Full-featured survey software.
$0.50 per complete. No platform fee.
Relay has every question type, every logic tool, every distribution method, and every enterprise control you'd expect from full featured survey software—plus AI that auto-programs your surveys, helps you design better instruments, and analyzes your data for you. All at a fraction of the cost, with no annual contract.
No platform fees. No per-seat licenses. No six-figure contract. Ever.
Same enterprise capabilities.
None of the enterprise pricing games.
| Relay | Legacy Platforms (Qualtrics, etc.) | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee | $0 | $100K–$1M+/year |
| Software cost | $0.50 per complete | Bundled into opaque licensing |
| Annual contract | None | 1–3 years typical |
| AI survey design | PhD-level research assistant | Generic AI (bland 10-question outputs) |
| Auto-programming | Yes—questionnaire to live survey | Limited |
| AI analysis | Agentic research assistant, any analysis | Basic dashboards |
| Auto Intelligent Translation | Full Featured | Limited |
| Intelligent data import | Any format, any source | Limited |
| Completes included | Unlimited | Often capped (e.g. 500/mo on individual plans) |
| Question types | All standard + advanced (Available to all) | Advanced types gated to premium plans |
| Logic & branching | Full suite (Available to all) | Advanced logic gated to premium plans |
| Distribution | Links, panels, embedded, email | Links, panels, embedded, email |
| Panel access | Built-in, managed sampling, fraud detection | Available (often separate cost) |
| Enterprise security | ||
| Role-based access | ||
| Data export | All standard formats | All standard formats |
Three Things No Other Survey Platform Does
1. A Survey Designer That's Actually a Scientist
Yes, other platforms are adding AI survey design. They generate a bland 5–10 question survey that any first-year research assistant could write—a few Likert scales, a couple of open-ends, and a satisfaction item. That's not survey design. That's a template with your topic pasted in.
Relay's AI research assistant is trained in behavioral science and survey methodology. Describe your research problem—the decisions you need to make, the populations you need to understand, the gaps you're trying to close—and it helps you design a rigorous measurement instrument: validated constructs, appropriate scales, proper question flow, minimized bias. A 40-item survey with branching, experimental conditions, and measurement depth that would take a PhD methodologist days to design. Not a 10-question outline that tells you nothing you didn't already know.
It will also tell you when a survey isn't the right method for your question. No other survey platform will do that—because no other survey platform cares whether your research actually works.
2. Auto-Programming That Eliminates the Worst Part of the Job
You've written the questionnaire. Now you have to spend two days manually programming it into the platform—setting up logic, formatting options, configuring display rules, testing, fixing, retesting. It's skilled labor that adds zero analytical value.
Relay auto-programs your survey from your questionnaire document. Hand it your question text, your logic, your structure. Relay builds the working survey—logic, branching, randomization, formatting, all of it. Review, adjust, launch. What used to take days takes minutes.
3. An Analyst That Never Leaves
Traditional workflow: export data, open SPSS or R or Excel, figure out the right analysis, run it, build charts, paste into a deck. Repeat every time someone asks a new question.
Relay's AI research assistant analyzes your data directly in the platform. Ask a question in plain language: "What's driving satisfaction among repeat buyers?" or "How do responses differ by region?" The assistant determines the right analytical approach, runs it, and returns a rigorous answer with publication-quality visualizations. It's not searching your crosstabs. It's running real analysis—the kind that would take a trained analyst hours—in seconds.
This isn't a free tool with a chatbot. This is professional survey software with a scientist built in.
Relay is built by PhD behavioral scientists who have spent decades running survey research—and decades being frustrated by the tools available to do it. Every feature exists because we needed it ourselves. The platform is designed for researchers who care about data quality, methodological rigor, and producing findings they can defend.
Full question library
Matrix, ranking, MaxDiff, conjoint, open-end, slider, image-based, and every other question type you need for professional research.
Advanced logic
Skip logic, display logic, branching, piping, randomization, block randomization, quotas, and embedded data—all configurable without writing code.
Panel integration
Access global panels with managed sampling, automated quota management, and built-in fraud and quality detection. Or distribute via your own channels.
Data quality
Attention checks, speeding detection, straightlining detection, bot filtering, and quality scoring—built into fielding, not applied after the fact.
Enterprise controls
Role-based access, team workspaces, audit trails, and enterprise-grade security. Built for organizations that need governance without bureaucracy.
Full export
SPSS, CSV, Excel, or connect directly to your existing analysis tools. Your data, your way, whenever you want it.
Switch without starting over.
Moving survey platforms usually means losing access to your historical data or dealing with painful migration. Relay's intelligent importer ingests survey data from any source—Qualtrics exports, SPSS files, CSVs, SurveyMonkey data, whatever you have—in any format. Bring it all in, and the AI research assistant can analyze your historical data alongside new projects. Your past work becomes part of your foundation, not a stranded asset on a platform you're paying to leave.
Transparent pricing. No surprises.
No sales call required to find out what it costs.
The software costs $0.50 per complete.
That's it. That's the platform fee. No per-seat licensing, no annual contract, no tiered feature gates, no enterprise sales cycle. Every feature on the platform is available to every user. You pay $0.50 for each completed survey response—whether you collect 50 or 50,000.
Using our panels?
You pay the $0.50 software fee per complete plus the recruitment cost for reaching your target audience. Sample costs vary by audience and geography and are displayed transparently before you launch—no opaque bundling, no hidden markups.
Bringing your own respondents?
If you're distributing via your own email lists, customer panels, links, or any other channel you manage, you pay only the $0.50 per complete. That's professional-grade survey software—every question type, every logic tool, AI design, AI analysis—for fifty cents a response.
For comparison:
Most legacy platforms gate features behind enterprise contracts starting at $100K+/year, cap completes on individual plans (often around 500/month), and require a sales conversation before you can even see full pricing. Relay shows you the price on this page because we think that's how it should work.
Need team or enterprise features?
Role-based access, dedicated support, custom integrations, and advanced security configurations are available. Talk to us—but you'll never be required to sign an annual contract to use the platform.
Relay is a complete survey platform.
It's also the front door to something bigger.
Relay is fully integrated with EmpathixAI—a full-cycle research platform built by PhD behavioral scientists. When surveys are the right tool, Relay handles them with rigor. When your research questions need more depth, the platform offers CultureChat™ behavioral interviews at representative scale. And the AI Research Assistant reasons across all your data—surveys, interviews, imported datasets—in one analytical environment.
You don't have to use any of that to get value from Relay. But when you need it, it's there—and your survey data is already connected.
Learn more about the EmpathixAI platform