User Interviews vs Useberry
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 $49 per session (pay-as-you-go; $41 and $36 on annual commitments)
PaidFrom €83 per month (billed yearly)
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Per-participant recruiting fee plus the incentive you choose. Specialist B2B professionals cost considerably more.
Only annual prices are published. Growth is €83 a month for 300 responses, one seat and five interviews; Business is €659 for 2,000 responses, five seats and fifty interviews; Enterprise is quoted, from 48,000 responses a year and ten seats. Responses, seats, interviews and transcription hours can be topped up within a plan.
Free tier
Free to manage your own participants; recruitment is pay-per-participant.
Free plan: 10 responses a month, one project, one seat.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Widely used
User Interviews · since 2015
Emerging
Useberry · since 2018
Strengths
- 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.
- Unmoderated tests and moderated interviews in one tool, so interview work needs no second subscription.
- Card sorting, tree testing and the rest of the method set are included rather than priced as add-ons.
- Recruit from your own users, Useberry's integrated pool, or through Prolific and Respondent.
Limitations
- No testing or analysis features — it is recruitment only.
- Panel is strongest in North America.
- Costs mount quickly for specialist B2B roles.
- Interviews are metered — five a month on Growth, fifty on Business.
- The step from Growth to the next tier is steep: €83 a month to €659.
- Integrations cover design, recruitment, calendar and meeting tools; there is no issue-tracker or chat handoff.
Best for
Teams whose research is blocked on finding and paying the right participants.
Unmoderated tests and moderated interviews in one tool, from solo researchers to enterprise teams.
All of these integrate with: Zoom, Google Calendar.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.