The self-hosted Canny alternative
Votera — Your own feedback board, public roadmap, and changelog — unlimited voters, no per-user monthly bill. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Canny every month.
Stop renting Canny
1 month of Canny equals this one-time price.
Assumption: Tracked users accumulate and never reset - the tier ladder on the same page runs up toward $474/mo as they grow. Votera has no per-user meter - $474/mo at 700 tracked users is on the same page. Annual billing runs $79/mo to $1,079/mo across the same ladder.
How Canny pricing grows with you
Canny's paid pricing scales with tracked-user count, climbing through a fixed price ladder as that count grows, and tracked users never reset.
“Canny will automatically increase the price to the next increment when the tracked user limit is exceeded.” — their own page, read 2026-08-11
What Canny does that we don't
Canny's Pro plan bundles integrations with project-management tools like Jira, ClickUp, Linear, and Asana, plus Zapier and Segment.
“The Pro plan includes Feedback, Notifications, and Project management integrations, as well as tools like Zapier and Segment” — their own page
Who should stay with Canny
If you need voters automatically emailed when a linked idea ships, stay with Canny — Votera 2.0 notifies you on a new post or status change through your own SMTP; the changelog is the public record, not an auto-emailed voter list. Full honest limitations are on the product page.
Why owning beats renting Canny
- One payment. No monthly, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. It never lives in Canny's cloud.
- No plan ceilings. Records and users are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
- It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset or price-hiked out from under you.
Fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up, and apply updates yourself — see the product page for honest limitations, and the full Votera vs Canny comparison.
Sources
- Canny — price checked 2026-09-03 —
source “The month-to-month pricing for the Pro plan is $99/mo for up to 100 tracked users ... The annual pricing is $948/yr ... Free plan: 25 tracked users”
Competitor prices change — always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory — every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.