Canny and Upvoty both charge a monthly figure and both figures move, but they move for different reasons. One climbs as your customers vote. The other stays flat until you ship a second product. Everything below was read on each vendor's own pricing page on 14 and 15 September 2026.
What does each one charge?
Seventy nine dollars a month, fifteen, and nine, and only one of the three is tied to how many people show up.
| Vendor | From | Billed per | Free plan | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoteFirst | $7.50/mo | plan | – | 14 days, card |
| Upvoty | $13.50/mo | project | – | 14 days |
| Canny | $79/mo | tracked user | 25 users | – |
Read on each vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-14 and re read on 2026-09-15.
Upvoty's entry plan, Power, is $15 a month paid monthly or $13.50 a month paid yearly. Their toggle carries a badge reading save ten percent, and that is exactly what it saves.
Canny's tracked user is anybody with a post, a vote or a comment attributed to them. So Canny's meter is your audience and Upvoty's is your product count.
How much does Canny cost compared to Upvoty?
It depends on whether your company has one busy board or several quiet ones.
| Your situation | Canny | Upvoty |
|---|---|---|
| 1 product, 80 customers vote | Over the 25 tracked user free line, so $79/mo | $15/mo, or $13.50/mo paid yearly |
| 1 product, 900 customers vote | Above $79, at a rate their page does not print | $15/mo, unchanged, tracked users are unlimited |
| 3 products, 60 customers vote | $79/mo, one board can hold all three | $49/mo on Hyper for unlimited projects, or $79/mo across three separate Power plans if kept apart |
A single busy board costs Upvoty nothing extra and costs Canny more the moment it works. A company running several small products pays Upvoty for the count of products rather than the count of people, and that bill stops moving once Hyper is reached.
Canny does not publish the rate above 100 tracked users. Their page says the Pro plan starts at $79 a month billed yearly and scales with usage, with a slider from 25 to 5,000 and an optional spend limit, and no printed figure for the steps in between.
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 meter opposite things, and the honest answer depends on which one describes your growth.
Upvoty is the better answer if you expect a busy board and a small number of products. Tracked users and boards are unlimited on every plan, so a board that gets popular costs exactly what it cost on day one.
Canny is the better answer if you run one board and it never gets loud. Their free tier holds twenty five tracked users at no cost, which is real for a board that will stay small, and their revenue sorting is a shipped feature we are not going to pretend is unique to us.
One project is nine dollars a month. Unlimited projects is thirty nine.
Why choose Canny over Upvoty, or Upvoty over Canny?
Because one of them prices the audience and the other prices the shelf space.
Choose Canny when your team is small and your board will stay under the tracked user line for a long time, because the free tier and the low entry price both hold at that size.
Choose Upvoty when your board might get busy, because a board with fifty voters and a board with fifty thousand voters cost the same fifteen dollars, and the only thing that raises the bill is launching a second product.
Is there a cheaper alternative to both?
Yes, and which one depends on what you are counting.
Against Canny's tracked user meter, anything flat is cheaper the moment the board starts working.
Against Upvoty's project count it is closer to a coin flip, because anything else that is flat and unmetered on people is not charging you for your audience either. 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. Upvoty's pages read on 14 September 2026 say nothing about vote weight, MRR or customer tier. Ours multiplies the vote itself.
| Vendor | Weighting by revenue | API | Custom domain | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canny | Orders by revenue | Pro | Yes | 25 tracked users |
| Upvoty | – | Power | – | None |
| VoteFirst | All plans | Pro | Pro | None |
A dash means nobody could read it on the pages opened that day, never that the capability is absent.
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.
Can I move from one to the other?
Both export in some form, and what an export loses is the part nobody writes down.
Who cast each vote rather than the total, the threading on comments, and the original timestamps usually do not survive a move between any two tools in this category. What a Canny export actually contains is written up separately, from the file rather than from their documentation.
Where we fit, and where we do not
We are not a suite and we do not have Canny's AI capture layer or Upvoty's five module set. There is no knowledge base, no forms product, and no automated discovery reading your support inbox.
What this product does is put a 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.
The price does not move with how many customers vote, and it does not move with how many boards you run under one project.
Eight of the thirty two tools we checked ship a form of revenue weighting. Upvoty is not one of them on the pages read that day, so this is a difference between us and Upvoty specifically rather than something only we have.
What is Canny, and what is Upvoty?
Canny is a feedback board with a roadmap and a changelog, billed by the customers who take part. Upvoty is a feedback board with a roadmap and a changelog too, billed by the project rather than by the person, with unlimited boards and unlimited tracked users on every plan.
Does either one have a free plan?
Canny does, capped at twenty five tracked users on their pricing page read on 14 September 2026. Upvoty does not. Their page carries a fourteen day trial that asks for no card, and the fifteen dollar Power plan is the cheapest thing you can keep.
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 bills a bill that moves with your customers. Upvoty bills a bill that moves only when you ship a second product. Ours is nine dollars flat for one project either way, with the weighting Upvoty does not have and the free tier Canny does.
The Canny alternative page and the Upvoty one carry each side on its own.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.