Canny is a capable, well-established feedback tool, and plenty of teams are happy on it. The usual reasons to look at its competitors are price and fit. Canny's Pro plan is priced by tracked users, from $79/mo billed yearly at 100 up to $1,079/mo at 5,000 (here's the full breakdown), and its HubSpot and Salesforce integrations sit on the custom-priced Business plan. Other teams want to self-host, or need a different kind of tool altogether.
Below are nine Canny alternatives and competitors, hosted and open source. They're grouped by type rather than ranked, because the right pick depends on what you're replacing Canny for. Each entry covers who it fits, where it's strong, where it's limited, and what it costs to start.
We make Crumb, which is on this list, so weigh our take accordingly. Every price and feature below comes from each vendor's own site, checked October 6, 2026: Frill, Sleekplan, Upvoty, Featurebase, Productboard, UserVoice, Fider, Quackback, and Canny. Canny's and Featurebase's pricing pages were re-checked October 19, 2026. Prices change; confirm before you buy.
Canny alternatives at a glance
| Tool | Free plan? | Paid plans from | Open source? | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frill | No; 14-day trial | $25/mo, flat per plan | No | A polished board with announcements |
| Sleekplan | Yes | $13/mo billed yearly, flat per workspace | No | Board, changelog, and NPS on a tight budget |
| Upvoty | No; 14-day trial | $15/mo, flat per plan | No | A simple board on your own domain |
| Featurebase | Yes, 1 seat | $29/seat/mo billed yearly, plus $0.49 per AI resolution | No | Support and feedback in one tool |
| Productboard | None listed | Not published; per maker, 5 minimum | No | Large product orgs that need roadmapping |
| UserVoice | No; 30-day trial after a demo | Not published | No | A vendor-led enterprise program |
| Fider | Yes, hosted; free to self-host | $25/mo, flat | Yes, AGPL-3.0 | A simple public voting board |
| Quackback | Yes, 1 seat; free to self-host | $29/mo billed yearly, with seat caps | Yes, AGPL-3.0 | Open-source feedback plus support tools |
| Crumb | Yes, Cloud Free; free to self-host | $19/mo billed yearly, flat per workspace | Yes, AGPL-3.0 | B2B teams that prioritize by revenue |
| Canny, for reference | Yes, 25 tracked users | $79/mo billed yearly, priced by tracked users | No | A voting board with AI capture |
Hosted feedback boards
The closest like-for-like swaps: a public board where customers post and vote, a roadmap, and a changelog, without paying per tracked user.
Frill
frill.co. An ideas board, roadmap, announcements, and surveys behind flat monthly plans.
- Who it fits: small and mid-size product teams that want a polished board with announcements and predictable pricing.
- Strengths: unlimited admins and tracked users on every plan. Every plan includes SSO, a developer API, webhooks, a custom domain, and translations, and Frill lists a one-click import from Canny. It has native Jira and Slack integrations and can capture feedback from Zendesk, Intercom, and Help Scout.
- Limitations: the Startup plan caps you at 50 active ideas. Privacy controls, unlimited surveys, and white labeling come with Growth at $149/mo, or as add-ons. There's no free plan, only a 14-day trial.
- Starting price: $25/mo for Startup; $49/mo for Business with unlimited ideas.
Sleekplan
sleekplan.com. A feedback board, roadmap, changelog, and NPS and CSAT surveys, priced per workspace.
- Who it fits: small SaaS teams on a tight budget that want feedback, release notes, and satisfaction surveys in one place.
- Strengths: a free Indie plan with unlimited feedback and subscribers, and unlimited tracked users on every plan. Starter includes SSO, API access, webhooks, and standard integrations such as Intercom, GitHub, Slack, Zapier, and Jira. Business adds user groups for B2B accounts, a custom domain, and branding removal. Paid plans come with a 30-day trial, no card needed.
- Limitations: seats are capped. The free plan is single-admin, Starter has 3 team seats and Business 10, with more as an add-on. The roadmap isn't on the free plan, and SAML SSO is a Business add-on or part of Enterprise.
- Starting price: free; Starter is $13/mo and Business $38/mo, billed yearly.
Upvoty
upvoty.com. A straightforward voting board with a public roadmap and changelog, priced flat per plan.
- Who it fits: solo founders and small SaaS teams that want a simple board on their own domain.
- Strengths: unlimited tracked users and boards on every plan. Even the $15 Power plan includes a public roadmap, a custom domain, custom SSO, API access, and no Upvoty branding.
- Limitations: no free plan, only a 14-day trial. The changelog and integrations start on Super at $25/mo; multiple projects, webhooks, and the Upvoty MCP server need Hyper at $49/mo; SAML SSO is Enterprise.
- Starting price: $15/mo billed monthly, with 10% off on annual billing.
Feedback plus customer support
Featurebase
featurebase.app. A help desk with live chat and an AI agent, plus a feedback portal with voting, a public roadmap, and a changelog, in one subscription.
- Who it fits: teams that want to run customer support and product feedback in the same tool.
- Strengths: help desk and feedback come in the same subscription, and there's a free plan to start. Its integrations include Linear, Jira, GitHub, ClickUp, Azure DevOps, Slack, Discord, Intercom, Zendesk, HubSpot, Segment, and Zapier. Qualifying startups can get 86% off.
- Limitations: pricing is per seat, plus $0.49 per AI resolution, so costs grow with team size and AI use. SSO starts on Professional ($59/seat/mo), and Salesforce and HubSpot deal data for feedback is on Enterprise ($99/seat/mo). If you only need a feedback board, much of what you're paying for is support tooling. Head to head in Canny vs Featurebase, or see Crumb vs Featurebase.
- Starting price: free for 1 seat; Growth is $29/seat/mo billed yearly.
Product management and enterprise platforms
These replace more than Canny does. Choose them for the extra scope, not as a cheaper swap.
Productboard
productboard.com. A product management platform: an insights repository, prioritization, roadmaps, and portals, with its Spark AI on every plan.
- Who it fits: larger product organizations that want feedback, prioritization, and roadmapping in one system.
- Strengths: a customer insights repository, custom prioritization formulas, timeline and column roadmaps, release planning, and dependency tracking. Product portals support custom voting questions and feedback forms. Integrations include Jira, Azure DevOps, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zendesk, Gong, Amplitude, and Mixpanel. See our Canny vs Productboard comparison.
- Limitations: no public prices; Business is "Request demo" and Enterprise is "Contact sales." Pricing is per maker, with a minimum of five. Business caps contributors at 25, portals at 2, and Jira and Azure DevOps at 5 integrations each. Salesforce, SAML SSO, and a whitelabeled portal are Enterprise-only, and Spark runs on credits.
- Starting price: not published.
UserVoice
uservoice.com. An enterprise feedback platform sold with guided onboarding.
- Who it fits: large companies that want a vendor-led feedback program with a dedicated customer success manager.
- Strengths: pricing is based on feedback volume, tools, and integrations, never by seat, so sales, success, and product can all have access. It pulls in customer data so PMs can weigh an idea's impact, and offers bulk import by CSV or API. Integrations include Salesforce, Gainsight, Jira, Zendesk, Azure DevOps, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.
- Limitations: no public prices; the 30-day trial comes after a demo, and UserVoice says most teams launch in 4 to 6 weeks. GitHub, Linear, and HubSpot aren't on its integrations page. More in Canny vs UserVoice and Crumb vs UserVoice.
- Starting price: not published.
Open-source Canny alternatives
All three are AGPL-3.0, so you can self-host them for free and keep the data on your own servers. For a wider look, see the best open-source feedback tools.
Fider
fider.io. A focused, open-source board for ideas, votes, and discussion.
- Who it fits: teams that want a simple public voting board, hosted for free or on their own servers.
- Strengths: the free hosted plan includes unlimited customers, voting, and members, under a fair-use limit of 250 feedback requests. It's free to self-host, and Pro adds content moderation, unlimited feedback items, and SEO indexing, billed month to month.
- Limitations: the scope is deliberately small. Fider's own pages describe a voting board, not revenue weighting or CRM sync. See Crumb vs Fider.
- Starting price: free; Pro is $25/mo.
Quackback
quackback.io. Feedback boards, voting, a roadmap, and a changelog, bundled with a support inbox, help center, and status page.
- Who it fits: teams that want feedback and support in one open-source product, on Quackback's cloud or their own servers.
- Strengths: you can self-host the full product with no feature gates or seat fees, and portal users are free on the cloud too. Integrations include Linear, Jira, GitHub, Slack, Discord, Teams, Intercom, Zendesk, Freshdesk, HubSpot, and Stripe, plus an MCP server. Its AI assistant is included on paid plans, with no per-resolution fees.
- Limitations: cloud seats are capped at 1 on Free, 5 on Pro, and 20 on Business. Removing Quackback branding is an extra $59/mo, and Salesforce, Azure DevOps, and SSO are Enterprise ($99/mo billed yearly). Self-hosters bring their own AI provider.
- Starting price: free for 1 seat, 1 board, and 50 posts; Pro is $29/mo billed yearly.
Crumb
Crumb is our product: open source, built for B2B SaaS, and organized around the account and ARR behind each request. Comparing it with UserVoice instead? See Crumb as a UserVoice alternative.
- Who it fits: B2B SaaS teams that prioritize by revenue, ship through Linear, Jira, or GitHub, and want customers told when something ships.
- Strengths: an embedded widget captures feedback with the account attached, and the inbox can sort by ARR, set by hand or synced from HubSpot or Salesforce on the $19 Team plan. Items go to Linear, Jira, or GitHub as tickets (AI-drafted on Team and up) with status syncing back, and customers hear back by email or in the widget when you reply or change status. There's a public roadmap and an MCP server, a flat price with unlimited editors and feedback submitters, and free self-hosting from one docker compose file.
- Limitations: there's no upvote board; customers follow roadmap initiatives instead. The AI suite, managed email, one-click integrations, and session replay are Crumb Cloud features, so self-hosters bring their own SMTP and OAuth apps. There's no one-click Canny importer, and there's no SSO yet (it's on the roadmap).
- Starting price: free on Cloud or self-hosted; Team is $19/mo billed yearly.
What to check before you switch
- What drives the price at your size. Tracked users, seats, makers, and flat plans diverge quickly as you grow, so price each tool at the team size and customer count you expect next year, not today.
- Which plan has the integrations you need. CRM sync, SSO, and some tracker integrations often sit a tier or two up, as they do on Canny.
- How your data gets in. Look for a Canny importer, a CSV import, or an API before you commit, and check whether votes and comments survive the move.
- How customers hear back. A board only builds trust if people learn what happened to their request, so look at status notifications and how they're delivered.
How to choose
- You mainly want to stop paying per tracked user: Frill, Sleekplan, and Upvoty include unlimited tracked users on every plan.
- You want support and feedback in one tool: Featurebase if you want it hosted, Quackback if you also want to self-host.
- You need prioritization frameworks and roadmapping for a large product org: Productboard.
- You want a vendor-run program with guided onboarding: UserVoice.
- You want an open-source Canny alternative: Fider for a simple board, Quackback for a broader suite, Crumb for revenue-weighted B2B feedback.
- You sell to businesses and rank requests by revenue: Crumb, and compare UserVoice and Canny's Business plan, which also bring customer revenue into the picture.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best Canny alternative?
It depends on why you're leaving. For a cheaper hosted board with unlimited tracked users, look at Frill, Sleekplan, or Upvoty. For support and feedback together, Featurebase or Quackback. For a full product management platform, Productboard. To self-host, Fider, Quackback, or Crumb, and Crumb if you want to prioritize by customer revenue.
Is there an open-source Canny alternative?
Yes. Fider, Quackback, and Crumb are open source under AGPL-3.0 and free to self-host. Fider is a focused voting board, Quackback adds support tools like an inbox and help center, and Crumb ties feedback to account revenue and notifies customers when their request moves.
Who are Canny's main competitors?
Hosted feedback boards like Frill, Sleekplan, and Upvoty; Featurebase, which pairs feedback with a help desk; Productboard, a product management platform; UserVoice, an enterprise feedback platform; and open-source tools like Fider, Quackback, and Crumb.
Which Canny alternatives don't charge per tracked user?
Frill, Sleekplan, and Upvoty include unlimited tracked users on every plan. Featurebase charges per seat, Quackback by plan with seat caps, and Crumb a flat price per workspace with unlimited feedback submitters. Fider's free hosted plan includes unlimited customers.
Can I import my Canny data into another tool?
Frill lists a one-click import from Canny, and UserVoice offers bulk import by CSV or API. Crumb has no one-click importer: you export from Canny and load the posts through Crumb's capture API. For the other tools, ask the vendor.