Fider and Nolt answer the price question in opposite directions. Fider is free until your board passes a stated limit of feedback items, and Nolt has no free tier at all but never counts a single thing your customers post.
Everything below was read on each vendor's own pages, Fider on 14 September 2026 and Nolt on 9 September 2026.
What does each one charge?
Free to two hundred fifty items, or twenty nine dollars a month for one board, and neither number moves with how many colleagues you have.
| Vendor | From | Billed per | Free plan | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoteFirst | $7.50/mo | plan | – | 14 days, card |
| Fider | $25/mo | workspace | 250 items | – |
| Nolt | $29/mo | board | – | – |
Read on each vendor's own pricing page, Fider on 14 September 2026, Nolt on 9 September 2026.
This page carries no photograph of Nolt's pricing page. Nolt.io sits behind a check the headless browser could not clear, so the Nolt figures below come from notes taken on their own pricing page on 14 September 2026, read by hand rather than captured.
How much does Fider cost compared to Nolt?
It depends on how many items your board has ever collected, and on how many boards you need.
| Your situation | Fider | Nolt |
|---|---|---|
| One product, fewer than 250 feedback items ever posted | Free, hosted or self hosted | $29/mo, or $348/yr, Essential |
| One product, a board that has passed 250 feedback items | $25/mo, hosted Pro, or still free self hosted | $29/mo, unchanged, the meter is boards, not items |
| Three products, three boards | $75/mo, three workspaces at $25 each past the free limit | $69/mo, or $828/yr, Pro, which covers up to five boards |
Fider's own unit, from its pricing page, is a workspace, or your own server if you self host. Three products on Fider means three separate bills, and three products on Nolt still fit under one Pro plan with room for two more.
Nolt's meter never notices how many feedback items get posted. Fider's never notices how many boards you run, because self hosting has no board limit at all and the hosted free tier is one workspace with one limit.
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 solve different problems and the honest answer names something real about both.
Fider's entire codebase runs with every feature turned on the moment you host it yourself, at no license cost ever. That is not a trial or a stripped tier. It is the same software the paid hosted customers run.
Nolt's own headline, that every plan carries unlimited users, unlimited content and unlimited admins, is a genuinely uncommon commitment in this category. Most tools here charge more the moment a second colleague joins. Nolt does not, on any of its three plans.
Choose Fider when you already run Docker and Postgres and are comfortable being responsible for one more service. Choose Nolt when you want a board behind a login on day one and do not want to operate anything yourself.
Why choose Fider over Nolt, or Nolt over Fider?
Because one asks you to run a server and the other asks you to accept a closed door on every board unless you unlock it yourself.
Choose Fider when the item count on your board is small, or when the idea of paying anything for a public feedback board does not sit right with you. Self hosted, the software costs nothing for as long as you keep it running.
Choose Nolt when you need a board that is not public. Private boards start on their twenty nine dollar plan, and password protection and domain restriction arrive on Pro. Fider publishes no equivalent to any of that.
One project is nine dollars a month. Unlimited projects is thirty nine.
Is there a cheaper alternative to both?
Several, and which one is cheaper depends on whether you count items or boards.
Against Fider's per workspace unit, anything with one flat price across every product you run is cheaper the moment you launch a second board. Against Nolt's board tiers, anything that never charges for a second product at all wins outright, and the calculator works either comparison at a size you choose.
The whole field, with the unit each vendor bills on, is one page. This product is nine dollars a month for one project, and neither Fider's item count nor Nolt's board count applies to it.
What does each do with a vote from a big customer?
Neither publishes an answer, and that absence is the whole of what there is to say.
| Vendor | From | Billed per | Free plan | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoteFirst | $7.50/mo | plan | – | 14 days, card |
| Fider | $25/mo | workspace | 250 items | – |
| Nolt | $29/mo | board | – | – |
Read on each vendor's own pricing page on the dates above. 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 dates above. Not published means nobody could read it on the pages opened that day, never that the feature is absent.
Eight of the thirty two vendors in our own matrix describe some form of weighting or ordering by customer revenue in their own words. Neither Fider nor Nolt is one of the eight.
On Fider every signed in vote counts as one, by design, because one person one vote is what a community voting tool means. Nolt's own pages never mention vote weight, MRR or customer tier at all.
Can I move from one to the other?
Both let you take your data out, and what neither export carries is the part worth planning for first.
An export from either tool is unlikely to keep who cast each individual vote, the original comment threads intact, or the exact timestamps a request moved through a status. Board URLs shared in old emails or bookmarks will point nowhere once you have moved.
Fider is open source, so a self hosted move can also mean a direct database migration rather than a file export, which is a cleaner path than either hosted product offers.
Where we fit, and where we do not
We are not open source and there is no server for you to run yourself. Fider's self hosted path, with every feature unlocked at no license cost, has no equivalent here at any price.
We also have no private board and no password on any board at any price. Nolt puts a private board on its entry plan and a password protected one above it. We publish everything or nothing.
What we do instead is put a whole number multiplier on a customer's tier and write that weight onto the vote the moment it is cast, on every plan including the nine dollar one. Neither Fider nor Nolt publishes anything like it.
What is Fider, and what is Nolt?
Fider is an open source feedback board under the AGPL, run on your own server with every feature included, or used on the hosted tier the project runs free up to a stated limit.
Nolt is a hosted public feedback board with a roadmap view, sold per board tier, with unlimited users, content and admins written into every plan.
Does either one have a free plan?
Fider does and Nolt does not. Fider's own site, read 14 September 2026, gives a free hosted tier under a fair use policy of two hundred fifty feedback items, with the source open if you would rather run it yourself for nothing.
Nolt's pricing page, read the same window, gives every new board a ten day trial of Pro that asks for no card, and there is nothing free once that trial 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
Fider is free until a stated number of feedback items, and after that it is twenty five dollars a month hosted or nothing at all self hosted. Nolt is never free, starts at twenty nine dollars for one board, and never counts a single person who uses it.
Neither weights a vote by what the voter pays. Ours does, at nine dollars flat, on a board that is either fully public or not published at all.
The Fider alternative page and the Nolt one carry each side on its own.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.