Canny and FeedBear both show a monthly figure and the two figures grow for different reasons. Canny's bill moves when your customers vote. FeedBear's bill moves when you hire a second colleague or ship a second product.
Everything below was read on each vendor's own pricing page on 14 September 2026 and held when we checked again on 15 September 2026.
What does each one charge?
Seventy nine dollars a month, nineteen dollars, and nine, and only one of the three grows with how many customers use the board.
| Vendor | From | Billed per | Free plan | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoteFirst | $7.50/mo | plan | – | 14 days, card |
| FeedBear | $15/mo | project | – | 14 days |
| Canny | $79/mo | tracked user | 25 users | – |
FeedBear's nineteen dollar Lite plan buys one team member and one board. A second colleague or a second board moves you to Startup at forty nine.
Canny's tracked user is anybody with a post, a vote or a comment attributed to them, including your own admins, and the free plan ends at twenty five of them.
So the two prices above are not describing the same kind of growth. FeedBear's wall is how many of you there are. Canny's wall is how many of your customers show up.
How much does Canny cost compared to FeedBear?
It depends on the shape of your company, and here is the arithmetic at three of them.
| Your situation | Canny | FeedBear |
|---|---|---|
| 3 people, 1 board, 80 customers vote | Over the 25 tracked user free line, so $79/mo | Startup, for the third team member, $49/mo or $40/mo yearly |
| 1 person, 1 board, 400 customers vote | Above $79/mo, at a rate their page does not print | Lite, one person and one board still fit, $19/mo or $15/mo yearly |
| 8 people, 2 boards, 60 customers vote | Over the free line, so $79/mo | Business, for the eighth colleague, on two boards, $198/mo or $164/mo yearly |
Canny does not publish the rate above 100 tracked users. Their page states the Pro plan starts at $79 a month billed yearly and scales with usage, with a slider from 25 to 5,000 tracked users and no printed figure for the steps in between.
At 1,000 tracked users it is $529 a month billed yearly, and at 5,000 it is $1,079.
FeedBear's ladder is fully printed, which is the opposite problem. You can see the whole bill in advance, and the bill is decided by your headcount and your product count rather than by whether the board is popular.
Which one should you choose?
They meter different things and the honest answer depends on which one describes your growth.
FeedBear is the better answer if your team stays small and your board gets busy. One team member and one board covers a solo founder running a single product, and the price never moves no matter how many customers vote on it.
Canny is the better public feedback board if your team is large and your board stays quiet. Colleagues are free on every plan, and their AI capture layer reads support and sales conversations and deduplicates what it finds, which is a real capability and one we do not have.
Nothing here counts the people who vote, so a busy board costs the same.
Why choose Canny over FeedBear, or FeedBear over Canny?
Because one of them charges for your customers and the other charges for your colleagues and your products.
Choose Canny when you expect a lot of customer participation and a small internal team, because tracked users are the only meter and admins do not count against the free tier's other limits.
Choose FeedBear when you expect the opposite, a busy internal team on one product, because one team member and one board at nineteen dollars is cheaper than Canny once voters climb past the free line.
Is there a cheaper alternative to both?
Several, and which one is cheaper depends on whether you are counting voters or colleagues.
Against Canny's tracked user meter, anything flat is cheaper the moment the board starts working. Against FeedBear's per project, per seat ladder, anything flat is cheaper the moment you add a second colleague or a second product. The full field with the unit each vendor bills on is one page.
What does each do with a vote from a big customer?
Canny sorts by the revenue a feature affects. FeedBear's own pages, read on 14 September 2026, do not mention vote weight, revenue or customer tiers. Ours multiplies the vote itself.
| Vendor | Weighting by revenue | API | Anonymous voting | Custom domain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canny | Orders by revenue | Pro | No, identity required | Yes |
| FeedBear | – | No documented REST API | Off by default, can be enabled | – |
| VoteFirst | All plans | Pro | Yes, by default | Pro |
A dash means nobody could read it on the pages opened that day, never that the capability is absent.
Canny's own feature page describes sorting by MRR impact, which orders a list rather than multiplying one person's vote. FeedBear offers a choice between single sign on, social accounts, or turning anonymous voting on, so the capability exists there and it is not the default.
Can I move from one to the other?
Both export something, and what an export loses is the part nobody writes down.
Canny's export is real and documented, and what the file actually contains is written up separately. FeedBear publishes no export documentation on the pages we read. Whichever you leave, who cast each vote rather than the total, comment threading, and original timestamps are the parts that usually do not survive a move.
Where we fit, and where we do not
We are not a drafting tool and we have no AI reading your board. FeedBear's Lite plan includes generated comments, generated replies and generated changelog posts, and we ship none of that on any plan.
We also have no private board at any price. Canny has private boards on every plan including Free, and FeedBear's Business plan carries single sign on and, separately, private ideas from Lite. A board of ours is public to everybody or public to nobody.
Four of the thirty two products in our own matrix describe weighting a vote by customer revenue in their own words, Frill, ProductLift, Sleekplan and UserVoice, and Canny orders by revenue without weighting the vote itself. FeedBear does neither, on the pages we read.
What is Canny, and what is FeedBear?
Canny is a feedback board with a roadmap and a changelog, billed by the customers who take part. FeedBear is the same shape of product, a board, a roadmap and a changelog, billed by the project, with team members and boards counted against each plan.
Does either one have a free plan?
Canny does and FeedBear does not. Canny's pricing page read on 14 September 2026 gives twenty five tracked users free. FeedBear has four paid plans and a fourteen day trial that its own page says asks for no card, and no permanent free option at any level.
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
Two different meters, and each one is expensive for a different kind of company. Canny for a large team with a quiet board, or for anybody who wants private boards and an AI capture layer.
FeedBear for a small team on one product that wants a drafting assistant and does not mind that a second colleague or a second board is a large jump in price.
Ours if you want the vote itself to carry what the voter pays, at nine dollars flat, with no meter on either side.
The Canny alternative page and the FeedBear one carry each side on its own.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.