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Survicate 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 $114 per month (annual billing, Growth)

Trial only

Free tier available

Free tier

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

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.

Maze has withdrawn public pricing — its pricing page is now a feature-comparison table where every paid tier resolves to a form, so the Starter figures quoted by third-party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

10-day trial, no card. No permanently free tier.

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

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptCodelessSwiftKotlin
Codeless

Platforms

WebiOSAndroid
WebiOSAndroid

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Established

Survicate · since 2015

Widely used

Maze · since 2018

Strengths

  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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

Product teams that want the 'why' behind an analytics drop-off without commissioning a research study.

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.