VoteFirst costs $9/mo for one project and $39/mo for more, with no charge per board. Feature Upvote bills per board, $49 a month for one on its entry plan billed yearly, rising to $99 for the next tier, so a second or third product multiplies the bill rather than adding to it. Both products let visitors vote with no account, so the difference here is entirely in what happens to the invoice as you ship more than one thing.
Read your board first
If you are coming from Canny or Featurebase rather than from Feature Upvote, paste your board's address into the board audit before you read any further. It reads a public board with no sign in required and returns its own post count, vote count and top request, numbers that match your board rather than a stranger's.
Feature Upvote is not an import source here. There is no button that reads a Feature Upvote board the way Settings reads a Canny or Featurebase one, so a board already on Feature Upvote moves by hand if you switch, the same limit every cross vendor migration in this category shares.
What each one charges, at one, three and five boards
Feature Upvote's entry plan, Indie, is $49 a board a month billed yearly, or $59 billed monthly. The board is the unit, so running more products multiplies the bill rather than adding to it.
| Boards | Feature Upvote, Indie, yearly | VoteFirst |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $49/mo | $9/mo, LITE, one project |
| 3 | $147/mo | $39/mo, PRO, more than one project |
| 5 | $245/mo | $39/mo, PRO |
VoteFirst's PRO plan does not move with the board count. It is $39 a month whether that covers two projects or twenty, because the plan is priced by project count rather than multiplied per project. A VoteFirst project is the unit a Feature Upvote board corresponds to.
These Feature Upvote figures are carried over from a read on 9 September 2026 and could not be reconfirmed today. featureupvote.com/pricing/ returned HTTP 403 to both a direct fetch and a browser style request on 2 October 2026, the same block recorded against this vendor before. Nothing here is presented as read today.
The comparison table
| Capability | VoteFirst | Feature Upvote |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $9/mo | $49/board/mo billed yearly, Indie |
| Price at 3 boards | $39/mo, PRO | $147/mo |
| Price at 5 boards | $39/mo, PRO | $245/mo |
| Billing unit | Per project | Per board |
| Voting without an account | Yes, anonymous cookie | Yes, cookie based |
| Revenue weighted voting | Every plan, integer multiplier per tier | Not published |
| Public roadmap | Every plan | Not published |
| Changelog | Every plan | Not published |
| Single sign on | Signed JWT handoff, PRO only, no SAML | SAML 2.0, entry plan |
| Private board | Not offered on any plan | Entry plan |
| Custom domain | PRO only | Entry plan |
| Free plan | None, 14 day trial, card required | None, 30 day trial, no card |
Rows marked not published mean Feature Upvote's own pages carried nothing on the point the last time they could be read, never that the capability is confirmed absent.
What VoteFirst does not do
- No SAML or OIDC. Single sign on is a signed JWT handoff only, on PRO, verified against a secret shared with the project.
- No private boards on any plan. A board is public to everyone or to nobody. Feature Upvote's entry plan has a private board and VoteFirst's $9 plan does not.
- No custom domain on the entry plan. It is PRO only, serving the public roadmap, the public voting board and one named public board. Feature Upvote includes a custom domain from its entry plan.
- No Slack, Zapier or outgoing webhooks.
- No AI features.
- No Android or Kotlin SDK.
- No free plan. A 14 day trial with a card required at signup, against Feature Upvote's 30 day, no card trial.
Where Feature Upvote is still better
A private board, a custom domain and unlimited team members, all on its $49 entry plan, none of which VoteFirst's $9 plan carries. SAML 2.0 single sign on from that same entry plan, ahead of most vendors in this category at that price. A 30 day trial with no card required, longer and with less friction than VoteFirst's 14 day, card required trial. Deeper moderation, useful for a board that attracts a lot of noise, per the product's own description.
If a private board matters more than the price, Feature Upvote is the better answer.
Is VoteFirst cheaper than Feature Upvote?
For one board, yes. $9 against $49 a month billed yearly, or $59 month to month. The gap grows with every board after that, because Feature Upvote bills per board and VoteFirst's PRO plan does not.
Does Feature Upvote weight votes by revenue?
Not that its own pages publish. Every vote on a Feature Upvote board counts as one. VoteFirst puts every voter on a tier with an integer multiplier, on every plan including the $9 one.
Can I move my board from Canny or Featurebase to VoteFirst instead of Feature Upvote?
Yes. Posts, statuses and vote counts import with a button from either. Feature Upvote is not an import source for VoteFirst today, so a board already on Feature Upvote moves by hand, the same limit every cross vendor migration in this category shares.
Does VoteFirst have a private board like Feature Upvote's entry plan?
No. A VoteFirst board is public to everyone or to nobody, on every plan. If a private board matters more than the price, Feature Upvote is the better answer.
Which is cheaper for four products?
Feature Upvote's Indie plan at four boards runs close to $200 a month billed yearly. VoteFirst's PRO plan is $39 a month regardless of how many projects it covers.
Related comparisons
Every Feature Upvote alternative with a published price is on one page. Canny and Feature Upvote bill for opposite things, and Upvoty bills per project where Feature Upvote bills per board. VoteFirst is also set against Canny, Upvoty and Fider.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.