Prolific · Pricing Plans

Prolific Research Plans Pricing

Prolific is pay-as-you-go: there is no subscription or contract required to use the platform or its API. You fund a workspace wallet and pay participant rewards plus a platform fee charged as a percentage on top of those rewards. As of the review date the platform fee is 42.8% of participant rewards for corporate/commercial customers and 33.3% for academic and non-profit customers. Participants receive the full reward you set; the fee is added on top. Prolific enforces a minimum reward of GBP 6.00 / USD 8.00 per hour and recommends at least GBP 9.00 / USD 12.00 per hour. Managed research services (recruitment, study design, data collection) are custom-priced. The API itself carries no separate fee - it bills the same wallet as the web app.

Prolific Research Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Prolific on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.

It defines 3 plans, covering usage and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Pay-as-you-go (Corporate), Pay-as-you-go (Academic / Non-Profit), Managed Research Services.

Tagged areas include Research, Participant Recruitment, Surveys, Human Data, and Plans.

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Plans

Pay-as-you-go (Corporate) usage

Self-serve access for commercial/corporate researchers. No subscription. You pay participant rewards plus a platform fee of 42.8% of rewards. Full access to the API (studies, submissions, participant groups, filters, hooks, bonuses).

Platform Fee (Corporate) (percent_of_reward · month) 42.8% of participant rewards USD
Participant Reward Minimum (hours · month) min $8.00/hr (recommended $12.00/hr), paid to participants USD
Pay-as-you-go (Academic / Non-Profit) usage

Discounted platform fee for verified academic and non-profit researchers. No subscription. You pay participant rewards plus a platform fee of 33.3% of rewards, with the same full API access.

Platform Fee (Academic/Non-Profit) (percent_of_reward · month) 33.3% of participant rewards USD
Participant Reward Minimum (hours · month) min $8.00/hr (recommended $12.00/hr), paid to participants USD
Managed Research Services enterprise

Custom, quote-based engagements where Prolific's research team handles recruitment, study design, quality assurance, and data collection for large-scale or specialized projects (including AI data / annotation).

Custom Engagement (contract · year) contact sales USD

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