About Respondent
Respondent is a hosted marketplace for recruiting research participants, including consumers, professionals and domain experts. Teams post a study, target the people they need and schedule sessions, which is helpful for B2B interviews where finding the right person is difficult.
The platform covers customer research such as user interviews, moderated and unmoderated studies, usability testing, concept and prototype testing and continuous discovery. It also supports market research, including surveys, brand tracking, creative testing, segmentation and pricing work, and AI training and evaluation projects. Features include multi-layer fraud detection, scheduling automation, programmatic panel access, AI project creation and an AI moderator.
Respondent is a commercial service with a pricing page for researchers and a separate sign-up for participants who want to be paid for taking part. It suits UX researchers, product managers and agencies that need hard-to-reach participants.
Key features
- Participant targeting and recruitment
- Fraud detection and verification
- Automated session scheduling
- Programmatic panel access through an API
- AI-drafted study setup
- AI moderator for interviews
Good fit for
- →UX researchers recruiting for interviews
- →Product teams reaching B2B professionals
- →Teams collecting human data for AI evaluation
- Tags
- participant-recruitment
- user-research
- interviews
- b2b-research
- panel
- ai-training
- saas
Respondent: questions and answers
- What is Respondent used for?
- Respondent is a participant recruitment platform that finds screened people for user research interviews, surveys and AI data projects. It is a good fit for UX researchers recruiting for interviews, product teams reaching B2B professionals and teams collecting human data for AI evaluation.
- How much does Respondent cost?
- Respondent is a paid product with no free plan. Priced per completed session: $40 for consumer ($80 B2B) on pay as you go, falling to $36, $34, $32 and $28 with annual commitments from $7.5K up to $500K+. Incentives are extra.
- Is Respondent open source?
- No. Respondent is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the Testing & QA category, open-source options include Playwright, k6 and Locust.
- What are some alternatives to Respondent?
- Respondent competes with User Interviews, Great Question and Prolific.
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Write scalable load tests in plain Python 🚗💨
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Detox
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Robot Framework
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Generic automation framework for acceptance testing and RPA
Apache-2.0vs Katalon★ 12k
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Great Question
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UX research platform for recruiting participants, running studies and storing insights
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Prolific
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UserTesting
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