What Prolific Research Platform does
Prolific is a platform for collecting human data from real people for AI development and research. It serves AI developers who need human feedback for preference tuning, safety evaluations and benchmarks, as well as academic, market and product researchers, while participants can sign up to be paid for taking online studies. Named offerings include Agentic Evals and Benchmarks, a Human Feedback API, Agent Workflows, Domain Experts, Audience Finder, audience filters, representative and quota samples, custom screening, no-code integrations and workspaces. The self-serve platform is pay as you go with no monthly fees and can be started for free, with a price calculator for estimates. Managed services for complete datasets are priced by custom quote.
How Prolific Research Platform compares with its closest alternatives
4 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Prolific Research Platform does. Among the 3 that list a starting price, the cheapest is Rayyan Systematic Review at $4.99 a month and the median is $10. 4 of the 5 offer an API, as Prolific Research Platform does. Prolific Research Platform offers a web app. Of the 4 alternatives with platforms on record, all 4 offer a web app. Prolific Research Platform was founded in 2014; the alternatives were founded between 2006 and 2019, 1 of them earlier.