FeatureWish vs Upvoty: free forever vs a 14-day clock
Upvoty's cheapest plan is $15/mo and FeatureWish's only paid plan is $20 — but the difference that decides it is what sits underneath: FeatureWish has a real free tier; Upvoty has a 14-day trial.
Pricing & features last reviewed July 2026.
Upvoty is one of the original small-team Canny alternatives — independently built, priced for small teams, and genuinely well-liked. If you’re comparing it against FeatureWish, you’re comparing two tools aimed at the same buyer. So the differences that matter are structural, and the biggest one is simple: Upvoty has no free plan. Every tier is a 14-day trial, and then you pay — $15/month minimum, and meaningfully more once you want the full loop.
Here’s the honest breakdown, including where Upvoty is still the better pick.
The short version
| FeatureWish | Upvoty | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes, forever | No — 14-day trial |
| Cheapest paid plan | $20/mo (Pro) | $15/mo (Power) |
| Tracked users | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Team members | Unlimited | Yes |
| Feedback boards | 3 free, 10 per workspace on Pro | Unlimited (within 1 project) |
| Changelog | Free | Super plan ($25/mo) |
| Integrations | Slack free; GitHub + Linear on Pro | Super plan ($25/mo) |
| Duplicate suggestions (as you type) | Yes, free | — |
| Public roadmap | Free | Yes |
| Embeddable widget | Free (script + iframe, themeable) | Yes |
| Vote integrity (verified voting, abuse signals) | Yes | — |
| MCP server (AI agents) | $20/mo flat (Pro) | Hyper plan ($49/mo) |
| Custom domain | Not yet (planned) | Yes, from $15/mo |
| SSO | Not the focus | Yes, from $15/mo |
| Multiple projects/workspaces | 1 free, 5 on Pro | Hyper plan ($49/mo) |
Upvoty facts reflect their public plans at the time of writing (July 2026): no free tier; Power at $15/mo (1 project, unlimited boards and tracked users, custom domain, SSO, API), Super at $25/mo (adds changelog and integrations), Hyper at $49/mo (adds unlimited projects, MCP, and webhooks), plus a custom Enterprise tier. Check upvoty.com/pricing for current numbers before you decide.
The trial clock changes everything
A 14-day trial isn’t a pricing detail — it changes how you adopt the tool.
Feedback boards have a cold-start problem. You set one up, embed it, share the link… and then real feedback trickles in over weeks and months as users actually hit friction. Fourteen days is enough time to evaluate the software, but not enough to know whether a feedback board works for your product. With Upvoty, you’re paying from week three whether the board has ten posts or zero.
FeatureWish’s free plan is the product, not a countdown: boards, voting, threaded comments, the public roadmap, the changelog, and the embeddable widget are free forever with unlimited tracked users and unlimited team members. You can let the board earn its keep before any money moves.
Where the entry tiers diverge
The two entry tiers sit close together — Upvoty Power at $15/month, FeatureWish Pro at $20 — but they buy very different things:
Upvoty Power ($15/mo) gets you one project with unlimited boards, a custom domain, and SSO — but no changelog and no integrations. Those live on Super at $25/month. Their MCP server for AI agents sits another tier up, on Hyper at $49/month.
FeatureWish Pro ($20/mo) assumes you already have the whole loop from the free plan — boards, roadmap, changelog, widget, Slack notifications — and adds the power features on top: branding removal, custom CSS on your portal, GitHub and Linear integrations (push a request to an issue, and the issue’s state syncs back onto the post), the built-in MCP server, and up to five workspaces for separately-branded products.
So the practical question isn’t the entry price, it’s what the full stack costs. On Upvoty, changelog, integrations, agent access, and multiple products add up to a $49/month proposition. On FeatureWish all of it is $20 — and most of it is $0.
What you get with FeatureWish
- The full loop, free forever. Not a trial — boards, voting, comments, roadmap, changelog, and the widget, with unlimited tracked users and team members.
- Fewer duplicate requests, automatically. As someone types a new request, FeatureWish surfaces similar existing posts so they upvote instead of reposting. It’s built in and free.
- Vote integrity you can reason about. Every vote carries a salted IP-hash abuse signal, and any board can require email-verified voting when a request starts attracting suspicious traffic — so the roadmap reflects real demand.
- Embeds that keep voter identity. Embedded widgets are third-party iframes, so Safari and Firefox partition or evict their storage — silently turning one voter into a new anonymous visitor each session on most tools. FeatureWish’s embed script runs a first-party token bridge from your own page, so a voter stays the same voter.
- An SEO-ready public portal. Your public board, roadmap, and changelog are server-rendered with proper titles, descriptions, canonicals, and a sitemap — crawlable by Google and readable by AI assistants.
- Slack notifications, free. New posts and status changes land in your channel without a paid tier.
What about AI agents and MCP?
Both tools ship a first-party MCP server, so Claude, Codex, Cursor, or any MCP client can work with your feedback directly. The difference is where it sits in the pricing.
Upvoty’s MCP server is a Hyper-plan feature at $49/month. FeatureWish’s is part of the flat $20/month Pro plan: seven scoped tools — 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) — behind one revocable token, set up with a single URL.
If you want an agent that can answer “what should I build next?” from real vote data, run morning triage, or draft specs from comment threads, that workflow is the same on both tools — it just costs less than half as much to unlock on FeatureWish. See the MCP server page for copy-paste setup and FeatureWish for AI agents for the workflows.
Where Upvoty is the better choice
Honestly:
- You need a custom domain today. Upvoty includes it from $15/month. FeatureWish doesn’t offer custom domains yet (it’s planned) — your portal lives at a
featurewish.comURL. Iffeedback.yourdomain.comis non-negotiable, Upvoty has it now. - You need SSO for your voters. Upvoty offers custom SSO from its cheapest plan, so users of your product are automatically signed in to the board. FeatureWish identifies voters with a lightweight email-verification flow instead; SSO-identified embeds aren’t built yet.
- You want unlimited boards under one project on the entry plan. FeatureWish gives you 3 boards free and 10 per workspace on Pro; Upvoty’s Power plan has no board cap at all.
- A longer track record. Upvoty has been at this since 2018 with a large customer base. FeatureWish is younger.
Switching is low-risk
The concepts map one-to-one — boards, posts, votes, statuses, roadmap, changelog, widget — and FeatureWish’s free plan means there’s no trial deadline pressuring the evaluation. Stand up a board, embed it next to (or instead of) your Upvoty board, and let real usage decide.
Bottom line
Upvoty is a good product with fair flat pricing — but there’s no free tier, the changelog and integrations start at $25/month, and agent access costs $49/month. FeatureWish gives you the entire feedback loop free forever, and its single $20/month plan includes what Upvoty spreads across three tiers. If you don’t need a custom domain or voter SSO today, you can run your whole feedback operation for $0.
Spin up a board and see — no card, no 14-day clock.