Fourteen of the thirty two feedback tools we priced publish a free plan. Every one of them stops somewhere, and the useful question is not whether a tool is free but which wall you hit first and what it costs to get past it.
The walls are different in kind, which is the part that catches people out. Some cap the number of people who take part, so the plan ends when the board starts working. Some cap the number of boards or admins, so it ends when a second person joins. One caps the number of requests.
Which feedback tools have a free plan?
Fourteen, read on their own pricing pages on 14 September 2026.
| Tool | The free plan stops at | Paid starts at |
|---|---|---|
| Fider | 250 feedback items, or nothing at all self hosted | $25/mo |
| Convas | 25 people who post, vote or comment | $15/mo |
| Canny | 25 people who post, vote or comment | $79/mo |
| Featurebase | 1 seat | $29/seat/mo |
| Supahub | 1 board, 1 admin | $15/mo |
| Sleekplan | 1 admin, forever | $13/mo |
| WishKit | 1 project, 5 visible requests | $15/mo |
| UserJot | 2 boards, 3 admin roles, forever | $29/mo |
| Jira Product Discovery | 3 creators, 2GB, forever | $10/creator/mo |
| Productboard | 500 feedback notes, 1 portal | $19/maker/mo |
| Beamer | 1,000 monthly active users, 1 teammate | $49/mo |
| Trello | boards, not a feedback product | $5/user/mo |
| Headway | changelogs only, there is no board | $29/mo |
| Pendo | the Novus beta | Not published |
Paid starts at is the cheapest published rate per month, which on most of them means paying for a year up front. The whole field, including the eighteen with no free plan, is on one page with the unit each bills on.
Which wall will you hit first?
The one that measures something you do not control.
Four of the fourteen cap people rather than things. Canny and Convas both stop at twenty five people who post, vote or comment, and Beamer stops at a thousand monthly active users. A board that nobody uses stays free forever. A board that works crosses the line, and it crosses it because it worked.
The rest cap something you decide. One board, one admin, two boards, three creators, five hundred notes. Those are walls you walk into on purpose, usually the week a second person joins or a second product ships, and you can see them coming.
If you are collecting feedback from more than twenty five customers, three of the fourteen free plans are already not free for you, and the first paid step on one of them is seventy nine dollars a month.
Is there a genuinely free feature request tool?
Yes, and it is open source, and it costs you a server.
Fider is AGPL-3.0 and has been pushed to this month. Hosted, it is free to a fair use limit of two hundred and fifty feedback items. On your own machine there is no limit at all, and the price is whatever you pay for the machine plus the hours you spend keeping it up.
Three other open source projects exist and two of them need a warning before you start. Astuto's repository is archived. LogChimp reports no licence through the API because its licence file opens with a company copyright line. Formbricks is a survey tool rather than a voting board, whatever a list told you. All five are checked in the repository rather than on the badge.
What is a free plan actually for?
Deciding, in most cases, rather than running.
A free plan with twenty five people on it is long enough to find out whether anybody uses a board at all, which is the real question and the one nobody can answer for you. That is worth doing, and it is worth doing before you compare anything.
What a free plan is not is a place to keep a board that matters. The ones that cap people get more expensive exactly as the board gets more useful, and moving a board full of requests and votes to another tool afterwards is an afternoon nobody enjoys.
Where does this product fit?
Nowhere on the list above, because there is no free plan here.
It is nine dollars a month for one project and thirty nine for everything, with a fourteen day trial that asks for a card. Nothing anywhere counts the people who vote, so the bill does not move when the board works.
That is a worse deal than free and a better one than seventy nine, and which of those matters depends entirely on how many people you expect to take part. Under twenty five people, Canny and Convas are free and this is not. At a thousand, this is nine dollars and Canny is five hundred and twenty nine.
The arithmetic at your own number is on one page, and the demo board is open with no account and no email.