The open-source Featurebase alternative.

Crumb vs Featurebase, feature by feature

Featurebase details checked October 19, 2026 against its pricing page, including its feature comparison and FAQ, and its help article on exporting requests. Featurebase is a capable, fast-moving product; check featurebase.app for current features and prices before you decide.

What each costs as your team grows

Featurebase charges per paid seat: anyone who needs full access to manage feedback, reply to customers, or edit settings. Crumb charges a flat price per workspace, whoever's in it. Here's the monthly cost at three team sizes, using each product's public prices on annual billing:

Three things keep this fair. First, Featurebase's seat price buys a helpdesk too: if it would replace a support tool you pay for today, count that saving. Second, Featurebase's Professional plan includes 20 free Lite seats for teammates who only need to view or collaborate, so not everyone needs a full seat. Third, Featurebase's Fibi AI agent adds $0.49 per resolved conversation on top. On Crumb, self-hosting is free at any size, but you run the server and bring your own SMTP and integration apps, and the AI suite stays on Cloud. Crumb Growth is $39/mo billed annually; monthly Cloud billing is $24 for Team and $49 for Growth, and all are launch prices. Featurebase offers a 10-day free trial, 20% off for annual billing, 86% off for qualifying startups, and 15% off for open-source projects and non-profits.

Why teams pick Crumb over Featurebase

You want a feedback tool, not a support suite

Featurebase's own pricing FAQ says the helpdesk, AI agent, feedback, outbound, help center, and reporting all live in one subscription. That's a real advantage if you're consolidating support and product tools. If you already run Intercom, Zendesk, or Freshdesk and like it, much of the seat price pays for a second helpdesk. Crumb stays narrow: it pulls feedback in from the support tool you have, and from its own widget, email, Slack, and API.

A price that doesn't grow with your team

Every product manager, designer, success manager, and engineer who needs to triage is a paid seat on Featurebase. On Crumb they're all included: editors, viewers, internal commenters, and the customers who submit feedback are unlimited on every plan, Free included. You only pay more when you move up a tier for more features.

Revenue context on the cheaper plan

Both tools can weigh feedback by revenue. On Crumb, every request carries its account and ARR, synced from HubSpot or Salesforce on the $19 Team plan, and related requests group into initiatives so you can see the combined dollars waiting on one feature. On Featurebase, revenue data sync starts on Growth, HubSpot and Salesforce on Professional, deal data and the prioritization module on Enterprise.

You can own it

Crumb is AGPL-3.0. Self-host it from one docker compose file and your feedback lives in your own Postgres, or use Crumb Cloud and let us run it. Same code either way. Crumb's AI runs on infrastructure Crumb operates, so your customers' feedback isn't sent to a third-party AI provider.

Where each one fits

Choose Crumb if you sell to businesses, rank requests by the accounts and ARR behind them, ship through Linear, Jira, or GitHub, want a flat price for the whole team, or want the option to self-host.

Featurebase may fit better if you want support and product feedback in one tool, need a public voting board with several boards and roadmaps, want an AI agent answering customers, or need SOC 2 Type II and SSO today. Its free plan is generous for a solo founder, and its startup discount is steep.

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Moving from Featurebase to Crumb

There's no one-click Featurebase importer. Moving takes Featurebase's CSV export, an account import, and a short script against Crumb's Capture API.

1. Export from Featurebase. In Settings → Data → Imports & Exports, click Export Data. Per Featurebase's help article, the CSV covers every request in the workspace, with title, description, author name and email, status, requester count, associated monthly spend, and linked Linear and Jira issues. It leaves out comments and activity history, and merged requests appear only as the request they were merged into. The download link expires after 24 hours.
2. Import your accounts. In Crumb, use Settings → Account mapping → Import CSV with one row per person: account name, email, name. Set each account's ARR on its page, or let HubSpot or Salesforce sync it.
3. Post each request to the Capture API. Send POST /api/v1/captures with your workspace slug and inbox token, plus from_email, from_name, subject (the request title, up to 300 characters), and body (description, requester count, status, linked issue). It allows a burst of 60 requests, then about one a second, so honor 429 and Retry-After.

   curl -X POST https://crumb-app.localhostlabs.net/api/v1/captures \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{
       "slug": "your-workspace",
       "token": "your-inbox-token",
       "from_email": "[email protected]",
       "from_name": "Maya Chen",
       "subject": "Export a cohort as CSV",
       "body": "From Featurebase: 9 requesters, status In Review."
     }'

4. Confirm them in Needs triage. Captures wait in the Needs triage card at the top of your inbox, with a suggested account match on Team and up. Confirm one to make it a normal item, or dismiss it, then group related items into initiatives.
5. Turn on the widget. Crumb only sends automatic updates to customers who submitted through the widget, so imported requests won't email anyone out of the blue.

Import the open requests you still care about and keep the CSV as your archive. Details are in the API reference; self-hosting, use your own host. Need your inbox token or a hand with the import? Get in touch and we'll help.

Frequently asked questions

Is there an open-source Featurebase alternative?

Yes. Crumb is open source under AGPL-3.0 and free to self-host from one docker compose file, with your data in your own Postgres. It focuses on the B2B feedback loop rather than a full support suite: in-app capture, triage by account ARR, a public roadmap, Linear, Jira, and GitHub, and telling customers when their request ships.

How much does Featurebase cost?

Featurebase has a free plan for 1 seat. Paid plans are $29 (Growth), $59 (Professional), and $99 (Enterprise) per seat a month, billed yearly, plus $0.49 per resolution for its Fibi AI agent. Crumb Cloud is a flat $19/mo per workspace on Team, billed annually, and self-hosting is free.

Does Crumb have a helpdesk like Featurebase?

No. Crumb doesn't do live chat, ticketing, or a help center. It pulls feedback in from your support tool, with Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, and Gong connectors on Crumb Cloud's Team plan and up, and from its own in-app widget, email, Slack, and API.

Does Crumb have a public voting board?

No. Customers send feedback through the in-app widget and follow initiatives on your public roadmap, and Crumb weighs demand by the accounts and ARR behind each request rather than by votes. If public voting is central to your program, Featurebase will suit you better.

Can I move my feedback from Featurebase to Crumb?

Yes, though there's no one-click importer. Export your requests from Featurebase as CSV, import your accounts under Settings → Account mapping, then post each request to Crumb's Capture API. Each one lands in Needs triage for you to confirm. Comments aren't in Featurebase's CSV export.