Markup gets the feedback in. PinDrop closes the loop.

If you're here, it's probably one of three things. Markup.io hiked from $29 to $79/mo and you noticed. You ship enough projects that $49–79/mo for visual feedback feels wrong. Or you want your coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) to act on the feedback directly instead of sitting in another tab. PinDrop was built for that. Pro is $15/mo. Studio is $39/mo for small teams. And MCP is on every tier, including Free.

PinDrop starts at $15/mo, ships an MCP server so your coding agent can resolve pins from the IDE, and keeps the thing Markup.io got right: reviewers click a link and leave feedback. No signup. No browser extension. Studio ($39/mo) adds unlimited projects, a 10-person workspace, white-label reviewer pages, and a custom share domain. Still well under Markup.io's price.

Pricing, the obvious one

Markup.io Pro is $49/mo annually, $79/mo monthly, after the hike from $29. PinDrop Pro is $15/mo, or $144/yr. Roughly a fifth of Markup's monthly rate. Both free tiers are real; once you outgrow them, the math diverges fast.

Markup Pro is one workspace per seat, so five client projects means five seats: $245/mo on Markup (annual rate) vs $15/mo on PinDrop Pro or $39/mo on Studio (unlimited projects, 10-person workspace). Around $2,500–$2,800/year saved.

Closing the loop

Markup.io gets feedback in, then the loop stays open: you read the comment, switch tabs, find the code, fix it, come back, mark it done. PinDrop hands the pin to your coding agent and lets it close the loop. Markup.io has no public API and no MCP server. The MCP-having competitors all start at $59+. PinDrop puts MCP on the free tier: sign up, mint an API key, connect your IDE.

PinDrop exposes a remote MCP server. Tools your agent can call:

pindrop_list_open_pins

every open pin across your projects

pindrop_get_pin_context

route, viewport, coordinates, screenshot, DOM snapshot, thread

pindrop_add_pin_comment

reply as the agent

pindrop_resolve_pin

close the pin after shipping the fix

In practice: you say "fix pin 4" in Claude Code. The agent reads the pin's full context (which page, which element, what the reviewer said), edits the code, and resolves the pin. No tab-switching, no copy-paste. If you already live in Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, feedback stops being a side trip.

The pages your agent actually needs to fix

Most of the feedback worth acting on lives behind a login — the dashboard, the checkout, the settings page. Markup.io renders your site through a proxy, and a proxy can't log in: your reviewer hits the login wall, and Basic Auth staging often just breaks. The comments never reach the pages that matter, so neither do the fixes your agent could make.

PinDrop runs inside your real app instead. Drop the one-line script into the app you're already shipping, your client or beta user logs in the normal way — the same account you gave them — and they pin on any authenticated route. PinDrop doesn't bypass your login; it just doesn't break it the way a proxy does. Then "fix pin 4" works on the logged-in dashboard, not only the marketing homepage.

Public pages need nothing but a pasted URL. Logged-in pages need the script tag — one line, and it's what lets your reviewers reach them without a Markup-style proxy in the way.

What Markup.io does better

Honest: Markup.io has things PinDrop doesn't.

• Wider asset support. PDFs, images, and video. PinDrop is web-pages-only.
• Bigger storage tiers. Hundreds of GB on Pro.
• Enterprise compliance. SOC II, dedicated CSMs, audit trails.
• Brand recognition. Around longer, now owned by Ceros.

How to switch

PinDrop can't import Markup.io feedback; that data is locked inside their app. For an active project the path is:

1. 01Paste your deployed URL below
2. 02Share the new PinDrop link with your reviewers
3. 03Keep Markup open for legacy feedback, or let it lapse

takes about five minutes once you have the URL handy