Linear vs Wrike: which one fits your team?
This is the engineering tool against the company tool, and it is usually settled by who is paying. Engineers want the tracker, operations wants the platform, and the company ends up with both.
It turns on whether the non engineers need to see the work, and how much that visibility is worth in seats.
Pick Linear if
you ship software and you want the sharpest place there is to track issues and cycles. Where it stops: there is no calendar, so it never says when the work happens.
Pick Wrike if
you run an agency or a PMO and you need proofing on creative assets or formal resourcing. Where it stops: it is heavier than most work requires, and it plans in dates.
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Linear is about $480 a year, Wrike is about $600 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT. Between the two of them Linear is $120 a year cheaper at that size.
Linear: Free tier, then around $8 to $14 per seat per month. Wrike: Free plan. $10 Team and $25 Business per user per month.
Where they part company
Wrike does more on 6 of them
- two way calendar sync
- showing who has room
- turning meetings into tasks
- turning email and chat into tasks
- portfolio and agile reporting
- rules that fire on their own
Linear does more on 2 of them
- linking pull requests to the work
- being useful before you configure it
Side by side
| What it does | Linear | Wrike | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | No | No | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | Partly. Cycles and lists, not a day laid out against hours. | Partly | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | No | Partly | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | Core | Core | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | Yes | Yes | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | Yes | Core. Formal resource management with time tracking, which is more than we do. | Core |
| Booking links | No | No | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | No | Partly | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | Partly | Yes | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | Core. Strong native pull request linking, with status driven from branches. | Partly | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | Partly | Partly | Partly. Docs live on a project, they are not a wiki you would run a company from. |
| Portfolio or agile reporting | Yes | Core | Partly. Team workload and project progress, not portfolios that roll up to a board. |
| Rules that fire on their own | Yes | Core | Yes |
| AI that does the work, not just the scheduling | Partly | Partly | Yes. AI teammates you assign a task to. The work comes back on the task for review. |
| Useful before you configure it | Yes | No. Intake, approvals and resourcing are worth configuring and take configuring. | Core |
| A free plan | Yes | Yes | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 8: time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today, being the place the tasks actually live, dependencies and a timeline, booking links, docs and a wiki inside, AI that does the work rather than the scheduling and having a free plan.
And where UnaTask sits
UnaTask is the layer that includes everyone without asking engineering to move: it links your pull requests and welcomes the people who have never opened a repo.
It does more than both of them on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today, two way calendar sync, booking links, turning meetings into tasks, AI that does the work rather than the scheduling and being useful before you configure it.
Common questions
Linear vs Wrike: which should I pick?
Pick Linear if you ship software and you want the sharpest place there is to track issues and cycles. Pick Wrike if you run an agency or a PMO and you need proofing on creative assets or formal resourcing.
What is the biggest difference between Linear and Wrike?
The clearest gap is linking pull requests to the work, where Linear does more than Wrike. Underneath that, Linear is a system of record for software work, built around issues and cycles, and Wrike is a configurable platform several departments can shape to their own process.
Is Linear or Wrike cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Linear is about $480 a year, Wrike is about $600 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT. Between the two of them Linear is $120 a year cheaper at that size.
What do Linear and Wrike have in common?
They answer the same on 8 of our 16 axes, among them time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today and being the place the tasks actually live. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Linear and Wrike?
UnaTask does more than both on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today and two way calendar sync. It is free on your own and €10 per seat for a team, with every feature included. Where it does less: it is not an issue tracker with sprints and burndown, and it is not a documentation workspace.
Details checked June 2026 and 2 August 2026.