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. As of October 2026, published Pro pricing rises with the tracked-user tier and reaches $1,349 per month billed monthly at 5,000 tracked users (canny.io/pricing). 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: as of October 2026, the Canny help center says its MCP server needs a Pro or Business plan with Canny Ideas enabled. 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.

Whichever tool you move to, the board only helps if requests get an answer. On the median board in our study of 242 public boards, 62% of requests have no public decision.

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 who opted in when their request ships, an embeddable widget, and a v1 REST API. Pricing is $19 per month per board for the first 25 boards, then $29 per month. 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, Featurebase alternatives.

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. Its pricing page shows no free plan card, though its FAQ says you can start free and upgrade later (checked November 2026), and every paid plan has 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 plan carrying a 250-feedback-item fair-use limit and a Pro plan that adds search-engine indexing. Price the Pro plan carefully: as of November 2026 fider.io/pricing shows $25 per month on the plan card and in the visible FAQ, while the page's structured FAQ data still 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 October 2026, quackback.io/pricing lists Cloud Free at $0 with one seat, one board and 50 posts, Pro at $348 per year with 5 seats, Business at $708 with 20 seats, and Enterprise at $1,188 with unlimited seats, each paid plan with a 14-day trial and no card required; customers and voters never use a seat. Its MCP page says the server is included on Cloud Pro, Business and Enterprise, and at no cost in the self-hosted edition.

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. Some importers keep each voter and some keep only vote counts, so check what the new tool carries before you cancel.
• 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.
• Check what the importer carries. FeatQ imports requests, statuses, votes and comments from Canny through the Canny API, keeping each voter's email where Canny has it; the import guide has the steps. Imported voters get no FeatQ emails. Frill lists a Canny Import on frill.co/pricing, and featurebase.app/pricing says Featurebase supports automatic migration from Canny (both checked November 2026). Without an importer, plan 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.