7 Canny Alternatives With Real Pricing (2026)

In May 2025, Canny replaced its older per-admin plan structure with per-tracked-user pricing. A tracked user is anyone who creates a post, casts a vote, or leaves a comment, and that count is cumulative: it does not reset month to month the way an active-user metric would.

As of July 2026, per canny.io/pricing, the current plans are Free at $0 with up to 25 tracked users and 5 managers, Pro from $79 per month billed yearly at 100 or more tracked users with 10 managers, and a custom-priced Business tier starting from 5,000 tracked users. Published Pro pricing rises with the tracked-user tier and reaches about $1,349 per month at 5,000 tracked users. The full mechanics are in Canny pricing explained.

That structure is a reasonable fit for teams with a small, defined set of customers. It is a poor fit when your audience is the whole user base, because the thing you want most, wide participation, is also the thing that moves you up a tier. The 26th person to vote is what typically triggers the first upgrade decision.

Two other reasons come up regularly. Some teams want agent access on the cheapest tier: Canny has a first-party MCP server, but its MCP connectors are excluded from the Free plan and start on Pro. And some want to own the data outright, which means an open-source board they can self-host. Both are covered below. For the head-to-head, see FeatQ vs Canny.

None of this is a criticism of Canny as software. It is a question of whether the billing unit matches how you plan to use a board.

FeatQ is the direct flat-priced swap for a Canny board. Requests, email-based voting with no account required, five roadmap statuses, a changelog that emails voters when their request ships, an embeddable widget, and a v1 REST API. Pricing is $29 per month or $228 per year, with $19 per month or $144 per year locked in for the first 25 customers and a one-time $199 Lifetime option while its 50 seats last. The bill does not move with participation, which is the exact axis that pushes teams off Canny. Every plan also includes an MCP server, so a coding agent can rank requests by demand, read the context behind one, draft a spec, and write the status back.

Read more: FeatQ vs Canny, What a feedback board is, FeatQ pricing.

Featurebase is the closest thing to a like-for-like replacement if you liked Canny's breadth. It pairs a feedback board with a help center, surveys, and an AI support agent. As of July 2026 the Free plan is one seat, Growth is $29 per seat per month billed yearly, Professional is $59 with 20 free Lite seats, and Enterprise is $99 with 50, plus $0.49 per AI resolution. The important difference from Canny: you are billed for your team, not your audience, so a board that gets busy does not raise the invoice.

Read more: Featurebase pricing explained, FeatQ vs Featurebase.

Sleekplan is the cheapest hosted way off Canny and the strongest option if a permanent free plan is your requirement. As of July 2026 the Indie plan is free forever for a single-admin workspace with unlimited feedback and subscribers, capped on announcement, popup, and email volume. Starter is $13 per month billed yearly with 3 team seats, Business is $38 per month billed yearly with 10 or more seats, and Enterprise is custom-priced. Because pricing is flat per workspace, moving a busy Canny board across does not create a tracked-user problem in a new place.

Upvoty is the closest structural match to a Canny board without the tracked-user model. As of July 2026 Power is $15 per month with one project, Super is $25, Hyper is $49 with unlimited projects, and Enterprise is custom-priced. Every listed plan advertises unlimited tracked users, and annual billing saves 10 percent. There is no free plan, but every tier begins with a 14-day trial without a card. One thing worth weighing: per archived copies of its pricing page, Upvoty's published tiers have moved more than once between October 2025 and July 2026.

Read more: FeatQ vs Upvoty, Upvoty alternatives.

Frill covers ideas, a roadmap, an announcements changelog, and surveys behind a polished widget, which makes it a comfortable landing spot for a team used to Canny's finish. As of July 2026 Startup is $25 per month with 50 ideas and 1 survey, Business is $49 with unlimited ideas and 3 surveys, Growth is $149 with unlimited surveys, and Enterprise is $349. Every paid tier includes unlimited admins, unlimited widgets, and unlimited tracked users. There is no free plan, but there is a 14-day trial without a card.

Fider is the long-running open-source answer, released under AGPL-3.0 on GitHub. Self-hosting is free and, as the maintainers put it, you are responsible for everything: updates, backups, email delivery, and uptime. Fider Cloud is the managed version from the same team, with a free tier carrying a 250-feedback-item fair-use limit and a Pro plan that adds search-engine indexing. Price the Pro plan carefully: as of July 2026 fider.io/pricing shows $25 per month on the plan card while the FAQ lower down the same page says $49. Scope is deliberately narrow next to Canny: post an idea, vote, discuss, set a status. That is the whole product.

Quackback positions itself explicitly as the open-source alternative to the hosted boards, Canny included. It is distributed under AGPL-3.0, and every feature in the cloud product is in the open-source bundle, so self-hosting is not a stripped-down build. As of July 2026 cloud pricing is $228 per year for Starter, $948 for Pro, and $3,588 for Scale, each with a 14-day trial and no card required. Its MCP server ships as a built-in feature rather than an upsell, which is unusual at this price.

Read more: Which feedback tools have MCP servers.

Moving a feedback board is less painful than moving a database, but plan for four things:

• Export before you cancel. Whatever export your current plan offers, pull the requests, vote counts, and statuses out while you still have access. Vote counts generally cannot be re-attributed to individual voters on a new tool, so treat them as a snapshot for seeding priorities rather than live data.
• Recreate the head, not the tail. Most boards follow a steep curve where a handful of requests hold most of the votes. Migrate the top 20 to 50 items and let the long tail resubmit itself. A scoring pass with the priority calculator helps decide what earns a slot.
• Expect to re-key the votes. FeatQ has no Canny importer, so migrating onto it is a manual job. Frill is the real exception on this list: per frill.co/pricing in July 2026 it includes a Canny Import on every plan. Everywhere else, budget an afternoon for a person or an agent to recreate the top items with their original titles and descriptions.
• Redirect the old URLs. If your board lived on a custom domain, point it at the new board so shared links and search traffic survive. Announce the move in your changelog so the people who voted know where to go.

If you are comparing against larger platforms rather than focused boards, the FeatQ vs enterprise tools page covers that difference, and the compare hub links every head-to-head page.