Comparison
Swingback vs Upvoty
Upvoty's pricing keeps the API, webhooks, end-user sign-in and MCP for its $49 Hyper plan. Swingback signs your users in and sends webhooks on every plan, free included.
Upvoty's prices and features as its own pages showed them on October 21, 2026.
Why teams choose Swingback over Upvoty
- 01
Your users signed in, on every plan
Upvoty's pricing page puts custom SSO on Hyper, $49 a month. Swingback signs your users in with a token your server signs, or with your own sign-in page, on every plan.
- 02
Webhooks without the top plan
Upvoty's API and webhooks come with Hyper. Swingback's webhooks come with every plan, and Pro adds the REST API and the MCP server.
- 03
A free plan, not a trial
Upvoty has a 14-day trial, then costs from $15 a month. Swingback's Free plan has no time limit, with three boards and three team members.
- 04
GitHub issues, synced both ways
Upvoty's native integrations send engineering work to Jira and Linear, and leave GitHub to Zapier or its API. Swingback creates or links GitHub and Linear issues from a post, and keeps their statuses and comments in step both ways, on every plan.
Pricing
What you pay, next to Upvoty
Swingback
Priced per workspace. Unlimited customers, posts and votes on both plans.
- Free3 members · 3 boardsFree
- Pro20 members · unlimited boards · custom domain · no branding · API and MCP server · private boards$20 / month$18 billed yearly
Upvoty
A flat price per plan, with unlimited boards and tracked users. Plans limit projects (one on Power and Super) and unlock features.
- Power1 project · Roadmap and custom domain · Upvoty branding shown$15 / month$13.50 billed yearly
- Super1 project · Changelog and all integrations · No Upvoty branding$25 / month$22.50 billed yearly
- HyperUnlimited projects · Custom SSO and SAML sign-in · API, webhooks and Upvoty MCP$49 / month$44.10 billed yearly
- EnterpriseSAML sign-in, custom DPA · A dedicated success managerContact sales
Upvoty's Hyper plan, for the API, webhooks, end-user sign-in and MCP, costs $49 a month billed monthly, or $44.10 a month billed yearly.
Swingback Pro costs $20 billed monthly, or $18 billed yearly, with custom domain, no branding, API and MCP server, private boards.
With Pro, save at least$313.20a year
Features
Feature by feature
| Feature | Swingback | Upvoty |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes3 members, 3 boards, no time limit | NoA 14-day trial |
| Price doesn't grow with your end users | YesUnlimited customers on every plan | YesUnlimited tracked users |
| Several feedback boards | Yes3 on Free, unlimited on Pro | YesUnlimited boards |
| Public roadmap | Yes | Yes |
| Changelog | YesScheduling and RSS | From Super |
| In-app widget | Yes | Yes |
| Your users signed in (SSO or signed token) | YesEvery plan | From HyperCustom SSO |
| Custom domain | From Pro | Yes |
| No vendor branding | From Pro | From Super |
| Private boards | From Pro | YesNot on their pricing page |
| AI triage | YesTags, duplicates, moderation, translation, drafts; 50 posts and comments a month on Free | YesMerge AI and tag suggestions |
| Slack | Yes | From SuperAll integrations from Super |
| Discord | Yes | From Super |
| Webhooks | YesEvery plan | From Hyper |
| API | From ProREST, OpenAPI 3.1 | From Hyper |
| MCP server | From Pro16 tools | From Hyper |
| Portal in several languages | Yes7 languages, posts and comments translated | Yes20+ languages |
What Upvoty has that Swingback doesn't
Worth knowing before you choose, if you need one of these.
- Unlimited boards on every plan
- Downvotes and leaderboards
- Jira, HubSpot, Intercom and Microsoft Teams integrations
- Scheduled CSV exports by email
- 20+ portal languages
Migration
Move from Upvoty to Swingback
- Step 1
Export from Upvoty
- Upvoty's features page describes one-click CSV exports of posts, voters, comments and activity, which a workspace's admins can run. Its public pages don't say where the export starts in the app, so ask Upvoty's support if you can't find it.
- Export posts, voters and comments. According to Upvoty, the files carry every visible column, your custom fields and stable ids, with ISO 8601 dates in UTF-8.
- Or read posts, comments, votes, boards, users and tags through Upvoty's REST API, which its pricing page keeps for Hyper.
- Step 2
Import into Swingback
Upload each CSV file, and match its columns to the fields: the importer suggests the matches, and you check them.
Every import starts with a dry run that shows what it will create. Boards, statuses and tags map to yours, and running it again adds only what's new: import once to try, and again on the day you switch.
- Step 3
Switch over
Replace Upvoty's widget with Swingback's, and move your feedback domain to your portal (a custom domain is on Pro).
Then announce the move in your first changelog entry, so your customers know where to find you.
What you can take out of Upvoty
| Posts, with custom fields | CSV export, API |
|---|---|
| Voters and votes | CSV export, API |
| Comments | CSV export, API |
| Tags | CSV export, API |
| Activity | CSV export |
About this comparison
Everything said here about Upvoty comes from its own website, as it was on October 21, 2026. Prices and plans change: check Upvoty's pages before you decide.
Upvoty's pages disagree about which plan includes what: its features page says every feature is on every plan, and its pages on the API, webhooks, Slack, Linear, Microsoft Teams and Zapier say the same of theirs, while its pricing page reserves the API, webhooks, SSO and MCP for Hyper, and the changelog, all integrations and removing its branding for Super. This page follows the pricing page.
Upvoty's help center (help.upvoty.com) didn't load when we checked, and its knowledge base on Crisp holds a single article, about moving from Upvoty v1, so the export steps come from its data exports page.
Ready to move from Upvoty?
Start on the Free plan, bring your data over, and switch when everything is in place.