Canny costs $50+/mo — and unlike a tool you buy once, that bill never stops. Over three years that's roughly $1,800 for software doing a job your own hardware could just as easily do.
Where the subscription actually goes
$50+/mo is the sticker price. It compounds: cancel and you typically lose access to your own history, and most plans ratchet the price up as you add usage, seats or storage — the bill rarely stays flat for long.
Voicebox: the pay-once alternative
Voicebox does the same core job for $34, once. Public feedback board with upvotes, comments and an auto-populated kanban roadmap, self-hosted.
| Voicebox | Canny | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $34 once | $50+/mo |
| Cost after 1 year | $34 | $600+ |
| Ideas / voters | Unlimited | Plan-capped |
| Public roadmap | Yes | Yes |
| Merge duplicates | Yes | Yes |
| Official pinned replies | Yes | Yes |
| Anonymous voting | Yes | Limited |
| Self-hosted | Yes | No |
Voicebox costs less than one month of Canny once, and never asks for another dollar as your voter count grows.
Is the subscription ever still worth it?
If you need Canny's specific ecosystem, integrations or managed infrastructure and that's genuinely load-bearing for you, the subscription earns its keep — that's a real trade-off, not a trick. Voicebox is for everyone else: people paying every month for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.
Try Voicebox — $34, once
Public feedback board with upvotes, comments and an auto-populated kanban roadmap, self-hosted.