Clickvote Pricing: What You Can Use for Free and What to Check Before Committing

Clickvote's site advertises a free managed cloud service and a self-hosted option, but it does not publish a price list. The homepage links to a pricing page, yet no plan tiers, rates, or payment details appear in the available page content. So the practical answer is: you can start on the free cloud tier or run it yourself with docker-compose, and any paid or enterprise pricing has to be confirmed directly with Clickvote.

What the site actually says about cost

Two entry points are described on the homepage:

• Cloud — "Use our free managed service." This is the only explicit price signal on the page.
• Self-Hosted — "Run locally with docker-compose." No cost is stated, because you supply the infrastructure.

A "Pricing" link exists at https://clickvote.dev/pricing, which suggests a structured pricing page is intended. The page content available here does not include its contents, so treat the free cloud tier as the only confirmed offer.

Choosing between cloud and self-hosted

The homepage also notes the project is open-source, with source code and work publicly available and a community of 3,000+ developers. That matters for cost only in the sense that self-hosting is a supported path rather than a workaround.

What you get regardless of plan

The free/managed and self-hosted paths share the same component model. You embed like, upvote, and review components into React, Vue, Angular, or Svelte:

import { ClickVoteProvider } from '@clickvote/react';
import { ClickVoteComponent } from '@clickvote/react';
import { LikeStyle } from '@clickvote/react';

export const LikeExample = () => {
  return (
    <ClickVoteProvider>
      <ClickVoteComponent id={CONTEXT} voteTo={ID}>
        {(props) => <LikeStyle {...props} />}
      </ClickVoteComponent>
    </ClickVoteProvider>
  );
};

The homepage also lists monitoring and time-series views of likes, unlimited like volume, and delivery of vote data into your system via API calls or Kafka topics. None of these are marked as paid-only in the available content.

What to verify before you commit

Because pricing is not published, confirm these points with Clickvote or on the pricing page:

• Whether the free managed service has usage limits (likes per month, contexts, or seats).
• Whether API calls or Kafka delivery are included at every tier.
• Whether there is a paid plan or enterprise option, and what triggers an upgrade.
• What data retention and export look like on the managed service.

If those answers matter to your decision, the self-hosted route removes most of them from the equation — you control the deployment, and the cost becomes your own hosting bill rather than a Clickvote invoice.