Maze vs Respondent

From $99 per month (indicative, Starter)

From $39 per participant (indicative fee, plus incentive)

Panel recruitment is billed separately from the platform subscription.

B2B incentives are high — $100-$400 per professional participant is normal, on top of the platform fee.

Free plan with a limited number of studies and responses per month.

No subscription required; pay per completed session.

Widely used

Maze · since 2018

Established

Respondent · since 2016

• Test a Figma prototype with real users before building anything.
• Quantitative metrics make results defensible in a product review.
• Usable free tier for evaluation and small studies.

• Reaches professional segments that general panels simply do not contain.
• Verification meaningfully reduces participants misrepresenting their role.
• No subscription commitment.

• Unmoderated only — you cannot ask a follow-up question.
• Prototype testing measures a happy path, not the messy reality of a live product.
• Bring-your-own-participants works well; the built-in panel is smaller than UserTesting's.

• Expensive per participant once incentives are included.
• Recruitment only, no research tooling.
• Some fraudulent participation persists despite verification.

Product and design teams validating flows early and often.

B2B product teams that need to talk to specific professional roles.