Maze alternatives
Maze takes a cut of your revenue instead of charging a flat price. Here's what the 2 other user research tools we track cost. The closest match, Great Question, covers 68% of what Maze does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.
What Maze does
Core: Unmoderated usability tests, Prototype testing, Built-in respondent panel.
Important: Card sorting & tree testing, Quick design & message tests, Online surveys, AI analysis & synthesis (partly), Integrations ecosystem (partly), SSO & compliance (partly).
Also has: Native mobile app testing (partly), Moderated interview sessions (partly), AI-moderated interviews, Diary & longitudinal studies (partly), B2B & professional recruiting (partly), Own-user panel & research CRM (partly), Scheduling & incentive payouts (partly), Transcription, tagging & clips (partly), Research repository (partly).
Alternatives to Maze at 1 researcher, best match first
- Great Question: $129/mo Panel fees and add-on prices not published (Self-serve plan, 1 seat, monthly billing). It covers 68% of Maze; missing or partial: Unmoderated usability tests (partly), Prototype testing (partly), Built-in respondent panel (partly), Card sorting & tree testing (partly), Quick design & message tests. Free plan: none.
- Dovetail: custom pricing (none: no paid self-serve plan since 2026-04-02; the ref price is custom (Enterprise, sales quote)). It covers 30% of Maze; missing or partial: Unmoderated usability tests, Prototype testing, Built-in respondent panel, Card sorting & tree testing, Quick design & message tests. Free plan: Free: $0 per user per month, no card required, for individuals; one project, with chat and AI summaries limited to it.. Last price hike: Oct 2025.
Other kinds of products that cover part of Maze
- SurveyMonkey (Forms & surveys): covers 53% of Maze; missing or partial: Unmoderated usability tests, Prototype testing, Card sorting & tree testing, Quick design & message tests, Native mobile app testing
Prices at every size
- Maze: 1 researcher custom pricing, a 5-person research team custom pricing, a 5-participant panel study custom pricing (No paid self-serve price shown since Apr 2026)
- Great Question: 1 researcher $129/mo, a 5-person research team $645/mo, a 5-participant panel study custom pricing (Panel fees and add-on prices not published)
- Dovetail: 1 researcher custom pricing, a 5-person research team no public price, a 5-participant panel study custom pricing (Paid plan removed Apr 2026; only Enterprise (sales) remains)
Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for researcher seats on the cheapest paid self-serve plan, excluding participant costs; recruiting is compared separately as the all-in cost of one 5-participant panel study.
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