Compare the highest quality recruitment panels and choose the one best fit for your research needs
Respondent and Askable both help research teams recruit and manage participants for qualitative studies. Each offers global reach and access to consumer and professional audiences, but Respondent stands apart for its larger verified panel, low fraud rates (<1%), transparent pricing, and focus on building the most reliable participant network for B2B and B2C research.
Broader Global Reach
100% Focus on Panel Building
On-demand Participant Recruitment
Panel
Respondent’s panel includes 4 million verified participants. The platform focuses on high-quality consumer and professional audiences, with an average participant rating of 4.9/5. This makes the panel strong for both consumer research and professional studies.
Askable
Askable has a smaller pool of 500k+ participants in 50+ countries, serving both professional and consumer use cases.
Pricing
Respondent operates on a pay-as-you-go model where researchers pay a fee per session. Unmoderated and survey rates are available, there are no paid add-ons, no recruit limits for pay-as-you-go, and our rates are consistently more affordable.
Askable
Askable bakes the cost of participants into their tool. They do not share pricing on their site.
Performance
Respondent maintains a fraud rate below 1% through panel-wide, project, and participant review processes. Our high quality panel enables filling research studies as quickly as 1.5 days with show rates at 95%. Our audience quotas feature also gives more researchers more control on recruitment.
Askable
Askable claims it takes between 3–5 days to fill a typical study, with a 98% show rate. We couldn’t find any participant ratings or fraud data.
Product Focus
Respondent is a participant panel built to recruit and manage verified consumers and professionals. Respondent is 100% focused on building panel, prioritizing audience quality and expanding reach.
Askable
Askable was previously focused entirely on building a global panel but recently pivoted to building research tools for AI-moderated sessions.
Leveraging AI
AI is used for participant verification, fraud detection, and matching. Respondent also uses AI in project recommendations, giving researchers suggestions on titles and descriptions to optimize their research projects.
Askable
Offers AI-moderated interviews and analysis through AI agents to automate qualitative sessions. We couldn’t find mention of how they use AI in their recruit feature.
*Based on publicly available information as of October 2025
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Like Respondent, Askable is a user research recruiting platform that helps connect researchers with verified participants. They operate as a research operations platform and a panel is one of its core features, alongside AI agents and Project Delivery
Respondent and Askable are both reliable research recruitment platforms that make it easy for teams to find high-quality participants for consumer and professional studies. Respondent offers greater flexibility, better overall value, and discounted pricing for unmoderated studies and surveys.
Yes, both platforms give you access to research participants from different demographics and locations. Respondent’s product focuses on building a high-quality panel while Askable is a research platform with recruitment as a core feature.
Both Respondent and Askable verify participant information. All 4 million participants in Respondent are verified by phone, email, and LinkedIn.
Rated 4.6 from 400+ reviews on G2.com
John Whaley
Director, Research and Testing - Instrument
We tested out a few platforms and quickly realized that Respondent was getting us good people fast. That’s frankly all we need.
Taylor Jennings
Lead UX Researcher - Chili Piper
Respondent helps me easily find the exactly-right participants for my projects. Further, it works for any type of research project with any kind of participant.
Jacqueline Jordan
GVP, Research at Huge
The participants have been who they say they are, we can verify them, and they're super responsive. Respondent has helped us do better research and be better researchers.
Respondent is the fastest way to recruit, screen, and pay research participants - all in the same place
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