Nolt and Feature Upvote bill for the same thing and price it differently

Most comparisons in this category are between two different units, a meter on your customers against a meter on your team. This is not one of those.

Nolt and Feature Upvote both charge by the board, both leave your voters off the bill entirely, and both publish their figures. What separates them is what a second board costs and what the entry plan carries.

For the wider list rather than this one pairing, the Feature Upvote alternatives are priced one at a time.

Everything below was read on each vendor's own pricing pages on 14 September 2026.

What does each one charge?

Twenty nine dollars a board, forty nine dollars a board, and neither number moves when more people vote.

Read on each vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-14.

There is no matching photograph of Nolt's page in this archive, because nolt.io sits behind a check the browser we use could not clear on the day. The figures below come from notes taken on their own pricing page on 14 September 2026, with both toggles moved rather than left where they loaded.

Nolt publishes three plans. Essential is $29 a month billed yearly, or $348 a year, and carries one board. Pro is $69 a month billed yearly, or $828 a year, and carries five. Enterprise is quoted.

Feature Upvote publishes two and quotes a third. Indie is $49 a board a month. Standard is $99 a board a month. Enterprise starts above ten boards.

How much does Nolt cost compared to Feature Upvote?

The gap is small at one board and it widens fast, because one of them sells a tier and the other sells a unit.

The third row is the one that decides it. Nolt's Pro plan holds five boards for one price, so the third, fourth and fifth board are free once you have paid for the second. Feature Upvote charges the same forty nine dollars for every board you add, with no step discount below the Enterprise conversation.

Running one board, the difference is twenty dollars a month. Running five, it is a hundred and seventy six.

The arithmetic also runs the other way at the bottom. Nolt's second board costs forty dollars a month, because there is nothing between one board and five, so a company that needs exactly two pays for three it will not use.

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

Which one should you choose?

Board count decides it for most teams, and the entry plan decides it for the rest.

Feature Upvote puts SAML 2.0 single sign on and private boards on its entry plan, at forty nine dollars. Most of this category puts SAML three tiers up or behind a sales call.

If your feedback board has to sit behind your identity provider and you are not going to have that conversation, that one row is the whole reason to buy theirs, and it is a fair price for it.

Nolt's entry plan is not thin either. Essential carries private boards, single sign on through a signed token, custom fields, custom statuses, a roadmap, and the Slack, Discord, GitHub and Trello integrations, for twenty dollars less a month.

The difference in the single sign on row is the protocol. Nolt's Essential signs a token from your own application and puts SAML 2.0 on Enterprise. Feature Upvote's Indie carries SAML 2.0 itself. If your security review names SAML, that distinction is the whole comparison.

The demo board is open and it asks for no account.

Why choose Nolt over Feature Upvote, or Feature Upvote over Nolt?

Because one of them gets cheaper per board as you grow and the other never does.

Choose Nolt when you run more than two products, when twenty nine dollars is the right entry price for one board, or when you want the European product, which is hosted in the European Union on a separate domain at ten more a month in euros.

Choose Feature Upvote when SAML 2.0 on the entry plan matters, when you want exactly two boards and resent paying for five, or when a thirty day trial that asks for no card is how you want to evaluate a tool.

Thirty days is the longest trial published in the table, matched by two other vendors.

Is there a cheaper alternative to both?

Ours is nine dollars a month for one project and thirty nine for unlimited projects, which is below both of them at every board count.

That is the price and not the argument. Neither of these two charges you for the people who vote, so the usual reason to leave a metered tool does not apply here.

If you are on Nolt or Feature Upvote and the bill is the only complaint, you are already on the cheap side of this category.

The full field with the unit each vendor bills on puts every option on one page, and the tracked user calculator prices the tools that do meter people, which is where the real money goes.

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

Neither of them weights it, and neither of their pricing pages claims to.

Read on each vendor's own pages on 14 September 2026. Not published means nobody could read it on the pages opened that day, never that the capability is absent.

On both products a vote is a vote, so the customer paying you two thousand a month and the one on the free tier move the counter by the same one.

For a community board that is correct, and for a board where your revenue is concentrated in a few accounts it is the thing that makes the ranking misleading.

Can I move from one to the other?

Nolt publishes data export APIs on its Pro plan. Feature Upvote's own pages read on the day do not name an export.

That asymmetry matters more than it looks. Leaving a tool is the moment you find out what you actually own, and the answer should be on the pricing page rather than in a support ticket.

Moving in either direction, the requests can be rebuilt by hand or by script, and the vote counts start again from zero. Who cast each vote and the comment thread underneath it do not survive any move in this category.

What a Canny export actually contains is written up from the file itself, and the shape of the problem is the same wherever you are leaving from.

Where we fit, and where we do not

Feature Upvote has SAML 2.0 and private boards on a forty nine dollar plan. Nolt has private boards on Essential and password protected boards on Pro, plus restricting access by email domain. We have none of those at any price.

There is no password, no invite list and no per person access control here. The nearest thing is keeping a board unpublished on the higher plan, and that is not the same thing.

Nolt also publishes a longer integration list than we do, with Zapier, Make, Pabbly, Intercom, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Linear, monday.com and Asana on Pro. Feature Upvote publishes Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Jira and Zapier on Indie. Our integration page is honest about being shorter.

What we do that neither of them does is put a multiplier on a customer tier and write that weight onto the vote when it is cast, on every plan including the nine dollar one.

What is Nolt, and what is Feature Upvote?

Nolt is a hosted feedback board with a roadmap view on the same board, billed by a tier that holds one or five boards, with unlimited users, unlimited content and unlimited admins on every plan.

Feature Upvote is a hosted feedback board billed per board, with an identical feature list on both published plans, so the fifty dollar step from Indie to Standard buys support speed rather than capability. Inside a board nothing is metered.

Does either one have a free plan?

Neither does, and the trials are very different lengths.

Nolt gives every new board a ten day trial of the Pro plan and their page says it asks for no card. Feature Upvote's trial is thirty days and also asks for no card.

Thirty days without a card is unusual enough to be worth naming. It is long enough to run a real board through a release cycle rather than a demo.

We have no free plan either, and our trial is fourteen days of Pro with a card at signup.

The honest summary

Two products that agree about the important thing. Neither charges you for the people who vote, so a board that does well does not cost more.

They disagree about the board. Nolt sells a tier, so the second board costs forty dollars a month and the fifth costs nothing. Feature Upvote sells a unit, so every board costs forty nine and the arithmetic never bends.

Nolt for more than two products, or for twenty nine dollars at one board. Feature Upvote for SAML 2.0 on the entry plan, or for the thirty day trial. Ours if you want the vote itself, not just the count, to carry what the voter pays.

The Nolt alternative page carries that side, and the Feature Upvote alternatives are priced one at a time.

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