FeatQ

Honest comparison

FeatQ vs Fider

An open-source board you can host yourself, or a hosted board with voting by email, a changelog and agent access.

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The short version

FeatQ is our product. The Fider facts on this page were checked on fider.io, its docs and its GitHub repository on 2026-11-01.

Fider is an open-source feedback board under AGPL-3.0. You can run it on your own server for no license fee, use Fider Cloud for free under a fair-use limit of 250 feedback items, or pay $25 a month for Pro, as of November 2026. Customers, members and voting are unlimited on the cloud plan.

FeatQ is hosted only. It covers the same core loop and includes voting with just an email, a public changelog that emails the voters who opted in, an embeddable widget, and an MCP server on every board. It has no free plan.

Pick Fider if owning the code and the database matters most, or if a small board fits inside 250 items. Pick FeatQ if you do not want to run a server and want the changelog and agent access included.

Pricing side by side

Fider prices as of November 2026

Self-hosted
Fider
$0 license (AGPL-3.0); you host and maintain it
FeatQ
Hosted only
Fider Cloud free
Fider
$0 with a fair-use limit of 250 feedback items
FeatQ
No free plan
Fider Cloud Pro
Fider
$25 per month, month to month: unlimited feedback items, content moderation, SEO indexing
FeatQ
$19/mo or $144/yr for the first 25 boards, then $29/mo or $228/yr, per board
Larger companies
Fider
Offered on the pricing page; no name or price shown
FeatQ
$199 once for the Lifetime founding deal (50 spots)

The math past 250 items

Fider Cloud Pro is $25 a month billed month to month, which is 12 x $25 = $300 a year. FeatQ is $19 a month or $144 a year for the first 25 boards, then $29 a month or $228 a year. Neither charges per customer or per team member.

Self-hosting moves the cost from a subscription to operations. The license is free; the server and its upkeep are yours. For a team that already runs Docker in production that can be the smallest bill. For a founder without that setup, the hosted options are simpler.

Check the current numbers on Fider's pricing page. FeatQ has no free plan; it has a 14-day money-back guarantee.

Features that change the decision

Fider facts as of November 2026

Pricing model
FeatQ
Flat price per board, hosted
Fider
Open source (AGPL-3.0) to self-host, or Fider Cloud free or Pro
Voter login
FeatQ
Email only, no account
Fider
Voters sign in: "Continue with Email" with a code sent by email, or Facebook, Google, GitHub or any OAuth2 provider
Per-seat or per-user fees
FeatQ
None; up to 10,000 voters per board
Fider
None; customers are unlimited on the cloud plan
Team access
FeatQ
One owner login per board; no team accounts
Fider
Unlimited members on the cloud plan
MCP access
FeatQ
Every plan; per-board endpoint, bearer key, seven tools
Fider
No first-party MCP server found as of November 2026
Changelog and voter emails
FeatQ
Public changelog per board; voters who opted in are emailed when a request ships
Fider
Status-change emails to people subscribed to a post; a changelog page is not stated
Import path
FeatQ
Canny and Featurebase over their APIs; CSV up to 5,000 rows
Fider
Not stated on Fider's site; the API docs cover posts, votes, comments, users and tags
Data ownership
FeatQ
Owner CSV export of requests and voters
Fider
Self-hosting keeps the database on your own server

We found no first-party MCP server for Fider on fider.io, docs.fider.io or the getfider GitHub repository as of November 2026. FeatQ gives each board its own MCP endpoint with a board-scoped bearer key, so a coding agent can list and rank requests, generate a spec and update status. The FeatQ MCP documentation has the setup, and feedback tools with MCP compares more servers.

Where Fider wins

  • Open source. Fider is released under AGPL-3.0 on GitHub, so you can read the code, run it on your own server and keep the database yourself. FeatQ is hosted only.
  • A free hosted plan. As of November 2026, Fider Cloud is free with unlimited customers, feedback, discussion, voting and members, under a fair-use limit of 250 feedback items. FeatQ has no free plan.
  • Sign-in through the identity providers your users already have: the docs list Facebook, Google and GitHub, and any other OAuth2 provider can be added.
  • A documented API for posts, votes, comments, users and tags, plus webhooks, for teams who want to build their own workflow around the board.

When FeatQ fits

  • You do not want to run a server, patch it, back it up or set up email delivery.
  • You want voters to vote by typing an email, without signing in with a code or a social account.
  • You want a public changelog page on the board as well as an email to the voters who opted in when a request ships.
  • You want a coding agent to read ranked requests and update status over MCP, included on every plan.
  • Your board is past 250 feedback items and you would rather pay yearly than month to month.

Moving from Fider

Fider's site does not describe an import or export as of November 2026. Its API docs cover posts and votes, and a self-hosted instance keeps everything in your own database, so a developer can produce a CSV of titles, descriptions, statuses and vote counts.

FeatQ imports requests and vote counts from any CSV of up to 5,000 rows and shows a preview of the column mapping first. A CSV has no voters, so voters and comments stay behind. The import guide has the steps.

Sources

Fider claims marked November 2026 were checked against these pages on 2026-11-01.

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Frequently asked questions

Practical answers about voting, privacy and pricing.

As of November 2026, fider.io/pricing says Fider Cloud is free with a fair-use limit of 250 feedback items, and Pro is $25 per month, billed month to month, with unlimited feedback items and content moderation. Self-hosting the open-source code costs nothing in license fees; you pay for the server and your time.

Yes. The getfider/fider repository on GitHub is licensed under AGPL-3.0, and the docs describe self-hosting with Docker. FeatQ is a hosted product and is not open source.

We found no first-party MCP server on fider.io, docs.fider.io or the getfider GitHub repository as of November 2026. Fider has a REST API that a developer could connect. FeatQ includes an MCP server on every board.

Voters sign in. Fider's sign-in offers "Continue with Email", which sends a code to the voter's email address, and its docs describe sign-in through Facebook, Google, GitHub or any OAuth2 provider. Anonymous voting is not stated. FeatQ voters type an email and need no account or code.

Yes, through a CSV file. Fider's site does not describe an export as of November 2026, but its API returns posts and votes, and a self-hosted database can be queried directly. FeatQ imports requests and vote counts from any CSV of up to 5,000 rows. The steps are at /docs/import.

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