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.
Votera3 months of Frill costs what Votera costs once.
Buy onceHow we counted: 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.
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
Frill bundles the whole feedback loop — ideas, roadmap, changelog, surveys and white labeling on the upper tiers — with SOC 2 on Enterprise.
“business$49per month”, their own page
Stay with Frill if you want the hosted widget, surveys and white labeling 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.
What Votera deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.
Why owning beats renting Frill.
No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.
It never lives in Frill's cloud.
Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
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 Frill.
How is this different from Canny or Featurebase?
Do voters need to create accounts?
Will it run on my hosting?
Can I put the board inside my own app?
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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, 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.