Pendo alternative
Looph vs Pendo: published pricing with no MAU meter
Pendo prices its paid plans on monthly active users and quotes every one. Looph publishes every plan, voter limits included.
Pendo pricing model
Free up to 500 monthly active users; every paid plan is custom-priced on monthly active users plus the modules you choose. No paid list prices are published.
Looph pricing model
Per-workspace plans. Members are free and unlimited on every plan; admin seats, boards and tracked voters are set by plan, and the bill only moves when you change plan. Starter is $19/mo, or $190/yr billed yearly; Growth is $59/mo, or $590/yr billed yearly; Business is $179/mo, or $1,790/yr billed yearly.
The honest version
Where Pendo fits
Pendo is a product-experience platform — analytics, in-app guides, feedback — and the analytics depth is real. Its paid plans are sold on monthly active users with no published list price, which makes them hard to evaluate and expensive to scale into. If what you need is a feedback board, voting, a public roadmap and a changelog, Looph gives you that with a price you can read.
What Pendo does well
- Pendo's product analytics and in-app guidance are far beyond Looph's scope.
- Pendo states plans include full feature access within a purchased module rather than gating features.
- Pendo suits organisations that want analytics, guides and feedback from one vendor.
Side by side
Looph vs Pendo, line by line
Pendo claims checked against their own public pricing page on 28 October 2026. Looph prices are shown billed monthly, with the yearly price alongside.
| Looph | Pendo | |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Yes, every tier | No — every paid plan is custom pricing |
| Pricing unit | Per-workspace plan; members are free, admin seats and voters are set by plan | Monthly active users, plus the modules you buy |
| Cost as your user base grows | Published steps by tracked voters (100 on Free, 1,000 on Starter, 10,000 on Growth, unlimited on Business); your app's active users are not counted | Scales with MAU |
| Free plan | Free forever: unlimited members, 2 admin seats, 1 public board, 100 tracked voters | Pendo Free, up to 500 monthly active users; Novus is a free beta |
| Self-serve signup | Yes, every plan | Free plan only; paid plans go through a demo or pricing request |
| Public roadmap and changelog | Core product | Secondary to analytics and guides |
| Rewards engine | Included on Growth and Business | None listed on their pricing page |
| Product analytics and in-app guides | Not offered | Extensive |
- Verified · how we check
- Source: Pendo pricing
- Source: Looph pricing
To see how seat-based and tracked-user pricing grow with your team and audience, run your own numbers in the feedback tool cost calculator.
Reasons to switch
Three reasons to choose Looph over Pendo
- No MAU meterLooph never counts your product's active users. Its plans set a published limit on the customers who vote on your boards, and Business has none.
- Evaluate without a sales cycleSign up free, build a board, publish a roadmap and decide — before anyone books a call.
- Focused surface, faster adoptionA feedback loop your customers actually use, without an analytics implementation project attached.
Already decided? You can import your Pendo posts from a CSV export: titles, details and statuses come across, while votes and comments do not yet, so plan to invite your voters to the new board. Evaluating for a larger team? Book a walkthrough.
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Move off Pendo with a CSV import
Export your Pendo posts to CSV and import their titles, details and statuses into a Looph board, then invite your voters to vote again.
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