
A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field

Prolific records 18,697,671 monthly visits with -1.8% month-over-month growth and Paid pricing. Seda records 2,159 monthly visits with -21.5% growth and Freemium pricing.

Simulate any business decision before you make it
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| Official Domain | prolific.com | getseda.com |
| Pricing Model | Paid | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 18.7M (18,697,671) | 2.16K (2,159) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -352.04K (-1.8%) |
| -590 (-21.5%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (48.8%) | 🇺🇸 United States (100%) |
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| Direct Visits / mo | 12.98M | 850 |
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| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.3 |
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| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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High-quality human data for AI training, evaluation, and research
Filter participants by detailed demographic, professional, and behavioural criteria and reach narrow or representative samples rather than a generic crowd.
Collect human preference data for model fine-tuning, run safety evaluations and red-teaming, and use a feedback API to plug humans into automated pipelines.
Attention checks, honesty screening, and approval workflows help filter out careless or fraudulent responses before you analyse results.
Publish a study and begin collecting responses quickly, with tooling that supports screening, quotas, and longitudinal designs.

Simulate any business decision before you make it
Put a decision such as a price change, launch or brand campaign through the engine and see how customers, competitors, press, regulators and partners are likely to react.
AI moderates interviews end to end with live follow-ups, then synthesizes the responses without you transcribing anything.
Drop in a URL, prototype or Figma file and have real or synthetic users think out loud, turning raw sessions into insight in minutes.
One interview can create a digital twin with 70–85% behavioral fidelity, or generate synthetic personas for a described audience on the spot.

A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field


AI academic search engine for peer-reviewed science
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A free, AI-powered academic search engine for 240M+ papers across every scientific field
Large consumer panel for market research surveys, but lacks Prolific's specialized focus on academic studies and AI tuning.
SpecialistThe environments frontier AI trains on, and the agents that do the recurring work
Qualitative research depth at survey scale, moderated by AI
SpecialistAI data infrastructure for building production-grade models
SpecialistSpecializes in video-based consumer interviews and AI qualitative analysis, but less focused on quantitative academic survey panels.
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source data labeling and evaluation platform for AI workflows, but requires bringing your own annotation workforce.
SpecialistAI-led customer interviews and research insights at scale