A Canny alternative you pay for once

What Canny costs

Prices from Canny's public pricing page, in USD, checked on October 10, 2026. Taxes excluded. Vendors change prices; follow the source links to see today's.

The math over 1, 3 and 5 years

Pro is the cheapest Canny plan with a custom domain, which is the usual reason to leave Free. The fair comparison is the first Pro step, 100 tracked users, at $79 a month on yearly billing ($948 a year) or $99 on monthly billing ($1,188 a year). FigVote is $39 once, so it costs less than two months of that first step on yearly billing. Every higher step makes Canny dearer, not FigVote.

Canny Pro at $79/month (yearly billing, their cheapest rate), assuming today's price never goes up. FigVote is a single $39 payment.

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Switching from Canny? What comes over, step by step

What FigVote does

Only features that exist in FigVote today. If it isn't in this table, assume we don't have it.

What Canny's pricing is based on

Canny does not charge per seat. It charges by tracked users, which its help center defines as anybody with an attributed post, vote or comment. Admins who post or vote count too, and so do people you vote on behalf of. Visitors who only read the board do not count. Canny also says a tracked user stays tracked while they have a post, vote or comment attributed to them, and that a user whose only post is closed or completed stops counting unless they voted on another open post.

The Free plan stops at 25 tracked users. Pro starts at 100 and moves up in steps. The pricing page says that if you go over and have not set a monthly spend limit, Canny upgrades you to the next tier and charges a prorated amount for the rest of the billing period. With a spend limit set, Canny stops tracking feedback from new users once you reach it.

That structure rewards a quiet board and charges a busy one more. A feedback board that works, with people voting and commenting, is exactly what pushes the count up.

Canny Pro at each tracked-user step

Canny lists the full ladder in its help center (https://help.canny.io/en/articles/9131812-canny-s-billing-plans) and the same numbers appear on its pricing page (https://canny.io/pricing) when the slider moves. Each figure below is Pro, in US dollars per month, shown as monthly billing then yearly billing. At 100 tracked users: $99 and $79. At 200: $161 and $129. At 300: $224 and $179. At 500: $349 and $279. At 1,000: $661 and $529. At 2,000: $911 and $729. At 2,500: $1,036 and $829. At 5,000: $1,349 and $1,079. Steps in between are listed on the same pages.

Read the yearly column as a monthly equivalent. At the 1,000 tracked-user step, $529 a month is $6,348 for the year. Canny says yearly billing saves up to 20%. Above 5,000 tracked users, and for features like branding removal, you talk to sales for a Business quote.

Against that ladder, FigVote is $39 once, whatever the number of people who vote. Its limits are different ones: Solo includes one project, 2 admins, owner included, and 2,000 notification emails a month per license, and Pro, at $79 once, covers unlimited projects, 5 admins and 10,000 emails a month. The higher FigVote plan raises those to 5 admins and 10,000 emails. Past the email cap, emails pause until the 1st and the board keeps working.

What each Canny plan gates

Custom domains need Pro. Canny's own help page says custom domains are only available on paid plans, and the Free plan article says the board then lives on a canny.io subdomain. Private boards are not gated: Canny says they are available on all plans, and that they are visible only to admins. Boards for chosen people, such as signed-in customers or a segment, are a Pro feature. Posting, voting and comments by end users are on every plan.

On the pricing page the Remove branding row has no mark under Free or Pro and a mark under Business, and Canny's billing article describes removing the Powered by Canny branding as an optional add-on of the Business plan. That means a branded board on Pro. FigVote puts no FigVote branding on public pages or on the widget.

Integrations are gated by plan too. Free lists feedback-capture and notification integrations (Intercom, Zendesk, Slack, the Chrome extension, Microsoft Teams, Discord). Pro adds project-management tools, Zapier and MCP connectors. Business adds SSO and CRM.

What Canny says happens when you cancel or downgrade

These are Canny's own words. On cancelling (https://help.canny.io/en/articles/10082976-canceling-your-canny-account): "You will retain access to Canny through the end of your current billing cycle." and "This process will NOT delete your account." On downgrading to Free from the same page: "Just select the Free plan from the Billing page, and Canny will walk you through any adjustments that need to be made."

On changing plans (https://help.canny.io/en/articles/10446960-can-i-change-or-cancel-my-plan): "Service will continue through the end of your current billing cycle (whether monthly or annual)." The billing article adds that Canny prorates changes to billing. Deleting a workspace is a separate action that Canny describes as irreversible, and a workspace with an active paid subscription has to cancel first.

Canny's pages we read do not say what happens to a custom domain or to posts beyond the Free limits when you drop to Free. Its Free plan article says custom domains are not included there. Ask Canny before you downgrade a board that has real traffic. A one-time purchase avoids the question: the board stays up and the price does not change.

What FigVote does today

Each project gets a public board at its own address with its own name, logo and brand color. Visitors can read without signing in. Voting, posting and commenting need an account, with email and password or an email link, and each account gets one vote per post. If your product already has signed-in users, 'Identify your users' lets them vote, comment and post with no FigVote account: your server signs a short-lived token for each of them, on Solo and Pro alike. Replies from your team are marked Team. You can approve new posts and comments before they go public, edit, delete, pin, add tags and move posts through open, planned, in progress, shipped and closed.

Duplicates merge: votes, comments and followers move to the post you keep, a person who voted on both keeps one vote, and the old link redirects. The roadmap page shows planned, in progress and shipped columns built from the same posts. A changelog has an RSS feed and can mark linked posts as shipped when you publish an entry. One script tag adds a Feedback button that opens the board in a panel.

A project can have several boards, public or private, and private ones are visible only to invited members. You get one custom domain per project, and the board, roadmap and changelog are served on it. Webhooks fire on new posts and status changes, signed JSON or a Slack or Discord incoming webhook. You can export posts, votes with voter emails and comments as JSON or CSV.

Refunds and what lifetime means

Every purchase from F*ckSubscription has a 14-day full refund. Lifetime means for as long as we run the app. If we ever shut it down, you get 30 days' notice and an export of your data. I am Martin, a French solo founder, and FigVote is not launched yet, so read this page as what it will be on day one rather than as a track record.

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