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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.

Own Votera for $59 Try the live demo

Stop renting Canny.

Rented Canny Pro $79/mo billed annually ($948/yr) at 100 tracked users, or Pro $99/mo month-to-month; ladder climbs with tracked users to $1,079/mo annual, $1,349/mo month-to-month at 5,000; free plan capped at 25 ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

Yours

Votera

$59 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

1 month of Canny costs what Votera costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: The lowest published price: Pro billed annually, $948 a year for 100 tracked users, $79 a month ($99 month to month; re-read 2026-10-11). The price steps up as tracked users grow - $474/mo at 700 tracked users is on the same page ($379 annual), and $1,349/mo at 5,000 ($1,079 annual). Votera has no per-user meter.

How Canny pricing grows

Canny's paid pricing scales with tracked-user count, climbing through a fixed price ladder as that count grows.

“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 project-management integrations out of the box, stay with Canny — Votera connects through signed webhooks and Slack, Teams or Discord messages, and emails a follower once when their idea ships.

What Votera deliberately doesn't do is on its 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 by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Votera vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off Canny.

How is this different from Canny or Featurebase?

Same three things — feedback board, roadmap, changelog — but you host it and pay once. Canny's price rises with tracked users and Featurebase's with admin seats, so the cost grows as your roadmap or your team does. Votera has no per-user fee and no monthly bill.

Do voters need to create accounts?

No. Voting works with an anonymous per-browser key, so there is no signup wall; you can optionally require an email to post or comment.

Will it run on my hosting?

Yes — PHP 8.1+ with PDO, MySQL or SQLite, on standard shared hosting or any VPS. Two-minute web installer, no Node, no build step.

Can I put the board inside my own app?

Yes — copy the one-line embed snippet from Settings and paste it anywhere; it drops in as a widget.

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Sources

Canny: price checked 2026-10-11, 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, so 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.

Replace Canny with Votera.

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