diff --git a/app/lib/linear_cli/cli/commands.ex b/app/lib/linear_cli/cli/commands.ex
index b593ff4..270716c 100644
--- a/app/lib/linear_cli/cli/commands.ex
+++ b/app/lib/linear_cli/cli/commands.ex
@@ -15,9 +15,20 @@ defmodule LinearCli.CLI.Commands do
     end
   end
 
-  @doc "Ported from commands/version.rb."
-  def version(_result) do
-    IO.puts(to_string(Application.spec(:linear_cli, :vsn)))
+  @doc """
+  Ported from commands/version.rb, extended to respect the global
+  `--output json` option like every other command does - previously
+  ignored it and always printed plain text.
+  """
+  def version(%{options: options}) do
+    version = to_string(Application.spec(:linear_cli, :vsn))
+
+    if options.output == "json" do
+      IO.puts(Jason.encode!(%{version: version}))
+    else
+      IO.puts(version)
+    end
+
     :ok
   end
 
diff --git a/app/test/linear_cli/cli_test.exs b/app/test/linear_cli/cli_test.exs
index ac44247..848c369 100644
--- a/app/test/linear_cli/cli_test.exs
+++ b/app/test/linear_cli/cli_test.exs
@@ -171,6 +171,12 @@ defmodule LinearCli.CLITest do
     assert capture_io(fn -> LinearCli.CLI.main(["version"]) end) =~ version
   end
 
+  test "version -o json prints valid JSON with the version field" do
+    version = to_string(Application.spec(:linear_cli, :vsn))
+    output = capture_io(fn -> LinearCli.CLI.main(["version", "-o", "json"]) end)
+    assert %{"version" => ^version} = Jason.decode!(output)
+  end
+
   test "--develop and --butwhy are rewritten to their canonical --dev/--reason spellings" do
     # Ruby's create.rb declares `--dev` with alias `--develop`, and update.rb's
     # `--reason` has alias `--butwhy` - both real, user-facing spellings.