Marker.io vs Linear

From $39 per month (indicative, starter)

From $8 per user/month (Basic, billed annually)

Priced by team, with unlimited guest reporters on most plans — important if clients file bugs.

Simple, transparent per-seat pricing with no app marketplace to inflate it.

15-day trial.

Free plan for small teams with unlimited members and limited issue history.

Established

Marker.io · since 2015

Widely used

Linear · since 2019

• Automatic technical context removes the single biggest cause of wasted triage time.
• Non-technical reporters need no account in the destination tracker.
• Issues land directly in the tracker developers already use.

• Genuinely fast — the interaction latency is a feature, not marketing.
• Opinionated defaults mean it stays usable without an administrator.
• Excellent Git and Slack integration and a clean triage inbox.

• Web only — no native mobile capture.
• Requires embedding a script, which some security teams will question.
• Adds a per-month cost on top of your existing tracker.

• Deliberately inflexible; complex approval workflows and regulated processes do not fit.
• Weaker for non-engineering functions than Jira.
• No self-hosted option, which rules it out for some organisations.

Agencies and teams where non-developers report bugs regularly.

Product and engineering teams that value speed and hate configuration.