Supahub bills your workspace before anyone posts. Fider waits until they do

Neither Fider nor Supahub bills on the number of people who show up to vote, which is the meter most of this category runs on. They picked different substitutes. Supahub counts the boards you run and the admins working them, a charge that stands whether or not a single customer ever types a word.

Fider counts what gets typed instead, staying at zero until that crosses a stated line. It drops to nothing permanently for anyone willing to keep the software on hardware they own. This page checked both companies' own sites on 14 and 15 September 2026.

What does each one charge?

A ladder from zero to a hundred and twenty five dollars a month on four steps, against a single free tier with a fair use ceiling and twenty five dollars once you cross it, and only the second of those two can be cancelled outright by hosting it yourself.

Both companies' pricing pages were checked on the dates named above.

Supahub's own table steps up by boards and admins on every tier, and end users are never counted, not even on the free row.

Fider's own frequently asked questions answer names a ceiling of feedback items rather than a price. It stays silent on any figure at all for the self hosted route, because there is no bill to describe.

How much does Fider cost compared to Supahub?

Whether Fider looks cheap or Supahub does turns on a single question: is your bottleneck the number of things people write, or the number of people who need a login to manage the board?

Sit with the middle row. Supahub's fifteen dollars absorbs a whole second product without blinking, because its ladder was never watching either board's traffic. Fider's twenty five dollars has nothing to do with the size of your team; it is a toll charged to the one workspace that got busy.

Choosing the self hosted route cancels that toll and hands you a different bill, one with no dollar sign on it. Somewhere a virtual machine needs paying for every month.

Their Postgres instance needs a person willing to watch its disk, apply its patches and carry it through a version upgrade someday. That is ordinary work if you already run a database, and new territory if you do not.

Convincing outbound mail to land in an inbox instead of a spam folder from a freshly built server is a separate chore on top. Fider's own project has nothing to say about any of the three, because none of it is theirs to solve.

The one piece that is actually simple is the certificate, since the software speaks to Let's Encrypt on its own and keeps itself renewed.

Seeing the actual board tends to settle this faster than reading about its bill; a demo sits open with no account required.

Which one should you choose?

Two different owners, and the fair version of this answer gives each of them something real.

Supahub folds a second admin into a fifteen dollar plan rather than asking you to buy a seat separately, and that generosity starts on the free plan. Very little else in this category lets a colleague in that cheaply.

A copy of Fider that you run yourself is not a trimmed sample of the product. Its own code does not hold anything back from a self run instance, so the person paying nothing and the person paying twenty five dollars end up running the same software.

One project is nine dollars a month. Unlimited projects is thirty nine.

Why choose Fider over Supahub, or Supahub over Fider?

Because one of them asks you to operate a server and the other asks you to operate a headcount.

Choose Fider when the board's own traffic is what worries you and you are willing to run Docker and a database for the privilege of never being billed for it, or for a small hosted fee once traffic passes their limit.

Choose Supahub when the number of boards and admins is the number you can predict a year out, and a login page for your customers matters more than the option to move the whole thing onto your own hardware.

That decision is about who is doing the operating, not about which vendor's feature list reads longer.

Is there a cheaper alternative to both?

A server you already control settles that on its own terms, since a licence with no fee attached beats any priced plan by definition.

The comparison worth having is the paid one, and the tracked user calculator works out what the metered tools in this category cost at a size you pick.

Every vendor's unit and rate sits on one page. This product charges nine dollars a month for one project, with neither an item count nor a board count anywhere in it.

What does each do with a vote from a big customer?

Silence from both, and that silence is itself worth recording rather than treating as a hole in our research.

Checked on each company's own pages on the two dates above. A dash in this row means their pages gave us nothing to read that day, not that the capability does not exist.

Counting across the thirty two companies in our own matrix, eight write something touching revenue onto their own pages. Half of those eight, four companies, actually change what a vote is worth. The other four only reorder or filter a list by the money attached to it, a lighter claim than changing the count.

Fider and Supahub sit outside both groups. Fider treats every signed in person as one vote because that is the point of the product, and Supahub's own value against effort module scores a request without asking who is behind it.

Can I move from one to the other?

Fider wins this one, but only for the subset of its own users who already run the server.

Operate your own instance and the database sitting under it is already yours, so an exit can be a straight copy of that database rather than a wait for someone's export button.

A hosted Fider subscription and a Supahub workspace both skip that shortcut, because neither company's pages told us on the day we looked what their export actually holds.

Across this category, an export rarely keeps who cast which vote, keeps a comment thread intact, or keeps the moment a status actually changed.

The contents of an export get worked out from the file itself for one of these companies, and the kind of loss described there is typical of what a move between any two of these tools costs.

Where we fit, and where we do not

A zero budget picks itself here. Fider's hosted tier stays free to two hundred fifty items and Supahub's stays free at one board and one admin, and this product has nothing at any price, so anybody starting from nothing walks straight past us.

A second set of hands is also cheaper to add elsewhere. Two admins are already inside Supahub's fifteen dollar plan, and Fider prices by the workspace rather than the person, so nobody there pays extra for a colleague at all. A second person on our account waits for the thirty nine dollar plan.

Neither of them puts a figure on what a voter is paying us before counting their vote. That is the piece we build in, a whole number multiplier attached to the vote the instant it is cast, present on the nine dollar plan and the thirty nine alike.

What is Fider, and what is Supahub?

Fider is open source software under the AGPL for running a public feedback board. Host it yourself with nothing locked, or use the hosted tier the project runs, free under a stated item limit and paid past it.

Supahub sells a board, a set of roadmaps and a changelog together, priced by a ladder of boards and admins that never touches the number of people actually casting a vote.

Does either one have a free plan?

Yes, both, and the two plans cap opposite things. Fider's, read on 15 September 2026, holds at two hundred fifty feedback items regardless of how many boards or colleagues you have, and disappears entirely if you self host.

Supahub's, read on 14 September 2026, holds at one board and one admin regardless of how much gets posted on it.

The honest summary

Supahub sends a bill shaped like your team before a single customer has spoken. Fider sends a bill shaped like your traffic, and cancels it outright the day you decide to run the server yourself.

A quiet board with several admins costs more on Supahub than on Fider. A busy board run by one person crosses Fider's line while Supahub's price never notices, because Supahub was never counting posts in the first place.

Neither weights a vote by what the voter pays us. Ours does, at nine dollars flat, whichever of the two shapes describes your board.

The Fider alternative page and the Supahub one carry each side on its own.

14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.