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Great Question vs Maze

Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.

Entry price

From $129 per seat/month (self-serve; $1,290/year annually)

Free tier

Free tier available

Free tier

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Self-serve is $129 per seat/month, or $1,290 a year paid annually; enterprise is quoted. Recruitment from external panels is billed on top of the subscription.

Maze has withdrawn public pricing — its pricing page is now a feature-comparison table where every paid tier resolves to a form, so the Starter figures quoted by third-party sites are not verifiable. Panel recruitment is billed separately from the platform subscription.

Free tier

Free trial rather than a lasting free plan.

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

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

Codeless
Codeless

Platforms

Web
WebiOSAndroid

Fits teams

StartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
StartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

Adoption

Emerging

Great Question · since 2020

Widely used

Maze · since 2018

Strengths

  • One workflow instead of separate recruiting, scheduling, testing and repository tools.
  • Recruits from your own CRM, which reaches real customers rather than panel participants.
  • Handles incentive logistics.
  • 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.

Limitations

  • Breadth means individual modules are less deep than specialists.
  • Smaller vendor than the enterprise incumbents.
  • Own-customer recruiting needs clean CRM data to work.
  • 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.

Best for

Research-ops teams consolidating a fragmented toolchain.

Product and design teams validating flows early and often.

All of these integrate with: Slack.

Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.