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Ask HN: Why surveys are so expensive?

All SaaS survey products are insanely expensive. It’s always $0.04-$0.15 per response.

SurveyMonkey - $0.035, TypeForm - $0.045, HotJar - $0.08, Survicate - $0.179

It’s saving *a single record in the database* after a request to the API. Plus wizard for creating the form. Then download the CSV with the results. Also, all companies are charging on a monthly basis. Most surveys goes from time to time. I’m talking from my experience, but there are months where I need to survey 100 users and months where I need to survey 30k users. Why it’s not billed on a ‘per response’ basis?

Do most companies write their own survey software, is there anything cheaper or are you using some open source?

3 points michaeloblak 3 years ago 5 comments

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