LaunchNotes bundles the board in at $249; AnnounceKit sells it apart at $129

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.

Everything below was read on each vendor's own pricing page on 15 September 2026.

What does each one charge?

Two hundred and forty nine dollars a month against a hundred and twenty nine, and the smaller figure is the one that actually includes the board.

Read on each vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-15.

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 has four plans and a number on each. Its request board does not arrive on the cheapest one. Essentials at seventy nine dollars publishes a changelog and a widget; the board itself is a Growth feature, at a hundred and twenty nine.

So the honest entry price for the board, on either product, is two hundred and forty nine or a hundred and twenty nine, not the smaller number printed at the top of either 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 project meter makes a second product cost exactly double, whatever your team size. 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.

Neither vendor publishes what Premium or Enterprise actually cost. LaunchNotes' page stops at Growth's two users and one page; AnnounceKit's stops naming a figure once you pass Scale. A company that needs three logins or two announcement pages is buying a sales call on both sides.

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 honest 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 pricing questions answer, in writing, that there is no seat charge, no monthly active user charge and no page view charge on any of its plans. A ten person team on Growth pays exactly what a two person team pays.

Choose LaunchNotes when a small team needs the deepest single announcement channel money can buy. Choose AnnounceKit when the team keeps growing and you want that growth to be free.

Why choose LaunchNotes over AnnounceKit, or AnnounceKit over LaunchNotes?

Because one prices a login and a page, and the other prices a project and nothing else about it.

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 project number multiply.

Choose AnnounceKit when your team keeps adding people, because Growth carries unlimited colleagues at a hundred and twenty nine dollars flat, 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 project 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 this product's own plan is nine dollars a month flat, 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 our own 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 we fit, and where we do not

Both of these products ship an AI writer that drafts the release note for you, LaunchNotes on Growth and AnnounceKit on Essentials. We have no AI feature of any kind and none planned.

Both also run their own email program to a broad subscriber list, LaunchNotes with five thousand emails a month included on Growth and AnnounceKit with email updates on its cheapest plan.

Ours 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 we build 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 is the same shape at a smaller entry price, with the board withheld until its second tier.

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, read the same day, offers a fifteen day trial and keeps the cheapest paid plan at seventy nine dollars.

The honest summary

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 charges less to start, withholds the board until Growth, and then lets your team grow for free.

If the board is the actual reason you searched these two names, compare $249 against $129, not either vendor's cheapest line.

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