Linear API
Linear exposes a self-serve GraphQL API with OAuth 2.0, API keys, signed webhooks, and a TypeScript SDK on a free tier. Onboarding needs no sales gate. The main gap is a thin public versioning and deprecation policy.
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Linear scores A on the API Report Card. Linear exposes a self-serve GraphQL API with OAuth 2.0, API keys, signed webhooks, and a TypeScript SDK on a free tier. Onboarding needs no sales gate. The main gap is a thin public versioning and deprecation policy.
Linear has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Linear is a B2B system for product development that combines issue tracking, sprint and cycle planning, project and initiative roadmapping, and team workflows for software organizations.
Linear sells into software development and product engineering, serving startups, scale-ups, and technology teams that need fast issue tracking and planning. Teams use the API to create and update issues, sync status between Linear and source control or CI systems, automate triage and routing, mirror issues and projects into data warehouses, and build agents and integrations against the GraphQL schema.
Trusted by more than 40,000 companies, Linear is a widely adopted product development tool concentrated among startups and technology teams.
The system of record holds issues, comments, projects, initiatives, cycles, labels, documents, and attachments, which together form the operating record of a team's engineering and product work.
Linear is a modern, API-first platform organized around a canonical GraphQL schema with introspection enabled and official TypeScript and Agent SDKs.
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Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.