User Interviews vs Userlytics

From $45 per participant (indicative, general population)

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

Per-participant recruiting fee plus the incentive you choose. Specialist B2B professionals cost considerably more.

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

Free to manage your own participants; recruitment is pay-per-participant.

Free trial with a small number of sessions.

Widely used

User Interviews · since 2015

Established

Userlytics · since 2009

• Solves recruiting, which is the actual bottleneck in most research programmes.
• Handles incentive payment and scheduling logistics, saving substantial coordinator time.
• Works with whatever session tooling you already use.

• 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.

• No testing or analysis features — it is recruitment only.
• Panel is strongest in North America.
• Costs mount quickly for specialist B2B roles.

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

Teams whose research is blocked on finding and paying the right participants.

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