Productboard pricing, and the two price lists it shows

Productboard prices by maker, which is their word for a product manager rather than for a customer, and the number that matters is how many of those you have.

There is a second thing worth knowing before any of the figures, and it came from loading their page more times than anybody normally would.

What does productboard cost?

Two answers, and which one you get depends on which version of their pricing page loads.

On eight consecutive loads on 9 September 2026, signed out, from one machine, with no consent given and nothing in the address, two of them showed four plans starting with a free one and six of them showed two plans starting at fifty nine dollars a maker.

The Business plan carried a two maker minimum in the first shape and a five maker minimum in the second.

Annual billing saves twenty one percent by their own label. Every figure above came off their own pricing page on the day at the top of this page.

That is an experiment rather than a trick, everybody runs them, and we are not going to dress it up as anything else. It matters for one narrow reason.

Any comparison table that tells you Productboard is free to start is quoting one of two pages, and so is any table that tells you the floor is fifty nine dollars. Ours said the first. On six of eight loads that was not what a reader would see.

Nothing above moves with your user count here, and a trial is 14 days and a card, then $9 or $39 a month.

Does Productboard have a free plan?

Yes, capped at five hundred feedback notes, one teamspace and one portal on their pricing page read on 14 September 2026. The cap is the volume of feedback rather than the number of people reading it.

What is a maker and what is a contributor?

A maker is a product manager or lead, and the price counts makers. A contributor is a colleague, and contributors do not count toward that limit.

Their own words are worth quoting because most comparisons get this backwards. Makers own the product strategy, create roadmaps, prioritise features and manage insights. Contributors submit feedback, tag insights and collaborate through documents and comments, and their page gives engineers, designers and customer success teams as the examples.

So the twenty five contributor cap on the lower plans is a cap on colleagues, not on customers. If you read it as a limit on how many people can use your public board, you have misread it, and that mistake flatters us rather than them, which is exactly why it is worth stating clearly.

Is the customer portal on every plan?

The portal is, and the parts of it you would expect to be table stakes are not.

Moderation is the row to read twice. A public portal with no way to moderate what arrives on it is a decision you are making about your own front door, and on their plans that capability starts at fifty nine dollars a maker with a minimum of two or five makers depending on which page you got.

On our board moderation is on the nine dollar plan, and so is everything else on it.

What happens when the board gets popular?

Nothing to their bill, and nothing to ours. This is the objection section and the honest answer helps them.

Nothing on their pricing page meters the people who submit feedback. Their price counts makers, which is your team, and your team does not grow because your board did. That puts them in the same category as us and in a better category than the two tools in this field that do charge for participation.

Two of the twenty one tools we priced charge for the number of people who use the board, and Productboard is not one of them. If a growing invoice is what pushed you to look, that is not a reason to leave them.

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

What does a team of four cost a year?

$2,832, or $3,540 if the page you land on is the one with the five maker minimum.

Business is $59 a maker each month billed annually. Four makers is $236 a month and $2,832 a year.

The same page served a two maker minimum on some loads and a five maker minimum on others, and under the five maker version four people still pay for five, which is $295 a month and $3,540 a year.

Your customers and your colleagues who only read are contributors rather than makers, and they are not in that sum. The people who are in it are the ones who plan the work.

Who is productboard actually for?

Product organisations with several product managers, and that is not us.

They are a product management platform where the feedback portal is one surface among many. Roadmaps, prioritisation, insights, a document layer, integrations with Amplitude and Mixpanel, and a large amount of AI tooling metered in credits per maker per month.

If your problem is coordinating four product managers across three teams, the price they charge is the price of that problem and a nine dollar board will not solve it.

Our problem is smaller and so is our answer. One project, one board, one roadmap, one changelog, and votes weighted by what the customer pays. If your problem is that you do not know which requests come from paying customers, we solve exactly that and nothing else.

What does this cost on VoteFirst?

Nine dollars a month for one project, with no seat arithmetic anywhere in it.

There is no maker count, no contributor cap and no minimum. Your colleagues are not a line item, and neither are your customers. Thirty nine dollars adds more projects, the API and a custom domain, and the whole price list is one short page.

The trial runs fourteen days and a card is required to start it. We would rather you read that here than find it at the payment screen.

The product comparison rather than the price comparison is here, and every tool in the category with its billing unit is here.