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Pilea vs Productboard

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Public API
Both have one
Higher Trust score
Productboard — 90 vs 85 for Pilea
Best fit
Pilea: Product managers replacing subjective prioritization sessions with evidence-backed scoring · Productboard: Product teams at mid-size to large companies centralising feedback and roadmaps
Status
Both up at our last check (Oct 15, 2026)

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

PileaPulls customer feedback from Slack, tickets and calls into a prioritized, evidence-backed product backlog.ProductboardProduct management platform that centralizes customer feedback, roadmaps, and spec writing, with an AI agent layered on top.

Side by side

FactPileaProductboard
CategoryCustomer Feedback & ReviewsTask & Project Management
Pricing modelPaidContact
Starts at$29/mo—
Public APIYesYes
Trust score85 / 10090 / 100
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CompanyPilea Insights ASProductboard, Inc.
Launched—2014
Last verifiedOct 15, 2026Oct 15, 2026

What our research says

Pilea

Pilea's evidence-linked backlog is the useful part: each scored item traces back to the actual tickets, calls and Slack threads behind it, which beats prioritising by opinion in a meeting. Prices are now public, $29 a month for one user and $149 for a five-person team, so it fits a product manager or small product team with steady feedback volume. Teams with little incoming feedback, or wanting a full project tracker, should look elsewhere.

Pros

  • Every backlog item links back to the original feedback as evidence
  • Two-way status sync with Jira and Linear, export to GitHub Issues, plus an API and MCP server
  • EU-hosted, with PII redaction listed in the plan comparison
  • Public USD pricing with a 14-day trial and no card up front

Cons

  • No permanent free plan: starting for free means a 14-day trial
  • Solo covers one user and two agents, and CRM sync starts on the $149 Team plan
  • Only useful once you already have enough feedback volume to be worth clustering

Productboard

Productboard has moved fully upmarket: the free and $19 Plus plans are gone, and both remaining tiers are sold through a demo or sales call with Spark, its AI agent, built in. It is still a mature feedback-to-roadmap system for product organisations, but small teams no longer have a self-serve way in.

Pros

  • Long operating history (founded 2014) with named enterprise customers
  • AI agent (Spark) adds context-aware insight generation and spec drafting
  • MCP server and connectors included on Business, plus API access

Cons

  • No public price: Business needs a demo request and Enterprise a sales call
  • Free and Plus self-serve plans have been withdrawn
  • AI work is metered in credits per maker on top of seat pricing

Which one fits

Choose Pilea if you need

  • Product managers replacing subjective prioritization sessions with evidence-backed scoring
  • UX researchers needing fast synthesis across scattered feedback sources
  • Teams already using Jira or Linear who want two-way backlog sync

Choose Productboard if you need

  • Product teams at mid-size to large companies centralising feedback and roadmaps
  • Organizations wanting AI-assisted insight extraction from large feedback volumes

Pilea vs Productboard: the questions people ask

Is Pilea cheaper than Productboard?

Pilea starts at $29/mo; Productboard prices on request, so a quote is the only way to compare.

Which has a public API, Pilea or Productboard?

Both ship a public API, so either can be built on; the fact table above shows the platforms each one runs on.

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