Respondent
vs. Prolific
Compare the highest quality recruitment panels and choose the one best fit for your research needs
- 3M+ Phone-verified Participants
- Engaged, Articulate Participants
- Transparent pricing. No add-ons
Compare the highest quality recruitment panels and choose the one best fit for your research needs
While Respondent and Prolific both help organizations connect with research participants, Prolific’s product offering focuses on training AI models rather than providing knowledgeable, articulate consumers and professionals for qualitative research.
Prolific
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.
Prolific’s panel consists of 200k+ participants globally, focused mostly on providing insights to train AI models.
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.
Prolific charges a percentage of participant recruitment cost plus a platform fee.
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.
Prolific claims 0.5% of survey responses are rejected and 0.99% is flagged for AI content. An independent study found 67.9% of Prolific’s participants submitted surveys with high quality data.
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.
While Prolific’s capabilities include qualitative professional and consumer research, their business is focused mostly on training AI models through taskers.
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.
Uses AI for participant authenticity checks and AI-powered audience search.
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.
Prolific
Prolific’s panel consists of 200k+ participants globally, focused mostly on providing insights to train AI models.
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.
Prolific
Prolific charges a percentage of participant recruitment cost plus a platform fee.
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.
Prolific
Prolific claims 0.5% of survey responses are rejected and 0.99% is flagged for AI content. An independent study found 67.9% of Prolific’s participants submitted surveys with high quality data.
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.
Prolific
While Prolific’s capabilities include qualitative professional and consumer research, their business is focused mostly on training AI models through taskers.
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.
Prolific
Uses AI for participant authenticity checks and AI-powered audience search.
*Based on publicly available information as of October 2025
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Like Respondent, User Interviews is a user research recruiting platform that helps connect researchers with verified participants. They operate as a research operations platform and a panel is one of its core features, alongside a recruit hub and participant insight capture.
Respondent and User Interviews are both reliable research recruitment platforms that make it easy for teams to find high-quality participants for consumer and professional studies. Respondent offers greater flexibility, better overall value, and discounted pricing for unmoderated studies and surveys.
Yes, both platforms give you access to research participants from different demographics and locations. Respondent’s product focuses on building a high-quality panel while User Interviews is a research platform with recruitment as a core feature.
Both Respondent and User Interviews verify participant information. With Respondent, however, additional phone verification is required. All 3 million participants in Respondent are verified by phone, email, and LinkedIn.
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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