Canny Alternatives: 10 Competitors Compared for 2026
Canny alternatives and competitors compared: 10 feedback boards with prices checked 9 Oct 2026, what Canny costs per tracked user, and how to move your data.
Canny prices by tracked user. Its Free plan covers up to 25 tracked users, and Pro starts at $99 a month billed monthly ($79 billed yearly) for 100 tracked users, then climbs as more people post, vote or comment. The main Canny alternatives price differently: Featurebase charges per seat, Feature Upvote charges per board, and Nolt, Upvoty and Sleekplan sell flat plans that don't count tracked users. Below: Canny's cost at 100, 1,000 and 5,000 tracked users in both billing modes, 10 competitors priced from their own pages, the free options, and how to move your posts and votes.
Prices checked on 9 Oct 2026; check the vendor's page before buying.
Feedjolt is our product; it's listed alongside the others.
Canny alternatives at a glance
Canny charges by tracked user; the main Canny alternatives in 2026 don't. On 9 Oct 2026, canny.io showed:
- Free: up to 25 tracked users.
- Pro: from $99 a month billed monthly ($79 billed yearly) for 100 tracked users, $661 ($529) for 1,000, and $1,349 ($1,079) for 5,000.
- Business: quote-only above 5,000 tracked users.
A tracked user is anyone who posts, votes or comments, including when an admin does it on their behalf or Autopilot picks up their feedback.
Canny's main competitors include:
- Featurebase ($29 per seat a month, billed yearly; monthly not shown)
- Frill (from $25/month, billed monthly)
- Nolt (from $39/month, billed monthly)
- Upvoty (from $15/month, billed monthly)
- Sleekplan (free plan; paid from $15/month, billed monthly)
- Feature Upvote (from $59 per board/month, billed monthly)
- FeatureOS (from $60/month, billed monthly)
- UserVoice and Productboard (prices not shown)
- Feedjolt, which charges a flat price per workspace with unlimited boards, posts and contributors (pricing on its homepage). Feedjolt's AI flags likely duplicates for a person to review, and agents work the board over MCP with the permissions a person grants.
| Tool | How it charges | Lowest listed paid plan, monthly billing | Same plan, yearly billing | Free plan shown? | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canny (baseline) | Per tracked user | Pro, $99/mo for 100 tracked users | $79/mo billed yearly | Yes, up to 25 tracked users | Teams that want feedback captured from support and sales tools |
| 1. Feedjolt (ours) | Flat price per workspace | see homepage | see homepage | see homepage | Teams on Linear that want a public board, roadmap and changelog |
| 2. Featurebase | Per seat | not shown | Growth, $29/seat/mo billed yearly | Yes, 1 seat | Support and feedback in one tool |
| 3. Frill | Flat tiers | Startup, $25/mo | $22/mo billed yearly | not shown | Ideas, roadmap and announcements for small teams |
| 4. Nolt | Flat tiers by number of boards | Essential, $39/mo | $29/mo ($348 billed annually) | not shown | Simple boards with unlimited users |
| 5. Upvoty | Flat tiers, unlimited tracked users | Power, $15/mo | $13.50/mo billed annually | not shown | Low-cost public voting boards |
| 6. Sleekplan | Flat tiers by seats | Starter, $15/mo | $13/mo billed yearly | Yes, Indie $0 | Feedback plus NPS, CSAT and surveys |
| 7. Feature Upvote | Per board | Indie, $59/board/mo | $49/board/mo billed yearly | not shown | Several boards with no per-user limits |
| 8. FeatureOS | Flat tiers with board and seat allowances | Starter, $60/mo | $600/year | not shown | Boards, roadmap, changelog and knowledge base in one suite |
| 9. UserVoice | Feedback volume, tools and integrations, never by seat | not shown | not shown | not shown | Enterprise feedback programs |
| 10. Productboard | Sales-led | not shown | not shown | not shown | Product management beyond a board |
Prices checked on 9 Oct 2026; check the vendor's page before buying.
What Canny costs in 2026: tracked users explained
Canny's pricing page lists three plans: Free, Pro and Business. We checked it on 9 Oct 2026, dragging the tracked-user slider through every stop in both billing modes.
- Free: $0, up to 25 tracked users and 5 managers.
- Pro: "starts at" $79 a month billed yearly, with 10 managers. The price rises with tracked users.
- Business: above 5,000 tracked users the slider shows Business and "Contact us".
What counts as a tracked user. Canny's FAQ says "a tracked user is someone who has given feedback": creating a post, voting or commenting. Those actions count whether the user takes them, an admin takes them "on their behalf", or Autopilot does. Users whose feedback Autopilot finds in chats, calls or reviews count too. Canny's own estimate is that "typically around 1-5% of total users become tracked users" for a B2B SaaS company. The page doesn't say whether the count is lifetime or per billing period, so ask Canny if that matters for your budget.
What happens when you go over. Without a monthly spend limit, Canny says it will "automatically upgrade you to the next tier" and charge a prorated amount for the rest of the billing period. With a spend limit set, it stops tracking feedback from new users once you reach it.
For a longer walkthrough of the model, see Canny pricing explained: tracked users. Here is what Pro cost at three common sizes:
| Tracked users | Billed yearly (per month) | Billed monthly |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | $79 | $99 |
| 1,000 | $529 | $661 |
| 5,000 | $1,079 | $1,349 |
Estimate your own Canny bill: Canny pricing calculator (indicative, as of 6 Oct 2026)
Prices checked on 9 Oct 2026; check the vendor's page before buying.
10 Canny competitors and replacements, compared
The order below is not a ranking. Feedjolt comes first because it's ours; the other nine follow no particular order.
1. Feedjolt (ours)
Who it's for: product teams that want a public feedback board with voting, a public roadmap and a changelog, and that track their work in Linear.
How it charges: a flat price per workspace with unlimited boards, posts and contributors. See pricing on the homepage.
Fair strength: Feedjolt's AI flags likely duplicates for a person to review, and agents work the board over MCP with the permissions a person grants. Status changes and comments sync both ways with Linear, and there is a built-in importer for Canny exports (covered in the migration section below).
Trade-off: fewer native integrations than Canny. There's no Jira, Salesforce or HubSpot connection today; it connects to Slack, Linear and ClickUp.
Docs: merging duplicates, MCP tools, Linear integration. Comparison: Feedjolt vs Canny, side by side.
2. Featurebase
Who it's for: teams that want feedback boards and a helpdesk in one subscription.
How it charges: per seat. There is a Free plan with 1 seat. Growth is $29, Professional $59 and Enterprise $99 per seat per month, all "billed yearly", plus $0.49 per AI resolution. A monthly-billing price is not shown. End users are unlimited, and the pricing page lists API, MCP and webhooks from Growth.
Fair strength: one tool for support conversations and feature requests, so the context travels with the request.
Trade-off: per-seat pricing means the bill follows headcount, not voters.
Sources: Featurebase pricing; our take on Featurebase alternatives.
3. Frill
Who it's for: small teams that want ideas, a roadmap, announcements and surveys in one tidy widget.
How it charges: flat tiers. Billed monthly, Startup is $25, Business $49, Growth $149 and Enterprise $349 a month. With "Billed Yearly" selected they show as $22, $44, $136 and $319 a month. There is a 14-day trial, and tracked users and admins are unlimited.
Fair strength: its pricing table lists a Canny import and similar-idea detection, which makes it an easy side-by-side test.
Trade-off: Startup caps you at 50 ideas, so an active board pushes you up a tier.
Sources: Frill pricing; Frill alternatives.
4. Nolt
Who it's for: teams that want a simple, good-looking board at a flat rate, with unlimited users, content and admins.
How it charges: by plan and number of boards. Essential is $39 a month billed monthly, or $29 a month ($348 billed annually), for 1 board. Pro is $89 a month, or $69 a month ($828 billed annually), for 5 boards. Enterprise is custom, and new boards start with a 10-day free trial of the Pro plan, with no credit card required.
Fair strength: Nolt's pricing page lists JWT SSO from Essential and a choice between Europe and Global hosting.
Trade-off: Jira and Linear integrations start on Pro, so teams that need them pay the higher tier.
Sources: Nolt pricing; Nolt alternatives.
5. Upvoty
Who it's for: founders and small SaaS teams that want a public voting board on a tight budget.
How it charges: flat plans with unlimited tracked users. Billed monthly, Power is $15, Super $25 and Hyper $49 a month. Billed annually they show as $13.50, $22.50 and $44.10 a month. Upvoty lists a 14-day free trial on every plan, with no credit card required.
Fair strength: one of the lowest paid entry prices in this comparison, and Hyper lists "Upvoty MCP" plus API and webhooks.
Trade-off: the changelog starts on Super, and MCP and API access only on Hyper, so the cheapest plan covers just a board and roadmap.
Comparison: Canny vs Upvoty. Source: Upvoty pricing.
6. Sleekplan
Who it's for: teams that want feedback, a roadmap and a changelog alongside NPS, CSAT and surveys.
How it charges: flat tiers by seats, with unlimited tracked users. Indie is $0 ("Free forever", single admin). Starter is $15 a month billed monthly or $13 billed yearly, with 3 seats. Business is $45 a month or $38 billed yearly, with 10 seats. Enterprise is custom, and there is a 30-day trial.
Fair strength: a free starting plan, plus satisfaction surveys in the same widget.
Trade-off: seats are capped per tier, so a growing product team climbs plans by headcount.
Sources: Sleekplan pricing; Sleekplan alternatives.
7. Feature Upvote
Who it's for: teams that run one board per product or per customer group and don't want per-user limits.
How it charges: per board. Indie is $59 per board a month billed monthly or $49 billed yearly. Standard is $119 monthly or $99 yearly. Enterprise is on request for more than 10 boards, and there is a 30-day trial.
Fair strength: unlimited contributors and team members on every board, so the bill never moves with voters.
Trade-off: each extra board costs a full board price, which gets expensive for multi-product teams.
Sources: Feature Upvote pricing; Feature Upvote alternatives.
8. FeatureOS (formerly Hellonext)
Who it's for: teams that want boards, roadmaps, changelogs and a knowledge base in one suite.
How it charges: flat tiers with board and seat allowances. Billed monthly, Starter is $60, Growth $120 and Business $250 a month. Billed annually they are $600, $1,200 and $2,500 a year. Extra seats are $15 a month each on every plan, and extra boards $15 a month each on Starter and Growth (Business includes unlimited boards), and there is a 30-day trial.
Fair strength: boards, roadmap, changelog and knowledge base under one login. Trade-off: the entry price is higher than Nolt's, Upvoty's or Frill's.
Source: FeatureOS pricing. Comparison: Hellonext (FeatureOS) vs Canny.
9. UserVoice
Who it's for: larger companies running formal, enterprise feedback programs across many teams.
How it charges: price not shown on the pricing page. UserVoice says pricing is "based on feedback volume, tools leveraged and the integrations you connect, never by seat", and the page's button is "Talk to an Expert".
Fair strength: built for programs with many stakeholders and high feedback volume. Trade-off: its FAQ says most teams launch in "4-6 weeks".
Source: UserVoice pricing.
10. Productboard
Who it's for: product organizations that want a full product management platform, with feedback portals as one part.
How it charges: price not shown on the pricing page. Business is "Request demo" and Enterprise is "Contact sales". The plan table lists an MCP server and 2 product portals on Business.
Fair strength: goes well beyond a board, into roadmapping and prioritization. Trade-off: heavier to roll out and sales-led, which is more than you need if all you want is a voting board.
Sources: Productboard pricing; a lighter take on Productboard for indie SaaS.
Also on shortlists: Aha! Ideas, Pendo and Rapidr.
Prices checked on 9 Oct 2026; check the vendor's page before buying.
Free and open-source Canny alternatives
If the budget is zero, these are the options the pricing pages show:
- Canny's own Free plan: up to 25 tracked users. Past that, Canny upgrades you to the next tier, or stops tracking new users if you've set a spend limit.
- Sleekplan Indie: $0, "Free forever", with a single admin.
- Featurebase Free: 1 seat, so it suits a solo founder.
- Fider: free, with a fair-use limit of 250 feedback items, plus a Pro plan at $25 a month billed month-to-month. Fider's site links to its GitHub repository, where the code is published under the AGPL-3.0 license, and to its self-hosting docs. Source: Fider pricing.
- A DIY board in Trello or Notion: free, but there is no vote deduplication and no way to tell voters when something ships.
Prices checked on 9 Oct 2026; check the vendor's page before buying.
How to choose a Canny replacement
If your Canny bill is growing faster than your team, or your board is getting too noisy to read, put the questions below to each vendor before you sign up.
| Criterion | Question to ask the vendor |
|---|---|
| Pricing basis | Do you charge by tracked user, seat, board or a flat rate, and what happens to my bill if voters double? |
| Friction to vote | Can a customer vote without creating a new account, and from inside our app? |
| Duplicate handling | Do you suggest duplicates or merge them automatically, and who on my team controls that? |
| Public roadmap and changelog | Are a public roadmap and changelog included, or sold as add-ons or higher tiers? |
| Closing the loop | When a request ships, how do the people who voted for it find out? |
| Integrations | Do you connect to the tools we already use, such as Linear, Slack or Jira, and does status sync both ways? |
| Privacy and SSO | Which plan includes SSO, and where is our customers' data stored? |
| Migration path | Can you import a Canny export, and which parts (posts, votes, comments, statuses) come across? |
Two habits help. First, price the tool at the size you expect in a year, not the size you are today. Second, run your real board through the importer before you commit, so you can see what carries over.
When to stay on Canny
Switching isn't always the right call. Canny's pricing page lists features some teams depend on:
- Autopilot feedback capture from Intercom, Zendesk, Freshdesk, Gong and Zoom on all plans.
- Project management integrations with Jira, ClickUp, Linear, Asana, GitHub and Azure DevOps.
- CRM integrations with HubSpot and Salesforce, and SSO integrations, on Business.
- MCP connectors for OpenAI, Claude, ClickUp and Cursor on Pro and Business.
- SOC 2 listed on the page.
If your tracked users stay low, or Autopilot capture from support and sales conversations is the main reason you use Canny, staying can be the right decision. Rerun the numbers when your tracked-user count nears the next tier.
Migrate from Canny: import your Canny export into Feedjolt
If you do switch, here is how the importer in Feedjolt works:
- Export from Canny. Use a full ZIP export if your Canny account offers a full data export, or export a single board as CSV. Canny's guide: Exporting feedback.
- Open the importer in Feedjolt: Data Import, then Open Importer, then Import from Canny. Choose ZIP or CSV.
- Preview the detected board, row count, statuses and tags.
- Pick a board: an existing Feedjolt board or a new one.
- Map statuses: match each Canny status to a Feedjolt status, then start the import.
- Mind the 25 MB limit: zip a larger CSV first. When the import finishes, the importer shows imported, skipped and failed counts.
What carries over: the ZIP route covers "boards, posts, votes, comments, users, and companies". The CSV route covers one board's posts.
After the import:
- Imported posts stay out of the daily admin digest, so your team isn't flooded on day one (notifications docs).
- Where sentiment classification is available, imported posts are classified when they are created, the same as posts from other channels (AI analysis docs).
Before you start, list your boards, statuses and tags in Canny, decide which ones you still need, and tell your most active voters where the new board lives. The full playbook: how to move off Canny.
FAQ
What are the best Canny alternatives?
It depends on how you want to pay. Featurebase charges per seat, Feature Upvote per board, and Nolt, Upvoty, Sleekplan, Frill and FeatureOS sell flat tiers. Feedjolt charges a flat price per workspace with unlimited boards, posts and contributors. UserVoice and Productboard suit larger, sales-led rollouts.
Who are Canny's main competitors?
Canny's main competitors are Featurebase, Frill, Nolt, Upvoty, Sleekplan, Feature Upvote, FeatureOS (formerly Hellonext), UserVoice, Productboard and Feedjolt. Aha! Ideas, Pendo and Rapidr also appear on shortlists.
How much does Canny cost for 1,000 tracked users?
On 9 Oct 2026, Canny Pro cost $529 a month billed yearly or $661 billed monthly for 1,000 tracked users. At 100 tracked users it was $79 or $99, and at 5,000 it was $1,079 or $1,349. Prices checked on 9 Oct 2026; check the vendor's page before buying.
What is a tracked user in Canny?
A tracked user is someone who has given feedback by posting, voting or commenting. It includes actions an admin takes on their behalf and users whose feedback Autopilot finds. Canny estimates that around 1-5% of a B2B SaaS company's users become tracked users.
Is there a free Canny alternative?
Yes. Sleekplan's Indie plan is $0, Featurebase has a Free plan with 1 seat, and Fider is free up to a fair-use limit of 250 feedback items, with links to its source code and self-hosting. Canny's own Free plan covers 25 tracked users. Prices checked on 9 Oct 2026; check the vendor's page before buying.
Does Canny have an MCP server?
Yes. Canny's pricing page lists MCP connectors (OpenAI, Claude, ClickUp and Cursor) on Pro and Business, not on Free, and its MCP page says the server "is available on any paid plan". It also lists Autopilot AI features for capturing and triaging feedback.
Can I import my Canny data into Feedjolt?
Yes. Feedjolt's importer takes a Canny ZIP export or a single board's CSV, previews the board, row count, statuses and tags, and lets you map each Canny status before the import starts. The ZIP route covers boards, posts, votes, comments, users and companies.
Which Canny alternative works with AI agents?
Several list MCP on their pricing pages: Canny Pro and Business, Upvoty Hyper, Productboard Business and Featurebase from Growth up. Feedjolt's AI flags likely duplicates for a person to review, and agents work the board over MCP with the permissions a person grants.
Next step
Shortlist two or three tools from the table, price each at the size you expect next year, and test the import path with your real Canny export. See how Feedjolt works