Sleekplan gives a single admin a working board for nothing and only opens a bill once a second person needs a login. Upvoty skips the free tier entirely and opens a bill on day one, then holds that bill flat no matter how many colleagues you add.
Everything below was read on each vendor's own pages on 15 September 2026.
What does each one charge?
Free for a single admin on one side, fifteen dollars a month from the first day on the other, and both prices hold steady until a specific wall is hit.
| Vendor | From | Billed per | Free plan | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VoteFirst | $7.50/mo | plan | – | 14 days, card |
| Sleekplan | $13/mo | workspace | 1 admin | – |
| Upvoty | $13.50/mo | project | – | 14 days |
Read on each vendor's own pricing page on 2026-09-15.
Sleekplan's Indie tier is free with no expiry for one admin, and feedback and subscribers carry no cap under it. A second seat needs Starter at thirteen dollars billed yearly, holding three seats in total, and a tenth needs Business at thirty eight.
Upvoty's Power plan is thirteen fifty a month billed yearly for one project, with tracked users and boards uncapped on every tier it sells. A second project needs Hyper at forty four ten, which removes the project ceiling entirely and says nothing about a seat count anywhere on the page.
How much does Sleekplan cost compared to Upvoty?
One of these bills grows with the desks in your office, and the other only grows with how many separate products you run, so a company's own shape decides which figure moves first.
| Your situation | Sleekplan | Upvoty |
|---|---|---|
| A solo founder running two products | Free, two Indie workspaces, since each holds one admin and workspaces bill on their own | $44.10/mo billed yearly, Hyper, since Power and Super each hold a single project |
| Eight colleagues on one board | $38/mo billed yearly, Business, for eight of the ten seats it holds | $13.50/mo billed yearly, Power, unchanged, since no seat count appears on any of their plans |
| Twelve colleagues running three products | Business's ten seats will not cover twelve, and three workspaces bill separately, so this reads by contact three times over | $44.10/mo billed yearly, Hyper, unchanged again, for the same reason as the row above |
The middle row is the one worth sitting with. Eight people cost Sleekplan twenty five dollars more than one person would, and cost Upvoty nothing extra at all, because Upvoty never asked how many desks you have.
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 a team of twelve or fifty.
If you would rather look at a board than read about billing, the demo is open without an account.
Which one should you choose?
They are built to survive different kinds of growth, and the honest answer names something real about each.
Sleekplan's Indie plan is a complete product given away, not a sample of one. A single admin gets the board, the changelog, the roadmap, unlimited feedback and unlimited subscribers, with no clock counting down anywhere on the page.
Upvoty's flat project fee means a fifth or a fiftieth colleague never shows up on the invoice. Their own pricing page states no limit on team members at any tier, which is a rarer promise in this category than a free plan is.
Choose Sleekplan if your team will likely stay at one or two people for a while. Choose Upvoty if colleagues are the part of your company that is going to grow, and your product count is the part that will not.
Fourteen days of Pro, a card at signup, then nine or thirty nine a month.
Why choose Sleekplan over Upvoty, or Upvoty over Sleekplan?
Because one of them worries about how many people you let log in, and the other worries about how many separate products you are running.
Pick Sleekplan when you are one person, or expect to add colleagues slowly, since the free plan or the thirteen dollar tier beats fifteen dollars by a wide margin at that size.
Pick Upvoty when you are hiring faster than you are shipping new products, since team members cost nothing extra on any of its three plans and a seat priced tool would charge for every one of them.
Neither page states 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 own risk is a growing team or a growing product line.
Against Sleekplan's per seat step, anything flat is cheaper the moment a fourth colleague joins. Against Upvoty's per project fee, anything without a project count is cheaper from the first month. The calculator works out either comparison at a size you choose.
This site is nine dollars a month for one project with no seat meter attached, 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?
One of them says a great deal about this, and the other says nothing at all.
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.
Sleekplan's own feedback page states that 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.
Upvoty's pricing and product pages, read on 14 September 2026, do not use the words vote weight, MRR or customer tier anywhere. A request from your largest account and a request from someone who signed up an hour ago move the counter by exactly the same amount.
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.
Sleekplan's own import page pulls posts, comments, votes and users directly out of Upvoty by name, and warns that posts are not deduplicated, so running the same import twice creates duplicate entries.
Upvoty's own pages, read on the day, do not describe an importer running the other way, from Sleekplan onto their platform. A move in that direction 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, and the parts that go missing are the same shape on almost any move in this category.
Where we fit, and where we do not
We are one feedback board with a roadmap and a changelog, at a flat price per plan, and we are not a wider workspace suite or a multi product dashboard.
Both Sleekplan and Upvoty offer a public roadmap that sits beside the board rather than behind a separate login, and ours does the same, so that part is not a gap. What is a gap is scale. Sleekplan spans six modules under one workspace login, feedback, documents, roadmap, changelog, satisfaction scores and surveys.
We have one module and no survey product of any kind.
Upvoty ships its own MCP server on Hyper, letting an assistant read and act on a board through a documented interface. We have no MCP server and none is planned, since we build no AI feature at all.
What neither of their own pages describes is a fixed integer multiplier that rewrites the vote itself the instant it lands, with the plain count still printed beside the weighted total, true of the nine dollar plan and the thirty nine dollar plan alike.
What is Sleekplan, and what is Upvoty?
Sleekplan is a wider workspace, a feedback board, a changelog, a roadmap and a survey product, priced per seat with a free tier for a single admin that never expires.
Upvoty is a feedback board with a public roadmap and a changelog, priced per project, with unlimited tracked users and unlimited boards on all three of its plans.
Does either one have a free plan?
Sleekplan does, and Upvoty does not.
Sleekplan's Indie tier, read on 15 September 2026, is a single admin workspace carrying unlimited feedback and unlimited subscribers with no expiry date anywhere on the page.
Upvoty's pricing page, read the same day, carries a fourteen day trial that asks for no card, and the fifteen dollar Power plan is the cheapest thing you can keep once that trial ends.
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
Sleekplan gives away a real product to one admin and starts charging the moment a second person needs to log in. Upvoty charges from the first day and then refuses to charge again for any colleague you add after that, however many join.
One of them names a tunable vote weight in its own words. The other does not mention the idea anywhere we could read it. That is the one row on this page that is not close.
The Sleekplan alternative page and the Upvoty one carry each side on its own.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.