Respondent vs Userlytics

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

From $49 per participant (indicative, pay-as-you-go)

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

Pay-per-session pricing is unusual in this category and suits intermittent research.

No subscription required; pay per completed session.

Free trial with a small number of sessions.

Established

Respondent · since 2016

Established

Userlytics · since 2009

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

• Pay-as-you-go avoids an annual commitment for occasional studies.
• Both moderated and unmoderated in one platform.
• Genuinely international panel including many non-English markets.

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

• Interface is less polished than the market leaders.
• Analysis tooling is basic compared to UserTesting.
• Panel quality varies by market.

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

Teams that research a few times a quarter and cannot justify an annual platform contract.