Userlytics 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 $30 per session (volume/annual rates; platform access from $699/month)
PaidFrom $114 per month (annual billing, Growth)
Trial onlyWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Two shapes. Buy sessions project-by-project with no subscription (5-session minimum), or take a self-recruitment subscription — Premium $699/month for 5 seats and 50 participants, Advanced from $999/month for 10 seats and unlimited self-recruited participants. Panel sessions go as low as $30 on the Enterprise plan. The per-session option suits intermittent research; the subscriptions only pay off with steady volume.
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 with a small number of sessions.
10-day trial, no card. No permanently free tier.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Established
Userlytics · since 2009
Established
Survicate · since 2015
Strengths
- Pay-as-you-go avoids an annual commitment for occasional studies.
- Both moderated and unmoderated in one platform.
- Genuinely international panel including many non-English markets.
- 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
- Interface is less polished than the market leaders.
- Analysis tooling is basic compared to UserTesting.
- Panel quality varies by market.
- 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
Teams that research a few times a quarter and cannot justify an annual platform contract.
Product teams that want the 'why' behind an analytics drop-off without commissioning a research study.
All of these integrate with: Slack.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.