Prolific vs Useberry

From $6 per participant (indicative, plus platform fee)

From $67 per month (indicative)

You set the incentive with a fair-pay minimum, plus a percentage service fee. Far cheaper than moderated-research platforms.

Cheaper than Maze at comparable functionality; participant recruitment is separate.

No subscription; pay per participant.

Free plan with limited tests and responses.

Widely used

Prolific · since 2014

Emerging

Useberry · since 2018

• Notably better data quality than generic survey panels.
• Fine-grained prescreening across hundreds of demographic attributes.
• No subscription — pay only for what you run.

• Good value — most of Maze's capability at a lower price.
• Supports a wide range of prototype sources.
• Card sorting and tree testing included rather than sold separately.

• Recruitment only; you supply the study and the tooling.
• Skewed towards students and younger, online-native participants.
• Not suited to recruiting senior enterprise decision-makers.

• Smaller company with a lighter integration ecosystem.
• No moderated research.
• Limited built-in panel.

Survey-based and quantitative studies where data quality matters and budget is limited.

Small teams that want prototype testing without enterprise pricing.