Aha's price grows with the number of people on your side who are even allowed to look at the list. Canny's price grows with the number of people on the other side who post, vote or comment.
Everything below was read on each vendor's own pricing page on 15 September 2026.
What does each one charge?
Thirty nine dollars a user a month with a floor of three seats, seventy nine dollars a month, and nine.
| Vendor | From | Billed per | Free plan | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoteFirst | $7.50/mo | plan | – | 14 days, card |
| Aha! Ideas | $39/user/mo | user | – | Yes |
| Canny | $79/mo | tracked user | 25 users | – |
Read on each vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-15.
Aha's own pricing card prints the three seat minimum under the rate. The real entry price on Ideas Essentials is a hundred and seventeen dollars a month, not thirty nine.
Canny's own pricing page starts the Pro plan at seventy nine dollars a month billed yearly, for up to a hundred tracked users, with a free plan under that line.
The two units point at different people. Aha's paid seat covers a contributor, a reviewer and a viewer, so anybody inside your company who opens the list needs one. Canny's tracked user is anybody with a post, a vote or a comment attributed to them, which is usually your customers rather than your colleagues.
How much does Aha cost compared to Canny?
It depends on how big your team is and how many customers actually vote, because the two vendors meter opposite sides of the board.
| Your situation | Aha Ideas | Canny |
|---|---|---|
| 3 person team, 40 customers vote | $117/mo, the three seat floor on Essentials | $79/mo, still under the 100 tracked user step |
| 6 person team, 300 customers vote | $234/mo, six seats at $39 | $179/mo billed yearly, at the 300 step |
| 15 person team, 1,200 customers vote | $585/mo, fifteen seats at $39 | $579/mo billed yearly, rounded up to the 1,250 step |
At the small end, a quiet team with an active board favours Canny by a wide margin. Three Aha seats already cost more than a Canny board with forty voters.
At the large end the two prices land within six dollars of each other. That is close enough that the choice stops being about money at all.
Canny does not publish a rate past five thousand tracked users. Its own pricing page carries a slider up to that number and no printed figure past it.
Which one should you choose?
They solve different jobs, and the honest answer names both.
Aha is the more complete product management suite, and it is not close. Ideas is one product inside eight, and buying into the wider suite gets you strategy, release planning, whiteboards and a documented set of integrations that a single feedback board was never going to have.
Canny's free plan is real and asks for no card, capped at twenty five tracked users, which is enough for a board that has not found its audience yet.
Choose Aha when several people on your own team need real editing rights over ideas, strategy and delivery. Choose Canny when the board itself is the product your customers see, and your own team stays small.
Why choose Aha over Canny, or Canny over Aha?
Because one of them prices around who is allowed to look, and the other prices around who actually shows up.
Choose Aha when your company already has the people to run a strategy process, because the seat floor stops mattering once several of those seats are doing real planning work anyway.
Choose Canny when your team is small and the board is busy. A busy board with a small team is exactly the case where Aha's seat rate cannot touch a well run Canny bill, at least until the tracked user count climbs into the hundreds.
Nine dollars a month for one project, with weighted voting on it.
Is there a cheaper alternative to both?
Several, and which one is cheaper depends on which side of your business is doing the growing.
Against Aha's three seat floor, a flat price wins the moment your team is smaller than three. Against Canny's tracked user meter, a flat price wins the moment the board is popular enough that the ladder starts climbing.
The calculator runs both comparisons at a size you choose, against a flat nine dollars a month for one project. The whole field, with the unit each vendor bills on, is one page.
What does each do with a vote from a big customer?
Both Aha and Canny write about revenue on their own pages, and that puts them in a small group. Eight of the thirty two vendors we track describe something revenue related in their own words, and this is one of the few pairs where both sides sit in that eight rather than one.
Aha's own pages describe prioritizing ideas by potential revenue, which is a score a person sets on a list they built. Canny's own feature page describes sorting boards by MRR impact, which orders requests by the revenue a feature affects.
Neither company describes multiplying the vote itself by what the voter pays. Both describe ordering a list after the fact, which is a different thing from writing a weight onto the vote the moment it is cast.
| Vendor | Weighting by revenue | API | Export | Custom domain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aha | Prioritizes by potential revenue | Yes | Yes | – |
| Canny | Sorts by MRR impact | Pro | – | Yes |
| VoteFirst | All plans | Pro | CSV | Pro |
Read on each vendor's own pages on 2026-09-14. A dash means nobody could read it on the pages opened that day, never that the capability is absent.
Can I move from one to the other?
Partly, and what survives depends on which vendor you are leaving.
Canny's own help centre documents its export, though the pricing and product pages read for this comparison do not state it. Nothing in the Aha pages we read describes what an Ideas export actually contains.
Who cast each vote, the comment threads underneath a request, and every portal link anybody has shared are the kind of thing an export usually loses, whichever two tools sit on either end of the move.
Where we fit, and where we do not
We are not a product management suite and we are not a support inbox reader, and both of the products above do at least one of those two things.
Both Aha and Canny ship an AI feature we do not. Aha puts an assistant on every Ideas plan for idea analysis and drafting. Canny's Autopilot reads support tickets, sales calls and reviews on every plan including the free one, and folds what it finds into the tracked user count.
Both also sell a private, gated board and we do not. Aha's portals can be public or private. Canny's boards can be hidden behind a login on every plan. Ours is public or nothing, with no password and no invite list.
What we do instead is put a multiplier on a tier and write that weight onto the vote the moment it is cast, on every plan including the nine dollar one, so three paying customers can outrank thirty who are not.
What is Aha, and what is Canny?
Aha is a suite of eight products, of which Ideas is the customer facing portal, billed per paid seat with a floor of three. Every internal role that can even look at it needs one.
Canny is a feedback board with a roadmap and a changelog, billed by the tracked user, which is anybody with a post, a vote or a comment attributed to them, your own admins included.
Does either one have a free plan?
Canny does and Aha does not. Canny's pricing page read on 15 September 2026 gives twenty five tracked users free, with no card and no time limit on that tier.
Aha Ideas carries a free trial that its own page says asks for no card, and no free tier under it. The cheapest thing you can keep is a seat, and the minimum order is three.
What this costs
Lite
$9 /mo
Pro
$39 /mo
Lifetime
$999 once
Fourteen day trial of Pro, card asked for at signup. Nothing here counts the people who vote, so the bill does not move when the board starts working. The long version, with what happens if you stop paying.
The honest summary
Aha counts everyone who can look and will not sell you fewer than three of them. Canny counts everyone who shows up and lets your own team in for nothing.
A small team with a busy board favours Canny. A company already running a strategy process favours Aha, seat floor and all.
The Aha alternative page and the Canny one carry each side on its own.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.