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Conveo Alternative: Try the AI Interview, Then Buy It Yourself

Conveo did something almost nobody else in this category has done: it put a live product demo on the open web. Any visitor can take an anonymous sample AI interview from the participant side, a fictional Ben & Jerry's concept test, and feel exactly what their participants would experience. That is the right instinct, and it builds more trust than any amount of marketing copy. The product underneath is credible too: voice and video interviews in more than 50 languages, a strong footprint in CPG and agency research, and an EU base with a clear GDPR focus.

The question is what happens after the sample interview convinces you.

After the demo, the path runs through a sales call

Once you finish Conveo's sample interview, there is no self-serve signup. Buying Conveo means a qualification form and a Cal.com demo call. Pricing is not published on their site; third parties report Enterprise contracts starting around $45,000 per year as of July 2026.

Neither of those facts is unusual for an enterprise research vendor, and they may be exactly right for the large CPG brands and agencies Conveo serves, where multi-market studies and managed relationships are the norm. But it does mean the live demo is the start of a sales process, not the start of a purchase you control. You can feel the product, but you cannot buy it, price it, or start a study on your own.

Try the researcher side, not just the participant side

Conveo's demo shows what a participant experiences. That is half the product. The other half, the half you will actually live in, is the researcher's side: framing the question, drafting the guide, screening, fielding, and turning sessions into findings.

User Evaluation puts that half on the open web. The research agent sits on the marketing site, and you can chat with it without an account: describe a research question and watch it plan the study and draft a discussion guide in front of you. Then a free account, with no credit card, lets you run the loop for real, with trial grants for interviews and transcription, plus 100 agent credits per month, 3 projects, and 1 GB of storage. Deep Research is available on paid plans. Free is $0 forever, not a trial window.

Between the two demos, the difference is what you are evaluating. Conveo shows you the interview. User Evaluation shows you the whole job.

What User Evaluation does

User Evaluation is an AI research agent in a chat workspace, and it runs the study end to end. It plans the research, drafts the discussion guide and screener, and recruits real people from your own list or from the User Evaluation participant pool. It then moderates voice interviews in real time, asking adaptive follow-ups the way a good human moderator would, in 40 languages, and it can show stimuli such as concepts, packaging, or screens mid-interview, which matters for the concept-testing work Conveo's own demo highlights.

After fielding, the agent transcribes and analyzes every session: themes, cited quotes, sentiment and emotion. Reports come with clickable citations that jump back to the exact moment in the source recording, so stakeholders can inspect the evidence instead of trusting a summary, and highlight clips make the strongest moments easy to share. A public API exposes the same loop for teams that want it inside their own tooling.

Two rules hold throughout. Real humans are the evidence; AI is the interviewer and analyst, never a stand-in for participants. And approval gates sit in front of anything consequential: nothing is published and no money is spent until you have seen the plan and the expected cost and said yes.

Pricing on the page

Every User Evaluation price is public. Pro is $49 per month, or $41 per month billed yearly, and includes 5 own-participant AI interviews each month, unlimited projects, 30 audio and video processing hours, and 30 Deep Research runs. Team is $199 per month, or $166 yearly, with 5 seats, 25 own-participant interviews per month, and 100 pooled processing hours. Interview packs are one-time purchases that never expire: own participants at $9 each in a 10-pack or $8 each in a 25-pack, and User Evaluation pool participants, with sourcing included, at $24 each in a 10-pack or $22 each in a 25-pack.

Set that against the reported starting point for Conveo and the comparison is less about features than about scale of commitment: tens of dollars per interview you approve, versus a five-figure annual contract you negotiate.

When Conveo is the better fit

Choose Conveo if you are a large CPG brand or agency running multi-market studies with an enterprise budget, if you need video interviews as well as voice, or if your studies span markets beyond the 40 languages User Evaluation covers; Conveo's 50+ languages are a real advantage there. An EU-based vendor with a strong GDPR posture can also simplify procurement for European organizations, and a managed, sales-supported relationship is genuinely useful when research programs span many teams and markets.

Side by side

| | Conveo | User Evaluation | | -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Starting price | Not published (third parties report Enterprise from about $45,000/yr) | Free, Pro at $49/mo | | Free tier | No | Yes, $0 forever with 100 agent credits/mo | | Self-serve signup | No; qualification form and demo call | Yes, no credit card required | | Try without signup | Yes, a live sample participant interview | Yes, live agent chat on the site (the researcher side) | | AI interview format | Voice and video interviews | Real-time voice interviews with adaptive follow-ups and mid-interview stimuli | | Participant sourcing | Not detailed publicly (as of July 2026) | Your own list, or the UE pool with sourcing included | | Languages | 50+ | 40 |

Finish what the demo started

Conveo deserves credit for letting visitors try a live interview; it is the standard the rest of the category should meet. If you want to go one step further, from trying the interview to running your own study today at a price you can read in advance, User Evaluation is built for that. Talk to the agent on the site, then create a free account at https://app.userevaluation.com/signup. The full price list is at https://app.userevaluation.com/pricing.