Cayda vs BugHerd

The BugHerd alternative without the seat blocks.

BugHerd sells feedback in blocks of members: five on Standard, twenty five on Premium, with the tracker integrations on the $125 tier. Cayda charges a base fee plus the people who actually accept an invite, puts Jira, Asana and Linear on a $14 plan, and starts free.

Starting price

$9/mo

Cayda

$42/mo

BugHerd

Free plan

Yes, no clock

Cayda

7 day trial

BugHerd

Jira, Asana, Linear

$14 tier

Cayda

$125 tier

BugHerd

Owner seat

Covered

Cayda

Counts as a member

BugHerd

Why teams choose Cayda over BugHerd

Priced per collaborator, nothing else

A base fee covers you; each accepted teammate is $5 to $6. Two people pay $14, not $42. Ten people with Jira pay $68, not $125. Nobody buys seats they are not using.

Invisible to visitors. Always.

Nothing renders for your audience on any plan. The feedback layer appears only for authenticated team members and the guests you invite. No launcher, no badge, no URL key to leak, no toggle to forget. Run it on production.

A dashboard built for triage

Kanban and list views, filters by status, priority, assignee and note type, bulk actions, threaded comments, an activity feed and CSV export. Manage feedback like a project, not a thread.

Context captured automatically

Every note pins to the element and records a screenshot, page URL, browser, OS and viewport. Screen recording on the Team plan. Nobody has to remember to include the details.

What a team actually pays

Annual billing, per month. BugHerd pricing from bugherd.com/pricing, September 2026.

Solo freelancer

unlimited sites

Cayda
$9/mo
BugHerd
$42/mo

Team of five, Slack

status, priority, assignment, CSV

Cayda
$29/mo
BugHerd
$42/mo

Team of five, Jira

plus Asana, Linear, screen recording, guests

Cayda
$38/mo
BugHerd
$125/mo

Feature by feature

Cayda plan names in the Cayda column. BugHerd details from bugherd.com/pricing and /features, September 2026.

CaydaBugHerd
Free plan2 sites · 50 notes/site · 3 membersNone
Entry paid planPro $9 + $5/member$42 · 5 members
Jira, Asana, LinearTeam $14 + $6/member$125 tier
SlackProAll plans
Extra members$5 to $6$6.60
Owner covered by base fee
Websites on paid plansUnlimitedUnlimited
Visible to site visitorsNeverOptional public widget
Auto screenshot, browser, OS, viewport
Screen recordingTeamVideo, one minute cap
Kanban + list dashboard, bulk actionsKanban board
Client / guest reviewersTeam, no member feeUnlimited guests
CSV exportProAll plans
WordPress plugin, Shopify appWordPress

How BugHerd approaches it

BugHerd has been pinning feedback to websites since 2011 and prices it in member blocks: Standard includes five members at $42 a month, Premium includes twenty five at $125 and is where Jira, Asana and Linear live. The owner takes one of those seats, and every member past the block is $6.60.

Cayda covers the same loop, click on the page, leave a note pinned to the element, triage it in a board, push it to your tracker, with a free plan, a base fee that includes the owner, and per-member pricing that only bills people who accept an invite.

The bottom line

For a freelancer, a studio, or a team under twenty, Cayda costs a fraction of BugHerd for the same workflow, and it never shows anything to your visitors. Try it free on two sites before you decide.

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