PLATFORM PROFILE
Prolific
Paid participation in academic and commercial research studies.
Counts, not a score. 10 of 10 things we look for are published by Prolific. A ratio would need a denominator from outside this site. A count does not.
Can you even be here
Getting the money out
Keeping what you earned
Who is on the hook
Put Prolific next to something else
The same questions, asked of two or three at once, with the source and the date still attached to every answer. These pairings come from articles here that already cover both, not from a ranking of rivals.
Where these figures come from
Every page on this site that carries a checked figure about Prolific. Nothing here was typed twice: the profile above and the pages below read the same lines.
How to read this page
The ten things above are not our idea of what matters. They are what the checklists in twenty hand-written articles on this site already asked, counted up: country and eligibility came first in nineteen of them, waiting time and what you are paid in came next. The payout minimum, the number most people search for, barely appeared. It is one row here, not the headline.
A row marked not publishedmeans we opened the company's own pages looking for it and it was not there. That is a finding, and it is dated. A row marked not checked yet means we have not done the work. Those two are kept apart on purpose: an empty box because we were slow should never look like an empty box because they were quiet.
Found something that has moved? Tell us. It gets checked against the source and the change is dated on the corrections page.