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Most AI research tools charge you a discovery call before you can see the price — and their analysis pipelines are black boxes that give you themes with no trail back to who said what.
€9/month to €99/month · Free tier: 30 monthly credits (non-cumulative), Unlimited Surveys, Unlimited access to Mimi bot, ThemeLens/Voice Analysis/Proofreader (credit-based) · Checked Jul 1, 2026
Qualitati runs AI-moderated text and voice interviews, focus groups, and conversational surveys, then runs thematic analysis across up to 100 transcripts in a single pass. The ThemeLens pipeline maps codes to your research questions and anchors quotes to specific participants, so you can audit the output — not just accept it. Voice analytics extract acoustic features from audio, which is useful for emotional tone work but depends on your team knowing what to do with pitch and speech-rate data. The 10-language support covers Mandarin via Xunfei ASR and everything else via ElevenLabs, which means transcript quality varies by language. Teams running purely quantitative studies will find the tool misaligned — this is built for qualitative depth at scale.
Bottom line: Pick Qualitati when you need to run multilingual qualitative interviews and get auditable themes without booking a sales call — but expect to supplement it if your research program requires survey-level statistical analysis or integrates directly with BI tooling.
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Qualitati is a hosted AI user research platform built for product, UX, and customer insights teams who need to run moderated interviews, focus groups, and conversational surveys, then turn those transcripts into analyzed themes — without stitching together five separate tools. The core workflow runs end-to-end: participants join a text or voice session with an AI moderator that adapts follow-up questions based on what they actually say, responses get transcribed and processed, and ThemeLens runs a map-reduce pipeline across up to 100 transcripts at once, surfacing themes with representative quotes anchored back to the participants who said them. A QDA Workspace supports both inductive and deductive coding for teams that want to work the data manually alongside the AI.
The differentiating feature is the combination of published pricing and methodology transparency. The vendor states the AI moderator behavior, thematic analysis pipeline, and a dual-model supervisor architecture are documented and iterated against academic qualitative research literature — with the platform founded by an HEC Paris researcher. That positioning matters when you need to defend your research methodology internally or to clients, not just ship a report. Most direct competitors in this category — the vendor names Outset.ai, Strella, and Listen Labs explicitly — require a demo before you see pricing; Qualitati publishes per-credit rates and offers a free-tier entry point with no card required.
The platform fits teams running interview-heavy, qualitative-first research programs, especially those working across languages: 10 languages are supported with native UI, using Xunfei ASR for Mandarin and ElevenLabs Scribe v2 elsewhere. Where it breaks: teams needing deep quantitative survey analytics, statistical significance testing, or direct integration with BI platforms will hit the edges quickly — the tool is optimized for qualitative depth, not mixed-methods at scale. There is no self-hosted option, so teams with strict data residency requirements will need to evaluate that constraint separately before committing.
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