Harvestr charges per editor, and then again for the AI

Harvestr does something in its pricing that almost nobody else in this category does, and it does it quietly. Contributors are unlimited on every plan. The people who send feedback, add a comment or sit in the workspace reading are not on the invoice at all.

What is on the invoice is the editor, at seventy nine dollars a month each, and a monthly allowance of AI categorisations and AI questions that is different on each plan. Everything below was read on their own pricing page on 16 September 2026.

Every Harvestr alternative we could open, with its price

Every tool here that publishes a figure, beside the unit it bills on, because two products at eighty dollars can produce very different invoices once the team grows.

What does Harvestr cost?

Two published plans and a third that is quoted.

Every plan on that page, what steps between them and what the trial asks for, is worked through on the Harvestr pricing page.

Contributors are unlimited on all three. The trial is fourteen days.

Elite is where SAML single sign on, the Salesforce integration, automations, custom dashboards and contributor roles sit, so a company that needs SSO is in a quoted contract rather than on a published number.

What does a Harvestr team actually pay?

The editor count is the whole arithmetic, and the editor is anybody on your side who does more than read.

That is not a criticism of the number. Harvestr is sold to a product organisation that already has three or six people whose job this is, and seventy nine dollars a head is an ordinary price for software that group uses daily. It is the wrong shape for a team of two who want a board.

Why do people look for a Harvestr alternative?

The floor is seventy nine dollars for one person. There is no free plan and no cheap tier. The smallest possible Harvestr is one editor at seventy nine dollars a month, which is more than most of the table above charges for a whole team.

The AI allowance is a second meter. Two hundred and fifty categorisations a month is generous until the inbox is busy, and the plan you move to for more of them is also the plan that costs twenty dollars more per editor.

Single sign on is a sales call. If your security review requires SAML, the published prices stop being the prices.

It is an analysis tool, not a public board. Harvestr's centre of gravity is the feedback hub and what you learn from it. If what you wanted was a page your customers land on and vote, that is a smaller job than the one this product is built for.

How does Harvestr use revenue, and how does this?

Harvestr publishes revenue data as one of its product pillars, for building around acquisition, retention and expansion. That is real and it is one of the reasons the price is what it is.

The difference is where the revenue lands. In Harvestr it is context you read while deciding. Here it is arithmetic done for you: each customer tier carries a multiplier, the weight is stamped onto the vote at the moment it is cast rather than recalculated later, and the plain vote count stays beside the weighted total so the ranking can be checked by anybody who doubts it. Revenue arrives from Stripe, Paddle or a CSV.

One gives a product manager a richer picture to think with. The other sorts the list before anybody opens it. Which of those you want depends entirely on whether there is a product manager.

Is there a free Harvestr alternative?

Harvestr has no free plan, so anybody arriving here on that search is asking a real question.

UserJot is free forever with two boards and unlimited users. Quackback's free plan carries one board and fifty posts. Fider is open source and free with everything on if you host it yourself. ProdCamp's free plan has two admins and unlimited feedback records. Productroad is free until fifty people have left feedback.

There is no free plan on this product either. The trial is fourteen days, it asks for a card at signup, and the bill after it is nine dollars a month for one project or thirty nine for unlimited ones, with nothing metered on either.

Which should you choose?

Harvestr, if a product team of three or more spends its day in this tool. Unlimited contributors is the right call, the AI categorisation genuinely saves reading, and per editor is the honest way to charge a team that size.

Harvestr Scale, if the AI allowance is the thing you keep hitting. Twenty dollars more per editor doubles the categorisations and more than doubles the questions.

This product, if the job is a public board and a ranked list of what to build. Nine dollars a month, nobody on your side metered, and the money behind each vote written onto the vote.