Jira vs Linear

Pick Jira if you're wiring into an existing Atlassian stack or need deep sprint reporting and custom field logic—those 46 tools cover every corner of issue lifecycle, board config, and admin tasks. Pick Linear if your team ships fast and wants the AI to stay out of ceremony: 21 focused tools handle issue creation, status updates, and project queries without drowning you in workflow states or permission matrices. For most product teams starting fresh, Linear's lighter auth surface and faster query responses make it the easier first wire. Switching from Jira to Linear once you've built automation around subtask hierarchies and custom workflows costs a week of re-mapping; going the other direction is worse because you'll need to decide which 25 Jira tools you actually want exposed to the AI.