A typical public feedback board holds 54 requests and 163 votes, measured across 634 public Canny and Featurebase boards on 3 October 2026. At that size, Fider, Featurebase, Supahub and UserJot still cost nothing, and VoteFirst is the cheapest paid tool at $9 a month. Thirteen tools below, each read on its own pricing page and help centre the same day.
The thirteen tools, what they bill on and what the free plan stops at
| 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 |
| Supahub | $15/mo | workspace | 1 board | 10 days |
| ProductLift | $19/mo | workspace | – | 14 days |
| 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 |
| Feature Upvote | $49/board/mo | board | – | 30 days |
| Rapidr | $49/mo | workspace | – | 14 days |
| Canny | $79/mo | tracked user | 25 users | – |
Nine of the thirteen charge a price per project, workspace or board that does not move with how many people vote: VoteFirst, Sleekplan, Supahub, Nolt, Frill, Upvoty, Rapidr, ProductLift and Feature Upvote. Featurebase bills per seat, which moves with how many teammates manage the board, not with how many people vote on it. Only Canny meters the audience itself, by tracked user, anybody with a post, a vote or a comment attributed to them, and its price steps have a page of their own.
Six of the thirteen have a free plan. Sleekplan's is the one with no roadmap, so its price below is Starter, the first plan that has one. Free feedback tools outside these thirteen are compared separately. Fider's hosted free plan is capped at 250 feedback items rather than people, so a board with a handful of popular requests and thousands of votes on them can sit under that line for a long time; self hosted, there is no limit of any kind beyond the server it runs on. Featurebase's free plan stops at one seat. UserJot's free plan stops at two boards, with no cap on how many people use them. Canny's stops at 25 tracked users, counted the way its own help centre defines the word, which includes an admin's own posts and votes.
What it costs at a typical board's size
Each column is a real board size: the 25th, median, 75th and 90th percentile of 634 public Canny and Featurebase boards with 10 or more requests, read on 3 October 2026. Each price is the cheapest plan with a public roadmap, billed monthly unless the cell says otherwise. A further 68 boards of the 702 with 10 or more requests held more requests than the reader takes whole, 500 per Canny board and 1,000 per Featurebase host, so they are larger still and sit outside every column below.
| Tool | 25th percentile board (24 requests, 52 votes) | Median board (54 requests, 163 votes) | 75th percentile board (132 requests, 638 votes) | 90th percentile board (275 requests, 1,739 votes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fider, hosted | $0 | $0 | $0 | $25, past the 250 item line, or $0 self hosted |
| Featurebase | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| UserJot | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Supahub | $0, one board, no guest voting | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Canny | bills on tracked users, which none of these columns measure; free to 25 | bills on tracked users | bills on tracked users | bills on tracked users |
| VoteFirst | $9 | $9 | $9 | $9 |
| Sleekplan | $13, billed yearly | $13 | $13 | $13 |
| Upvoty | $13.50, billed yearly | $13.50 | $13.50 | $13.50 |
| ProductLift | $19, billed yearly | $19 | $19 | $19 |
| Frill | $25, a workspace price capped at 50 active ideas | $25 | $25 | $25 |
| Nolt | $29, billed yearly | $29 | $29 | $29 |
| Rapidr | $49 | $49 | $49 | $49 |
| Feature Upvote | $49 a board, billed yearly, no free plan | $49 a board | $49 a board | $49 a board |
Fider's hosted plan holds at $0 for as long as a board stays under 250 feedback items. The 90th percentile board, at 275 requests, sits past that line: 74 of the 634 complete boards measured hold more requests than 250, and a further 68 boards were too large for the reader to take whole, so they are larger still. Counted by host instead of by board, with every board a company runs on one address added together, 534 of 648 hosts with a public board held 250 public requests or fewer, 82 percent. Past 250, Fider is $25 a month regardless of how many people voted. Frill's $25 plan is the one paid plan here with a cap of its own, 50 active ideas, a limit on the size of the board rather than on who votes on it.
Canny's meter does not appear in this table because none of these four columns count tracked users. The one board measured here with an actual count of distinct people, rather than a vote total, is justRead's public roadmap, which runs on VoteFirst and is made by VoteFirst's makers: 252 distinct voters on 16 September 2026, past Canny's own free line of 25. Canny's own pricing page, read again on 3 October 2026, confirms the unit, tracked user, and the two published steps either side of 252: Free to 25 and Pro at $79 a month from 100, with no static figure on the page for the step in between. Votes and tracked users are not the same count either way, so this is one board's number against Canny's two published steps, not a conversion of the votes in the table above.
What each free plan stops at
| Tool | The free plan stops at | What happens past it |
|---|---|---|
| Fider | 250 feedback items hosted, or nothing at all self hosted | $25/mo hosted; self hosted stays unlimited |
| Featurebase | 1 seat, 1 feedback board, 1 roadmap | Growth, $29/seat/mo billed yearly |
| UserJot | 2 boards, unlimited users | Starter, $29/mo, 5 boards and a custom domain |
| Canny | 25 tracked users | Pro, $79/mo billed yearly, 100 tracked users |
| Sleekplan | one admin, no roadmap | Starter, $13/mo billed yearly, adds the roadmap |
| Supahub | one board, one roadmap, one admin, no guest voting | Starter, $15/mo billed yearly, 3 boards and guest voting |
What happens to the board when a subscription lapses
Twelve of the thirteen vendors' pricing pages, read on 3 October 2026, do not state what happens to the board, its requests or its votes once a subscription lapses.
VoteFirst's own answer is on its indie hacker page: the board does not vanish the day a card fails. The plan moves to expired, the branding badge returns, and the account is kept for a year if it ever paid, or thirty days if it never did, with two warning emails before anything is deleted. Reactivating before then loses nothing.
Thirteen tools, cheapest first
Fider
Fider suits a founder willing to run a server, or one happy on the hosted free plan while the board stays under 250 feedback items. Fider's own feedback board is public, confirmed on 3 October 2026, though its post and vote counts were not read.
Its weakest point is the account wall: a visitor has to register before voting, hosted or self hosted.
Featurebase
Featurebase's free plan holds one seat, one feedback board and one roadmap, and a visitor can post, vote and comment with no sign in through its own "guest actions". Featurebase's own feedback board held 2,100 of its most voted posts on 3 October 2026, 537 of them completed and 23 canceled.
Its weakest point is the seat meter: a second teammate who manages the board costs $29 a month more.
UserJot
UserJot's free plan holds two boards with no cap on how many people use them, though a stranger needs an account to vote until the $29 Starter plan turns on guest posting. UserJot's own feedback board is public.
Its weakest point is that sign in wall on the free tier itself.
Supahub
Supahub's free plan is one board, one roadmap and one admin, with unlimited end users but no guest voting; Starter at $15 a month billed yearly turns guest posting, commenting and voting on. Supahub's own roadmap is public.
Its weakest point is the custom domain, gated behind Growth at $40 a month billed yearly.
Canny
Canny's free plan holds 25 tracked users, counted the moment someone posts, votes or comments, including an admin's own activity. 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 2026, 69 percent were still open and 26 percent completed.
Its weakest point is that the meter counts more than voters: an admin voting on a customer's behalf, or a support tool logging a mention, adds to the same number a voter would.
VoteFirst
VoteFirst's Lite plan is $9 a month for one project, with weighted voting included rather than sold as an upgrade, and a 14 day trial that asks for a card at signup. justRead's public roadmap, run by VoteFirst's makers, held 131 cards on 3 October 2026, 14 of them Denied, and 252 distinct voters on 16 September 2026, the only board measured here with an actual voter count rather than a vote total.
Its weakest point is the entry: no free plan, and the trial asks for a card before anything else.
Sleekplan
Sleekplan's free Indie plan is a single admin workspace with no roadmap; the cheapest plan with a public roadmap is Starter at $13 a month billed yearly. Sleekplan's own roadmap is linked from its homepage, and its own blog states a declined request stays up with its votes.
Its weakest point is the free plan's missing roadmap, which pushes a founder who wants one straight to a paid plan.
Upvoty
Upvoty's Power plan is $15 a month, or $13.50 billed yearly, for one project with unlimited boards and tracked users. Its features page states voters are notified when a request ships.
Its weakest point is that there is no board of its own to check any of this against: roadmap.upvoty.com redirects to the homepage, and the only board linked from Upvoty's own pricing page is a demo for Apple's shortcuts, not its own product.
ProductLift
ProductLift's Starter plan is $19 a month billed yearly for a workspace with two admins, anonymous voting on every plan according to its marketing page, and each roadmap tab, the declined one included, settable to public or private. ProductLift's own roadmap is public.
Its weakest point is the admin fee: every admin past the two included costs $15 a month more.
Frill
Frill's Startup plan is $25 a month for a workspace, with both guest and anonymous voting checked on every plan. Frill's own feedback board is public.
Its weakest point is the cap: 50 active ideas on Startup, and lifting it means Business at $49.
Nolt
Nolt's Essential plan is $29 a month billed yearly for one board with unlimited users and admins. Nolt's own roadmap listed weighted voting under Planned on 3 October 2026, with 552 votes.
Its weakest point is that weighted voting itself: until it ships, every vote on a Nolt board counts the same, from the newest visitor to the largest account.
Rapidr
Rapidr's Startup plan is $49 a month for a workspace with five team members. Rapidr's own feedback board is public.
Its weakest point is the price: $49 a month, with no yearly discount on its pricing page, matches Feature Upvote's yearly rate as the dearest entry plan here and sits $20 above Nolt's.
Feature Upvote
Feature Upvote bills by board rather than by person: $49 a month billed yearly on Indie and $99 on Standard, or $59 and $119 month to month, with unlimited contributors and team members either way, read in a browser on 3 October 2026 after its pages answered 403 to a plain request, as they did on 14 September. There is no free plan, only a 30 day trial.
Its weakest point is the entry: no free plan, and $49 a month billed yearly for a single board. Its own public board was not read.
Where does VoteFirst lose?
There is no free plan, and the trial asks for a card at signup. Lite covers one project; a second needs Pro at $39. A custom domain needs Pro too. There is no Slack, Zapier or outgoing webhook, no SAML, and no Android SDK, only a Swift package for iOS and macOS.
Which tool fits which founder
No paying customers yet, and no server to run. Featurebase or UserJot, both free with no cap on voters.
A small board on your own machine. Fider, self hosted, with no limit beyond the server itself.
A handful of customers, and the price must never move. VoteFirst at $9, the cheapest paid plan on this page.
Votes weighted by what each customer pays, on the cheapest plan that has them. VoteFirst, where the weighting is included on Lite rather than sold as an upgrade.
Visitors who will not make an account. Featurebase, whose free plan takes posts, votes and comments with no sign in once its guest switches are on.
Integrations and single sign on from the first plan. Feature Upvote, whose $49 Indie plan lists Slack, Jira, Zapier and SAML single sign on.
How was this read
Every price, cap and board count above was read from the vendor's own pricing page, help centre or product on 3 October 2026, the same day the 634 public boards behind the size figures were measured. The full board dataset is open to download.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.