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Upvoty Alternatives: 9 Tools Compared on Price (2026)
The closest Upvoty alternatives are FeedBear and Nolt. Sleekplan and Fider have free plans, Frill and Featurebase do more than a board, Canny has the most integrations, and Usero keeps feedback free forever and sends each request to an engineer.
Upvoty itself costs 15, 25 or 49 dollars a month for its Power, Super and Hyper plans, with no free plan and a 14-day trial. Several roundups that rank for this search quote older prices. Every price on this page was checked on the vendor site on 2026-10-19, except Nolt, whose pricing page blocks automated checks.
I build Usero, so weigh where I put it. It has the same public board, votes, roadmap and changelog as Upvoty. Feedback, votes and form answers are free and unlimited on every plan, and Pro (39 dollars a month) and Team (89) buy more session replays, AI analysis and user tests. It has no SSO and no custom CSS. If you need either, Upvoty or another tool here fits better.
Upvoty alternatives at a glance
Starting prices are monthly, in USD, as of 2026-10-19. Confirm on the vendor site before you sign anything.
| Tool | Starts at | Free tier | Public roadmap | AI clustering | Opens a PR for you | Sweet spot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usero | $0, paid from $39 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Feedback straight to the engineer |
| Upvoty | $15 | No | Yes | Yes | No | Flat-priced board with SSO |
| Sleekplan | $0, paid from $13 (annual) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Free plan with a changelog |
| FeedBear | $19 ($15 annual) | No | Yes | No | No | Closest like-for-like swap |
| Nolt | $29/board (annual) | No | Limited | No | No | Minimal voting board |
| Frill | $25 | No | Yes | No | No | Board plus surveys |
| Featurebase | $0, paid from $29/seat (annual) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Feedback plus a support inbox |
| featureOS | $60 | No | Yes | Yes | No | Board plus help center |
| Canny | $0, paid from $79 (annual) | Limited | Yes | Yes | No | Most integrations |
| Fider | $0, Cloud Pro $25 | Yes | Statuses only | No | No | Self-hosted, open source |
Why people leave Upvoty
- No free plan. Upvoty has a 14-day trial, then the cheapest plan is 15 dollars a month. Sleekplan, Fider, Featurebase, Canny and Usero all have a free plan, which matters for a side project or a board that gets ten posts a month.
- The 15-dollar plan is the board and roadmap only. The changelog and integrations start on Super at 25 dollars a month. Power and Super both cover one project, so a second product means Hyper at 49 (Upvoty pricing, checked 2026-10-19).
- An older record of bugs and slow support. Pre-2.0 reviews on G2 report bugs, and one describes losing collected data with no recovery and no reply from support. Reviews since the 2.0 redesign praise speed and support, so the complaint looks historical, but teams that read the older reviews still ask about it.
- Votes stop at the board. Upvoty ranks requests and notifies voters when a post ships. The step in between, writing up the top request and getting it to an engineer, is still done by hand.
The price difference
Upvoty starts at 15 dollars a month for Power, 25 for Super and 49 for Hyper, billed monthly, with 10% off for annual billing. Usero is free forever for feedback, with Pro at 39 dollars a month and Team at 89 for more replays, AI and tests. Upvoty charges per project, not per seat or tracked user, so the bill stays flat as a public board grows. Power has the board, roadmap, custom domain, SSO and API access. The changelog and integrations start on Super, and Hyper adds unlimited projects, webhooks and an MCP server. Other roundups quote 25, 49 and 99 dollars, or plans capped at 150 to 10,000 tracked users; the live pricing page shows neither (checked 2026-10-19). Usero has no seat or project price either: feedback, votes and form answers are unlimited on every plan.
The alternatives, in order
1. Usero
free forever for feedback, paid from $39/moFeedback free forever, sent to the engineer
Usero has the parts of Upvoty most teams use: a public board with votes, a roadmap, a changelog and an in-app widget. Feedback, votes and form answers are unlimited on every plan and kept forever, and seats are unlimited too. Free includes 5,000 session replays a month. Pro (39 dollars a month) and Team (89) raise the replay, AI analysis and user test amounts, and Pro adds a custom domain and removes Usero branding.
The difference is what happens after the vote. Usero groups similar reports with AI, and each one arrives with the user's own words, who sent it and the replay of what they were doing. You can send it to GitHub, Linear or Jira as an issue, or have Usero draft a pull request on a connected GitHub repo for you to review before merging. Free includes 5 draft PRs a month.
Where it falls short of Upvoty: no SSO yet (listed as coming later on Team), no custom CSS for the board, and no direct Upvoty importer. Upvoty exports posts to CSV and Usero imports a CSV, so check which fields carry over before you move.
Small product teams who want the board and roadmap without a monthly bill, and who want each request to reach an engineer with the context attached.
2. Sleekplan
free, paid from $13/mo (annual)The cheapest way off Upvoty
Sleekplan puts a feedback board, roadmap, changelog and NPS and CSAT surveys behind one floating widget. The Indie plan is free forever with the board, changelog and one admin. Starter is 13 dollars a month and Business 38, both billed yearly, with a 30-day trial and AI as monthly credits (1,000 on Starter, 5,000 on Business). Upvoty has no surveys and no free plan.
The custom domain and branding removal wait for the 38-dollar Business plan, where Upvoty includes a custom domain at 15. Capterra reviewers mention no duplicate detection and no bulk editing, and G2 reviewers say support is slow and starts with a bot.
Small teams that want a free board and changelog, or NPS and CSAT surveys, for less than Upvoty.
3. FeedBear
from $19/mo ($15 annual)The closest like-for-like swap
FeedBear matches Upvoty on scope: a voting board, roadmap and changelog, with unlimited ideas and end users on every plan. Lite is 19 dollars a month, or 15 on annual billing, for one team member and one board. Startup is 49 (40 annual) with three members, unlimited boards and a custom domain. Capterra reviewers rate it 4.8 across 23 reviews, and several say they were live in 5 to 15 minutes.
SSO starts on the 99-dollar Business plan, where Upvoty has it on all three plans. There is no free plan, only a 14-day trial, and the interface is English only. Twenty-three reviews is a thin record either way.
Solo founders and small teams who want a board, roadmap and changelog running in minutes.
4. Nolt
$29/mo per board (annual)The minimal board
Nolt is a voting board, comments and a roadmap, embedded by iFrame, with SSO on every plan. It is priced per board with no free plan: 29 dollars a month for one board on annual billing (39 monthly), 69 for up to five (89 monthly), and a 10-day Pro trial. Capterra reviewers rate it about 4.9 across about 45 reviews.
The Nolt pricing page blocks automated checks, so these figures come from a third-party roundup updated 2026-08-20. Nolt has no changelog and few integrations, and each extra board adds cost, where Upvoty Hyper covers unlimited projects for 49 dollars.
Teams that want a clean voting board with SSO and very little to configure.
5. Frill
from $25/moBoard, changelog and surveys
Frill has a board, roadmap and changelog plus NPS, CSAT and poll surveys, with unlimited admins and tracked users on paid plans. Startup is 25 dollars a month but caps you at 50 active ideas. Business at 49 lifts the cap and adds more surveys. There is no free plan, and a 14-day trial.
White-labeling and private boards are paid add-ons on Frill, where Upvoty includes branding removal from 15 dollars. Count the open posts on your Upvoty board before you pick the Startup plan.
Teams that want surveys and announcements next to the board and have more than 50 open ideas.
6. Featurebase
free, paid from $29/seat/mo (annual)Feedback plus a support inbox
Featurebase is the widest tool here: feedback boards with AI grouping, a roadmap, changelog and surveys, plus a help center and a support inbox with its Fibi AI agent. Its pricing page now leads with the support plans. Free is one seat with no AI. Growth is 29 dollars per seat a month billed yearly, plus 49 cents per AI resolution, and Professional is 59 per seat.
Per-seat pricing is the big change from Upvoty. Five admins on Growth cost 145 dollars a month before any AI resolutions, against 25 for Upvoty Super. If it replaces a separate help desk as well, the sum can still come out lower.
SaaS teams that want the feedback board, help center and support inbox under one login.
7. featureOS (formerly Hellonext)
from $60/moBoard plus help center
featureOS is the renamed Hellonext, by Skcript, and some roundups still quote the old 25-dollar Hellonext price. Starter is 60 dollars a month with 5 seats and 5 boards, extra seats or boards are 15 dollars each, and Growth is 120. Annual billing takes 17% off and every plan has a 30-day trial. You get a board, roadmap, changelog and knowledge base, AI duplicate detection, and a GitHub integration that files an issue when a post moves to Planned.
G2 reviewers call it easy to use and well supported, and some say it trails rivals on features. It fits if the help center is part of what you are shopping for.
Teams that want a board, roadmap, changelog and knowledge base under one login and can pay four times Upvoty.
8. Canny
free (25 tracked users), paid from $79/mo (annual)Most integrations, priced per tracked user
Canny has the deepest integration list here and Autopilot AI, which captures and deduplicates feedback, on every plan including Free. Free covers 25 tracked users and 5 managers. Pro starts at 79 dollars a month billed yearly for 100 tracked users, and Business is custom.
Canny counts anyone who posts, votes or comments as a tracked user. A third-party breakdown from July 2026 puts Pro near 349 dollars a month at 500 tracked users and 579 at 1,000. Upvoty has no tracked-user limit on any plan, so price the move against your real voter count.
Funded teams that want the category default and can budget for the tracked-user count.
9. Fider
free self-hosted, Cloud Pro $25/moOpen source, self-hosted
Fider is open source under AGPL-3.0, so you can host it yourself for the cost of a server. Fider Cloud is free up to 250 feedback items, and Pro is 25 dollars a month with unlimited items, moderation and search engine indexing. The repo had commits as recently as 2026-10-16.
The board is plain: posts, votes, comments and statuses, with no changelog. Self-hosting also means you own upgrades, backups and email delivery.
Developers who would rather run a simple board on their own server than pay a monthly fee.
When to stay on Upvoty
Stay on Upvoty if you want SSO and a custom domain on the cheapest plan, the board styled with your own CSS, and one flat price however many people vote. No tool on this list has all of that for 15 dollars a month. Hyper at 49 dollars covers unlimited projects, which beats per-board pricing like Nolt once you run several products, and reviews since the 2.0 redesign describe it as fast with good support. Leave if you need a free plan or surveys, if a second project would push you to Hyper, or if votes pile up on the board and nobody turns them into work.
Moving off Upvoty
Upvoty exports posts, voters and activity to CSV at any time, so take the export before you cancel. Sleekplan advertises a migration from Upvoty, and Usero imports a CSV of feedback. Check which fields each importer keeps. Votes and voter emails matter most, because those are the people to tell when a request ships.
Usero is not only a place to collect and ship feedback. Around the feedback-to-PR core it also gives you session replay, mic-recorded user testing, and AI user-research analysis, none of which Upvoty offers. The pull request is still the point; these are the substrate around it.
Questions about Upvoty
- How much does Upvoty cost?
- Upvoty has three plans: Power at 15 dollars a month, Super at 25 and Hyper at 49, billed monthly, with 10% off for annual billing. Enterprise, with SAML SSO and a custom DPA, is quoted by email. Every plan has unlimited boards and tracked users. Power and Super cover one project and Hyper covers unlimited projects. There is a 14-day trial with no card, and no free plan. Checked on upvoty.com/pricing on 2026-10-19.
- Why do other sites list different Upvoty prices?
- Upvoty has changed its plans more than once. The Featurebase roundup lists plans of 15, 39 and 75 dollars with caps from 150 to over 10,000 tracked users, and the ProductLift and Sleekplan pages list 25, 49 and 99 dollars. The Upvoty pricing page on 2026-10-19 shows 15, 25 and 49 dollars and no tracked-user limit. Go by the vendor page.
- Does Upvoty have a free plan?
- No. Every plan has a 14-day trial with no card, then the cheapest plan is 15 dollars a month. For a free plan, look at Sleekplan Indie (board and changelog, one admin), Fider (self-hosted, or Fider Cloud up to 250 items), Featurebase Free (one seat), Canny Free (25 tracked users) or Usero, where feedback, votes and form answers are free forever.
- What is the cheapest Upvoty alternative?
- Fider costs nothing beyond hosting if you run it yourself. Of the hosted tools, Sleekplan has a free plan and paid plans from 13 dollars a month billed yearly, and FeedBear Lite is 15 dollars a month on annual billing for one board and one team member. Usero is free for feedback, with paid plans from 39 dollars a month. Prices checked 2026-10-19.
- What is the closest alternative to Upvoty?
- FeedBear and Nolt. Both are focused voting boards with a roadmap and a flat price rather than a tracked-user meter. FeedBear also has a changelog, and Nolt has SSO on every plan, as Upvoty does.
- Does Upvoty use AI?
- Upvoty has Merge AI, which detects and merges duplicate posts, and an Upvoty MCP server on the Hyper plan for Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients. It does not write code or open pull requests. Usero can draft a pull request on a connected GitHub repo from a group of related feedback, for you to review.
- Is Upvoty reliable?
- Reviews since the 2.0 redesign describe it as fast and reliable, with good support. Earlier G2 reviews report bugs, and one describes losing collected data with no recovery and no reply from support. That complaint appears to predate 2.0. If uptime matters a lot to you, ask Upvoty about backups before you commit.
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- Upvoty pricing (Power $15/mo, Super $25/mo, Hyper $49/mo billed monthly, 10% off annual; unlimited boards and tracked users; custom domain and custom SSO on all three; changelog and integrations from Super; unlimited projects, webhooks and MCP on Hyper; 14-day trial, no free plan) (accessed 2026-10-19)
- Upvoty features (custom CSS and colors, Merge AI duplicate detection, private boards, segments, team roles, CSV data exports, Slack, Intercom and Zapier integrations) (accessed 2026-10-19)
- Featurebase roundup of Upvoty alternatives (quotes Upvoty plans of $15, $39 and $75 with 150 to 10,000+ tracked users) (accessed 2026-10-19)
- ProductLift roundup of Upvoty alternatives (quotes Upvoty at $25, $49 and $99 a month) (accessed 2026-10-19)
- Sleekplan vs Upvoty page (quotes Upvoty at $25, $49 and $99; advertises a migration from Upvoty) (accessed 2026-10-19)
- Fider Cloud pricing (Free up to 250 feedback items; Pro $25/mo with unlimited items, moderation, SEO indexing) (accessed 2026-10-19)
- Fider source on GitHub (AGPL-3.0, self-hostable, last commit 2026-10-16) (accessed 2026-10-19)
- Upvoty reviews on G2 (post-2.0: fast, reliable; pre-2.0: bugs and a reported data-loss-with-no-recovery complaint) (accessed 2026-06-03)
- Upvoty reviews on Capterra (sophisticated, deliberately un-bloated; admin/board management can confuse) (accessed 2026-06-03)
- Frill pricing page (Startup $25/mo capped at 50 active ideas, Business $49, Growth $149, Enterprise $349; unlimited admins and tracked users on paid plans; privacy, surveys, white-label as add-ons; 14-day trial, no free plan) (accessed 2026-10-19)
- Featurebase pricing page (Free $0 for 1 seat, no AI; Growth $29/seat/mo and Professional $59/seat/mo billed yearly; AI resolutions $0.49 each) (accessed 2026-10-19)
- Sleekplan pricing page (Indie $0 forever with board, changelog, one admin; Starter $13/mo, Business $38/mo, billed yearly; AI credits 1,000 on Starter and 5,000 on Business; custom domain and branding removal on Business; 30-day trial) (accessed 2026-10-19)
- Sleekplan reviews on Capterra (ease of use, customization; no duplicate detection, no bulk editing) (accessed 2026-06-03)
- Sleekplan reviews on G2 (low volume; intuitive, single-widget; support slow and bot-heavy) (accessed 2026-06-03)
- Nolt pricing roundup (THIRD-PARTY, updated 2026-08-20: Essential $29/mo annual or $39/mo monthly for 1 board; Pro $69/mo annual or $89/mo monthly for 5 boards; no free tier, 10-day Pro trial; nolt.io/pricing returned 403 to our check on 2026-10-19) (accessed 2026-10-19)
- Nolt reviews on Capterra (about 4.9/5 across about 45 reviews; clean UI, fast setup, limited roadmap) (accessed 2026-06-04)
- Nolt pros and cons on G2 (stable, easy; limited roadmap, few integrations, thin admin tooling) (accessed 2026-06-04)
- featureOS pricing (formerly Hellonext): Starter $60/mo with 5 seats and 5 boards, Growth $120/mo, Business $250/mo; extra seats or boards $15/mo each; 17% off annual; 30-day trial, no free plan (accessed 2026-10-19)
- featureOS GitHub integration (creates a GitHub issue when a post hits Planned; issue-level sync, no PR) (accessed 2026-06-03)
- featureOS GitHub App listing, published as "featureOS (formerly Hellonext)" (rebrand evidence) (accessed 2026-06-03)
- featureOS reviews on G2 (easy to use, ships often, responsive support; sometimes lags rivals on features) (accessed 2026-06-03)
- FeedBear pricing page (Lite $19/mo monthly or $15/mo annual, 1 team member and 1 board; Startup $49/$40 with 3 members, unlimited boards, custom domain; Business $99/$82 adds SSO; 14-day trial, no free tier) (accessed 2026-10-19)
- FeedBear reviews on Capterra (4.8/5 across 23 reviews; minutes-to-setup praise; asks for SSO, anonymous voting, more customization; English-only interface) (accessed 2026-08-04)
- Canny pricing page (Free $0 for 25 tracked users and 5 managers; Pro from $79/mo billed yearly for 100+ tracked users; Business custom; Autopilot AI included on all plans) (accessed 2026-10-19)
- Canny pricing breakdown (THIRD-PARTY, updated July 2026: Pro about $129/mo at 200 tracked users, about $349 at 500, about $579 at 1,000) (accessed 2026-08-04)
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