The platform is free. Recruitment is pay-as-you-go.

Bring your own participants and pay nothing. Need Candor to recruit? Pay per participant based on study length.

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share your own link
Free

Share the study link with your own team, users, or community. Full platform, no cost.

  • ✓All task types (pairwise, rating, categorization, free text, voice)
  • ✓All moderator scopes (none, session, study) and output modes (voice, text)
  • ✓Randomized ordering & counterbalancing
  • ✓Attention checks
  • ✓Agreement metrics (Krippendorff’s alpha)
  • ✓Results as JSON
  • ✓Unlimited studies
  • ✓Unlimited participants
Example uses
→Team design critique
→Beta user onboarding review
→Rank prompt variants in Slack
→Voice usability test with partners
Perfect for team feedback, design reviews, internal evals, or testing with your own users.
candor-recruited
Pay per participant

Candor recruits qualified participants from vetted research panels. You just describe who you need.

  • →Everything in the free tier, plus:
  • ✓Automated participant recruitment
  • ✓Screened, qualified participants
  • ✓Inattentive participants filtered automatically

Participant pay is calculated automatically based on study length, targeting fair compensation rates.

General participants
$12–18/hr effective rate. Duration estimated from your content — media length for labeling tasks, pair count for comparisons.
Domain experts
Higher rates, set competitively. For studies requiring specific expertise — lawyers, clinicians, ML engineers.
Voice interviews
Configurable from 3 to 15 minutes per session. Price scales with session length.
Example costs
6-item pairwise, text, 3 participants~$4–7
20-item audio labeling (30s clips), 5 participants~$15–25
5-person voice interview, 10 min sessions~$50–75
5-person voice interview, 15 min, domain experts~$100–150
Exact cost is shown before you approve every study — no surprises.
how it works
  • // Self-recruited studies are always free — no credit card needed
  • ✓ $5 free credit for new users on recruited studies
  • // Cost calculated and shown before you approve — no surprises
  • // Auto-reload available at /billing

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