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We sell a competing product, so this review says where Featurebase wins as well as where it does not. Of everything in this category, Featurebase is the one whose scope most closely overlaps Docket's, and it is the one most worth understanding before you buy either.
It is also the product that validated this page format. Featurebase publishes exactly this shape of review of other people's tools, including an Aha! review, so they will recognise the exercise.
What Featurebase does well
It is a suite rather than a request board. A full helpdesk with live chat and an omnichannel inbox, a help centre with AI search and multilingual AI translation, NPS and CSAT surveys, changelog widgets, banners and outbound email, plus the feature request board and roadmap. Four or five separate subscriptions for most teams, in one.
The design is the best in the category by a distance. Here is the hard number behind that: 4.7 from 50 reviews on G2 with 41 of those at five stars, and 5.0 from 18 on Product Hunt. Both read in a browser on 23 August 2026. Their own homepage claims they are used by teams at Lovable, Raycast and n8n, which is their claim rather than ours, but it is the right sort of company for a product sold on craft.
AI is wired through the whole thing. Duplicate detection, board suggestions, AI tagging, an answer agent on the help centre, and separate reader and writer MCP connectors so an agent can work the board.
Procurement is covered. SOC 2 Type II, EU hosting in the Netherlands and Germany, SCIM provisioning, single sign-on from the Professional tier.
The startup discount is unusually generous. 86 per cent off, for companies founded less than two years ago with fewer than six employees, plus a year of their AI agent free. If you qualify, most of the arithmetic below stops applying and you should take it.
What does Featurebase cost in 2026?
| Plan | Billed yearly | Seats | Boards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 1 | 1 |
| Growth | $29 per seat/mo | Per seat | 5 |
| Professional | $59 per seat/mo | Per seat | 10 |
| Enterprise | $99 per seat/mo | Per seat | Unlimited |
Read from featurebase.app/pricing on 23 August 2026. Three charges sit on top of the seat price: $0.49 per AI resolution, $69 a month to remove branding, and unlimited AI Copilot at $19 per seat.
Three things about that shape are worth stating plainly rather than implying.
- It is per seat, so the bill multiplies by your team. Two people on Growth is $696 a year, three is $1,044, before any add-on. Every other hosted tool in this comparison charges per workspace or per board.
- Badge removal is the most expensive line of its kind we have found. $69 a month is $828 a year, and it cannot be bought at all below Professional, so the real cost of an unbranded board for one person is $59 a seat plus $69.
- The free tier is a single seat and a single board. Fine for evaluating, not a place to live.
What it costs against buying one
The price above is fair for a hosted tool. The difference is that it comes back every year, and Docket does not.
Three years at $29 a seat a month billed yearly, for one seat. On three people it is $3,132, plus $69 a month to remove the badge.
Who Featurebase is wrong for
Anyone who only wanted the board. The helpdesk, the live chat and the AI agent are most of what you are paying for. If your support already lives somewhere else and works, you are buying a second inbox.
Teams where several people need admin access. Per seat is the pricing unit that punishes exactly that, and it is the one thing a growing support team always needs more of.
Anyone who needs the badge gone on a small budget. $59 a seat plus $69 a month is a real number for a solo developer, and Upvoty removes its branding at $15 a month.
Anyone with a hard requirement to hold the data themselves. There is no self-hosted Featurebase. EU hosting is offered, and for most residency requirements that is enough, but it is not the same thing.
Open both and compare like for like.
Best for: A team that wants a helpdesk, a help centre and a feedback board from one vendor, with the best design in the category.
Not for: A team of more than one or two people on a budget. Seats compound at $29 each a month billed yearly, and removing the badge is a further $69 a month on Professional or above.
Where Docket fits
One question, and no fudging it. Same product shape, rented forever or bought once and run yourself.
Featurebase Growth for one person is $348 a year, so $1,044 over three years, and it keeps going. Docket Pro is $99, once, for unlimited products, with the badge gone at that price and no per-seat line at all. Studio is $249. Over three years, that is $99 against $1,044 for one seat, and Featurebase's number triples if three of you need admin access while Docket's does not move.
Here is what Featurebase has that Docket does not: live chat, an omnichannel inbox, a SOC 2 report, and a support team on the other end. If you need the helpdesk, that is worth paying for. If you need the board, the roadmap and the changelog, Docket does those for $99 once, with no database and no server to patch. Your coding agent sets it up in about ten minutes.
If reading that list made you uneasy, buy Featurebase. That is not us being polite. Featurebase is the right buy for a team without somebody who wants to own a deployment, and it is why this page exists in the shape it does. Our head-to-head page puts both columns side by side, and the alternatives page prices the rest of the field if neither of us is right.
Best for: One person or a small team shipping software who wants the board, roadmap, changelog and FAQ on their own domain, paid for once at $99.
Not for: Anyone who wants a vendor to run it for them. There is no hosted version, you set it up in your own GitHub account, and it is newer and smaller than Canny or Productboard.
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