The 6 best UserVoice alternatives in 2026
UserVoice more or less invented the customer feedback portal, and it is now priced like the incumbent it is: no free tier, no self-serve small-team plan, and custom quotes — third-party breakdowns put entry pricing around $999 a month (Featurebase's analysis).
That is the reason almost everyone searches for an alternative: not missing features, price. So the comparison below turns on two questions — how much less you can pay for the same portal pattern, and whether the portal pattern is even the right shape for your feedback anymore. Disclosure: Modem is ours. Every other entry is described from its public documentation.
issue filed·
report writtenThe short version
| Tool | What you get | Pricing model |
|---|---|---|
| Canny | The most established portal alternative | Per tracked user, free plan |
| Featurebase | Portal plus changelog, surveys, support inbox | Per seat, free plan |
| UserJot | Portal, roadmap, changelog | Flat monthly, from $29 |
| Sleekplan | Board, roadmap, changelog, NPS, widget | Low per-plan tiers |
| Fider | Open-source board | Free, self-hosted |
| Modem | Automatic capture instead of a portal | Flat monthly, unlimited users |
1. Canny
Canny is the default UserVoice replacement and has been for years: feedback posts, voting, statuses, public roadmap, and automatic notifications to voters when a post ships. It has a free plan and self-serve paid tiers, which already separates it from UserVoice's sales process.
Note the pricing model before migrating a large community: Canny charges by tracked users, and costs rise with engagement (Formbricks details the tiers). See our Modem vs Canny comparison.
Where it fits: teams that want UserVoice's core pattern, modernized and self-serve.
2. Featurebase
Featurebase covers the portal, roadmap, and changelog and adds surveys and an AI support inbox, with a free plan and per-seat paid tiers (FeatureOS breaks down the pricing). Coming from UserVoice, the draw is a broader surface for a fraction of the spend; the caveat is that you're adopting a bundle, not just a board.
Where it fits: teams that want portal plus changelog plus support tooling in one purchase.
3. UserJot
UserJot positions itself directly against UserVoice on the pricing axis: flat monthly plans starting at $29 with unlimited users on every plan, no sales call (their comparison). The product is the familiar board-roadmap-changelog trio, newer and leaner than Canny.
Where it fits: small teams that want predictable pricing and a quick setup.
4. Sleekplan
Sleekplan packs a feedback board, roadmap, changelog, NPS, and an in-app widget into low-priced plans. It is aimed at exactly the small-team segment UserVoice no longer serves.
Where it fits: startups that want the whole feedback-widget surface cheaply.
5. Fider
Fider is an open-source feedback board you host yourself. It does posts, votes, and comments, and nothing much else — which for some teams is the point. Free forever if you run it, with your data on your infrastructure.
Where it fits: engineering teams comfortable self-hosting who want a board with zero license cost.
6. Modem — a different approach
Modem is not a portal, so if a public voting site is the requirement, stop here. We build Modem; treat the entry as self-interested.
The case for it: UserVoice-style portals only see feedback someone bothers to type into them. Modem instead captures feature requests where they already happen (Slack and Discord threads, support tickets, email, sales calls), dedupes and quantifies them into one context graph of topics and requesters, can file tracked issues in Linear, Jira, or GitHub when you ask, and helps you close the loop: when a linked PR merges, it tells your team which customers asked. It replaces the triage job the portal was supposed to do, not the community site.
Where it fits: B2B teams leaving UserVoice because the portal was really an internal request tracker with extra steps. Where it doesn't: products with an active public voting community — that community needs a board.
How to choose
If price is the whole problem, any of the first five entries solves it: Canny if you want the most established product, UserJot or Sleekplan if you want flat cheap pricing, Fider if you want free and self-hosted, Featurebase if you want the bigger bundle. The harder question is what your portal was actually doing. If customers genuinely used it, pick a board. If your team was pasting support tickets into it to keep count, you were using a portal to do triage, and automatic capture is the more direct fix.