Canny collects votes. Productus tells you which problems put the most revenue at risk, then tracks what changed after you ship.
Revenue attribution, AI analysis, and closed-loop validation from $29/mo. No tracked-user pricing. No surprises.
Price
Productus Growth is $79/mo with revenue attribution included. Canny Growth is now $200/mo, and still charges per tracked user.
Intelligence
Canny's AI deduplicates posts. Productus AI clusters patterns across all your feedback, assigns dollar values, and generates ready-to-use specs for coding agents.
Closed Loop
Incumbents stop at collecting feedback. Productus tracks whether complaints dropped after your fix shipped and whether the exposed ARR went down. Canny can't do this.
The switching moment
Canny built a good product for collecting feature votes. But three things changed, and they're pushing teams to look elsewhere.
Starter went from $19 to $50/mo. Growth from $79 to $200/mo. All legacy free plans were retired. For many indie hackers and small teams, the math no longer works.
Canny now charges based on tracked users. As your product grows, your Canny bill grows with it, and you can't predict when you'll hit the next tier. Productus charges a flat rate.
Feature voting captures what people ask for, not what's putting revenue at risk. A bug affecting 3 paying customers is invisible on a voting board. Productus connects each piece of feedback to dollar values.
Pricing
Canny's tracked-user model means your bill grows as your product grows. Productus charges a flat rate, what you see is what you pay.
| Plan | Productus | Canny |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, 100 items/mo | $0, 25 tracked users |
| Starter | $29/mo ($20 early bird) | $50/mo (was $19), 1,000 tracked users |
| Growth / Mid | $79/mo ($55 early bird) | $200/mo (was $79), 5,000 tracked users |
| Scale / Business | $199/mo ($139 early bird) | Custom ($5K-10K+/yr) |
| Revenue attribution | Yes ($79/mo) | Basic CRM sync only |
| Closed-loop validation | Q4 2026 ($79/mo) | Not available |
| Spec generation | Q4 2026 ($79/mo) | Not available |
| Pricing model | Flat rate per plan | Per tracked user (scales with growth) |
Example: A team with 5,000 users paying for Canny Growth spends $200/mo for feedback collection with basic AI. The same team on Productus Growth pays $79/mo and gets revenue attribution, closed-loop validation, and spec generation included. Save $1,452/year.
Features
| Feature | Productus | Canny |
|---|---|---|
| Public voting board | Coming soon | Yes |
| Multi-channel aggregation | Paste or upload; connectors coming | Limited |
| App store reviews (iOS & Android) | Yes | No |
| Email forwarding | Yes | No |
| Widget / embed | Coming soon | Yes |
| API ingestion | Yes | Yes |
| Feature | Productus | Canny |
|---|---|---|
| AI clustering & pattern detection | Yes | Basic (Autopilot) |
| Sentiment analysis | Yes | No |
| AI deduplication | Yes | Yes |
| Revenue-weighted prioritization | Q4 2026 ($79/mo) | Basic CRM sync |
| Dollar values on priorities | Yes | No |
| Spec generation for coding agents | Q4 2026 | No |
| Feature | Productus | Canny |
|---|---|---|
| Closed-loop validation | Q4 2026 | No |
| Impact measurement after fix | Q4 2026 | No |
| Complaint trend tracking | Yes | No |
| Exposed-ARR change reporting | Q4 2026 | No |
| Feature | Productus | Canny |
|---|---|---|
| API-first architecture | Yes | Limited |
| MCP server for AI agents | Planned | No |
| Changelog | Planned | Yes |
| Public roadmap | Planned | Yes |
| SSO | Scale plan | Business plan |
| GDPR compliant (EU-hosted) | Yes | US-hosted |
The difference
Productus ties each problem to the paying customers behind it (via Stripe, a CSV, or manual entry) and sums their current ARR, so "Checkout flow bugs" surfaces as an exposure floor like "$45K of paying-customer ARR at risk," not just a popular request. It's a triage lens, never a loss prediction, and always shows the match rate. Canny's CRM sync can pull company names from HubSpot or Salesforce, but it doesn't put a dollar value on priorities.
After you ship a fix, Productus tracks whether complaints dropped, how sentiment changed, and whether the pattern is resolving (launching Q4 2026). Incumbent feedback tools stop at collection; closing the loop after you ship is the gap they leave open. With Canny, you ship and hope, with no way to measure outcomes without manually checking weeks later.
Productus generates implementation-ready specs (PRDs, user stories, tickets) from clustered feedback (launching Q4 2026). Paste them into Cursor, Claude Code, or your issue tracker and start building immediately. With an API-first architecture and planned MCP server, AI coding agents can consume priorities and specs directly. Canny has no spec generation and no agent integration.
Who should use what
Import your data
Migrate feedback history, user data, and feature requests from Canny via API import. Nothing is lost.
Set up in minutes
Connect your feedback sources, link Stripe for revenue data, and start seeing AI-clustered insights in under 5 minutes.
Founding member support
Early adopters get direct access to the founder for onboarding help, priority support, and feature input.
FAQ
Canny raised prices significantly in 2025-2026. The Starter plan went from $19/mo to $50/mo (nearly 3x), and Growth from $79/mo to $200/mo (2.5x). They also retired all legacy free plans and introduced tracked-user pricing that scales unpredictably. Many teams are looking for alternatives that offer better value.
Three things Canny can't do: (1) Revenue attribution: tie feedback to the paying customers behind it (via a CSV, manual entry, or your billing data) to see dollar values on priorities, not just vote counts. (2) Closed-loop validation (launching Q4 2026): after you ship a fix, Productus tracks whether complaints dropped and how sentiment changed. (3) Spec generation: generate implementation-ready specs (PRDs, user stories) that you can paste directly into Cursor or Claude Code.
Productus uses flat, predictable pricing. $29/mo for Starter, $79/mo for Growth with revenue attribution included. No tracked-user model, no per-user surcharges, no surprises. Canny charges $50/mo for Starter with only 1,000 tracked users, and $200/mo for Growth, and costs scale with your user count.
Yes. Productus will support importing feedback history from Canny via their API. Your existing feedback, votes, and user data can be migrated so you don't start from zero.
Yes. If you need a polished public voting board and changelog right now, Canny is more mature in those specific areas. Canny also has a larger ecosystem with 50K+ companies. Productus is purpose-built for a different job: connecting feedback to revenue and tracking what changed after you ship. If you need a voting board, Canny works. If you need to know which problems put the most revenue at risk and what changed after you ship, Productus is the better choice.
Canny's Autopilot handles deduplication and basic summarization (useful, but surface-level). Productus AI goes deeper: it clusters all your feedback into themes, performs sentiment analysis, connects patterns to revenue impact, and generates implementation-ready specs. The difference is between 'these two posts are similar' and 'this pattern has $12K/mo of paying-customer ARR exposed to it.'
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