Fiuto vs Listen Labs
Fiuto vs Listen Labs: what you get with Fiuto
Fiuto writes the study, runs it with AI respondents and real people, recruits when you need it, and reads the results back. From the web app or the coding agent you already build in.Free to start, in minutes, no research experience required.
Fiuto's mark beside Listen Labs's, with "vs" between them.
How it works
Fiuto runs your full research loop
Paste a URL and Fiuto takes it from there. No research experience needed.
What you get with Fiuto
The four differences that change what you can do this afternoon, not a feature checklist.
Does Fiuto run card sorts, or only interviews like Listen Labs?
Eighteen methods, not one conversation. Listen Labs runs an AI interview, and everything on the platform hangs off it. Fiuto runs eighteen method blocks, mixable in one study: card sort, tree test, first-click, five-second and preference test, click heatmaps, live site and prototype tasks, copy tests, surveys and open text. When your question is where people click or which of two layouts wins, an interview is the wrong instrument.
Can I start on Fiuto today, or do I need a demo like with Listen Labs?
You can use Fiuto today, and the AI is free. Listen Labs publishes no price and no free plan, and the route in is a booked demo. Fiuto has a free plan with no card, 600 AI credits a month, and every method on it. AI is metered by credits and never gated by tier, so the assistant that drafts your study works on the free plan, not just in a sales conversation.
Do I need to be a researcher to use Fiuto?
Research does not have to be your job. Listen Labs is a research partner for a team that already runs research, and it says so. Fiuto does not require that, and still works when it is true. Say what you need to learn, review what Fiuto drafts, and turn your Lovable, Replit, v0, Bolt, Claude Code, Codex or Cursor prototype into a real-user test.
What does Fiuto charge per respondent, and what does Listen Labs?
A published participant price. US$7.00 per respondent on the 5-minute band, US$14.00 on 12 minutes, US$21.00 on 20, ordered from the launch page. Whatever the screen-out reserve does not use is refunded when the run settles. On Listen Labs, panel recruitment runs on wallet credits granted to your organisation, and no figure for them is published.
Side by side
Every row checked against Listen Labs' own pages in September 2026.
| Fiuto | Listen Labs | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Every method, 1 live study a month, 10 responses per study, 600 AI credits a month, no card. | Not published as of September 2026. The site's calls to action are sign in and book a demo. |
| Paid plans | Core $29 and Pro $69 a month, published, flat per account. | Not published as of September 2026. There is no pricing page. |
| Seats | None. Share with as many people as you like on every plan, including Free. Unlimited editors from Core. | Seat types and permissions, documented per workspace. |
| Unmoderated methods | 18 method blocks, every one on every plan. Card sort, tree test, first-click, five-second, preference test and click heatmap among them. | The AI interview, with screeners, conditional logic, concept tests, MaxDiff and screen sharing around it. No card sort, tree test, first-click, five-second or preference test. |
| AI moderator | None. Fiuto runs unmoderated studies and AI respondents, not a live moderated interview. | Yes, and it is the product. A multilingual voice interviewer with follow-ups in 40 or more languages. |
| AI respondents | Up to five per run before real people see the study, up to two of them experts in conversion, usability, copy or SEO. | Not published as of September 2026. The AI moderates a real person rather than standing in for one. |
| Study drafting | AI drafts the whole study from your URL and goal, on every plan including Free. | An AI study builder drafts a discussion guide from your background and objectives, or parses one you upload. |
| MCP server | Read and write: create, launch and read results. Seven coding agents. Every plan including Free. | Read and write: create, edit, launch, search and read transcripts, from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and other MCP clients over OAuth. Needs a Listen Labs account. |
| Recruitment | Prolific's panel of 300,000+ participants across 38+ countries, ordered from the launch page. Or share the link with your own people. | A network its docs describe as 30 million or more verified respondents across 45 or more countries and 100 or more languages, or your own participants by direct link. |
| Participant price | US$7.00 per respondent on the 5-minute band, US$14.00 on 12, US$21.00 on 20. The unused screen-out reserve is refunded when the run settles. | Not published as of September 2026. Panel recruitment draws on wallet credits granted to your organisation. |
| Instrumented build | @fiuto/runner is on public npm and attaches to any live URL. Clicks and events come back in the same export as the answers. | Not published as of September 2026. Screen sharing captures the session inside the interview. |
| Templates and product memory | 24 curated templates plus the ones you save, on every plan. Fiuto remembers your product, your audience and what you are trying to learn between studies. | Workspace presentation templates, and a research library you can query across past studies. |
Sources: Listen Labs' homepage, Listen Labs' recruiting documentation, Listen Labs' MCP documentation and Listen Labs' API overview.
MCP for user research
Your data is yours. Stay in Claude Code
Create, launch, and read back studies over MCP from the coding agent you already build in. Every result is yours, out through a per-study token or MCP, on every plan including Free.
Create studies from
Claude Code
Cursor
Codex
Lovable
v0
Replit
BoltWho fits which tool
Fiuto fits people for whom research is not the job
You are building the thing and you have a question about it you would rather not guess at. Fiuto writes the study, runs it, and hands back findings, and it still serves you when research is your job.
Fiuto fits questions an interview cannot answer
Where people click first, whether they can find a page in your navigation, which of two designs wins, what a headline actually communicates in five seconds. Those are tests, not conversations.
Choose Listen Labs if you want a hundred conversations instead of six
You want adaptive follow-ups on every one, transcribed, segmented, and summarised, which is a different thing from a survey.
Choose Listen Labs if your study has to run in eleven markets at once
You need a voice interviewer across many languages and countries. Fiuto does not moderate interviews at all.
Frequently asked questions
01Is Fiuto a Listen Labs alternative?
It depends on the question you are asking. For AI-moderated interviews at scale, Listen Labs is the specialist and Fiuto does not compete. For everything unmoderated, where people click, what they can find, which design or headline wins, Fiuto runs eighteen methods Listen Labs does not, at a published price with a free plan and no demo to book.
02Does Listen Labs have a free plan or a published price?
Neither, as of 10 September 2026. There is no pricing page on listenlabs.ai, and the calls to action are sign in and book a demo. Fiuto's free plan needs no card and runs 1 live study a month with every method and the AI included, and Core and Pro are $29 and $69 a month on the pricing page.
03Does Listen Labs have an MCP server?
Yes, and it writes as well as reads. Its documentation says the MCP can create, edit and launch studies, browse and search them, and read transcripts and analysis, from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and other MCP clients over OAuth, acting as you with your own permissions. It needs a Listen Labs account. Fiuto's MCP creates, launches and reads back studies from seven coding agents on every plan including Free.
04Does Fiuto have an AI moderator?
No. Listen Labs runs AI-moderated voice interviews and Fiuto does not. Fiuto runs unmoderated studies, and sends AI respondents through the study first so you get a read in minutes and catch a bad task before real people see it. If a live AI interviewer is the thing you need, Listen Labs is the better tool.
05What does it cost to recruit participants on Fiuto?
US$7.00 per respondent on the 5-minute band, US$14.00 on 12 minutes, and US$21.00 on 20, ordered from the launch page and paid per order outside your AI credits. A reserve covers screen-outs, and whatever the order does not use is refunded to the original payment method when the run settles. You can also share the study link with your own users at no cost.
06Do I need research experience to use Fiuto?
No. Paste your URL and say what you need to learn. Fiuto writes the study, runs it with AI respondents, recruits real people if you want them, and reads the results back into findings and a deck. You review each step before it launches, and it serves the researcher just as well.
07Which methods does Fiuto support?
18 method blocks on every plan: prototype and live website tasks, first-click, click heatmap, five-second tests, preference and design feedback, card sort, tree test, matrix, ranking, rating scales, open text, and copy tests among them.