FeatureWish vs Sleekplan: free without the tracked-user cap
Sleekplan's free plan caps tracked users at 25 — the same trap as Canny. FeatureWish doesn't cap them at all. Here's the honest, side-by-side breakdown, including where Sleekplan wins.
Pricing & features last reviewed July 2026.
Sleekplan is a capable, all-in-one feedback tool — it covers the whole loop from collecting feedback to discussing ideas, prioritizing, and announcing updates. On paper it’s a strong Canny alternative, and its paid plans ($15–$45) are friendlier than Canny’s.
But its free tier has the exact problem people leave Canny over: a tracked-user cap. Sleekplan’s free plan caps tracked users at 25, and even the low-cost Indie plan caps at 100. That’s the same pricing trap — the more of your users engage, the sooner you’re forced to upgrade.
FeatureWish is free forever with unlimited tracked users. Here’s the honest comparison, including where Sleekplan is the better pick.
The short version
| FeatureWish | Sleekplan | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes, forever | Yes (“Indie”) |
| Tracked users on free | Unlimited | Capped (25 free / 100 Indie) |
| Paid pricing | Free core loop | $15–$45/mo tiers |
| Boards | Up to 3 free | Yes |
| Voting | Yes, with anti-manipulation signals | Yes |
| Duplicate suggestions (as you type) | Yes, free | Paid (Sleek Intelligence AI) |
| Public roadmap | Yes | Yes |
| Changelog | Yes | Yes |
| Embeddable widget | Yes (script + iframe, themeable) | Yes |
| MCP server (AI agents) | Yes — built-in, $20/mo flat (Pro) | Yes (built-in, OAuth) |
| Pricing model | Free; flat | Tiered; tracked-user caps on lower tiers |
Sleekplan facts reflect their public plans at the time of writing (June 2026): a free Indie plan (feedback board + changelog) with tracked-user caps (~25 free, ~100 Indie), and paid editions roughly $15–$45/mo, plus a 30-day Business trial. Check sleekplan.com/pricing for current numbers.
The core issue: tracked-user caps
Sleekplan’s free and lower tiers limit tracked users — the count of people who interact with your feedback. This is the same model that pushes teams off Canny: your cost scales with engagement, so a successful board becomes a bigger bill. For a growing SaaS, that’s a tax on exactly the behavior you want.
FeatureWish doesn’t count tracked users at all. Free means free, no matter how many people vote, comment, and submit.
Where FeatureWish wins
Unlimited tracked users, free. The headline. Your board can go from 25 to 25,000 engaged users without a pricing event.
Unlimited team members, free. Bring your whole team in to triage; never ration seats.
A public portal built for SEO and AI. The /b/ portal is server-rendered with per-page meta and a sitemap — crawlable by Google, legible to AI assistants — and carries a “Powered by FeatureWish” backlink that compounds.
Embed identity that survives modern browsers + vote integrity. A first-party token bridge keeps voters identified even when Safari/Firefox evict third-party storage, and any board can require verified email to vote (plus a salted IP-hash abuse signal on every vote).
On-brand public portals. FeatureWish’s portal carries your logo, accent color, and theme — a distinctive, polished public face for your feedback.
Duplicate suggestions, free. As users type, FeatureWish surfaces similar existing posts so they upvote instead of reposting — keeping the board clean. Sleekplan’s automatic de-duping (Sleek Intelligence) and post-merging sit on its paid tiers; FeatureWish’s keyword-based suggestions are free.
What about AI agents and MCP?
Both tools are agent-ready. Sleekplan ships a first-party MCP server with OAuth-based auth and EU-hosted infrastructure — a genuinely solid implementation that lets Claude, Codex, Cursor, or any MCP client capture feedback, triage, and publish changelog entries. Credit where due.
FeatureWish’s MCP server is the same idea with a simpler shape: one URL (app.featurewish.com/mcp), one revocable bearer token from Settings, seven scoped tools covering the feedback loop — list boards and posts, read a request with its full comment thread, pull the roadmap and changelog, file a post, update a status (which emails the voters automatically). It’s part of the flat $20/month Pro plan, and — this is the part that matters on this page — the board your agent is reading has no tracked-user cap underneath it. On Sleekplan’s lower tiers, the feedback data itself stops growing when you hit the cap; an agent can only be as informed as the board it reads.
Setup snippets for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI, and Cursor are on the MCP server page; FeatureWish for AI agents covers the founder workflows — agent-run triage, votes-versus-effort prioritization, specs drafted from real user threads, and closing the loop from your editor.
Where Sleekplan is the better choice
Honestly:
- You want a broader feature set on paid tiers today. Sleekplan packs a lot — surveys, a knowledge base, and more — into its paid editions. If you need those specific extras now, Sleekplan’s range is wider than FeatureWish’s focused loop.
- You’re fine with the tracked-user model and want the cheapest paid tier. At $15/mo, Sleekplan’s entry paid plan is inexpensive — if your user count is small and stable, the cap may never bite.
If your board is going to grow — and you’d rather not pay more as it does — FeatureWish removes the ceiling entirely.
Switching is low-risk
Boards, posts, votes, comments, statuses, roadmap, changelog, widget — the concepts map across directly. Stand up a FeatureWish board and embed it in an afternoon, with no trial clock, because the free plan is the real product.
Bottom line
Sleekplan is a solid, full-featured tool — but its free and Indie tiers cap tracked users, the same trap people leave Canny over. If you want the feedback loop without a ceiling on engagement, FeatureWish gives you boards, voting, a roadmap, a changelog, and an embeddable widget free forever, with unlimited tracked users and team members.
Spin up a board and let it grow — no tracked-user cap.