Respondent
vs. Cint
Compare the highest quality recruitment panels and choose the one best fit for your research needs
- Every Panelist is Phone-verified
- On-demand Participant Recruitment
- Transparent pricing. No add-ons
Compare the highest quality recruitment panels and choose the one best fit for your research needs
Respondent and Cint both deliver participants to research studies, but our difference lies in the quality of our participants. Respondent’s panel of 3m+ phone-verified participants is 100% proprietary, and each participant is known to us by name. While Cint offers access to a larger pool of participants from aggregated panels for use in quantitative studies that typically tolerate a larger % of fraud.
Cint
Panel
Respondent’s panel includes more than 3 million phone-verified participants. The platform focuses on high-quality consumer and professional audiences, with an average participant rating of 4.9/5. This makes the panel strong for both consumer research and specialized studies.
Access 335 million+ participants through aggregated panels across 130+ countries. Their aggregated panel is built for large-scale quantitative studies.
Pricing
Respondent operates on a pay-as-you-go model where researchers pay a fee per session. Unmoderated and survey rates are available, there are no paid add-ons, no recruit limits for pay-as-you-go, and our rates are consistently more affordable.
Pricing is not publicly available but is based on incidence rates and other factors.
Performance
Respondent maintains a fraud rate below 1% through panel-wide, project, and participant review processes. Our high quality panel enables filling research studies as quickly as 1.5 days with show rates at 95%. Our audience quotas feature also gives more researchers more control on recruitment.
Cint uses its own system to identify and predict fraud.
Product Focus
Respondent is a participant panel built to recruit and manage verified consumers and professionals. Respondent is 100% focused on building panel, prioritizing audience quality and expanding reach.
Cint is a traditional panel and data exchange provider that offers large-scale survey sampling from panel sourced from a variety of providers. There is no option to sign up and recruit participants on-demand.
Leveraging AI
AI is used for participant verification, fraud detection, and matching. Respondent also uses AI in project recommendations, giving researchers suggestions on titles and descriptions to optimize their research projects.
AI is used for fraud detection.
Panel
Respondent’s panel includes more than 3 million phone-verified participants. The platform focuses on high-quality consumer and professional audiences, with an average participant rating of 4.9/5. This makes the panel strong for both consumer research and specialized studies.
Cint
Access 335 million+ participants through aggregated panels across 130+ countries. Their aggregated panel is built for large-scale quantitative studies.
Pricing
Respondent operates on a pay-as-you-go model where researchers pay a fee per session. Unmoderated and survey rates are available, there are no paid add-ons, no recruit limits for pay-as-you-go, and our rates are consistently more affordable.
Cint
Pricing is not publicly available but is based on incidence rates and other factors.
Performance
Respondent maintains a fraud rate below 1% through panel-wide, project, and participant review processes. Our high quality panel enables filling research studies as quickly as 1.5 days with show rates at 95%. Our audience quotas feature also gives more researchers more control on recruitment.
Cint
Cint uses its own system to identify and predict fraud.
Product Focus
Respondent is a participant panel built to recruit and manage verified consumers and professionals. Respondent is 100% focused on building panel, prioritizing audience quality and expanding reach.
Cint
Cint is a traditional panel and data exchange provider that offers large-scale survey sampling from panel sourced from a variety of providers. There is no option to sign up and recruit participants on-demand.
Leveraging AI
AI is used for participant verification, fraud detection, and matching. Respondent also uses AI in project recommendations, giving researchers suggestions on titles and descriptions to optimize their research projects.
Cint
AI is used for fraud detection
*Based on publicly available information as of October 2025
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Rated 4.6 from 400+ reviews on G2.com
Director, Research and Testing - Instrument
We tested out a few platforms and quickly realized that Respondent was getting us good people fast. That’s frankly all we need.
Lead UX Researcher - Chili Piper
Respondent helps me easily find the exactly-right participants for my projects. Further, it works for any type of research project with any kind of participant.
GVP, Research at Huge
The participants have been who they say they are, we can verify them, and they're super responsive. Respondent has helped us do better research and be better researchers.
Respondent is the fastest way to recruit, screen, and pay research participants - all in the same place