Circle Panel vs Qualitati

Circle Panel is a web platform for planning, conducting, and analyzing user research. A study description can be used to generate study goals, discussion guides, and screener questions. Teams can recruit from Circle Panel's participant panel or share a branded booking link so their own participants can schedule and be screened. The panel is described as having more than 12,000 vetted participants across the region and over 30 industries. Moderated video interviews include automatic recording and live Arabic and English transcription; most studies run 20 to 45 minutes. The platform groups themes across sessions, surfaces quotes, and ranks findings by frequency. Users can publish shareable reports as live links or PDF exports. Other supported study types include focus groups, surveys, and prototype testing. The free plan does not expire and includes two interview sessions and five AI credits per month. Paid plans include a 14-day trial without a credit card. Starting prices are $9 a month for Solo researchers and $39 a month for Product teams; Enterprise pricing is custom. The company describes the platform as serving researchers, product managers, designers, and research teams.

Qualitati is a web-based qualitative research platform for universities and research companies. Its AI moderator runs text or voice interviews and adapts follow-up questions to each participant. Live AI-moderated focus groups can probe responses, invite quieter participants, check consensus, and counter groupthink; synthetic groups are available for exploratory research. Conversational surveys use AI follow-ups and branching logic and are unlimited across pricing tiers. For analysis, ThemeLens can process up to 100 transcripts at once and synthesize themes with quotes tied to participants. The QDA Workspace supports inductive and deductive coding, codebook generation, and theme visualization. Voice Analytics extracts acoustic features such as pitch, loudness variability, speech rate, and voice quality, then generates managerial insights. Listed interview languages include English, Chinese, French, Norwegian, Dutch, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Arabic. The site says transcription uses ElevenLabs Scribe v2 in each listed language, including Mandarin. Plans range from a free tier with 30 monthly credits to paid plans from €9 per month; Team costs €99 per month, while Organizations pricing is custom. The site advertises GDPR safeguards and 256-bit encryption.