The self-hosted Frill 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 Frill every month.
Stop renting Frill
3 months of Frill equals this one-time price.
Assumption: The entry tier as published. Frill is the closest rival on this product in mechanism: like Votera it refuses to charge per admin, and meters the WORK instead — its own feature table reads "active ideas 50 unlimited unlimited", so Startup caps active ideas at 50 with one survey and unlimited ideas arrive one tier up at $49. Votera is $59 once, with unlimited voters and no idea ceiling at all.
How Frill pricing grows with you
Frill meters by ACTIVE IDEAS and surveys rather than by seat: admins and widgets are unlimited on every paid tier, and what you buy with a higher tier is room for more feedback.
“plans from $25/mo. unlimited admins and unlimited widgets on every paid tier” — their own page, read 2026-09-03
What Frill does that we don't
Frill bundles the whole feedback loop — ideas, roadmap, changelog, surveys and white labelling on the upper tiers — with SOC 2 on Enterprise.
“business$49per month” — their own page
Who should stay with Frill
Stay with Frill if you want the hosted widget, surveys and white labelling maintained for you. Votera is the same three surfaces — a feedback board, a public roadmap and a changelog — bought once and run on your own domain, with unlimited voters and no monthly bill behind them. Full honest limitations are on the product page.
Why owning beats renting Frill
- One payment. No monthly, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. It never lives in Frill'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 Frill comparison.
Sources
- Frill — price checked 2026-09-03 —
source “plans from $25/mo. unlimited admins and unlimited widgets on every paid tier ... startup$25per month ... business$49per month ... enterprise$349per month”
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.