Feature Upvote has no free tier at any size and asks forty nine dollars for a single board from the first day. Sleekplan gives a single admin a working board, a changelog and a public roadmap for free, and only starts a bill once a second person needs to log in.
That is the whole shape of this pair. One prices the board, the other prices the headcount on your own side of it. Everything below was read on each vendor's own pages on 14 and 15 September 2026.
What does each one charge?
Forty nine dollars a board, thirteen dollars a workspace once you are not alone, and nine dollars a plan.
| Vendor | From | Billed per | Free plan | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoteFirst | $7.50/mo | plan | – | 14 days, card |
| Sleekplan | $13/mo | workspace | 1 admin | – |
| Feature Upvote | $49/board/mo | board | – | 30 days |
Read on each vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-14 and 2026-09-15.
Feature Upvote's Indie plan is forty nine dollars a board a month billed yearly, and Standard is ninety nine. Both carry the same feature list, so the fifty dollar step buys faster support rather than anything the board can do.
Sleekplan's Indie plan is free forever for a single admin workspace, with unlimited feedback and subscribers. Starter is thirteen dollars a month billed yearly and adds two more seats, single sign on, an API and webhooks. Business is thirty eight and holds ten seats.
Their trial runs thirty days without asking for a card, which ties the longest published span in the table alongside two other vendors, not the outright longest.
How much does Feature Upvote cost compared to Sleekplan?
The answer turns on team size for one of them and on board count for the other, so here it is at three shapes that move both dials.
| Your situation | Feature Upvote | Sleekplan |
|---|---|---|
| One admin, one board | $49/mo, Indie | Free, Indie |
| Four people, one board | $49/mo, team members have no seat limit | $38/mo, Business, since Starter holds only three |
| Four people, three boards run separately | $147/mo, three times the board fee | $114/mo, three workspaces at $38 each |
Feature Upvote's own pricing page states that team members carry no seat limit on either paid plan, so a fourth colleague costs nothing extra there. Sleekplan's own page states that separate workspaces are billed separately and can sit on different plans, so three products means three invoices.
A solo operator with one board pays Sleekplan nothing and Feature Upvote forty nine dollars a month. A team of four running three products pays Feature Upvote more than Sleekplan, and the gap would close if that same team ran everything through a single workspace instead of three.
The demo runs without an account if you would rather look at a board than read about billing.
Which one should you choose?
They are built for opposite starting points, and the honest answer says so plainly.
Sleekplan's free plan is a real product rather than a taste of one. A single admin gets the board, the changelog, the roadmap and unlimited feedback with no expiry date, and that is more than most vendors in this category give away at any price.
Feature Upvote puts single sign on on its cheapest plan with no upsell attached. SAML at forty nine dollars, with no enterprise call required to get it, is rare enough in this category to take at face value.
Choose Sleekplan if you are one person, or expect to stay small enough that the free plan keeps working. Choose Feature Upvote if your board needs to sit behind your company's identity provider from day one and you are willing to pay for that on the first invoice.
One project is nine dollars a month. Unlimited projects is thirty nine.
Why choose Feature Upvote over Sleekplan, or Sleekplan over Feature Upvote?
Because one of them meters people and the other meters boards, and your own shape decides which meter is kinder.
Pick Feature Upvote when your team is large and your board count is small, since team members cost nothing extra there and a workspace priced tool would charge for every one of them.
Pick Sleekplan when you are one or two people running one product, since the free plan or the thirteen dollar tier undercuts a forty nine dollar board fee by a wide margin.
Neither answer changes if the number of customers voting grows. Both meters ignore that entirely, which is the one thing they agree on.
Is there a cheaper alternative to both?
Often, and which one is cheaper depends on the axis you are optimising against.
Against Feature Upvote's per board fee, anything priced by plan or workspace is cheaper the moment you run a second product. Against Sleekplan's per seat step, anything flat is cheaper the moment a fourth colleague joins. The calculator works either comparison out at a size you choose.
The whole field, with the unit each vendor bills on, is one page, and this site's own entry price is nine dollars a month for one project.
What does each do with a vote from a big customer?
One of them says nothing about it, and the other says a great deal.
Feature Upvote's own pages, read on 14 September 2026, never mention weighting a vote by who cast it. Every vote on a Feature Upvote board counts as one, whoever the voter is.
Sleekplan's feedback page states that you can tune the weights to match how your team prioritizes, naming customer impact, business revenue, raw votes, engagement and happiness among the factors. That is their own wording for their own feature, not a summary of ours.
Read on each vendor's own pages on the date in the row above. A dash means nobody could read it on the pages opened that day, never that the capability is absent.
Eight of the thirty two vendors in our wider table describe something revenue related in their own words, and Sleekplan is one of them, so this is a difference between these two specific products rather than something either of us invented alone.
Can I move from one to the other?
Some of it, and the parts that stay behind are the same on almost every move in this category.
Who cast each vote rather than the running total, comment threads, original timestamps and any board link a customer has bookmarked do not survive a move between any two tools here. What usually does arrive is the request text, the vote counts and the status of each item.
Sleekplan's own import page pulls posts, comments, votes and users out of several named tools, and warns that posts are not deduplicated, so importing twice creates duplicates. Feature Upvote's pages do not describe an import path from another tool in the copy we read.
A board worth moving is worth moving once, so the question to settle first is whether the price or the product pushed you to look.
Where we fit, and where we do not
We are a single feedback board with a roadmap and a changelog, at one flat price per plan. We are not a workspace suite and we do not sell boards by the unit.
Both of these products offer a quoted Enterprise tier with a negotiated contract: Feature Upvote's includes a security audit and a data processing agreement above ten boards, and Sleekplan's adds SAML through Okta, Azure AD or Auth0 and multi workspace organisations. We have three flat prices and nothing above them to negotiate.
Both also let you turn on single sign on without an enterprise sales call, Feature Upvote's SAML on its entry plan and Sleekplan's SSO on Starter. Ours is a signed token issued by your own application rather than an identity provider connection, and it sits on the thirty nine dollar plan.
What we do that neither of them describes is write a chosen multiplier onto the vote itself the moment it is cast, and keep the plain headcount visible beside the weighted total on the same card. How that works is written up in full.
What is Feature Upvote, and what is Sleekplan?
Feature Upvote is a single public feedback board, sold per board, with no roadmap or changelog on the pages we read. Sleekplan is a wider workspace, a feedback board, a changelog, a roadmap, surveys and satisfaction scores, sold per seat with a free tier for one admin.
Does either one have a free plan?
Sleekplan does, and Feature Upvote does not. Sleekplan's Indie tier, read on 15 September 2026, is a single admin workspace that carries unlimited feedback and never expires.
Feature Upvote's pricing page, read on 14 September 2026, carries a thirty day trial that needs no card and nothing free once it ends.
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
Feature Upvote charges from the first board and gives you SAML at the entry price for it. Sleekplan gives away the board itself and starts charging when a second person needs a seat, at a price that also weights votes by whatever your team decides matters.
Neither one meters the people who vote, and that is the one thing this whole page has been about.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.