ProdPad's pricing page asks you to assemble modules and editors and computes a figure inside your browser once you have chosen something. Aha's pricing card prints a rate on the page itself, and beneath that rate it prints a rule: you cannot buy fewer than three seats.
Everything below was read on each vendor's own pages on 15 September 2026.
What does each one charge?
Nothing you can read without opening the builder, and thirty nine dollars a seat a month with a floor of three under it.
| Vendor | From | Billed per | Free plan | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoteFirst | $7.50/mo | plan | – | 14 days, card |
| Aha! Ideas | $39/user/mo | user | – | Yes |
| ProdPad | Not published | module | – | 7 days |
Read on each vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-15.
There is no proof image for ProdPad in our archive. Their pricing page computes a rate after the page loads, from modules and a count of editors you have not chosen yet, so there is no printed figure a screenshot could catch.
Aha's floor sits directly under the rate on the same card. Thirty nine dollars becomes a hundred and seventeen a month the instant you land on the page, whether one person needs a seat or three.
How much does ProdPad cost compared to Aha?
Aha has a real number at every size below. ProdPad has the same answer at all three, because the figure depends on choices nobody reading this table has made yet.
| Your situation | ProdPad | Aha Ideas |
|---|---|---|
| One editor, before inviting anyone else | Not published, priced inside their builder | $117/mo, the floor of three seats applies to one person the same as three |
| Four editors and twelve people only reviewing | Not published | $624/mo, all sixteen need a paid seat on Aha |
| Eleven editors running two product lines | Not published | $429/mo, eleven seats at $39 |
ProdPad's reviewers never show up in that table, and that is the finding worth keeping. Their help centre lets you invite as many reviewers as you like at no charge, and a reviewer's job is to add and edit their own submissions while only watching and commenting on the rest. Aha's reviewer is a different animal entirely: their own definitions place a reviewer, somebody able to open the list, add to it and vote, on the same paid footing as the person actually running the roadmap.
So the same job title costs nothing on one page and thirty nine dollars a month on the other.
If you would rather look at a working board than build a package or count seats, the demo is open without an account.
Which one should you choose?
They are built for different buyers, and naming both fairly matters more than crowning a winner.
ProdPad's trial is a genuinely unusual offer. Finishing tasks in the product pushes it past thirty days from a starting week, and their signup flow never asks for a card at all.
Aha's willingness to print a real rate, floor and all, is real credit against a vendor that shows none. You can see the shape of the bill on the first visit, without loading a builder or picking a single module.
Choose ProdPad if your team already works from a mix of modules and free reviewers matter more to you than a number up front. Choose Aha if you would rather read a rate today, even a padded one, than spend an afternoon assembling a package.
Why choose ProdPad over Aha, or Aha over ProdPad?
Because one prices a package built from parts, with no floor and no printed number, and the other prices a seat, with a printed floor under every one of them.
Choose ProdPad when free reviewers matter to your organisation, and a bill built from separate modules, whichever mix of roadmapping, idea capture, feedback and portfolio work your team actually runs, suits you better than one flat rate.
Choose Aha when you want the number in front of you today, and you accept that the number counts every internal role who can even open the list, contributor, reviewer and viewer alike.
A package builder can undercharge a team using one module and overcharge one running several. A floor under a seat rate charges the same whether your team needs one person or three, and neither vendor says so plainly.
Fourteen days of Pro, a card at signup, then nine or thirty nine a month.
Is there a cheaper alternative to both?
Against Aha's floor, yes, and the arithmetic is easy to run because Aha prints a real number to compare against.
The calculator works the seat arithmetic at a headcount you choose, against a flat nine dollars a month for one project. Against ProdPad there is nothing published to compare, so the honest answer is that we cannot say at what size a flat price beats a builder with no figure in it.
The whole field, with the unit each vendor bills on, sits on one page.
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. A dash means nobody could read it on the pages opened that day, never that the capability is absent.
Our own tracked matrix of thirty two vendors finds eight who write something revenue related on their own pages, and four of those eight actually change the weight of the vote rather than only sort by revenue afterward.
Aha's own wording, prioritizing ideas by potential revenue, is one of the eight, and it is an ordering choice rather than a weight written onto the vote, so it sits outside the smaller group of four.
ProdPad's own mechanism is a third thing again. Somebody on your team keys in what a company is worth each year, and that figure rolls up onto every idea the company fed into, counted once per company.
Nothing there sorts a list or changes a weight, so it sits outside both groups, but it is real and documented, and worth naming rather than skipping.
Neither vendor multiplies a single vote by what the voter pays the moment it is cast.
Can I move from one to the other?
Some of it, and neither export is the whole board.
Any ProdPad user can pull ideas out as a CSV or a PDF, which travels with the idea text but not with the votes and comments sitting underneath it. Aha names an export as a feature of Ideas without ever telling you, on the pages we opened, what actually lands in the file.
Who cast a given vote, the back and forth underneath a request, and any portal link a customer has already shared are the kind of thing neither page describes surviving a move.
Where we fit, and where we do not
Both vendors above are selling something wider than a public place to vote, so judging either one on price alone leaves out most of what you would actually be buying.
They both fold an AI feature into what you pay and we build none. ProdPad lists an AI assistant right beside its other modules on the same navigation. Aha writes idea analysis, theme sorting and drafting into every Ideas plan. We ship no AI feature, and we are not building toward one.
Both sit inside something larger than a feedback list. ProdPad's own module set runs past ideas and into portfolio work and objectives, the territory of a whole planning process rather than a single board. Aha sells Ideas as one of eight linked products, with the roadmap, delivery and strategy tools sold around it.
We stay narrow on purpose: a public board, a roadmap page with a place to mark a request denied, a changelog, and a vote weight tied to what the person casting it pays, live on every plan we sell down to the cheapest one.
What is ProdPad, and what is Aha?
ProdPad is a modular product management tool. You switch on roadmapping, idea capture, feedback, portfolio work, objectives and reporting as separate pieces, pay by the pieces switched on and the editors using them, and let in as many reviewers as you like without a charge.
Aha is a suite of eight products, of which Ideas is the customer facing portal, billed per paid seat with a floor of three, and every internal role who can open the list, contributor, reviewer and viewer, needs one of those seats.
Does either one have a free plan?
Neither does. ProdPad's pricing page read on 15 September 2026 offers a seven day trial that can stretch past thirty by completing tasks, and it asks for no card, but nothing free sits under it once the trial ends.
Aha's pricing page, read the same day, carries a thirty day trial on the Advanced plan that also asks for no card, and no free tier under that either. The cheapest thing you can keep on Aha is a seat, bought three at a time.
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
Load ProdPad's pricing page and you get a builder waiting for input, not a figure. Load Aha's and you get a figure straight away, plus a rule that turns it into three seats no matter what you actually need.
Neither one changes the weight of a vote by what the person behind it pays, and neither treats a public board as the whole point of the product.
Pick ProdPad when your team runs on named modules and giving reviewers a free seat matters more than a rate you can read on day one. Pick Aha when a printed figure today outweighs the floor underneath it, especially while your reviewer headcount stays small.
Ours skips both problems: one flat rate, and the vote itself carries the money.
The ProdPad alternative page and the Aha one carry each side on its own.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.