Frill's bill is flat against your own team, and moves only once the ideas sitting open on the board pass a printed line. Sleekplan's bill is flat against your board, and moves only once a second person needs a login.
Everything below was read on each vendor's own pages on 14 and 15 September 2026.
What does each one charge?
Twenty two dollars a month for Frill billed yearly, thirteen for Sleekplan once a second seat is needed, and nine for us with no meter on either axis.
| Vendor | From | Billed per | Free plan | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoteFirst | $7.50/mo | plan | – | 14 days, card |
| Sleekplan | $13/mo | workspace | 1 admin | – |
| Frill | $22/mo | workspace | – | 14 days |
Read on each vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-15.
Billed monthly, Frill's Startup tier is twenty five dollars, or twenty two on the yearly toggle, and it holds at fifty active ideas even though admins and tracked users carry no limit on the same plan. Business lifts the idea cap entirely at forty nine or forty four.
Sleekplan's own ladder opens with Indie, free with no expiry for exactly one admin, feedback and subscribers uncapped underneath it. A third seat needs Starter at thirteen dollars billed yearly, a tenth needs Business at thirty eight, and past that Enterprise is a quoted contract.
How much does Frill cost compared to Sleekplan?
One of these bills tracks the length of your own list, the other tracks the number of desks in the room, so a company's own shape decides which figure actually moves.
| Your situation | Frill | Sleekplan |
|---|---|---|
| 5 people, 60 open ideas | $44/mo billed yearly, Business, once the 50 idea cap is passed | $38/mo billed yearly, Business, for five of the ten seats it holds |
| 15 people, 30 open ideas | $22/mo billed yearly, Startup, since ideas stay under the cap | Not published. Fifteen seats are past the ten on Business, so the page reads by contact from there |
| 50 people, 200 open ideas | $44/mo billed yearly, unchanged from the first row, since admins are unlimited on Business | Not published, Enterprise, for the same reason as the row above |
The first row is the one worth sitting with. Frill's bill barely moved between five people and fifty, because neither row crossed a workspace price, and admins are unlimited on every one of its paid tiers. Sleekplan's bill left the printed ladder at fifteen people, well before either row on Frill's side did anything.
Sleekplan does not print a rate above ten seats. Their page names Indie, Starter and Business by seat count, and reads Enterprise by contact past Business's ten, with no figure written for what a team of fifteen or fifty actually pays.
Which one should you choose?
They meter opposite things, and the honest answer says something real about each.
Sleekplan's free plan is a working product, not a trial wearing a costume. A single admin gets the board, the changelog, the roadmap and unlimited feedback and subscribers with no expiry date, which is more than most vendors in this category give away at any price.
Frill puts single sign on, the developer API, webhooks and a custom domain on its cheapest paid plan, with no colleague limit anywhere above it. Twenty two dollars buys a team of any size the same feature list a fifty person team gets on the same plan.
Choose Sleekplan if you expect to stay small enough on your own side that the free plan keeps working. Choose Frill if your team is going to grow past a handful of people and you would rather that growth cost nothing extra.
Nothing here counts the people who vote, so a busy board costs the same.
Why choose Frill over Sleekplan, or Sleekplan over Frill?
Because one of them worries about how long your idea list has grown, and the other worries about how many people you let log in to run the board.
Pick Frill when your team is large or growing, since colleagues cost nothing extra on any of its four plans and the only wall is your own backlog getting long.
Pick Sleekplan when you are one or two people and your board will stay modest, since the free plan or the thirteen dollar tier undercuts Frill's twenty two by a wide margin at that size.
Nothing on either pricing page names which of those two shapes describes your own company. That part is on you to work out first.
Is there a cheaper alternative to both?
Often, and which one wins depends on whether your risk is a growing backlog or a growing team.
Against Frill's fifty idea cap, anything unmetered on ideas is cheaper the moment your board gets busy. Against Sleekplan's per seat step, anything flat is cheaper the moment a second colleague joins. The calculator works either comparison out at a size you choose.
This site is nine dollars a month for one project with no cap on either axis, and the full field, with the unit each vendor bills on, is one page.
What does each do with a vote from a big customer?
Both of them weight the vote itself by revenue, in their own published words, rather than only sorting a list by the money behind it.
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.
Frill's own comparison table says plainly that it weights votes by customer revenue. Sleekplan's own feedback page says 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.
Our own table across thirty two of these tools counted eight that mention revenue in their pricing or feature copy at all, and inside that eight only four, Frill, ProductLift, Sleekplan and UserVoice, commit to the word weight for what happens to the vote itself rather than to a sorted or filtered list.
Both of the products on this page are in that smaller group of three, which is the rarer and more useful fact than either vendor's marketing copy says on its own.
Can I move from one to the other?
Both publish an import path, and what neither one dwells on is what an import cannot rebuild.
On Frill's side, every paid tier carries both a bulk CSV import and an export, and their own page names a Canny importer among the sources it reads.
On the way in, Sleekplan lists a direct pull of posts, comments, votes and users from Canny, Upvoty or UserVoice, though their own note flags that posts are not deduplicated, so a second run of the same import doubles them up.
Neither vendor's own pages describe a direct importer from the other, so a move between this specific pair goes through a CSV rather than a one click connector.
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 board on one project on the nine dollar plan, with no survey product, no documents feature and no scheduled agent of any kind.
Both Frill and Sleekplan sell a survey product, Frill with five separate survey types laddered by plan and Sleekplan with net promoter score and satisfaction scores bundled into Starter and full surveys on Business. We have no survey feature and none planned.
Both also publish an AI feature we do not build. Sleekplan sells a bundle of AI credits on its paid plans, and Frill's own comparison table lists smart merge, which reads and groups similar ideas for you. Neither of those is something we do or intend to.
The one thing missing from both of their own pages is a fixed integer set per tier that rewrites the vote itself the instant it lands, with the unweighted count still printed next to the weighted one, true of the nine dollar plan and the thirty nine dollar plan alike.
What is Frill, and what is Sleekplan?
Frill packages a board, a roadmap, a changelog and a survey tool into one workspace subscription, and the number that actually moves its price is how many ideas are sitting open, not who happens to be reading them.
Sleekplan spans six modules under one login, feedback, documents, roadmap, changelog, satisfaction scores and surveys, and prices them per seat, with the first seat free indefinitely.
Does either one have a free plan?
Sleekplan does, and Frill does not.
Their own pricing page, read on 15 September 2026, keeps Indie open indefinitely for one admin, with no cap printed on feedback volume or on subscriber count. It stops covering you the moment a second person needs to log in.
Frill's pricing page carries a fourteen day trial that its own banner says needs no card, with no free tier under it.
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
Frill charges for the length of your own idea list and leaves your team off the bill entirely. Sleekplan gives away the desk to a single admin and starts charging the moment a second one sits down.
Both of them weight the vote itself by revenue rather than only sorting a list by it, which puts this pair in a smaller group than most of the category, us included.
For the fuller argument on either vendor alone, Frill's alternative page and Sleekplan's go further than this page does.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.