The short answer
- Moving from Canny Pro to Fider (free tier) saves $1,138 in the first year, after setup and upkeep time (Stackcut's model: modeled, not measured).
- Fider's community migration guide moves 3 partly; 3 things stay behind. What moves
- 3 public accounts of making this switch: 2 evaluated, 1 switching. Read them
What Canny and Fider cost
List prices from each vendor's pricing page, as stored in the Stackcut catalog. Each price links its source.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly (per month) | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canny Pro | $99/mo | $79/mo | 100 tracked users, 10 managers, unlimited contributors, PM integrations, advanced privacy. The price steps up by tracked users (see the other Pro rows); an optional monthly spend limit stops tracking new users instead. |
| Canny Pro 200 tracked users | $161/mo | $129/mo | Pro with up to 200 tracked users |
| Canny Pro 500 tracked users | $349/mo | $279/mo | Pro with up to 500 tracked users |
| Canny Pro 1,000 tracked users | $661/mo | $529/mo | Pro with up to 1,000 tracked users (steps continue to 5,000 at $1,349 monthly or $1,079 yearly) |
| Fider Pro | $25/mo | not shown | Hosted: unlimited feedback items, content moderation, SEO indexing, public roadmap view; billed month to month |
- Canny free plan: 25 tracked users (anyone with a post, vote or comment; the count does not reset monthly), 5 managers, unlimited contributors, unlimited boards and feedback, public roadmap and changelog, Autopilot feedback capture; only feedback and notification integrations help.canny.io
- Fider free plan: Hosted Free: unlimited users, voting, comments and members up to a fair-use limit of 250 feedback items; no content moderation; the public roadmap view is Pro-only on the cloud fider.io
Moving from Canny to Fider
What Fider's importer carries over, what it leaves behind, and any help it offers switchers.
To Fider
Community guide saasassin.net · Tools: Dry-run validator with explicit loss report (planned), Fider REST API (post creation path)
Moves: Boards and posts (Canny board CSV) (partial); Statuses and tags (partial); Post authors (partial); Votes and voters (fidelity not stated); Comments (fidelity not stated); Images and attachments (fidelity not stated). saasassin.net
Doesn't move: Nothing confirmed yet — the mission is pre-implementation and the loss report is a deliverable, not a result; No upstream comments import path confirmed as of 2026-08; Voter identity reconciliation unproven without a sample export. saasassin.net
Watch out for:
- No Canny→Fider importer exists yet — this page is a proposal awaiting maintainer direction, not a working guide saasassin.net
- Hard boundary: no fork or new repository presented as the Canny replacement saasassin.net
- Attachments and voter identity are called out as the riskiest data classes saasassin.net
Community guide instapods.com · Tools: Canny CSV export (board posts), Fider REST API (posts; attachments append to description)
Moves: Posts (title, description, status) (partial). instapods.com
Doesn't move: Vote counts and voter identities; Vote counts and voter identities — stated as not mapping cleanly; Any automated migration — no one-click importer exists. instapods.com
Watch out for:
- Fider signs people in by emailing a link — configure an SMTP sender first or the board is unusable instapods.com
- Vote counts and voter identities do not map cleanly — old votes cannot be attributed automatically instapods.com
From each destination's own migration docs and switching pages, plus community write-ups where no official guide exists, each checked against its page. Confirm terms on the linked page before you rely on an offer.
People who moved from Canny to Fider
3 public accounts of leaving Canny: 2 evaluated, 1 switching. Summaries are ours; each links the original, and each was checked against its page before it appeared here.
A public coordination project chose Canny→Fider as its first migration mission: five Canny user interviews, one design partner, a field-level mapping and a dry-run loss report before any upstream contribution. GitHub
Hands-on cost ranking of every Fider hosting option (Oracle free tier, PikaPods, InstaPods, Hetzner DIY, Coolify, Elestio) against Canny and UserVoice SaaS pricing. The author discloses he built InstaPods and recommends it. DEV Community
Independent hands-on verdict that Canny can be self-host-replaced by Fider ('YES, BUT'): about 210 minutes of setup, $1,188/yr saved, with the SMTP relay as the main hurdle. The install is authored from upstream docs and not yet machine-verified by the site. Can I Self-Host It?
FAQ
Is Fider cheaper than Canny?
Modeled, not measured: moving from Canny Pro to Fider (free tier) saves $1,138 in the first year, after setup and upkeep time at $50/hour. It depends on your plan, seats and usage. the math
Can I move my Canny data to Fider?
Fider's community guide moves: Boards and posts (Canny board CSV); Statuses and tags; Post authors. It doesn't move: Nothing confirmed yet — the mission is pre-implementation and the loss report is a deliverable, not a result; No upstream comments import path confirmed as of 2026-08; Voter identity reconciliation unproven without a sample export. saasassin.net
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