Blog · October 16, 2026 · 7 min read
Canny alternatives for small teams (2026)
Canny is the best-known feedback board, and a good product. But its pricing grows with the number of people who give feedback, which can be hard to justify for a startup or side project. Here are the main alternatives, what they cost, and who each suits. Prices were checked on each company’s pricing page in October 2026; check them again before you decide.
Canny alternatives at a glance
| Tool | Paid plans from | Free plan | Priced by | AI features |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canny | $79/month (yearly) | Yes, up to 25 tracked users | Tracked users | Every plan: feedback capture from support tools, duplicate merging, comment summaries |
| Featurebase | $29 per seat/month (yearly) | Yes, 1 seat | Team seats | From Growth: AI agent and copilot; none on the free plan |
| Frill | $25/month | No (14-day trial) | Active ideas | Similar-idea detection, from Growth ($149/month) |
| Nolt | $29/month (yearly) | No | Boards | AI moderation, Enterprise plan only |
| Upvoty | $15/month | No (14-day trial) | Flat price | None listed |
| Fider | Free to self-host | Open source | Your own hosting | None listed |
| UserNote | $19/month | Yes, 1 board, 50 ideas | Flat price | AI summary of top requests, every plan (1 a day on free) |
Why small teams look for alternatives
Canny’s Pro plan starts at $79 a month billed yearly and is priced by “tracked users”: anyone who posts, votes or comments. The free plan covers 25 tracked users. That model makes sense for large product teams, but for a small product with lots of casual users, the bill grows with your success at collecting feedback.
Canny remains the most complete option if you need integrations with Jira, Linear, Salesforce or HubSpot, AI feedback capture from support tools, or to know exactly who voted.
Featurebase
An all-in-one customer platform: AI help desk, live chat, help center, feedback boards, roadmap, changelog and surveys. Priced per team seat, with Growth from $29 per seat a month billed yearly, plus a charge for AI resolutions. The free plan has one seat and unlimited feedback. Voting without an account is an optional “guest voting” setting.
Suits: teams who want support and feedback in one product.
Frill
A polished feedback, roadmap and announcements tool. Plans run from $25 a month (Startup, 50 active ideas) to $349, with unlimited ideas from $49 a month. There’s no free plan, but a 14-day trial. SSO is included on all plans.
Suits: teams who want announcements and a changelog alongside the roadmap, and don’t mind paying from day one.
Nolt
A clean, simple feedback board with an optional widget, priced by the number of boards: Essential is $29 a month billed yearly for one board, with a roadmap, Slack, Discord, GitHub and Trello integrations, and SSO. Pro is $69 a month billed yearly for five boards and adds Jira, Linear and Zapier. There’s no free plan.
Suits: teams who want a minimal board with integrations, and are happy with a per-board price.
Upvoty
A long-running, bootstrapped feedback board with a flat price: $15 a month for Power (public roadmap, custom domain and SSO), with a changelog and integrations on Super at $25. There’s a 14-day trial rather than a free plan.
Suits: teams who want a flat price and more features than the simplest tools, and are happy without a free plan.
Open-source and self-hosted options
If you’d rather run it yourself, open-source feedback boards such as Fider exist. You avoid a subscription but take on hosting, updates, backups and security. For most small teams, the time this takes costs more than a low-priced hosted tool, but it’s a fair choice if you already run your own infrastructure.
UserNote
Our own product, so judge this section accordingly. UserNote does one job: a feature voting board and public roadmap in a small (about 5 KB) widget. Users vote without signing up and without cookies. The free plan includes one board, 50 ideas at a time and the roadmap; Pro is a flat $19 a month for unlimited boards and ideas, no branding, custom CSS and Slack notifications. Data is stored in the UK.
It deliberately does less than the tools above: no changelog, comments or Jira/CRM integrations yet. It’s run by an independent developer in the UK, and you can export everything to CSV at any time.
Suits: startups and small teams who want a simple board their users will actually vote on, at a price that doesn’t grow.
How to choose
- Need deep integrations, revenue data or AI capture: stay with Canny.
- Want help desk and feedback in one place: Featurebase.
- Want announcements and SSO, and will pay from day one: Frill.
- Want a minimal board with integrations, priced per board: Nolt.
- Want a flat price with a changelog and integrations: Upvoty.
- Want to self-host: an open-source board like Fider.
- Want the simplest board, free to start, flat price after: UserNote.
Most of these offer a free plan or trial, so the best test is to put one in front of your users for a week and see whether they use it.
Canny, Featurebase, Frill, Nolt, Upvoty and Fider are trademarks of their owners. UserNote is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.