Is sarvaFeed actually cheaper than Aha! Ideas?

At every team size, yes, because both the seat price and the floor are lower. Aha!'s three-seat minimum sets its floor at $117/mo on annual billing and $147/mo on monthly; sarvaFeed's free plan covers one admin at $0, and three Growth seats are $57/mo. The gap widens with each seat: ten Essentials seats run $490/mo, and the Advanced tier most teams need for domains and CRM integrations is $740/mo at ten seats, against $190/mo for ten sarvaFeed Growth seats. The fair caveat is that our bill moves on volume as well as on seats. Past 5 boards or 25,000 posts you step up to Scale at $39 a seat.

When is Aha! Ideas the better choice?

When you are already on Aha! Roadmaps, when your product organization is large and PM-driven, or when you need the deep workflow governance, idea scoring frameworks, and reporting Aha! has built over years. It is also the safer answer when procurement needs SSO and a SOC 2 Type II attestation in hand today: Aha! has both, and we have neither yet. We are not pretending we beat Aha! on every feature; they are a serious enterprise PM suite. We are a focused feedback portal at a different price point.

What do I lose by switching from Aha! Ideas?

You lose the tight coupling with Aha! Roadmaps and Aha! Knowledge, some deeper PM workflow features (advanced automation rules, multi-workspace governance), and Aha!'s shipped SSO and SOC 2 Type II attestation. Ours is not certified and SSO is still on the roadmap for Scale. If your team already lives inside Aha!, that integration is hard to replace. If you came to Aha! Ideas just for the feedback portal, you will not miss much.

Do you have proxy voting like Aha! Advanced?

Yes, and it is on every sarvaFeed plan, including Free. sarvaFeed lets sales, CS, and support submit feedback on behalf of customers, attribute it back to the originating user, and aggregate votes by customer or segment. On Aha! this requires Advanced, at $74 per user per month with a three-seat minimum, so $222/mo before anyone has logged a single request. The customers whose feedback you are logging are never billed on either product.

Can I import my existing Aha! ideas?

Yes. We support CSV import for ideas, votes, and statuses, and our team will run a guided migration with comments, voters, and customer attribution on Growth ($19 per admin seat a month) and above at no extra charge.

The better alternative to Aha! Ideas

Q: Does sarvaFeed charge per seat like Aha! Ideas?

Yes, sarvaFeed bills per admin seat too, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. The honest difference is the price of the seat and how few people need one. Aha! Ideas requires a paid seat for every internal role, owners, contributors, reviewers, even view-mostly teammates, with a three-seat minimum: Essentials is $49 per user per month on monthly billing ($39 annual) and Advanced is $74 ($59 annual), so ten seats run $490 or $740. sarvaFeed Growth is $19 per admin seat with no minimum, one seat included and further seats at $19 each, so those same ten admins are $190/mo and a three-person team is $57/mo. Everyone who submits, votes, comments, or reads the roadmap is free on every plan.

A focused Aha! Ideas alternative at $19 per admin seat a month: no three-seat minimum, only admins take a seat, and no Advanced upsell for custom domains, AI, or Salesforce.

$0/seat/mo

Growth plan, per admin seat, no minimum. Aha! Ideas Essentials is $49 a seat with a 3-seat minimum

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what Aha! Ideas Essentials costs at 10 seats, from a $147 three-seat minimum

Free plan: 1 admin seat, 1 board, unlimited portal users. Aha! Ideas has no free tier, only a 30-day trial

Do the math

What Aha! Ideas really costs

Aha! Ideas prices per paid seat with a three-seat minimum: Essentials is $49 per user per month on monthly billing, so the floor is $147/mo and ten seats run $490/mo. The features teams usually come for, custom domains, AI dedup, Salesforce and Jira, sit on Advanced at $74 per user, which is $740/mo for those same ten seats. sarvaFeed Growth carries all of them at $19 per admin seat, so three admins are $57/mo and ten are $190/mo.

AHA! IDEAS ESSENTIALS · PRICED PER SEATsarvaFeed · $19/seat/mo

$147/mo

$57

$245/mo

$95

$490/mo

$190

$74/seat for domains, AI, CRMs

2.6×

3 seats (min)5 seats10 seatsAdvanced

Monthly billing · Aha! Essentials is $39/seat/mo on annual billing, sarvaFeed Growth is $190 a seat for the year · every Aha! owner, reviewer, and viewer seat is paid, sarvaFeed bills admins only

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saved vs Aha! Ideas Advanced (10 seats) · 0% lower

That is ten Advanced seats at $74 on monthly billing, $740/mo, against ten sarvaFeed Growth seats at $19, $190/mo. Advanced is the fair match because that is the tier where Aha! keeps custom domains, AI dedup, and the CRM integrations; measured against ten Essentials seats, $490/mo, the gap is $300/mo. The chart above is the mechanism: a three-seat minimum sets the floor and every reviewer or viewer is a paid seat, while sarvaFeed bills admins only, from a seat that costs a fraction as much.

With Aha! Ideas

Essentials at 10 seats$490/mo (monthly billing)
Same 10 seats on Advanced$740/mo
Cheapest possible bill$117/mo (3 seats, annual)
Custom domain, AI, Salesforce, JiraAdvanced only
SSO / SAML & audit logsAha! Roadmaps Enterprise

What it really costs

Essentials $147/mo floor, Advanced $222/mo floor; every reviewer or viewer adds a seat

With sarvaFeed

Per-seat pricing

Growth with 10 admins$190/mo
Growth with 3 admins$57/mo
Custom portal domainIncluded on Growth
AI dedup & merge suggestionsStarter and up
Salesforce, Zendesk, JiraIncluded on Growth
Activity & audit logsGrowth and up
SSO / SAMLComing soon, lands on Scale

What it really costs

$19 per admin seat a month on Growth ($190 a seat billed yearly), no seat minimum; only admins take a seat, and voters, commenters, and portal readers are free

The facts

Let’s look at the facts

Aha! Ideas is the feedback module of a larger product-management suite. It is genuinely powerful for big PM-driven orgs, but every internal role needs a paid seat, plans start at three seats, and the features teams come for sit on the Advanced tier. sarvaFeed bills per admin seat too, so take that as given. What differs is the price of the seat, $19 on Growth against $49 on Essentials, that there is no seat minimum, that only admins take a seat, and that no tier above Growth holds the portal features back.

Pricing & plans

Aha! Ideas is per-seat with a three-seat minimum, so the floor is $147/mo on Essentials and $222/mo on Advanced at monthly billing ($117 and $177 annual), and every reviewer or viewer you add moves the bill. sarvaFeed is per-seat too, but the seat is $19 on Growth and there is no minimum: one admin seat is included and extra seats are $19 each, so three admins are $57/mo, five are $95, and ten are $190. Yearly billing is $190 a seat for the year, two months free, which is $570 for three admins and $1,900 for ten. Starter is the same shape at $9 a seat, so three admins there are $27/mo. On top of seats the plan meters volume: Growth carries 5 boards, 25,000 posts, and 500 AI credits a month, and Scale at $39 a seat carries 20 boards and 100,000 posts. Portal users who submit and vote are free on both products; the difference is that Aha! bills every internal seat, including read-mostly reviewers and viewers.

FEATUREsarvaFeed

Aha! Ideas

Price scales with paid seatsAdmin seats only, no minimumEvery plan, 3-seat minimum

Free tier1 admin, 1 board, unlimited portal usersNone; 30-day Advanced trial

Entry paid plan$9/seat/mo Starter ($90/seat/yr)$49/user/mo Essentials ($39 annual)

Advanced tier$19/seat/mo Growth ($190/seat/yr)$74/user/mo ($59 annual)

Cheapest possible bill$0 (Free plan, 1 admin)$117/mo (3 seats, annual)

Who needs a paid seatAdmins onlyOwners, contributors, reviewers, viewers

Portal users (submit & vote)Unlimited freeUnlimited free

sarvaFeed

Aha! Ideas

Price scales with paid seats

Admin seats only, no minimumEvery plan, 3-seat minimum

Free tier

1 admin, 1 board, unlimited portal usersNone; 30-day Advanced trial

Entry paid plan

$9/seat/mo Starter ($90/seat/yr)$49/user/mo Essentials ($39 annual)

Advanced tier

$19/seat/mo Growth ($190/seat/yr)$74/user/mo ($59 annual)

Cheapest possible bill

$0 (Free plan, 1 admin)$117/mo (3 seats, annual)

Who needs a paid seat

Admins onlyOwners, contributors, reviewers, viewers

Portal users (submit & vote)

Unlimited freeUnlimited free

Integrations

Aha! integrates with 15+ tools on Essentials, but the heavyweight connections, Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Jira, and the API, live behind Advanced at $74 per user. sarvaFeed unlocks every native integration on Growth at $19 an admin seat, and the REST API is open from Starter at $9 an admin seat.

FEATUREsarvaFeed

Aha! Ideas

Slack

JiraGrowth +Advanced only

SalesforceGrowth +Advanced only

ZendeskGrowth +Advanced only

HubSpotGrowth +Advanced only

Linear & GitHubGrowth +Via Zapier

Public REST API & webhooksAPI and webhooks, Starter +Advanced only

sarvaFeed

Aha! Ideas

Slack

Jira

Growth +Advanced only

Salesforce

Growth +Advanced only

Zendesk

Growth +Advanced only

HubSpot

Growth +Advanced only

Linear & GitHub

Growth +Via Zapier

Public REST API & webhooks

API and webhooks, Starter +Advanced only

Customization & brand

Aha! themes the portal on Essentials but reserves branded portal domains and translations for Advanced at $74 a seat. sarvaFeed keeps the custom domain and your own logo and colours together on Growth at $19 a seat, which is $57/mo for a three-admin team. Note the one thing neither entry tier gives you: on sarvaFeed, removing the "powered by" badge entirely is a Scale feature, at $39 a seat.

FEATUREsarvaFeed

Aha! Ideas

Custom portal domainGrowth +Advanced only

Brand customizationGrowth +Essentials +

Portal translationGrowth +Advanced only

Custom portal pagesGrowth +Advanced only

sarvaFeed

Aha! Ideas

Custom portal domain

Growth +Advanced only

Brand customization

Growth +Essentials +

Portal translation

Growth +Advanced only

Custom portal pages

Growth +Advanced only

Admin & security

Aha! has serious enterprise credentials and a deep admin model, and it sits inside the wider Aha! suite. Two plain concessions: Aha! ships SSO today, on Aha! Roadmaps Enterprise, and holds a SOC 2 Type II attestation, while sarvaFeed has not shipped SSO yet (it is on the roadmap and will land on Scale) and holds no certification at all. Count both as gaps. What sarvaFeed does ship is custom admin roles and activity and audit logs on Growth at $19 a seat, rather than reserving them for a top tier, so tightening permissions is a plan step and not a $74-a-seat one.

FEATUREsarvaFeed

Aha! Ideas

SSO (SAML / OIDC)Coming soon, lands on ScaleEnterprise (Roadmaps)

Audit logsGrowth +Enterprise (Roadmaps)

Role-based permissionsGrowth +

SOC 2 Type II complianceNot yet certified

sarvaFeed

Aha! Ideas

SSO (SAML / OIDC)

Coming soon, lands on ScaleEnterprise (Roadmaps)

Audit logs

Growth +Enterprise (Roadmaps)

Role-based permissions

Growth +

SOC 2 Type II compliance

Not yet certified

Core feedback features

Both cover the essentials well. The pattern to notice is where Aha! puts the rest: widgets, AI dedup, and proxy voting all sit on Advanced, the $74-per-seat tier. sarvaFeed ships the widget and proxy voting on every plan, and AI from Starter at $9 a seat, with 100 credits a month on Starter, 500 on Growth, and 2,000 on Scale.

INCLUDED IN BOTH

Public voting boardsPublic roadmapIdea scoring & prioritization

WHERE THE PLANS DIFFER

Built-in changelogsarvaFeed included·Aha! Ideas Via Aha! Knowledge
Embeddable widgetsarvaFeed included·Aha! Ideas Advanced only
AI dedup & merge suggestionssarvaFeed Starter +·Aha! Ideas Advanced only
Proxy voting (submit on behalf)sarvaFeed included·Aha! Ideas Advanced only

Comparison data reflects publicly available information about Aha! Ideas as of June 2026. Verify current pricing and features on their website before deciding.

The market

How the whole market prices

Set your team, feedback volume, and audience. Every price recomputes from that tool's published pricing, and each row shows its math.

Teammates

Feature requests

25,000

People giving feedback

1,000

sarvaFeedGrowth plan, $19 × 5 admin seats$95

Featurebase$29 × 5 seats$145

Aha! Ideas$49 × 5 users$245

ProdPadlist price, 10-person team$250

Productboard$59 × 5 makers$295

CannyPro plan at up to 1,000 tracked users$661

UserVoicesales-led, typical contract$1,333

Pendousage-based, typical quote$1,500

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Prices recompute from each provider’s published rates and calculator values as of June 2026, on monthly billing; verify on each provider’s site before deciding. sarvaFeed’s price is its current published price.

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