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Survey respondent pricing compared: how three vendors publish it

How Prolific, SurveyMonkey and User Interviews publish pricing, as read 2 Oct 2026, beside Chorus: USD 1.00 per completed response, USD 5 minimum.

Chorus Research Team

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Vendor information was read from each vendor's own public page on 2 October 2026. Prices can change. Check the vendor's page before you decide.

If you need people to answer a survey, the price you see depends on the unit a vendor charges in: a percentage fee, a price per session, a price per study, or a price per completed response. Those units are not the same thing, so this page lays them side by side. It does not rank them.

Vendor (page read)How it chargesFigures stated on the pageNotes
Prolific (pricing page, read 2 Oct 2026)Pay-as-you-go platform: participant rewards plus a platform feePlatform fee of 42.8% (corporate) or 33.3% (academic and non-profit). Reward minimum $8 per hour; $12 per hour recommendedThe page states the fee and the reward floors. A total depends on the reward and the length of your study.
SurveyMonkey LaunchPad concept testing (product page, read 2 Oct 2026)Pay per study, no subscriptionNo figure on the page as readThe page says the price depends on the number of responses and the targeting. This is one SurveyMonkey product, not its whole range.
User Interviews, Recruit (pricing page, read 2 Oct 2026)Per session: pay as you go, subscription tiers, custom plansPay as you go $49–$98 per session. Essential $41–$82 and Professional $36–$72 per session. Custom plans start at 250 sessionsAnnual billing lowers the per-session price on the subscription tiers.
Chorus (Chorus's own public pricing)Per completed survey responseUS general population: USD 1.00 per completed response, USD 5 minimum. Custom audiences: from USD 1.00, quoted before you buyYou see the estimate before you launch.

Why these figures are not like-for-like

A percentage fee has no total until you choose a reward and a study length. A per-session price is a price for a participant's session. A per-study price depends on how many responses you buy and how you target them. A per-response price is a price for one completed survey. A smaller number in one column does not mean a smaller total bill.

How to compare for your own study

  1. Write down your audience, the number of completed responses you need and how long the survey takes.
  2. Ask each vendor for the total for that exact plan, or work it out from the page.
  3. Check whether a minimum order applies.
  4. Check whether your targeting criteria change the price.

Where Chorus fits

Chorus Research is a self-serve survey platform operated by Collective Measure, Inc. You create a survey, define the audience, see a cost estimate and launch. You can also do this through the REST API or the MCP server. For a deeper look at what each response costs and how to size a sample, read how much it costs to get survey responses. For a feature comparison with a single vendor, see Chorus and SurveyMonkey.

About this page

Vendor figures are as stated on the pages named above when read on 2 October 2026. They are summaries, may be incomplete and may have changed. Pages from other vendors were not included. Chorus's prices are Chorus's own public prices. This page is not a recommendation of any vendor.

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