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Respondent and Cint both deliver participants to research studies, but our difference lies in the quality of our participants. Respondent’s panel of 4m verified participants is 100% proprietary, and each participant is known to us by name. While Cint offers access to a larger pool of participants from aggregated panels for use in quantitative studies that typically tolerate a larger % of fraud.
Built for Qualitative Studies
<1% Fraud Rate
100% Proprietary
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.
Cint
Access 335 million+ participants through aggregated panels across 130+ countries. Their aggregated panel is built for large-scale quantitative studies.
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.
Cint
Pricing is not publicly available but is based on incidence rates and other factors.
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.
Cint
Cint uses its own system to identify and predict fraud.
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.
Cint
Cint is a traditional panel and data exchange provider that offers large-scale survey sampling from panel sourced from a variety of providers. There is no option to sign up and recruit participants on-demand.
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.
Cint
AI is used for fraud detection.
*Based on publicly available information as of October 2025
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Cint is a global survey platform that offers access to millions of participants worldwide. It supports large-scale quantitative studies and provides advanced audience targeting.
Cint is a large-scale research platform that specializes in high-volume surveys and quantitative research, while Respondent provides verified participants for qualitative and mixed-method research. Respondent and Cint both deliver participants to research studies, but our difference lies in the quality of our participants. .
Yes, both platforms give you access to research participants from different demographics and locations.
Both Respondent and User Interviews 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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