LaunchNotes bundles the board in at $249; AnnounceKit sells it apart at $39

Type either of these names next to the other and you are almost certainly weighing two release communication products, not two request boards. Both exist so a shipped feature reaches an audience; a place for customers to ask for the next one rides along as a module inside each.

LaunchNotes was read on its own pricing page on 15 September 2026. AnnounceKit's figures below were re-read on its own pricing page on 2 October 2026, after it replaced its plan ladder with modular, per-product pricing.

What does each one charge?

Two hundred and forty nine dollars a month against thirty nine, and the smaller figure now buys only the board, with the changelog priced separately.

Read on LaunchNotes' own pricing page on 2026-09-15 and AnnounceKit's on 2026-10-02.

LaunchNotes has one plan with a number on it. Growth is two hundred and forty nine dollars a month billed annually, and it already carries feedback management alongside release notes, the roadmap module and single sign on with JWT. Everything past that is Premium, quoted.

AnnounceKit dropped its plan ladder. Each of its six products is now billed on its own, and the request board, Feature Requests & Roadmap, is a standalone product at thirty nine dollars a month billed yearly, with no changelog purchase required alongside it.

So the entry price for the board, on either product, is two hundred and forty nine or thirty nine, not the number printed at the top of AnnounceKit's old list.

How much does LaunchNotes cost compared to AnnounceKit?

It depends on how many colleagues need a login and how many separate products you announce for, because those are the two counters that move each price.

AnnounceKit's per product pricing still doubles for a second product, whatever your team size, while the 10,000 MAU allowance is one number for the whole workspace. LaunchNotes charges the same $249 for a second colleague or a second product right up until you cross either wall, and then the number disappears into a quote.

LaunchNotes still does not publish what Premium costs. AnnounceKit now does publish past its standard products: an Enterprise tier at $799 a month billed annually, covering every product and add-on for one project with 100,000 MAU included. A company that needs three LaunchNotes logins or one announcement page past the wall is still buying a sales call; a company that wants AnnounceKit's everything-included tier is not.

If you would rather look at a board than read about billing, the demo is open without an account.

Nothing here counts the people who vote, so a busy board costs the same.

Which one should you choose?

They solve the same job at very different scales, and the answer credits both.

LaunchNotes' entry plan already includes single sign on, a GraphQL API with management tokens, and feedback management, none of which most vendors in this category hand you before their top tier. If your team is two people and one product, that is a lot of product for the money.

AnnounceKit's own page still says, in writing, "Never per-seat." That no longer means unmetered: every product now includes 10,000 monthly active users and 3 team members, with $25 per extra 5,000 MAU and an add-on for unlimited team members past that at $29 a month billed yearly, or $39 monthly.

Choose LaunchNotes when a small team needs the deepest single announcement channel money can buy. Choose AnnounceKit when you would rather buy only the pieces you need, the board on its own included, and add team or MAU headroom separately as the need shows up.

Why choose LaunchNotes over AnnounceKit, or AnnounceKit over LaunchNotes?

Because one prices a login and a page, and the other prices each product separately, with MAU overage past 10,000 on top.

Choose LaunchNotes when you run one announcement channel for good, with a small, fixed team, and you would rather pay once for a deep product than watch a per product number multiply.

Choose AnnounceKit when you want the board and nothing else first, because Feature Requests & Roadmap on its own is thirty nine dollars a month, while LaunchNotes starts billing a person the moment your third login shows up.

Is there a cheaper alternative to both?

Several, and the cheapest one depends on whether your risk is a login count or a project count.

Against LaunchNotes' wall at one page and two users, a flat per workspace rate stops mattering the moment your team is bigger than that. Against AnnounceKit's per product rate, the calculator works out the crossover at a team size you choose.

The whole field, with the unit each vendor bills on, is one page, and VoteFirst's own plan is $9/mo, with no login count and no project count either.

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

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 capability is absent.

A dash means nobody could read it on the pages opened that day, never that the capability is absent.

Neither company's pages, read on the day, say anything about a vote weight, an MRR figure or a customer tier. Eight of the thirty two vendors in the same matrix describe some kind of revenue ordering or revenue weighting in their own words, and this pair is not among them.

Can I move from one to the other?

LaunchNotes states it plainly: feedback exports as a CSV. AnnounceKit's pages, read the same day, do not say either way whether the board exports at all.

Whatever the export actually contains, the part that usually stays behind is who cast each vote rather than the running total, the comment threads underneath a request, the original timestamps, and every board link a customer already has bookmarked.

Where VoteFirst fits, and where it does not

LaunchNotes ships an AI writer that drafts the release note for you on Growth. AnnounceKit's six standalone product pages, re-read on 2 October 2026, name no AI writer among them. VoteFirst has no AI feature of any kind and none planned.

LaunchNotes runs its own email program to a broad subscriber list, five thousand emails a month included on Growth. AnnounceKit's Email add-on now costs thirty nine dollars a month billed yearly on top of whichever product you run, rather than riding free inside a plan.

VoteFirst only writes to a person whose own vote is inside the release being published, which is a smaller and different kind of message, not a bigger one done cheaper.

Neither of the two above is a place customers post and vote first. That module sits behind a segmented, branded broadcast tool on both, and the board itself is the part VoteFirst builds around instead.

What is LaunchNotes, and what is AnnounceKit?

LaunchNotes is a release communication product built around one branded page, a widget and an email program, with feedback management as one of its modules. AnnounceKit now sells each of its products, including the board, on its own, with no tier to climb to reach it.

Neither is primarily a place where a customer opens an account to ask for something and other customers vote on it. That happens on both, but it is the addition, not the reason either company exists.

Does either one have a free plan?

No, on both counts. LaunchNotes' pricing page, read on 14 September 2026, publishes one number and nothing under it. AnnounceKit's, re-read on 2 October 2026, offers a fifteen day trial with no credit card and keeps the cheapest single product, the voting board, at thirty nine dollars.

Choosing LaunchNotes or AnnounceKit

Both are tools for telling people what shipped, and both hold the request board back as a module rather than the front door. LaunchNotes charges more up front and includes more up front, with a hard wall at one page and two users.

AnnounceKit now sells the board as its own thirty nine dollar product from the start, and meters team size and MAU as separate add-ons and overage rather than folding them into a higher tier.

If the board is the actual reason you searched these two names, compare $249 against $39.

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