Alternatives
Dovetail alternatives
If you want a repository for research you run in other tools, look at Condens, Marvin, Looppanel and Aurelius; Condens, Looppanel and Aurelius publish prices that start under $50 per month. If you also want to recruit participants and run the sessions in the same tool, look at Reos, Great Question or Maze. Dovetail itself now sells annual plans from $4,800 a year plus usage credits.
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Why teams look for a Dovetail alternative
- The entry plan is an annual contract. Dovetail lists Bronze at $4,800 a year for the platform and up to 5 users, paid by card and billed annually, and the plan card carries a "Coming soon" label. Prices for Silver (25+ users) and Gold (100+ users) are not published.
- AI work is metered on top of the plan. Credits cost 15 cents each: processing one data point, such as a call, ticket or survey response, uses 1 credit, and chat, agent and Digital Twin use is charged by task. Unused credits expire at the end of the contract.
- No free plan is listed. The trial Dovetail offers is 30 days of the Gold plan.
- Single sign-on, folders, workspace tags, templates and team collaboration are marked not included on Bronze; they start on Silver. AI redaction and SCIM are on Gold.
- Dovetail analyzes feedback that was collected elsewhere. Its product and pricing pages list no participant recruiting, scheduling, interview, survey or usability test tooling for real participants, and its changelog says the Recruit feature was retired in October 2025. Digital Twins are simulated customers built from your data.
At a glance
Dovetail alternatives, side by side
What each tool is best for and what it costs, as each vendor states it.
| Tool | Best for | Pricing |
|---|---|---|
| Condens | Research teams that want a dedicated repository at a published price | Published: Lite from 15 euros per month with one contributor; Business from 500 euros per month, paid yearly, with five contributors and unlimited viewers; Enterprise on request. 15-day free trial. |
| Marvin | Teams that want a repository with a call notetaker and optional AI-moderated interviews | Not published. Marvin lists a free plan and Starter, Pro and Enterprise plans; the paid plans start with a demo. |
| Reos | Teams that want the research to happen in the same place it is stored and analyzed | Published: from $59 per month (Researcher), $249 (Team), $999 (Scale); Enterprise is custom. |
| Great Question | Research operations: recruiting, scheduling and incentives with a repository attached | Published: Self-serve is $129 per seat per month or $1,290 per seat per year, up to five seats; Enterprise is custom. 14-day free trial, no free plan. |
| Looppanel | Small teams and solo researchers who mostly analyze interview recordings | Published: Solo is $49 per month or $540 per year; Pro is $395 per month or $4,200 per year; Enterprise on request. 15-day free trial on Solo. |
| Aurelius | Teams that want a plain repository with unlimited users on every plan | Published: Professional is $49 per month and Premium $199 per month, both billed yearly; Enterprise on request. 30-day free trial. |
| Maze | Product teams whose gap is testing designs, not storing past research | Published in part: a Free plan with 1 study a month and 5 seats, and Enterprise at custom pricing. The pricing page also carries a Starter plan at $99 per month that it shows in some countries only. |
The alternatives to Dovetail
1. Condens
Best for: Research teams that want a dedicated repository at a published price
Condens describes itself as a UX research repository and AI analysis platform. Recordings and notes come in transcribed, you structure and tag them next to your findings, and Condens AI answers questions from your own data. It imports from tools such as Zoom and Typeform and sends insights to Slack, Figma and Miro.
Like Dovetail, it stores and analyzes research and does not collect it: no recruiting or interview tooling is listed. Condens lists SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA and CCPA compliance. Single sign-on is an add-on on Business and included on Enterprise.
Pricing: Published: Lite from 15 euros per month with one contributor; Business from 500 euros per month, paid yearly, with five contributors and unlimited viewers; Enterprise on request. 15-day free trial.
2. Marvin
Best for: Teams that want a repository with a call notetaker and optional AI-moderated interviews
Marvin calls itself a customer insights platform. Its Knowledge Hub is the repository, Ask AI gives cited answers across it, and an AI notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet or Teams calls to transcribe and summarize. It lists more than 30 integrations and a participant panel with CRM sync.
Marvin also collects data: AI-moderated interviews by voice in over 40 languages and in-product live intercepts are sold as an add-on to paid plans. Participants come through a study link you share with your own list or a third-party panel.
Pricing: Not published. Marvin lists a free plan and Starter, Pro and Enterprise plans; the paid plans start with a demo.
3. Reos
Best for: Teams that want the research to happen in the same place it is stored and analyzed
Reos covers what a repository does: you upload recordings, transcripts and documents, bring in email, feedback forms and support tickets, and the analysis turns them into observations and insights that link to their quotes. Collections and super insights work across projects.
It also runs the research. You recruit from a panel of your own customers and conduct AI-moderated interviews, live interviews, unmoderated tests and surveys in the same workspace, so new studies land in the repository without an upload.
Pricing: Published: from $59 per month (Researcher), $249 (Team), $999 (Scale); Enterprise is custom.
4. Great Question
Best for: Research operations: recruiting, scheduling and incentives with a repository attached
Great Question describes itself as an AI UX research platform. You recruit from your own customers or its research panel, with screening, scheduling and incentives in one flow, and run interviews, surveys and prototype tests. Findings are kept as themes, summaries and highlight reels that cite their sessions.
Card sorting, tree testing and focus groups are on the Enterprise plan, and AI-moderated interviews are an Enterprise add-on. Observers do not need a paid seat.
Pricing: Published: Self-serve is $129 per seat per month or $1,290 per seat per year, up to five seats; Enterprise is custom. 14-day free trial, no free plan.
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5. Looppanel
Best for: Small teams and solo researchers who mostly analyze interview recordings
Looppanel describes itself as UX research AI analysis and a repository. It transcribes and translates recordings in more than 96 languages, tags and organizes research with AI, groups insights by question or theme, and keeps everything in a searchable repository. It connects to Zoom, Google Meet and Zendesk, and lists panel management for recruiting and screening participants on its Enterprise plan.
Plans are sized by editors: Solo includes one editor, Pro five and Enterprise ten. The pricing page's tables give different transcription and upload limits for Solo, so confirm them with Looppanel. Looppanel lists SOC 2 Type II and GDPR.
Pricing: Published: Solo is $49 per month or $540 per year; Pro is $395 per month or $4,200 per year; Enterprise on request. 15-day free trial on Solo.
6. Aurelius
Best for: Teams that want a plain repository with unlimited users on every plan
Aurelius describes itself as a research repository and insights platform for design and product teams. You tag notes, group them into themes and record key insights with their supporting data, and reports can carry clips and highlight reels. Recommendations and collections, which gather research across projects, are listed from the Premium plan.
It transcribes audio, generates summaries and themes with AI Assist and imports Zoom recordings; the Jira integration is listed on Enterprise. Every tier lists unlimited users, projects and storage. No recruiting or interview tooling is listed, and no security certifications are named on its features page.
Pricing: Published: Professional is $49 per month and Premium $199 per month, both billed yearly; Enterprise on request. 30-day free trial.
7. Maze
Best for: Product teams whose gap is testing designs, not storing past research
Maze is a testing platform more than a repository, so it replaces a different part of the stack. It runs prototype tests, surveys, live website and mobile tests, card sorting and moderated interviews, and recruits from its own panel, which its pricing page puts at over 5 million participants. Results come as automated, shareable reports.
Its pricing page marks prototype testing, the panel and reports as available on all plans, and the AI moderator, interview studies, card sorting and Maze AI as Enterprise. Maze lists SOC 2 Type II.
Pricing: Published in part: a Free plan with 1 study a month and 5 seats, and Enterprise at custom pricing. The pricing page also carries a Starter plan at $99 per month that it shows in some countries only.
A third option
Where Reos fits
Reos is the alternative for teams that are tired of running research in one set of tools and uploading it to another. It has the repository and the analysis, and it also plans, recruits and conducts the studies. Its prices are public.
- Recordings, transcripts and documents upload into a project; email and feedback forms arrive through channels, and support desk connectors are in beta.
- Analysis extracts observations and groups them into insights, and each insight links to the quotes it was checked against.
- Collections gather findings from any project, and super insights show the patterns that recur across projects.
- AI-moderated interviews, live interviews, unmoderated tests and surveys run in the same workspace, with a panel built from your own customers.
- An MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini search and read your research.
- To move over, you send a full Dovetail export; the Reos team converts it and you choose which projects to import.
- Plans from $59 per month, published on the pricing page. Viewers are free and unlimited.
Questions
Dovetail alternatives, answered
- As of November 2026, Dovetail's pricing page lists three Dovetail One plans. Bronze is $4,800 a year for the platform and up to 5 users, paid by card and billed annually, plus credits at 15 cents each; its plan card is labeled "Coming soon". Silver (25+ users) and Gold (100+ users) have no published price and are sold through sales. Credits cover AI usage: processing one data point uses 1 credit, and unused credits expire at the end of the contract.
- No free plan is listed on Dovetail's pricing page as of November 2026. Dovetail offers a 30-day free trial of the Gold plan.
- For research repositories and analysis, the closest are Condens, Marvin, Looppanel and Aurelius. Great Question, Maze and Reos overlap on analysis and also recruit participants and run studies. Dovetail's own site publishes comparisons with Marvin, Condens, Maze, UserTesting, Lookback, Great Question and Aurelius, among others.
- As of November 2026, Dovetail's product and pricing pages list no participant recruiting, scheduling, interview or survey tooling for real participants. Dovetail takes in calls, tickets, surveys and recordings from more than 40 integrations and analyzes them. Its Digital Twins are simulated customers built from that data.
- Condens (from 15 euros per month), Looppanel (from $49 per month), Aurelius (from $49 per month, billed yearly), Reos (from $59 per month) and Great Question ($129 per seat per month) publish prices. Maze lists a Free plan and, in some countries, a Starter plan at $99 per month; its Enterprise plan is custom. Marvin lists a free plan and shows no amounts for its paid plans.
- Yes. You ask Dovetail for a full export and upload it under Settings > Data import. The Reos team converts it, then you review the projects found and choose what to import.
Sources
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- Dovetail plans, prices, credits, trial, SSO and certifications
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- Dovetail product, integrations and Digital Twins
- dovetail.com (opens in a new tab)Dovetail vs Great Question (opens in a new tab)
- Condens product, compliance, plans and prices
- condens.io (opens in a new tab)Condens pricing (opens in a new tab)
- Marvin product, plans, add-ons and AI-moderated interviews
- heymarvin.com (opens in a new tab)Marvin pricing (opens in a new tab)Marvin AI-moderated interviewer (opens in a new tab)
- Great Question product, plans and prices
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- Looppanel product, plans and prices
- looppanel.com (opens in a new tab)Looppanel pricing (opens in a new tab)
- Aurelius product, plans and prices
- aureliuslab.com (opens in a new tab)Aurelius features (opens in a new tab)Aurelius pricing (opens in a new tab)
- Maze methods, panel, plan availability and pricing page
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