Canny's invoice grows with the number of people who post, vote or comment on the board. Sleekplan's invoice grows with the number of people who log in to run it, and stays flat no matter how large the crowd gets. Everything below was read on each vendor's own pages on 15 September 2026.
What does each one charge?
Seventy nine dollars a month for Canny at a hundred tracked users, thirteen for Sleekplan once a second person logs in, and free for either one at the smallest size.
| Vendor | From | Billed per | Free plan | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoteFirst | $7.50/mo | plan | – | 14 days, card |
| Sleekplan | $13/mo | workspace | 1 admin | – |
| Canny | $79/mo | tracked user | 25 users | – |
Read on each vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-15.
Canny's own definition of a tracked user is anybody with a post, a vote or a comment attributed to them, your own admins included. Sleekplan's meter is the opposite of that. Tracked users, feedback items and subscribers are unlimited on every one of its plans, and the wall sits on the seat.
How much does Canny cost compared to Sleekplan?
The two bills run on different axes, so a company can look cheap on one and expensive on the other depending on which side is large.
| Your situation | Canny | Sleekplan |
|---|---|---|
| One founder, one board, a handful of voters | Free, under the 25 tracked user line | Free, Indie, single admin |
| Two colleagues, 150 customers vote | $129/mo billed yearly, at the 200 tracked user step | $13/mo, Starter, room for a third seat |
| Six people running two boards, 1,000 customers vote total | $529/mo billed yearly, at the 1,000 tracked user step | $26/mo, two Starter workspaces at three seats each |
The last row is the one that decides most of this page. Canny's bill climbed because the crowd grew. Sleekplan's stayed at twenty six dollars because six people split evenly across two workspaces of three seats, and the ten thousand or ten voters underneath either one cost the same.
Canny does not print a figure between its published steps. Their own ladder names 100, 200, 300 and on up to 5,000 tracked users, with a fixed price at each named step and nothing written for a number that falls between two of them.
If you would rather look at a board than read about billing, the demo is open without an account.
Which one should you choose?
They are built to survive different kinds of growth, and the honest answer says something real about each.
Sleekplan's free plan is not a trial wearing a costume. A single admin gets the board, the changelog, the roadmap and unlimited feedback with no expiry date, which is more than most vendors in this category give away at any price.
Canny is the more finished public feedback product, and its revenue sort is a shipped feature rather than a promise. The board, the roadmap, the changelog and the automated conversation reading are built out further than Sleekplan's equivalents.
Choose Sleekplan if you expect to stay small on your own side of the board for a while. Choose Canny if the crowd is the part likely to grow and your own team will stay small.
Why choose Canny over Sleekplan, or Sleekplan over Canny?
Because one of them worries about how many people showed up to vote and the other worries about how many people you let log in to run it.
Choose Canny when your team will stay a handful of people and the board itself might get loud, because Canny's colleagues are free and only the crowd moves the bill.
Choose Sleekplan when you expect to add colleagues before you expect a busy board, because a workspace priced by the seat is a bill you can plan from your own hiring rather than from how well the board performs.
The shape of your own growth decides this, and neither vendor's pricing page states which shape you are.
Nothing here counts the people who vote, so a busy board costs the same.
Is there a cheaper alternative to both?
Several, and which one wins depends on whether your own bill is more likely to move with voters or with colleagues.
Against Canny's tracked user meter, anything flat is cheaper the moment the board starts working, and the calculator runs that comparison at a size you choose. This site is nine dollars a month with neither meter attached. The full field, with the unit each vendor bills on, is one page.
What does each do with a vote from a big customer?
Read on each vendor's own pages on the date in the row above. Not published means nobody could read it on the pages opened that day, never that the feature is absent.
Canny's own feature page describes sorting a board by monthly revenue impact, syncing recurring revenue in from a CRM or through their own interface. It counts a company's revenue once per post rather than once per voter, however many people from that company took part.
Sleekplan's own feedback page states that you can tune the weights to match how your team prioritizes, naming customer impact, business to business revenue, raw votes, engagement and happiness among the factors it lets you set.
Ordering a list by revenue and tuning a set of weights against each other are not the same operation, and the difference decides a tied request. Eight of the thirty two vendors we checked describe something revenue related in their own words, and Sleekplan is one of them.
Can I move from one to the other?
Both export, and what an export loses is the part neither vendor's documentation dwells on.
Canny's export is real and documented rather than a support ticket. Sleekplan's own import page pulls posts, comments, votes and users straight out of Canny by name, and warns that posts are not deduplicated, so running the same import twice creates duplicates.
What a Canny export actually contains is written up separately, from the file rather than from either vendor's documentation.
Where we fit, and where we do not
We are one feedback board with a roadmap and a changelog, at one flat price per plan, and we do not sell a workspace suite with surveys or a knowledge base stacked on top of it.
Both of the products above have a working free plan, Canny's at twenty five tracked users and Sleekplan's at one admin seat with no expiry, and we have none at any price.
Both also ship an AI feature we do not. Canny's Autopilot reads support conversations, sales calls and reviews and files feedback it finds for you. Sleekplan sells AI credits on its paid plans for the same kind of job. We build neither kind and none is planned.
What this product does instead is put a whole number multiplier on a tier, write that weight onto the vote when it is cast, and show the plain count beside the weighted total on the same card, on the nine dollar plan as well as the thirty nine dollar one.
What is Canny, and what is Sleekplan?
Canny is a feedback board with a roadmap and a changelog, billed by the tracked users associated with the feedback on it. Sleekplan is a wider workspace, a feedback board, a changelog, a roadmap and a survey product, billed by the seats on your own side rather than by who votes.
Does either one have a free plan?
Both do, and the cap sits on a different side of the board for each.
Canny's pricing page gives twenty five tracked users at no cost, which ends when twenty five customers have taken part rather than when a colleague joins. Sleekplan's Indie tier is a single admin workspace that carries unlimited feedback and subscribers and never expires, which ends the moment a second person needs a login.
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
Canny charges for the crowd and gives that crowd a real free tier while it stays under twenty five. Sleekplan charges for the desk and lets the crowd grow for nothing, as long as the desk stays at one seat.
Both order or weight a vote by revenue in their own words, and Sleekplan is the one whose own page names a tunable weight rather than a sorted list.
The Canny alternative page and the Sleekplan one carry each side on its own.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.