Last updated: June 2026
Fider is the open-source feedback board a lot of teams reach for once Canny or UserVoice sends the renewal invoice. Public roadmap, feature voting, status updates, your own subdomain - the stuff you actually need to run "tell us what to build next," without the SaaS price tag.
The reason to self-host it is two things: keeping your customers' feedback on infrastructure you own, and escaping a monthly subscription that climbs every time you add an admin or unlock a feature. Canny starts at $79/mo and jumps to $359/mo on the next tier. UserVoice starts around $899/mo. Fider is the same job - voting, boards, roadmap - for the cost of a small server.
I have run Fider on a few setups. Here is every option I found, ranked by actual monthly cost, plus the one thing that decides it: Fider needs a Postgres database and an SMTP sender, so "static cheap" does not apply the way it does for a notes app.
TLDR: For a managed Fider you never babysit, InstaPods is my pick at $3/mo flat - one-click deploy with SSL, the Postgres it needs already wired up, and SSH to a real server. PikaPods is in the same range (~$2-3/mo metered) but gives you no SSH. The cheapest self-managed route is a $4-5/mo Hetzner VPS with Docker Compose, if you do not mind running the database and mail config yourself. And every one of these beats Canny ($79/mo) or UserVoice ($899/mo) from day one.
