Done, types Bug, Feature and Feedback as chips, a client chip on two cards, 4 assignees, In progress header "3 / 3", one stale task, light theme, landscape]

Where Linear is better

Linear is better at everything that makes an engineering team ship software. These are the points where it wins outright.

Speed and keyboard-first UX. Linear is built so that every action has a shortcut and the interface responds instantly. Engineers who work in a terminal and an editor all day feel at home. Moxboard has shortcuts (C to create, / to search, ⌘K command palette) but it is a board you click, not a tool you drive from the keyboard.

Cycles. Linear's cycles are time-boxed sprints with scope, velocity and carry-over handled automatically. Moxboard has no sprint concept. You can emulate one with a label or a due-date range, but nothing closes a cycle or rolls work forward.

Roadmaps and projects. Linear groups issues into projects with leads, targets, milestones and health, and rolls projects into roadmaps. Moxboard has projects and sections, and a Timeline view (bars from start and due dates, no roadmap roll-up).

Triage. Incoming issues from integrations, forms or Slack land in a triage queue where someone accepts, declines or merges them. Moxboard has no triage state; new tasks go straight into To do.

Git, GitHub and GitLab integrations. Linear links branches and pull requests to issues, moves issues as PRs progress, and closes them on merge. Moxboard has no Git integration. Engineers paste a link.

Slack integration. Linear syncs issues to Slack channels, creates issues from messages, and posts updates. Moxboard's Slack support is DMs from the Moxboard bot for your own notification events, on every plan, never channels.

Insights. Business adds charts over issues by status, assignee, label, cycle and more. Moxboard's Dashboard (every plan) covers throughput, time per column and open work per person, and the Reports page adds cross-project breakdowns, cumulative flow and CSV export, with fixed charts rather than custom ones.

SLAs. Business lets you set time-to-resolve targets on issues and surfaces breaches. Moxboard has stale flags (N days in a column) but no SLA.

API and webhooks. Linear has a GraphQL API and webhooks that teams build on. Moxboard's API and webhooks are coming soon.

Where Moxboard is better

Moxboard is better when the board is for the whole company, not just the engineers, and when the bill should not grow with every person who needs to see it.

Built for mixed teams. Product, operations, marketing, an agency's account team and the client's contact can all work on the same board. The vocabulary is card, column, board, not issue, cycle, triage. Nobody has to learn an engineering workflow to log a request.

Kanban-first. The board is the primary view, with WIP limits in the column header, collapsible columns, a weekly progress indicator and a done column that completes tasks with a date. The list view sorts, groups and edits inline. See the one-board method for how a small team runs everything from one board.

Task types including Feedback, plus a client field. Bug, Feature, Feedback, Improvement and Tech debt each come with a description template. Feedback is a type, not a label, so client input sits next to engineering work and is filterable. The client field is standard on every card, which matters for agencies and consultancies that run several accounts on one board.

Guests on every plan, and they cost nothing. Invite a client or a freelancer as a read-only guest to the projects you choose. They see the board, they do not count toward the price. Linear's guests are on the Business plan at $16 per user. See roles and guests.

One price for your team size. 8 people on Moxboard Team 10 pay €25/month, with every feature. The same 8 on Linear Basic pay $80. At 10 people it is €25 versus $100; at 20, €45 versus $200. See why per-seat pricing punishes small teams.

WIP limits and stale flags. Set a limit on In progress and the header shows "3 / 3" and warns when exceeded. A card that sits for more than N days is flagged and filterable. Linear has neither natively.

Notification preferences per event and channel. Each person chooses, in a grid, which events reach them by email or Slack DM (in-app gets everything). Email is grouped during bursts. Nobody is notified about their own actions.

Four languages. English, Portuguese, Spanish and French, chosen per person. Linear's interface is in English.

CSV import. Any tool that exports CSV (Linear included, as well as Jira, Notion, ClickUp, Sheets) can be imported with column mapping and a preview. A direct Linear import is coming soon.

EU hosting. Data in Ireland, encrypted in transit and at rest, row-level security, private signed attachment links.

What Moxboard does not have

Moxboard has no Git integration, no cycles and no API yet. For an engineering team, those three are usually non-negotiable.

To be exact: there is no GitHub or GitLab link, no branch or PR tracking, no auto-close on merge. There are no cycles, velocity or carry-over. There is no public API and no webhooks (both coming soon). There is no triage queue, no SLA and no roadmap view (Timeline shows dates only, without dependencies). Slack is DMs only (on every plan).

If you are an engineering team of 6 that ships from GitHub every day, Linear will fit better and the $60/month is worth it. Moxboard is the option when engineering is one slice of the team and the rest of the company needs the same board.

[Image: Moxboard task panel open on MOX-24, type Feedback, client field filled, Markdown description with checklist, comments with @mention, activity tab visible, light theme, landscape]

Price for a whole team

Moxboard is cheaper than Linear Basic at every size above the free tiers, and the gap widens as the team grows.

Monthly cost for the whole team, annual billing, checked November 2026:

Notes:

• Linear Free is capped at 250 issues and 2 teams, not at a number of users. Basic is $10 per user on annual billing ($12 monthly) with 5 teams. Business is $16 per user and adds guests, private teams, Insights and Asks.
• Moxboard includes every feature on every plan, Free included: Free up to 2 members, Team 5 €15/month, Team 10 €25/month, Team 20 €45/month, Team 50 €100/month, Team 100 €175/month; above 100 members, contact us. Yearly billing: pay 10 months, get 12.
• Moxboard prices are in EUR, VAT excluded; the same numbers apply in USD outside the euro zone. Guests do not count.

Prices change; check the official pricing page before deciding: linear.app/pricing and Moxboard pricing.

Who should pick which

Choose by who is on the board and what they do all day.

Choose Linear if:

• Most of the team writes code and works in GitHub or GitLab.
• You run sprints and want cycles, velocity and carry-over handled for you.
• You need triage, roadmaps, SLAs or Insights.
• You will build on an API or webhooks now.
• Keyboard speed is a deciding factor.

Choose Moxboard if:

• The board is for product, ops, marketing, an agency team or clients as much as for engineers.
• You want client feedback and bugs on the same board, typed and filterable.
• You bring in read-only guests and do not want to pay for them.
• You want WIP limits, stale flags and task templates without setup.
• You want one price for the whole team with every feature, EU hosting and an interface in Portuguese, Spanish or French as well as English.

The 14-day trial includes everything, no card; without a card the workspace becomes read-only, with nothing deleted, until you add one or switch to Free.

FAQ

Is Moxboard cheaper than Linear? Yes, above the free tiers. For 8 people on annual billing, Linear Basic costs $80/month and Linear Business $128/month, while Moxboard Team 10 costs €25/month for the whole workspace. Linear Free is $0 but limited to 250 issues and 2 teams. Prices checked November 2026.

Does Moxboard integrate with GitHub or GitLab? No. Moxboard has no native Git integration, no branch or pull request tracking, and no auto-close on merge. Links to commits or PRs can be pasted into a task's description or comments. An API and webhooks are coming soon.

Does Moxboard have cycles or sprints like Linear? No. Moxboard has no cycle or sprint concept, velocity or carry-over. Teams that want a time box use a label or a start and due date range on cards, plus WIP limits on the In progress column to cap work.

Can I import Linear issues into Moxboard? Yes, via CSV today. Export issues from Linear as CSV and use Moxboard's CSV import with column mapping and a preview. A direct Linear import is coming soon, without a date.

Is Linear good for non-engineering teams? Linear is built for engineering and product teams, with cycles, triage, Git integrations and an English-only interface. Marketing, ops or agency teams can use its board view, but the vocabulary and workflow assume software work. Moxboard is designed for mixed teams with types such as Feedback, a client field and read-only guests.

Do guests count toward the price on Moxboard or Linear? On Moxboard, no: guests are read-only, see only chosen projects, and are not counted on any plan. On Linear, guest accounts are a Business plan feature at $16 per user per month on annual billing, checked November 2026.

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