I find Prolific to be very effective for recruiting participants from a wide pool quickly and easily, all at a reasonable cost. The screening feature is particularly useful as it allows researchers to restrict participation to individuals who match the study's target population through multiple screening criteria. I also appreciate how easy the initial setup was, thanks to the clear and detailed guides provided on the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I just wish it had more options for recruiting dyadic data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I appreciate Prolific for its quota settings on different demographics. This feature allows me to recruit a specific proportion of participants based on various thresholds such as age, gender, and political affiliations, which is incredibly useful for conducting social experiments. This capability helps ensure that my research samples are representative and unbiased. The setup process with Prolific was also very easy, making the transition from our previous platform, MTurks, smooth and stress-free. These elements make Prolific an invaluable tool for my research, and I would highly recommend it to others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish there was a lower platform fee. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of use of Prolific for finding participants, as well as all the criteria that can be selected. The customer service is quite responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fees are quite high, so you need to plan for a significant amount of money to test all the participants you want. Also, the invoice system is a bit slow for charging the account in another currency such as the euro. Finally, not being able to transfer money from one workspace to another is very limiting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

very interesting research, fair pay, prompt payments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing, everything's fine, clear and straightforward Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am an academic, I came to prolific because of its greater professionalism over other survey recruitment platforms out there. Over time, plus its versatility in terms of the things you can do with it has convinced me that it is one of the best if not the best on the market. Particularly in recent years, it has improved its scope in terms of countries or demographic strata. Its integration with different survey software is in my experience also very good. The platform is also quite intuitive and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The customer service could still be faster, although I believe it is already much better than what exists out there.

Some smaller countries could still have a larger pool of truly active participants. But again, which other company offers this reach, so easily? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In my experience, Prolific respondents generally take time and expend considerable effort. The data seem to be high quality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish that there were easier tools for running longitudinal studies. I know that I can make a custom allowlist, but it would be nice if there were buttons I could use to automate the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Really thought it through and listen to feedback. The system seems to be built to be fair with participants and you can tell that participants are eager to participates. You can collect a lot of quality data in a short time span. It takes careful consideration and practice for understanding hw to adjust the experiment to the way it manages participants recruitment and payment but once you get it the sky is the limit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Many features are added and it is not so easy to stay up to date with the latest ones. But the features are optional so that core functioning appear to remain more or less the same. If you run one experiment a year you will find an interface that is different, more options but you often find that you can just not use them and quickly set up your experiment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use, even you don't qualify, but you fill the screen questions, you can still get payment for the screen questions, you will never waster your time, each minute get payment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sometimes they payment is low, and I don't get survey every day Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prolific streamlines the process of implementing surveys/studies and recruiting participants. It is a very user-friendly platform which allows for fast and easy recruitment of participants. Prolific also provides supports/options to recruit high quality participants, which is very helpful in online recruitment. It also provides useful guides to integrate your participant recruitment with your survey or experiment platform. Prolific is not perfect and there are some bumps along the way, but overall it is very worthwhile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Prolific provides some supports for gathering high-quality data, these are not perfect. It is hard to gather data from participants without getting a couple participants that do not care to perform the task they're asked, and they speed through the survey as quick as possible. Ideally, these participants may be monitored via Prolific. Prolific has a screener criteria of Approval Rate, which helps limit these participants, but due to ethics, if a participant completes my survey I must approve them. Following that, they're approval rate is increased. It would be great to have an additional measure to account for those participants when approval rate is not a perfect measure. Additionally, another area for improvement is the cost. Prolific offers a great service but it is quite costly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use prolific many times a year to run research studies. It is easy to use for beginners – you can even run short studies within prolific. I have implemented 99 studies over 7 years of useage. But a major strength is in linking to other systems, like Qualtrics. Customer support is there if you need it, along with a helpful community. hihgly recommended: The data quality is second to none, in my experience, and the security and payments handling has been faultless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are not many dislikes. Minor UI issues, like sorting previous studies, or approving participants are often sorted in response to user feedback. I guess the one niggle is price, but it is good value for money with few competitors. It would be nice to be able to recruit larger samples outside the UK/US, but that is coming along also. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.