Productlane Review
Support inbox, AI agent and help center tied to Linear, for software companies.
- From:
- $35/agent/mo
- HQ:
- Munich, DE
Productlane is a help desk for software companies, built around Linear and GitHub rather than around an order. Its AI agent answers from your help center and your code repository, files bugs in Linear, and writes back to the customer when the fix ships. That makes it a sharp tool for a SaaS support team and the wrong shape for most DTC shops: there is no native Shopify integration, and phone and social channels are not on the channel list.
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What it does
- One inbox for email, live chat, Slack and Microsoft Teams, with an embeddable widget (pricing)
- Productlane Agent replies first on the channels you deploy it to, and closes the thread itself when it is confident the problem is solved
- The agent answers from your help center and your connected GitHub repo, and maps your product's screens into agent-only articles that customers never see
- Bug reports go to Linear as issues; customers see todo, in progress and done in the chat, and get a reply when the fix ships
- Engineers can reply to customers from inside a Linear issue, and the reply goes back out on the customer's original channel
- Help center drafts itself from merged commits, closed Linear issues and resolved threads; a human approves every change before it publishes
- Feedback board, customer support portal and a changelog generated from Linear and GitHub
- Integrations listed: Linear, Zapier, Raycast, API, MCP, Attio, HubSpot; importers for Zendesk, Intercom and CSV
- Missing: phone, SMS, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook are not on the pricing page's channel list, and Shopify is not among the listed integrations
Pricing at a glance
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed annually | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $35 | $29 | 25 AI resolutions included, then $0.79/resolution. |
| Pro | $79 | $59 | 50 AI resolutions included, then $0.79/resolution. |
| Scale | $129 | $99 | 100 AI resolutions included, then $0.79/resolution. |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | – | Custom pricing tailored to your team. |
Prices are an agent a month, in US dollars. Source: productlane.com/pricing, checked .
- Seats plus an AI meter: priced per user per month, with AI resolutions metered on top
- Starter $35 per user per month billed monthly, or $29 billed annually
- Pro $79 per user per month billed monthly, or $59 billed annually
- Scale $129 per user per month billed monthly, or $99 billed annually
- Enterprise: contact sales, with volume AI rates billed on your contract
- All prices are in US dollars
- Starter is email plus live chat. Shared Slack inbox, reporting, macros, custom views and custom connectors start at Pro
- SLA policies, multi-language, the customer support portal and multiple portals start at Scale, so a team that needs SLAs pays the top published seat price
- Trial: Pro's button reads "Start free trial", Starter and Scale read "Get started", and the header button reads "Start trial"; no trial length is published. The page's meta description says "Start free", but no free plan is listed
- The comparison grid's per-plan checkmarks render as icons we could not read, so we cannot say which plan gets free viewers, branding removal, a custom domain or the Zendesk importer
AI pricing
- $0.79 per AI resolution past your allowance, the same rate on Starter, Pro and Scale
- Included each month: 25 resolutions on Starter, 50 on Pro, 100 on Scale. The page does not say whether that allowance is per workspace or per seat, even though the price beside it is per user
- If it is per workspace, a Pro team resolving 400 conversations a month with AI pays 350 × $0.79 = $276.50 on top of seats
- A separate pool of AI credits, $5, $10 or $20 a month by plan, covers Copilot, docs generation, changelog generation and translations. Past the pool it bills at "token cost plus a small margin", capped at an overage limit you set, per the July 2026 changelog. The margin is not published
- Not published: what counts as a resolution. The agent stays silent when all it could send is an acknowledgement, but help-center AI chat threads are marked done by default, and Productlane does not say whether those are billed. Get the definition in writing before you switch the agent on
- What it can do: with a custom connector, look up a customer's subscription, run a refund or update a CRM record, with a confirmation step; you can make any write action always wait for a human
- What it can't do: read account or order data on Starter, which has no custom connectors, or on any plan until someone builds a connector against your own API or MCP server
Before you commit
- Order data is not built in. Shopify shows up only as an example data source for custom connectors, so someone on your side has to build and maintain that endpoint
- Microsoft Teams: the August 2026 changelog says it is available on Scale, while the homepage lists Teams beside email, Slack and live chat with no plan gate. We recorded the conflict; ask which plan you need
- The only SSO on the pricing page is "SSO (JWT)", listed beside the private portal at Scale. SAML for your own agents does not appear on any plan, Enterprise included
- GDPR, a public DPA, and a security review at Enterprise are listed. We found no SOC 2, HIPAA or data-residency statement on the pages we read
- Attio, multiple portals and advanced reporting were described as early access in the July 2026 changelog but appear as plan features on the pricing page. Check they are generally available before you buy for them
- Every engineer who replies to customers from Linear needs a paid seat
- The agent closes threads it thinks it solved. Plan to audit the Done view for the first few weeks, because a wrong close never shows up in your queue
- White-glove migration is listed only at Enterprise; below that the Zendesk, Intercom and CSV importers are self-serve
Who should buy it, and who should skip it
Who should buy
- Software companies whose engineering runs on Linear and whose tickets are mostly how-to questions and bug reports
- Teams supporting customers in shared Slack or Teams channels
- Small support teams that want help-center articles drafted from merged PRs instead of written from scratch
Who should skip it
- Shopify and DTC brands where most tickets are about an order
- Anyone who needs phone, SMS, WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook DMs
- Teams not on Linear, since closing the loop depends on it
- Teams that need SLA policies or multi-language on a Starter or Pro budget
- Anyone who needs SAML for agents on paper
How we checked this
Plan names, prices, allowances and plan gates were read from Productlane's pricing page on 2026-10-07. Both the monthly and the billed-annually seat prices were verified against the rendered pricing page by our pricing monitor, last on 2026-10-09. Product and AI behaviour come from the homepage and the changelog, both read on 2026-10-07; the changelog's Microsoft Teams entry (25 August 2026, Scale plan) and its AI-credit overage terms (27 July 2026) were checked again on 2026-10-12. We did not check the status page, imprint or documentation, so uptime history, the founding year and the registered address are unverified; "Designed in Munich" in the site footer is the only location statement we read. Where Productlane's own pages disagreed, on Microsoft Teams plan access and on features marked early access, we recorded the conflict. No review-site text was used.
What’s new in Productlane
The latest from Productlane’s own changelog, linked to each post.
- Oct 15, 2026
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- Oct 09, 2026
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- Sep 28, 2026
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- Sep 14, 2026
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- Sep 03, 2026
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- Aug 25, 2026
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