Melonhelp Tasks compared with Jira and Linear

The core of Jira and Linear, for a fraction of the price.

A team of 10 pays US$15 a month for Melonhelp Tasks and US$97 for Jira Standard, both billed monthly. Billed annually: US$12.50 a month for Tasks and US$100 for Linear Basic.

  • Free for up to 5 people
  • No card needed
  • One flat price per team
Melonhelp Tasks with the Ctrl K menu open: RUKA-7 was typed and the task Actualizar artículo de boletas exentas shows up, over the task list of the sample workspace Ruka Pagos

Screenshots of the real app, in Spanish, with the sample workspace Ruka Pagos.

What a team of 10 pays, per month

Melonhelp Tasks, Starter plan

US$15

billed monthly

US$12.50 a month billed annually

Jira Standard

US$97

billed monthly, US$9.70 per user

Tasks costs 84.5% less, monthly vs monthly

Linear Basic

US$100

billed annually, US$10 per user

Tasks costs 87.5% less, annual vs annual

Linear Business

US$160

billed annually, US$16 per user

Tasks costs 92.1% less, annual vs annual

Prices from the official pages, checked on October 17, 2026, in US dollars, before taxes. Linear only publishes annual pricing. Jira pricing, Linear pricing.

Heads up: Jira Free costs US$0 for up to 10 users, with everyone as an admin. Linear Free costs US$0 for any number of people as long as you stay under 250 issues and 2 teams.

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  • Jira Free also costs US$0 for up to 10 users, with everyone as an admin.
  • Linear Free costs US$0 for any number of people, up to 250 issues and 2 teams.
  • Jira and Linear: published prices, checked on October 17, 2026, before taxes.

10 people: Starter plan, US$15 a month

Melonhelp Tasks, Starter plan

US$15a month

up to 10 people

Jira Standard

US$97 a month

10 × US$9.70

With Tasks you pay US$82 less a month (84.5% less). US$984 less a year

Linear Basic / Linear Business

Linear only publishes annual pricing. Switch to annual billing to compare it.

The product

Work from the keyboard. Organize more than software.

Screenshots of the real app, with a sample workspace. The app is in Spanish today.

Ctrl K and you're on RUKA-7

Every task carries your workspace key and a number. Find it by number or by text and open it without leaving the keyboard.

Tap the search box and type

Tasks: 6 tasks

  • RUKA-7Actualizar artículo de boletas exentas
  • RUKA-1Cobro duplicado en terminal
  • RUKA-2Error al exportar libro de ventas
  • RUKA-4Terminal no sincroniza ventas después de actualizar a la versión 3.8
  • RUKA-5Reemplazo de terminal dañado en Talca
  • RUKA-11Reembolso parcial a Botillería La Esquina
↑↓moveEnteropenEscback

An Inbox to decide what's next

New work lands in To review, from every project. Someone decides what happens and who takes it.

Melonhelp Tasks Inbox with three tasks to review: RUKA-1, RUKA-2 and RUKA-3

Shortcuts for everything, in bulk too

J and K to move, S for status, A to assign. Press X to select several and change them at once.

Three tasks selected in Melonhelp Tasks with the bar to change status, assign, priority, due date, move to project and archive, and the keyboard shortcut bar below

Four views on every plan

List, Board, Table and Calendar on the same tasks, on the Free plan too.

Compact rows grouped by status, to review a lot at a glance.

Melonhelp Tasks List view with tasks grouped by status

Projects that go beyond software

Each type comes with its statuses ready: RPA runs from discovery to hypercare, and Support has Waiting on customer.

  • Software

    Backlog, To do, In progress, In review, QA, Done

  • RPA

    Discovery, PDD design, Development, UAT, Production, Hypercare

  • Support

    To review, In progress, Waiting on customer, Done

  • Client project

    Not started, In progress, Client review, Delivered

  • General

    To do, In progress, Done

Melonhelp Tasks project list filterable by type: a Support project, a Software project and an RPA project

GitHub, both ways

Link a project to a GitHub project and what you change on one side shows up on the other. If the branch carries the task's identifier, or the pull request says Fixes RUKA-29, the task moves on its own. On every plan, with one Melonhelp GitHub App.

Melonhelp Tasks

RUKA-29

Reintento automático al perder la red

In progress

GitHub Projects

Draft

Reintento automático al perder la red

In Progress

Synced both ways

  • Title
  • Description
  • Status
  • Date
  • Archived

And from GitHub, the assignee and labels of issues

Pull requests that move the task

Branch: ruka-29-automatic-retry

  • You open the pull requestIn progress
  • You request a reviewIn review
  • You merge itDone

Bring your work from Trello or a CSV

One or all of your Trello boards, or the CSV that Jira and Linear export. Tasks suggests which column maps to each field.

A CSV exported from Jira

CSV column Field in Tasks
Issue keyIdentifier
SummaryTitle
StatusStatus
PriorityPriority
Due dateDue date
LabelsLabels

Import the same file again and Tasks skips or updates what's already there, with no duplicates.

One account for the whole suite

Tasks uses the team from your Melonhelp account, the same one as Tickets, Feedback and Agents. Already paying for one? Tasks costs half.

  • Tickets
  • Feedback
  • Agents
  • Tasks
Your team
Tasks at half price

Your AI agents, inside Tasks

Paste the connector URL into Claude, ChatGPT or another agent, approve in your browser, and your agent reads and creates tasks. On every plan.

Connector URL

https://tasks.melonhelp.com/mcp

  1. 1Add it as a connector in your agent
  2. 2Your browser opens and you approve with your Melonhelp account
  3. 3Ask for what you need, in your own words

For example

Create a task in Terminal 3.8 to review the cash register close, high priority, for Javiera.

Remote, with OAuth: no keys to copy and nothing to install.

AI on every task

Draft a task, split it into a checklist and summarize what happened on a task or across a project. On every plan, with a monthly allowance.

  • Draft with AI
  • Split into a checklist
  • Summarize a task
  • Summarize a project

AI actions a month, per workspace

Free
50
Starter
150
Essential
500
Team
2,000
Scale
5,000

When you reach the allowance, AI pauses until next month. It's never billed separately.

And everything else, with the plan that includes it

No add-ons sold separately: each plan includes everything in the one before.

On every plan

  • In-app and email notifications
  • Recurring tasks
  • Similar tasks shown as you create one, without using the AI allowance
  • Automation, 100 runs a month on Free and 500 on Starter
  • Forms that create tasks, 1 on Free and 3 on Starter
  • Export to CSV
  • Saved views and custom fields
  • Private projects and guests
  • API with personal keys

From Essential

  • Time tracking with a timer
  • Timeline with dependencies
  • Project summary
  • SLAs with business hours and Inbox rules
  • Requests that arrive by email and Slack
  • Outgoing webhooks
  • Unlimited forms
  • Your own project types

From Team

  • Time reports by person, project and client
  • Dashboards and metrics
  • Workload per person
  • Read-only role
  • Forms with conditional logic

On Scale

  • Audit log
  • Timesheet approval
  • Hour banks per client

Coming soon: SAML single sign-on, on Scale and Enterprise, the bridge with Melonhelp Tickets and Melonhelp Feedback errors as tasks.

No fine print

Where Jira and Linear are better

So you choose well, this is what they do better.

Jira

  • A free plan for 10 users. Tasks Free covers 5.
  • Unlimited forms on its free plan. Tasks includes 1 on Free and 3 on Starter.
  • Per-project permission schemes, for large organizations.
  • A huge marketplace of apps and integrations.

Linear

  • Faster and more polished. They've worked on it for years.
  • Native apps for iOS and Android. Tasks is a web app that adapts to your phone.
  • More integrations and a bigger community.

Before you switch

  • The Tasks app is in Spanish for now. This page and the docs are also in English.
  • Coming soon: SAML single sign-on, on Scale and Enterprise, the bridge with Melonhelp Tickets and Melonhelp Feedback errors as tasks.

What you pay for there and get here

Things that need a paid plan or a per-person price on Jira or Linear.

  • There

    Roles and permissions: on Jira, from Standard. On Free everyone is an admin.

    On Tasks

    Owner, admin, member and guest on every plan.

  • There

    Guests and private teams: on Linear, from Business, at US$16 per user a month billed annually.

    On Tasks

    Project guests and private projects on every plan, Free included.

  • There

    Going past 250 issues: that's the cap on Linear Free.

    On Tasks

    No task cap on any plan.

  • There

    Every new person: US$9.70 a month on Jira Standard, and US$10 or US$16 on Linear billed annually.

    On Tasks

    US$0 up to your plan's people cap.

Tasks pricing

One flat price per team

Per workspace, not per person, in US dollars, the same in every country, before taxes.

  • Free

    Up to 5 people and 10 active projects

    The four views, GitHub, MCP and AI

    US$0 a month

  • Starter

    Up to 10 people

    Everything in Free, for 10 people

    For 10 people

    US$15 a month

    or US$150 a year (US$12.50 a month)

  • Essential

    Up to 25 people

    Adds time tracking, timeline and SLAs

    US$39 a month

    or US$390 a year (US$32.50 a month)

  • Team

    Up to 50 people

    Adds reports, dashboards and workload

    US$79 a month

    or US$790 a year (US$65.83 a month)

  • Scale

    Up to 150 people

    Adds audit log and timesheet approval

    US$229 a month

    or US$2,290 a year (US$190.83 a month)

  • Billed annually, 2 months free: you pay for 10 and use 12.
  • If your team already pays for Tickets, Feedback or Agents, Tasks costs half.
  • More than 150 people: Enterprise, custom pricing.
See the full plan comparison

FAQ

What you're probably wondering

Is it really cheaper than Jira and Linear?

Yes, on paid plans from 6 to 150 people, comparing the same kind of billing. With 10 people, Tasks costs US$15 a month and Jira Standard US$97, billed monthly; billed annually, US$12.50 a month against US$100 on Linear Basic. The saving depends on team size: against Jira Standard billed monthly it goes from 53.7% (51 people) to 84.5% (10 people), and against Linear Basic billed annually, from 62.5% (51 people) to 87.5% (10 people). Right above a plan's cap the saving drops: with 11 people you move to Essential, US$39 against US$106.70 on Jira. And there are two cases where they cost US$0: Jira Free for up to 10 users, and Linear Free for any number of people up to 250 issues.

Is it as fast as Linear?

Not quite, and Linear is better there. Tasks is keyboard driven (Ctrl K, J and K, S, P, A and X) and what someone else changes shows up without reloading, but Linear has spent years polishing its speed and design. Try it free with your team and decide with your own tasks.

Can I move from Jira or Linear?

Yes, with a CSV. Export your issues to CSV from Jira or Linear and in Tasks use Import tasks, From a CSV. Tasks recognizes columns by their name in English or Spanish and suggests which column maps to each field (title, description, status, priority, assignee, due date, labels and the original key, like SOP-12) and which status each value goes to. Up to 2,000 rows per file. The assignee is matched by email, and comments and attachments don't travel in a CSV. Import the same file again and Tasks skips or updates what's already there, with no duplicates. From Trello you can import one or all of your boards.

Can my AI agents use Tasks?

Yes. Tasks has a remote MCP connector with OAuth on every plan: add https://tasks.melonhelp.com/mcp as a connector in Claude, ChatGPT or another compatible agent, approve in your browser with your Melonhelp account, and your agent reads and creates tasks. AI actions (draft, split into a checklist and summarize the activity of a task or a project) also come on every plan with a monthly allowance: 50 on Free and 150 on Starter. Showing similar tasks as you create one does not use that allowance.

Does it connect to GitHub like Linear?

Yes, on every plan and through one Melonhelp GitHub App. The task moves on its own when the pull request's branch carries the identifier (for example, ruka-7-fix-pdf-export) or when its title or description says Fixes, Closes, Corrige or Cierra with the identifier (for example, Fixes RUKA-7 in the title): In progress when it opens, In review when review is requested if the project has that status, and Done when it merges. If the identifier appears without one of those words, the pull request is linked to the task but does not move it. Each project also syncs both ways with a GitHub project of your organization. What it does not do is sync directly with a repository's issues, as Linear does.

Is the app in English?

Not yet. The Tasks app is in Spanish today. This page, the docs and the rest of the site are also in English.

Do I need a card?

No. Create your Melonhelp account with your email or with Google and use the Free plan, free for up to 5 people and 10 active projects. You only pay if you choose a paid plan.

Who is behind Tasks?

Robotipy, a Chilean company that builds automation (RPA) and the Melonhelp suite: Tickets, Feedback, Agents and Tasks. You can write to Danilo Toro directly on X: @DaniloToroL.

Try Tasks with your team

Free for up to 5 people, no card needed. Bring your project from Trello or a CSV and compare with your own tasks.

Melonhelp Tasks vs Jira and Linear: US$15 a month for 10 people