Canny alternative

Why teams switch from Canny to Lenit

Every feedback board goes stale without daily upkeep. Connect GitHub, and Leni, Lenit's AI manager, closes shipped requests, notifies voters, and drafts the changelog every day.

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Canny is the established standard, but for startups and growing teams the per-tracked-user pricing makes the bill impossible to predict and scales up exactly when you don't want it to. The UI is dated, AI features cost extra, and the integration roster is built around enterprise sales stacks (Intercom, Salesforce, Gong) that startups without a sales team never use.

Canny is not built for fast-growing teams

Per-tracked-user pricing means the better your product does, the more you pay. Startups need pricing that doesn't tax growth, and a board that runs without daily upkeep.

Canny

Pricing scales with your users

More tracked users, higher bill. Next month's invoice is hard to predict.

Monthly billPer user ↑
$1,079/ month at 5,000 users
$79
100
$529
1,000
$1,079
5,000
Tracked usersBill follows
Users up, bill up
Also worth knowing

Dated UI

Little visual change since 2017, and it shows in the embedded widget too.

AI costs extra

Autopilot and other core AI sit behind credits or upper plans.

Enterprise-first integrations

Intercom, Salesforce, Gong. Powerful with a sales team, dead weight without one.

So with Lenit, the board manages itself.

Connect GitHub once, and all of this happens automatically every day. The board stays current without an admin.

Ship it, and it closes itself

Leni reads your GitHub changes daily and marks related feedback as done.

BoardSynced
Voting
In progress
Done
Dark mode
Status syncAutomatic

New feedback files itself

Each request is read and classified under the right topic. The board stays tidy on its own.

InboxNew
Add dark mode please2 min ago · widget
Bug FeatureUI
TopicAuto-classified

Duplicates become one

Similar requests are detected and merged, votes and comments included. No more split votes.

Duplicates2 found
Dark mode · 7↑Night theme · 5↑
Dark mode · 12↑
Votes & commentsKept together

Publish, and voters hear about it

Leni reads your GitHub releases and merged PRs and drafts a changelog with the related feedback linked. Review and publish, and everyone who voted on that feedback gets notified.

ChangelogPublished
v1.24 · Dark mode3 requests closed
42 voters
NotifyEveryone who voted

Canny vs Lenit: the key differences

See exactly how the pricing and day-to-day operations compare.

Feature
Lenit
Canny
Pricing model
Flat per workspace (seats included · unlimited end users)
Per tracked user (scales fast)
Paid starts at
$39/mo flat (3 seats · AI included)
From $79/mo (billed yearly)
Daily board ops
Leni, the AI manager, runs it
Manual admin work
Ship → close feedback
Automatic via GitHub
Manual issue linking
Changelog writing
Leni drafts it for you
Written by hand
AI cost
Included (Pro: 500 AI replies/seat/mo)
Autopilot credits, extra
Free to start
14-day free Pro trial
Only 25 tracked users
Built for
Startups & solo builders
Enterprise sales orgs

As your team and customers grow, what happens to the bill?

Drag the sliders. Canny charges by tracked users, so the bill climbs with your customers. Lenit only counts seats — the bill stays flat no matter how many customers you have.

Estimated monthly bill
CannyPro plan$529/mo
LenitStarter plan$47/mo
Save $5,787 per year−$482/mo
CannyLenit
$0$350$700$1,050$1,4001k2k3k4k5kCustomers →$529$47

Canny: public Pro plan pricing (as of Aug 2026, tracked-user bands — crossing a threshold moves you to the next band) · more than 10 managers or 5,000 tracked users requires the Business plan (custom). Lenit: flat per workspace with seats included (Starter 3 · Pro 10, extra seats $12 / $18), unlimited end users. Yearly prices shown as monthly equivalents for both.

Free · done by the Lenit team

Migrate from Canny to Lenit. We move the data for you.

Send us your Canny export and the Lenit team moves ideas, vote counts, statuses, topics, and creation dates over for free. Customer lists you can import yourself via CSV.

How it works
  1. 1Export a CSV from your Canny dashboard (Settings → Export)
  2. 2Sign up for Lenit and email the file to minseok1768@lenit.cloud — the Lenit team moves ideas, votes, statuses, topics, and dates for you, free (customer lists: Customers → Import)
  3. 3Swap one line of widget code and you're done (optional: redirect old Canny URLs)
CannyCannyexport.csv · 1,248 rows
Migrating
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Ideas
Votes
Statuses
Topics
Created dates