Five tools put a public roadmap on a free plan: Fider, UserJot, Canny, Featurebase and Supahub. The cheapest paid plan with one is VoteFirst's Lite at $9 a month, then Sleekplan's Starter at $13 billed yearly. Seven tools say on their own pages that a visitor can vote without making an account on at least one plan, VoteFirst is the only one where that is the default, and three say a declined request can stay on the public board.
Each tool below was read on 3 October 2026 from its own pricing page and help centre. Twelve of them run a public board for their own product, VoteFirst's makers run one for their reading app, and each of those boards was opened the same day.
What does each public roadmap tool cost, and what can a visitor do on it?
| Tool | Cheapest plan with a public roadmap | Billed per | Vote without an account | Declined stays visible | Voters emailed on ship | Custom domain from |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fider | Free, to 250 items, then $25/mo | workspace, or your own server | No, registration required | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| UserJot | Free | workspace | No on Free, yes from $29/mo | Not published | Yes | $29/mo |
| Canny | Free, 25 tracked users | tracked user | No, sign in required unless SSO is set up | Not published | Yes, with an opt out | Pro, $79/mo billed yearly |
| Featurebase | Free, 1 seat, 1 board and 1 roadmap | seat | A setting, off by default | Not published | Yes, with one exception | Growth, $29/seat/mo billed yearly |
| Supahub | Free, 1 board, 1 roadmap and 1 admin | workspace, then admins and boards | No on Free, yes from Starter | Not published | Yes | Growth, $40/mo billed yearly |
| VoteFirst | Lite, $9/mo, $7.50/mo billed yearly | plan, one project on Lite | Yes, an anonymous cookie | Yes, on by default | Yes, voters who signed in | Pro, $39/mo |
| Sleekplan | Starter, $13/mo billed yearly | workspace | A setting; asks an email by default | Yes | Yes | Business, $38/mo billed yearly |
| Upvoty | Power, $15/mo, $13.50/mo billed yearly | project | Not published | Not published | Yes | Power, $15/mo |
| FeedBear | Lite, $19/mo, $15/mo billed yearly | project, then team members and boards | Not published | Not published | Yes | Business, $40/mo billed yearly |
| ProductLift | Starter, $29/mo, $19/mo billed yearly | workspace, 2 admins included | Every plan, says its marketing page | A setting, per tab | Yes | Starter |
| Productboard | Essentials, $25/maker/mo, $19 billed yearly | maker | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Frill | Startup, $25/mo | workspace, 50 active ideas | A setting; Guest mode asks name and email | Not published | Yes | Startup |
| Nolt | Essential, $29/mo billed yearly | board, 1 on Essential | Not read | Not read | Not read | Not published |
| Rapidr | Startup, $49/mo | workspace, 5 team members | Not published | Not published | Yes | Startup |
"Not published" means the vendor's pages opened that day do not state the fact, which is different from the tool lacking it. Nolt's pricing page was read in a browser after it refused a script, and its help pages were not read.
The ladder below gives each tool's lowest published monthly figure with yearly billing counted, its free plan and its trial.
| Vendor | From | Billed per | Free plan | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoteFirst | $7.50/mo | plan | – | 14 days, card |
| Sleekplan | $13/mo | workspace | 1 admin | 30 days, no card |
| Upvoty | $13.50/mo | project | – | 14 days |
| FeedBear | $15/mo | project | – | 14 days |
| Supahub | $15/mo | workspace | 1 board | 10 days |
| ProductLift | $19/mo | workspace | – | 14 days |
| Productboard | $19/maker/mo | maker | 500 notes | – |
| Frill | $22/mo | workspace | – | 14 days |
| Fider | $25/mo | workspace | 250 items | – |
| Featurebase | $29/seat/mo | seat | 1 seat | – |
| Nolt | $29/mo | board | – | – |
| UserJot | $29/mo | workspace | 2 boards | 14 days |
| Rapidr | $49/mo | workspace | – | 14 days |
| Canny | $79/mo | tracked user | 25 users | – |
What does a public roadmap have to do?
It has to take a vote from a stranger, since a customer who arrives from a help article has no account yet. Five tools allow an anonymous vote on their own word, two more allow it only on a paid plan, and Fider and Canny ask for an account.
It has to keep its no answers in public. When a declined request disappears, the people who voted for it never learn why, and the next visitor asks again. VoteFirst shows a Denied column by default, ProductLift lets each tab be public or private, and Sleekplan's own blog states that a declined request stays up with its votes.
It has to tell voters when their request ships. Eleven of the fourteen confirm an automatic email on their own pages. The other three are Fider and Productboard, whose pages do not say, and Nolt, whose help pages were not read.
It has to cost the same when more people turn up. Canny counts every person who posts, votes or comments, so a busier board means a bigger bill, and the tracked user calculator shows what that comes to at a given size. The other thirteen bill by plan, project, workspace, board, seat or maker.
Fourteen tools, cheapest first
Fider
Fider suits a small board, or a team that will run its own server. The hosted free tier holds 250 feedback items before the $25 plan, and self hosting under the AGPL costs nothing but the machine.
Its weakness is the account. Fider's own homepage tells visitors to register before they vote. Fider's own feedback board is public and answered on the day.
UserJot
UserJot's free plan includes the public roadmap, the changelog and the feedback board, with no cap on posts or users. The $29 plan adds guest posting, a custom domain and private boards.
Its weakness is the free tier's sign in wall. A visitor to a free board has to make an account to post or vote, so letting a stranger vote costs $29 a month. UserJot's own feedback board is public.
Canny
Canny's free plan carries 25 tracked users and a public roadmap. Past that, Pro is $79 a month billed yearly for 100 tracked users, and a tracked user is anybody who has posted, voted or commented.
Canny's help centre says a visitor signs in with Google, GitHub or an email and password to leave feedback, unless the company has set up Canny's single sign on. Canny's own feedback site runs three public boards holding 2,559, 253 and 42 posts. Of the 796 most voted posts across them on 3 October, 69 per cent were still open and 26 per cent completed.
Featurebase
Featurebase's free plan includes one seat, one feedback board and one roadmap. Growth, at $29 a seat a month billed yearly, adds a custom domain and revenue data sync. Its help centre names three guest switches that let a visitor post, vote and comment with no sign in, and on 3 October 2026 guest voting was on in 1,134 of 1,218 live workspaces and guest posting in 113. Customers are emailed on a status change, except when a ticket is closed without being resolved.
Its weakness is the seat meter. Every teammate who manages the board adds $29 a month billed yearly. On Featurebase's own feedback board, of the 2,100 most voted posts on 3 October, 537 were completed and 23 canceled.
Supahub
Supahub's free plan includes one board, one roadmap and one admin, with no cap on posts or end users. Starter, at $19 a month or $15 billed yearly, adds guest posting, commenting and voting, two more boards and roadmap privacy.
Its weakness is the custom domain, which needs Growth at $40 a month billed yearly. Supahub's own roadmap is public.
VoteFirst
Lite is $9 a month, or $7.50 billed yearly, for one project with the public roadmap, the changelog and revenue weighted voting. Each voter sits on a tier, and the tier multiplies their vote by a whole number. A visitor votes through an anonymous cookie with no sign up. The Denied column is visible by default, and a voter who signed in is emailed when a request they voted for ships in a release. An anonymous voter left no address, so is not. Pro is $39 a month for unlimited projects, the team, the API and a custom domain.
The board in use is justRead's, a reading app made by the same people. justRead's public roadmap held 131 cards on 3 October 2026, 14 of them in the Denied column.
Its weakness is the entry. There is no free plan, and the 14 day trial asks for a card at signup. The rest of what it lacks follows the list.
Sleekplan
Sleekplan's Starter plan is $13 a month billed yearly for a workspace with three seats and unlimited tracked users. Its own documentation names anonymous voting and posting as a feature, and its own blog says a declined request stays up with its votes.
Its weakness is where the roadmap starts. The free Indie plan has the feedback board and the changelog but no roadmap, and a custom domain waits for Business at $38 a month billed yearly. Sleekplan's own roadmap is linked from its homepage.
Upvoty
Upvoty's Power plan is $15 a month, or $13.50 billed yearly, for one project with unlimited boards and tracked users, the public roadmap and a custom domain. Its features page says voters are notified when a request ships.
Its weakness is everything past the first plan. The changelog arrives with Super at $25 and the API with Hyper at $49 (read 2 October 2026). Upvoty's site links a demo board rather than one for its own product, and roadmap.upvoty.com redirects to the homepage.
FeedBear
FeedBear's Lite plan is $19 a month, or $15 billed yearly, for one project with a limited number of team members and boards. Its help centre says a visitor who creates an idea or votes for one is emailed when its status changes.
Its weakness is the same custom domain gate as Supahub's, Business at $40 a month billed yearly, and its pages do not say whether a visitor can vote without an account. FeedBear's own roadmap is public.
ProductLift
ProductLift's Starter plan is $29 a month, or $19 billed yearly, for a workspace with two admins. Its own pages describe anonymous voting on every plan, an automatic email to voters when a feature ships, and a Stripe connection that sorts requests by the revenue behind them. Its pricing FAQ says each roadmap tab, the declined one included, can be set public or private.
Its weakness is the admin fee. Every admin past the two included costs $15 a month more. ProductLift's own roadmap is public.
Productboard
Productboard's customer portal starts on Essentials at $25 a maker a month, or $19 billed yearly. A maker is a person building the roadmap.
Its weakness, for this search, is that the portal is the second product. Productboard is built for the team planning, and the pages read on the day state nothing about anonymous votes, declined requests or emails to voters. Productboard's own portal is linked from its site and loads in a browser.
Frill
Frill's Startup plan is $25 a month for a workspace. Its pricing table checks both Guest Authentication and Anonymous Authentication on every plan, and a custom domain comes with the cheapest one.
Its weakness is the cap. Startup holds 50 active ideas, a working board reaches that quickly, and lifting it means Business at $49. Frill's own feedback board is public.
Nolt
Nolt's Essential plan is $29 a month billed yearly, $348 a year, for one board with unlimited users and admins, a roadmap, private boards and JWT single sign on. Pro, at $69 billed yearly, adds five boards and Nolt's data export APIs.
Nolt's own roadmap listed weighted voting under Planned on 3 October 2026, with 552 votes. Until it ships, every vote on a Nolt board counts the same, from the largest account to the newest visitor.
Rapidr
Rapidr's Startup plan is $49 a month for a workspace with five team members and a custom domain. Its own app tells an admin that every voter is notified when a status changes.
Its weakness is the price. Every other paid tool in this list starts at least $20 a month below it. Rapidr's own feedback board is public.
Where does VoteFirst lose?
There is no free plan, while five of the other thirteen carry a public roadmap on one. The trial asks for a card at signup. No board is private: a board is open to everybody or published to nobody. A custom domain needs Pro at $39, where Upvoty, ProductLift and Frill include one on their cheapest plan. There is no Slack, Zapier, outgoing webhook or SAML, which rules VoteFirst out for a team that runs its feedback through those.
Which tool fits which situation?
Free to start. UserJot, whose free plan caps neither posts nor users. Featurebase, Supahub and Canny also start free, with one board on Featurebase and Supahub and 25 tracked users on Canny.
Self hosted. Fider, open source under the AGPL, the only tool here that runs on a server the buyer controls.
The cheapest paid public roadmap. VoteFirst's Lite at $9 a month, then Sleekplan's Starter at $13 billed yearly.
Votes with no account. VoteFirst at $9, where it is the default, or Sleekplan at $13 billed yearly and Frill at $25, where it is a setting. Which of 22 tools allow it, and how.
A roadmap weighted by what customers pay. VoteFirst multiplies each vote by its tier on every plan. ProductLift sorts requests by revenue from Stripe, and Featurebase syncs revenue data from Growth up.
Declined requests shown in public. VoteFirst, where the Denied column is on by default, or Sleekplan, which states the same policy.
Many projects on one bill. VoteFirst's Pro at $39 a month covers unlimited projects. Upvoty's Hyper covers them at $49.
A planning tool with a portal attached. Productboard, if the team already plans there. Product roadmap software covers the planning tools a customer never sees.
Which tools were left out, and why
Feature Upvote. Its pages answered 403 to a plain request on 3 October 2026, as on 14 September, and no reading of its pages on either date has shown a public roadmap.
Astuto, LogChimp and smaller open source boards. Fider covers the self hosted case, and a second example would change no answer in the table.
How was this list read?
Every cell comes from the vendor's own pricing page, help article, documentation or product on 3 October 2026. Pages that draw their tables in script, or refuse a script, were read in a browser. Post counts come from the public lists each vendor's own board serves to any visitor. More on how VoteFirst's own roadmap works is on the public roadmap page.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.