There is no single best feature voting tool, because the honest answer depends on what you are optimising for. Frill.co is the cheapest live subscription. Canny.io does the most if you already run Intercom or Salesforce. Fider is free to run yourself. Docket is a one-time purchase with no server behind it.
This page is one part of a larger guide. For the whole subject in one place, see feature request tools.
What are we judging on?
Three things: cost and whether it grows on its own, what each tool genuinely does better than the rest, and who it is wrong for.
The list is ordered by three-year cost of the entry paid tier for one small team: the four subscriptions first, cheapest to priciest, then the two non-subscription options, open source self-hosting and a one-time purchase, since a number paid once is not the same kind of number as one paid every month. Where two subscriptions tie, the one with no forced annual commitment and no per-seat multiplier goes first. Prices checked against each vendor's own pricing page on 20 August 2026.
Frill.co
$22 a month billed yearly, $25 monthly, no free tier, only a 14-day trial, priced per workspace. At $264 a year it is the cheapest live subscription here. Its board count at entry could not be confirmed against its pricing page, so this post does not state one.
What it does better: surveys built into your own product, NPS, CSAT, quick polls and idea polls, plus announcements with scheduling, boosting and segmentation, similar-idea detection, smart merge, a priority matrix and voting on a customer's behalf, a genuinely different toolkit from a plain voting board.
Who it is wrong for: a team that wants white-label removal cheaply. Frill.co ticks "remove tagline" on every tier, but full white labelling is a separate add-on included only at Growth, $136 a month billed yearly, over five times the entry price just to take the branding off.
UserJot
$29 a month, priced per workspace, 2 boards free, 5 boards on the entry paid plan. $348 a year, tied with Nolt.io and Featurebase at three years, but with no annual billing requirement forcing that price.
What it does better: AI duplicate detection as the customer types, catching overlapping posts before filing. When a post is marked complete, its AI drafts the changelog entry from the original request and emails every voter and commenter. It also ships a two-minute Canny.io importer carrying boards, posts, votes, comments, statuses and users, plus a remote MCP server.
Who it is wrong for: a team already deep into a CRM-driven support workflow. The syncs Canny.io and Featurebase publish, into HubSpot, Salesforce or a helpdesk inbox, are not among UserJot's listed strengths.
Nolt.io
$29 a month billed yearly, $39 monthly, no free tier, only a 10-day trial, 1 board at entry. $348 a year.
What it does better: 22 or more interface languages, two-way integrations with Jira, Linear, Asana, monday.com, Intercom, Slack, Discord and Teams, a 99.9 per cent uptime SLA plus AI moderation at Enterprise, and a separate air-gapped EU product for data residency.
Who it is wrong for: a team that wants to try before paying, or needs more than one board without upgrading. Nolt.io has no free tier, and its entry allotment is a single board.
Featurebase
$29 per seat per month billed yearly, 1 seat and 1 board free, 5 boards on the entry paid plan. $348 a year for one seat, but seat pricing does not stay there: three people is $1,044 a year before anything else.
What it does better: it is less a feature request board than a suite. Full helpdesk with live chat and an omnichannel inbox, a help centre with AI search and multilingual translation, NPS and CSAT surveys, changelog widgets, outbound email, SOC 2 Type II, EU hosting in the Netherlands and Germany, SCIM, and an 86 per cent off startup programme for companies under two years old with fewer than six staff.
Who it is wrong for: any team bigger than one or two people on a budget. Seat pricing compounds fast, and badge removal costs a further $69 a month, only on Professional at $59 per seat or on Enterprise, making badge removal alone $828 a year, more than most other tools here cost in total.
Canny.io
$79 a month billed yearly, $99 monthly, priced per tracked user, unlimited boards even at entry. $948 a year at entry, rising on the same yearly billing to $1,079 a month at 5,000 tracked users, because tracked users accumulate permanently: anyone who posts, votes or comments counts, and the count only goes up. Canny.io's own pricing page says exceeding the limit "automatically upgrade[s] you to the next tier" with a prorated charge, unless you set a spend limit, at which point Canny.io "will stop tracking feedback from new users".
What it does better: this is the deepest product in the category. Autopilot AI reads Intercom, Zendesk, Freshdesk, Gong and Zoom conversations and captures, dedupes and triages feedback without anyone filing anything. HubSpot and Salesforce sync lets requests be weighted by account value, with MRR on the CSV export. It carries SOC 2, CCPA and GDPR, and even the free tier gets unlimited and private boards.
Who it is wrong for: a small team with no support stack to sync. That integration depth is wasted on a team of two answering emails, and the entry cost is already the most expensive here before the tracked-user count starts climbing on its own. For the full three-year arithmetic on that growth, see what feedback tools actually cost.
One payment, no subscription, unlimited products.
Fider
Free and open source, AGPL-3.0, 4,476 GitHub stars, 842 forks, last pushed 9 August 2026. Running it yourself needs Docker, PostgreSQL 12 or later, and your own SMTP or SES for email. getfider.com now redirects to fider.io, a commercial hosted SaaS run by Northern App Labs Ltd, a UK company, whose own docs describe their cloud instance as "the easiest way to get started with Fider".
What it does better: it is the only genuinely free, community-run option here, and by GitHub stars the largest. Roadmap and voting both work, and private boards are supported. No vendor decides what the software should cost either: in March 2026 it gated moderation and SEO indexing behind a paid tier, then reversed that in April 2026, stating plainly that "the open core licensing model that we started to move towards was aborted, and we moved back to making everything FULLY open source."
Who it is wrong for: a team that wants a changelog, since Fider ships none, and a team that does not want to run its own database and patch its own security releases. Three fixes landed within three months of each other: v0.35.0 for a critical authentication vulnerability, v0.36.0 for SSRF and XSS, and v0.36.1 for further security work. UserJot's own costed breakdown of running Fider puts infrastructure at $70 to $125 a month before any engineering time, plus five to ten hours a month of ongoing effort once traffic is real. For the rest of the open-source field, including why Astuto is no longer live, see the open source options compared.
Docket
Free forever for the core board, no card and no account. Pro is $99 once, Studio is $249 once, and the gap between them stays $150 with no deadline to upgrade. Unlimited products on every tier. Free covers bug and feature request boards, a public roadmap, changelog, FAQ, testimonials, a custom domain, guest posting and manual replies, all carrying a Docket badge. Pro and Studio add agentic workflows, automated responses, email and voter notifications, Slack and Discord alerts, a feedback widget, an SEO and AI-crawler stack, update pull requests and badge removal.
What it does better: it is the only tool here where the price does not depend on how well the board works. Static files plus two small endpoints mean no Postgres, no Docker container and no SMTP server to run, which is why the $99 stays $99 rather than becoming a monthly bill the way self-hosting Fider does. Setup runs through a coding agent reading INSTALL.md free, or SETUP.md plus AGENTS.md and three bundled skills paid.
Who it is wrong for: a team that wants a vendor to run and patch the thing for them, or Canny.io or Featurebase's level of built-in support-inbox and CRM syncing. Docket has no Autopilot reading Zendesk conversations and no Salesforce sync; it is something you stand up yourself, once, rather than something a support team operates for you.
The comparison table
Entry paid tier, cheapest published billing, one product, checked 20 August 2026, with Canny.io's ladder re-checked 22 August 2026.
| Tool | Free tier | Entry paid | Per year | Priced per | 3-year, small team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frill.co | None, 14-day trial | $22/mo yearly | $264 | workspace | $792 |
| UserJot | 2 boards | $29/mo | $348 | workspace | $1,044 |
| Nolt.io | None, 10-day trial | $29/mo yearly | $348 | subscription | $1,044 |
| Featurebase | 1 seat, 1 board | $29/seat/mo yearly | $348/seat | seat | $1,044 (1 seat) |
| Canny.io | 25 tracked users | $79/mo yearly | $948 | tracked user | $2,844 |
| Fider | Self-hosted, free | Infra only | $840-1,500 | your own server | not a fixed figure |
| Docket | Never expires | $99 once | $0 after | one payment | $99 |
Three-year cost is only the axis this list is sorted on. Sorted by fit, a funded team with a support stack in Intercom, Zendesk or Salesforce gets more from Canny.io than from anything cheaper. A team refusing to pay anyone but willing to run its own Postgres fits Fider. A team wanting to pay once, self-host without a database, and stop thinking about it fits Docket.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best feature voting tool?
There is no single answer. Frill.co is the cheapest live subscription at $264 a year. Canny.io does the most if you already run Intercom, Zendesk or Salesforce. Fider is free if you run your own server. Docket is the one-time purchase with no server to run at all. Which is best depends on which of those you are optimising for.
Which feature voting tool is cheapest over three years?
Docket, at $99 once, because there is no second payment. Among the subscriptions, Frill.co is cheapest at $792 over three years. Canny.io is most expensive at $2,844, because its price is metered by tracked users rather than fixed.
Does a free feature voting tool exist?
Fider is free and open source under AGPL-3.0, but running it costs infrastructure: Postgres, a host, email and monitoring, priced by UserJot's own breakdown at $70 to $125 a month before engineering time. Docket's core board is also free with no card or account, and carries no server cost because it has no database.
Why is Canny.io more expensive than the rest?
Canny.io prices per tracked user rather than per workspace or seat, and tracked users accumulate permanently once someone posts, votes, comments. It is also a bigger product: Autopilot reads support conversations across five tools and syncs with HubSpot and Salesforce, which the cheaper tools here do not offer.
Which of these tools is a subscription and which is a one-time purchase?
Canny.io, Featurebase, UserJot, Nolt.io and Frill.co are all live subscriptions, billed monthly or yearly, forever. Fider is open source software you run yourself at your own infrastructure cost. Docket is the only one priced as a single payment with no recurring bill behind it.