Great Question vs Respondent
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 tierFrom $40 per B2C session at pay-as-you-go, plus the incentive you set
PaidWhat 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.
Session fees are $40 B2C and $80 B2B at pay-as-you-go, falling about 30% on a large annual commitment, with a further discount for unmoderated studies. You are only charged for completed sessions — no-shows and screen-outs are free. Incentives are separate and you fund them: $100-$400 per professional B2B participant is normal, on top of the session fee.
Free tier
Free trial rather than a lasting free plan.
No subscription required; pay per completed session.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Emerging
Great Question · since 2020
Established
Respondent · since 2016
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.
- Reaches professional segments that general panels simply do not contain.
- Verification meaningfully reduces participants misrepresenting their role.
- No subscription commitment.
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.
- Expensive per participant once incentives are included.
- Recruitment only, no research tooling.
- Some fraudulent participation persists despite verification.
Best for
Research-ops teams consolidating a fragmented toolchain.
B2B product teams that need to talk to specific professional roles.
All of these integrate with: Zoom, Slack.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.