What is Prolific?
Prolific is a platform that enables researchers to quickly find and trust research participants, providing access to a vast pool of over 200,000 active, vetted, and verified participants. This platform ensures high-quality human-powered datasets, allowing researchers to deliver world-leading research and AI models.
Features
Prolific offers a range of features, including:
- A vast participant pool with 200,000+ active participants
- Verified participants with Onfido's bank-grade ID checks
- Ongoing checks to identify bots and bad actors
- No AI participants
- Data quality you can depend on with 25 different checks
- Rich, reliable, and comprehensive responses
- Regular manual and algorithmic quality checks
- Self-serve platform designed for ease of use
- API for automation and scaling
- Transparent, response-based costs
- Integration with favorite tools
- Flexible study design with advanced support
How it Works
Prolific allows researchers to design tasks using text, imagery, voice, or interaction, and organize their workspace and projects with unlimited collaborators. The platform provides support from an expert team and ensures high-quality data for online behavioral research.
Price
Prolific offers a transparent service fee for each completed response, with no contract or subscription. Researchers can get started in 15 minutes and explore costs with the cost calculator.
Helpful Tips
- Use Prolific's 300+ filters to create custom, diverse, or representative groups from the participant pool
- Message, group, and re-target participants again
- Create rich, balanced, and bias-free datasets
- Select representative samples in the US and UK
- Leverage Prolific's API for automation and scaling
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many participants are in Prolific's pool?
- Prolific has over 200,000 active participants.
- What kind of data can I collect with Prolific?
- Prolific supports text, imagery, voice, or interaction-based data collection.
- Is Prolific's participant pool diverse?
- Yes, Prolific's participant pool is diverse and can be filtered using 300+ filters to create custom groups.