Fiuto vs User Intuition
Fiuto vs User Intuition: 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 User Intuition'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 and first-click tests, or only interviews?
Eighteen methods, not one conversation. Card sort, tree test, first-click, five-second and preference test, click heatmaps, live site and prototype tasks, copy tests, surveys and open text. Eighteen method blocks in all, mixable in one study, on every plan including Free. Watching someone use a screen and talk about it is one method. Measuring where a hundred people click first, or whether they can find a page in your navigation, is a different one, and no interview substitutes for it.
Can I keep using Fiuto for free, or is it a one-off trial?
The free plan renews. Every month on Free you get 1 live study, 10 responses per study, 600 AI credits, and every one of the eighteen methods, with no card and no expiry date. AI is metered by credits and never gated by tier, so the assistant that drafts your study works on Free exactly as it works on Pro. Core and Pro are $29 and $69 a month, flat per account, when a month's allowance stops being enough.
Do I need to be a researcher to use Fiuto?
Research does not have to be your job. Fiuto does not assume a research team, a research calendar, or someone whose title says research, and it still works when all three are 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 happens to the money a run does not spend?
It comes back. Real respondents are US$7.00 each on the 5-minute band, US$14.00 on 12 minutes, US$21.00 on 20, ordered from the launch page and paid per order outside your AI credits. Recruiting always over-orders a little, because some people screen out, so Fiuto holds a reserve for that and refunds whatever the run does not use to the original payment method when it settles. Sharing the link with your own users costs nothing at all.
Side by side
Every row checked against User Intuition's own pages in September 2026.
| Fiuto | User Intuition | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Every method, 1 live study a month, 10 responses per study, 600 AI credits a month, no card. | 3 quality interviews free on signup, on a Starter plan with a $0 monthly base and no commitment. After those three, each quality interview is billed. |
| Paid plans | Core $29 and Pro $69 a month, published, flat per account. | Published in full. Starter is $0 a month plus $30 per quality voice interview, $15 chat, $60 video. Professional is $2,499 a month with 100 quality voice interviews included, then $25 voice, $12.50 chat, $50 video, on a 3-month minimum. Enterprise is a custom annual commit. Studies start at $150. |
| Seats | None. Share with as many people as you like on every plan, including Free. Unlimited editors from Core. | No per-seat charge on Starter or Professional, its pricing page says. |
| 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. | Three study types, all AI-moderated: in-depth interviews, concept tests and usability testing, each laddering 5 to 7 layers into a decision. 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. An AI interviewer that probes 5 to 7 layers deep, in 80 or more languages, with results back in 24 hours. |
| 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. | Synthetic respondents, which its page describes as AI-generated participants that simulate answers, for exploring follow-ups and narrowing concepts before the next round of human interviews. No price or plan published for them as of September 2026. |
| Study drafting | AI drafts the whole study from your URL and goal, on every plan including Free. | Its agentic-research page says your agent designs the study, recruits the people, runs the interviews and returns the analysed insight, through 72 MCP tools with no dashboard needed. |
| MCP server | Read and write: create, launch and read results. Seven coding agents. Every plan including Free. | Read and write: 72 MCP tools across 9 capability groups, from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code and VS Code, on one API key. No separate price published for it as of September 2026. |
| 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 vetted panel its pricing page puts at 4M+ respondents, or your own audience at no recruiting cost. |
| 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. | Published. $30 per participant on the general panel, billed separately from the interview, and $50 to $500 per interview on B2B and specialty audiences, quoted per audience. |
| 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. Its usability testing runs inside the AI-moderated 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. | A Customer Intelligence Hub its platform page describes as permanent, holding what past studies found. Study templates not published as of September 2026. |
Sources: User Intuition's pricing page, User Intuition's platform page, User Intuition's agentic research page and User Intuition's synthetic respondents page.
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.
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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 User Intuition if your agent should run the whole study
You want to design, recruit, run and read back from Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT without opening a dashboard at all, and you are happy to work through a large tool surface to get there.
Choose User Intuition if you need depth on why, in many languages
Your question is about reasoning rather than behaviour, your market spans languages, and you want an interviewer that keeps asking until it reaches the bottom of an answer. Fiuto does not moderate interviews at all.
Frequently asked questions
01Is Fiuto a User Intuition alternative?
It depends on the question you are asking. For AI-moderated interviews that ladder deep into a decision, User Intuition 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 User Intuition does not, on a free plan that renews every month with the AI on it.
02Does User Intuition have a free plan or a published price?
It publishes its price in full, and its free offer is 3 quality interviews on signup rather than a renewing plan, as of 11 September 2026. Starter is $0 a month plus $30 per quality voice interview, Professional is $2,499 a month with 100 included, and panel participants are $30 each on top. Fiuto's free plan needs no card, renews every month with 1 live study, 10 responses, 600 AI credits and every method, and Core and Pro are $29 and $69 a month on the pricing page.
03Does User Intuition have an MCP server?
Yes, and it writes as well as reads. Its agentic-research page counts 72 MCP tools across 9 capability groups, reachable from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code and VS Code on a single API key, and says an agent can design the study, recruit the people and run the interviews through them. 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. User Intuition runs AI-moderated 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, User Intuition 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.