Linear API Review 2026

GraphQL API, MCP server, webhooks, and developer tooling for building Linear integrations and engineering workflow automations.

Linear API is Linear's official GraphQL-first developer platform for teams that want to build issue-tracking automations, internal engineering dashboards, AI-agent workflows, webhook-driven processes, and production integrations around Linear workspace data without moving engineering planning out of Linear or duplicating project state elsewhere. The public developer site at https://developers.linear.app documents a GraphQL-first API rather than a REST-first API, so developers work with schemas, queries, mutations, and typed objects for resources such as issues, projects, teams, cycles, comments, labels, users, and workflow states. Linear also documents API authentication patterns for personal API keys and OAuth 2.0, which gives teams a practical split between internal scripts owned by a workspace user and third-party apps that need user-authorized access. According to Linear's pricing information reflected in this record, API and webhook access are available on the Free plan, the Free plan includes 2 teams and 250 issues, and paid plans start with Basic at $10 per user per month when billed yearly. The Business plan is listed at $16 per user per month when billed yearly and adds business workflow features such as private teams and guests, Linear Insights, Linear Asks, Zendesk and Intercom integrations, and automation-oriented capabilities. Enterprise pricing is custom and annual, with enterprise controls such as SAML and SCIM, granular admin controls, migration and onboarding support, and priority support and account management.

For integration builders, the API is most useful when Linear is already the source of truth for product and engineering work. A platform team can query issue, project, team, and cycle data to build executive reporting, sprint health views, operational dashboards, or developer productivity tools. A DevOps team can use webhooks and GraphQL mutations to update issues when builds, deploys, incidents, or pull-request workflows change state. Support and success teams can route escalations from tools such as Zendesk, Intercom, Salesforce, Slack, email, Zapier, or Make into Linear while preserving engineering triage context. AI-agent developers can connect compatible clients to Linear through Linear's documented MCP support, including the remote MCP endpoint identified in this record as https://mcp.linear.app, and can use Linear issue and project context to search, create, update, or summarize engineering work. Linear's documentation also references real-time patterns and webhooks, which helps teams avoid brittle scheduled polling jobs when they need to react to issue, project, team, and comment events.