Great Question vs Survicate
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 $114 per month (annual billing, Growth)
Trial onlyWhat 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.
Billed on monthly survey responses, so the cost rises exactly when a survey is working. Seats and integration count are gated by tier as well, which is what usually forces the upgrade rather than the response cap.
Free tier
Free trial rather than a lasting free plan.
10-day trial, no card. No permanently free tier.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Emerging
Great Question · since 2020
Established
Survicate · since 2015
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.
- One survey, every channel — web, in-product, email, mobile and link — with the answers pooled rather than siloed per tool.
- Event-triggered in-product surveys catch people at the moment the behaviour happened.
- CRM and support integrations attach responses to a real customer record instead of an anonymous id.
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.
- Priced by responses, which penalises the surveys that get answered.
- It collects opinions, not observed behaviour; pair it with replay or analytics rather than reading it alone.
- Survey fatigue is a real cost to your product, and nothing in the tool stops you over-asking.
Best for
Research-ops teams consolidating a fragmented toolchain.
Product teams that want the 'why' behind an analytics drop-off without commissioning a research study.
All of these integrate with: Salesforce, Slack, Segment.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.