--- title: Prolific Reviews meta\_title: 'Prolific Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 238 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Prolific works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.6 review\_count: 238 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-10' parent\_category: name: Marketing url: https://www.g2.com/categories/marketing --- # Prolific Reviews & Product Details Visit Website Prolific is helping research teams build a better world with better data. Our platform makes it easy to access high-quality data from 200k+ diverse, vetted participants. * * * Product Website Prolific Seller [Prolific](https://www.g2.com/sellers/prolific) Discussions [Prolific Community](https://www.g2.com/products/prolific/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Marketing Prolific Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/prolific/pricing) ## Prolific Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Verified by Prolific [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Maze ](https://www.g2.com/products/maze-maze/reviews) Show More AD anna D. Assistant Professor Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/26/2024 "Using Prolific for research" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prolific? Prolific is easy to use for both me and my students, they have multiple screeners that help me reach the specific samples I need. Usually the quality of responses, and therefore the data I get, is good. I also like that Prolific makes sure that participants are fairly compensated. I usualy get quick costumer support when issues come up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prolific? The platform's fees have become very high. Also, I cant always use the attention checks that I prefer to screen out participants who fail those checks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prolific solving and how is that benefiting you? Prolific helps me reach larger samples of community participants in psychological studies (Im a researcher) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![David P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "David P.") DP David P. Research Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/25/2024 "The best panel service for academic researchers" 5/5 What do you like best about Prolific? Prolific is easy to use, with a mostly well-thought-out interface and an excellent feature set. The support is helpful and responsive. Prices are fair and reasonable. There is also a powerful API which most users won't need but it does make some interesting advanced use cases possible, which we have used in our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prolific? Sometimes the interface is very slow, but this is just an inconvenience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prolific solving and how is that benefiting you? We are an academic research facility, so Prolific is solving the problem of obtaining partcipants for our research. Originally all such research was done in person; then, online research became feasible with Mechanical Turk. However, MTurk was difficult to use and had a low-quality participant base. Prolific benefits us by providing an easier experience with higher-quality participants relative to what was possible before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/22/2025 "Prolific is great for researchers" 5/5 What do you like best about Prolific? My favorite thing about Prolific is how quick it is to get your data. My research requires me to get participants from all over the country and that could take a long time but with Prolific, I can get the data I need in no time - and it is very good quality! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prolific? The interface of Prolific has been quite confusing in the past but it seems to have improved over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prolific solving and how is that benefiting you? The main problem Prolific helps me sole is getting access to data. It can be hard to get participants who are relevant for my type of research but this is a great and convenient way to get them easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Medical Practice](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Medical Practice") UM Verified User in Medical Practice Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/17/2025 "Prolific has allowed me to do my PhD" 5/5 What do you like best about Prolific? Prolific allows me to get high quality date for my studies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prolific? I think it should allow to migrate studys from different projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prolific solving and how is that benefiting you? Its allowing me to collect data for my experiments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Merrick O.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Merrick O.") MO Merrick O. Inaugural Racial Equity Postdoctoral Scholar Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/23/2024 "Appreciate Prolific a lot, think there are things that would make it easier to use." 5/5 What do you like best about Prolific? Wide distribution of types of people. Additionally, simple interface (not overly complicated). I use it frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prolific? I think that there are things that would make it a lot easier to navigate. 1) Navigation to other studies within the study draft page. Sometimes I need to go back to another study to compare the specs, but I can't do that without completely closing out of the current study I am in and awkwardly clicking through projects \> specific project \> draft/completed/active. 2) Sometimes the rounding for the study estimates are inconsistent between the quote displayed on the study page and the final amount that I publish. 3) I would like to say which populations I want to exclude, too, (e.g., I want to exclude police officers but exclude firefighters) 4) I would like to have easy access to my overall spending across projects - where the money comes into and out of, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prolific solving and how is that benefiting you? I need to collect data about human behavior. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") GH Verified User in Higher Education Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/16/2025 Guest users or non-business users of the software, not included in G2 scores. "Very easy to use and very good quality data" 5/5 What do you like best about Prolific? I really like Prolific's easy setup and data quality. It made research much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prolific? I cannot think of anything that I dislike about Prolific. So far, 100% satisfied. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prolific solving and how is that benefiting you? I am using Prolific to recruit participants to complete social psychology online survey. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") UE Verified User in Education Management Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/21/2024 "Useful tool but more payment flexibility would be better for Economics experiments" 4/5 What do you like best about Prolific? It is a pretty seamless process to integrate with my experimental software and collecting data is generally smooth. The subject pool seems to be fairly high quality (much higher than mTurk). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prolific? They have kind of dumb rules on minimum payments. I do a lot of economics experiments where participants are paid for performance. However, Prolific seems to require a high base pay irrespective of performance. I agree that participants should get a sufficient compensation for their time, but that should encompass TOTAL payment and not just the base pay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prolific solving and how is that benefiting you? Access to a large and diverse pool of participants. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Marketing Prolific of Prolific [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/prolific-review-9459266/official_response/edit) Thank you for sharing your experience with integrating Prolific with your experimental software. We understand the importance of payment flexibility, and we are working to find a balance between fair compensation and performance or progress-based payments. You can read more about our current principles around Participant Rewards here - https://researcher-help.prolific.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4407695146002-Prolific-s-payment-principles 2/12/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Nickie H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nickie H.") NH Nickie H. Digital UX Performance Analyst Consumer Goods Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/19/2025 "#1 website for participants to earn money while helping researchers" 5/5 What do you like best about Prolific? The upsides of using prolific are the fast payouts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prolific? The downside of using prolific is that they have a waiting list for participants Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prolific solving and how is that benefiting you? Prolific helps me with extra money when I need it the most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Alex B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alex B.") AB Alex B. Senior Lecturer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/25/2025 "Great platform for data collection" 5/5 What do you like best about Prolific? I love its user-friendliness and interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prolific? Sometimes there may be glitches that prevent the collection of completion codes, making it easier to track good and lazy respondents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prolific solving and how is that benefiting you? Data collection and sampling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/8/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") GH Verified User in Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/22/2024 Guest users or non-business users of the software, not included in G2 scores. "Fast data collection, relatively high quality of responses" 4/5 What do you like best about Prolific? There are many participants from the US and the UK with many free screeining options, so it is easy to collect responses fast. The quality of the responses is better than what I have experienced with several other platforms even when paying on the same rate. The open-ended responses are thoughtful, the response time (ie. time spent on the survey or specific study tasks) is appropriate and I have few rejects due to failed attention checkers. I also love how easy it is to integrate it with Qualtrics for seemless recruitment and compensation processes. Their tutorials are very detailed and up to date. Despite the downsides and costs, Prolific is my preferred recruitment platform and I use it often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prolific? There are several drawbacks. These are the biggest ones: 1. You cannot make any changes to the study once it has been posted, or move funds out of a study once you paid for participants for that project. It is possible to pause the study but to use funds that were already allocated to it you can only unpause the study -- you cannot edit it or use the funds for something else. My lesson is -- open the study for fewer responses and keep adding slots as needed. 2. Very rigid platform in terms of how to move studies between project folders, collaborations etc. 3. Very slow to respond. Most of the time everything is great but if you need to contact them with a question, it can take forever to get a response. I needed to reach out twice (for clarifying certain technical details required by the IRB and once for some billing information related to my university). It was a long process... 4. It is more expensive because there is a minimum pay for the participants' labor as well as a heafty overhhead fee (about 30%) to Prolific. But you are getting what you are paying for, in a good way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prolific solving and how is that benefiting you? Recruiting participants for my academic research studies, including access to specific niche populations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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