Thisys™ vs Qualtrics
Qualtrics sells customer experience, employee experience and market research products, and most of its pricing is by request. Thisys is for the teams and professionals who want serious analysis without a sales cycle: every self-serve price is published, and AI analysis comes with every plan.
Checked between 17 and 21 October 2026. Every Qualtrics fact below comes from Qualtrics's own public pages, linked beside it with the date we read it. Plans and prices change, and can differ by country, so check their page before you decide.
Answers and responses are different units
Thisys counts answers: one answer is one person answering one question, so a short poll uses less of your allowance than a long survey. The other tools on these pages count responses or submissions: one person completing a form, however many questions it has. The two are not the same unit, so wherever we set a Thisys allowance beside theirs we convert it first, at a 10-question survey where every question is answered. A longer survey would fit fewer responses into the same Thisys allowance, and a shorter one more.
Side by side
The free plan
Thisys
US$0, free forever with no card. 1,000 answers a month — about 100 complete responses to a 10-question survey. Unlimited surveys and questions, all nineteen question types, skip logic, and CSV, Excel and SPSS export. Free surveys carry the Thisys mark.
Qualtrics
The free account allows 3 active surveys, up to 30 questions per survey, 8 question types and 500 responses per survey, in one language.
Source: qualtrics.com/free-account, checked 21 October 2026Paid plans and what they include
Thisys
Pro, US$19 a month: 50,000 answers a month — about 5,000 complete responses to a 10-question survey. Business, US$99 a month: 250,000 answers a month — about 25,000 complete responses to a 10-question survey. Enterprise is priced per client. Prices are in US dollars and exclude taxes; customers in Australia are billed in Australian dollars.
Qualtrics
Strategic Research is sold online at $420 a month ($5,040 billed annually), with 1,000 responses shared across all users and a 30-day trial; a larger Strategic Research is by quote. The pricing page shows no prices for its other products and says pricing depends on what you expect to use.
Source: qualtrics.com/buy-online, checked 17 October 2026; qualtrics.com/pricing, checked 17 October 2026Taking the maker's branding off
Thisys
From Pro (US$19 a month): the Thisys mark comes off every respondent page and public results page, with your logo in its place.
Qualtrics
Not published: the pages we checked did not state which plan removes Qualtrics branding.
Source: qualtrics.com/free-account, checked 21 October 2026; qualtrics.com/pricing, checked 17 October 2026Working as a team
Thisys
On Business, one price of US$99 a month, not charged per seat: a team workspace of up to 10 people, you included, with Owner, Admin, Member and Viewer roles. Joining a team costs the member nothing.
Qualtrics
Not published: the pages we checked did not state seats or team pricing.
Source: qualtrics.com/free-account, checked 21 October 2026; qualtrics.com/pricing, checked 17 October 2026AI
Thisys
On every plan, Free included, metered by credits: 40 in the first 30 days on Free, then 10 a month; 400 a month on Pro and 2,000 on Business. Drafting a survey, theming open-text answers, asking your data a question, and a one-click Decision Report. A survey's responses are read by AI only once you switch analysis on for it.
Qualtrics
The free-account page lists video feedback summaries powered by generative AI, and advanced text, sentiment and topic analysis, on Strategic Research, not on the free account. AI features of its other products are not published on the pages we checked.
Source: qualtrics.com/free-account, checked 21 October 2026; qualtrics.com/pricing, checked 17 October 2026Reaching the limit
Thisys
You are emailed at 50%, 80%, 90% and 100% of your monthly answer allowance, and collection carries on into a grace band past it (10% on Free, 20% on Pro, 25% on Business) before it pauses. Extra answers can be bought at any time without changing plan.
Qualtrics
The free account is limited to 500 responses per survey. Limits on the paid products are not published on the pages we checked.
Source: qualtrics.com/free-account, checked 21 October 2026A worked example: 1,000 complete responses a month to a 10-question survey
The cheapest plan on each side that covers it, from each company's own pricing page. On Thisys that volume is 10,000 answers.
Thisys
Pro, US$19 a month: it includes 50,000 answers a month, and 1,000 responses to a 10-question survey use 10,000.
Source: our pricing pageQualtrics
Not published: no plan on the pages we checked states an allowance that covers it.
Source: qualtrics.com/buy-online, checked 17 October 2026; qualtrics.com/free-account, checked 21 October 2026; qualtrics.com/pricing, checked 17 October 2026Where Qualtrics is stronger
Said plainly, because a comparison that only flatters one side is no use to you.
Strategic Research lists surveys in 70+ languages and 23 question types, including heat maps, hot spots and graphic sliders, with custom JavaScript logic.
Source: qualtrics.com/free-account, checked 21 October 2026; qualtrics.com/buy-online, checked 17 October 2026Its StatsIQ tools describe, relate, regress, cluster and pivot data, with R integration.
Source: qualtrics.com/free-account, checked 21 October 2026Thisys has cross-tabs with significance testing, weighting, key drivers, and SPSS and R exports; for statistical modelling inside the tool, Qualtrics goes further.
Video and audio feedback, video diaries, focus groups and in-depth interviews, and 20+ pre-built solutions for market, product and brand research.
Source: qualtrics.com/free-account, checked 21 October 2026
Where Thisys stands out
Every price on the page
Pro (US$19 a month) and Business (US$99 a month) are bought online at the price on our pricing page, with no call to book. Only Enterprise, a dedicated installation, is quoted.
A free plan you can run a real survey on
Unlimited surveys, all nineteen question types, skip logic and CSV, Excel and SPSS export, with 1,000 answers a month — about 100 complete responses to a 10-question survey.
AI on every plan, Free included
Describe a survey in plain English and get a complete draft; theme the open-text answers (up to 200 a question) with representative quotes; put a question to your data and get an answer drawn from it. AI output comes with a notice saying what to check.
A Decision Report in one click
A verdict, ranked findings, the answers that move your score and recommended actions, built from your responses. The findings are calculated from the data, and an AI sentence that contradicts them is left out rather than shown.
You pay for answers, not forms
Metering the answer means a two-question poll uses a fifth as much of your allowance as a ten-question survey. For US$19 a month, Pro includes 50,000 answers a month — about 5,000 complete responses to a 10-question survey.
Qualtrics's plans, as their page listed them
The plans that bear on this comparison; Qualtrics's page may list others.
Free account
Free. 500 responses per survey, 3 active surveys.
Source: qualtrics.com/free-account, checked 21 October 2026Strategic Research
$420 a month ($5,040 billed annually). 1,000 responses shared across all users (the page does not say over what period).
Source: qualtrics.com/buy-online, checked 17 October 2026
Launch offer: take 50% off your first 3 months of Pro or Business by entering the code THISYSLAUNCH at checkout. It is for first-time customers on a monthly plan, for the first 100 paying accounts, and ends on 30 November 2026 (Australian Eastern time) or when the 100 are used, whichever comes first. After the 3 months your plan renews at its normal monthly price (Pro US$19, Business US$99, plus GST where it applies) unless you cancel first, which you can do at any time from your account.
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Sources and reference dates
Each page below was read on the date shown. Figures are quoted as the page showed them, in our words, with its own currency marker; we have not converted currencies or added tax.
- https://www.qualtrics.com/buy-online/, read 17 October 2026
- https://www.qualtrics.com/free-account/, read 21 October 2026
- https://www.qualtrics.com/pricing/, read 17 October 2026
- Thisys facts: our pricing and features pages, current as you read this.
Thisys is the subject of Australian trade mark application 2693330 (classes 9 and 42). SurveyMonkey, Typeform, Qualtrics, Tally and Jotform are trade marks of their respective owners and are used here only to identify their products. Thisys is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any of them.
Their facts were read from their own public pages between 17 and 21 October 2026, and each is linked with the date it was read. Prices and plans change, may be shown differently in your country or currency, and may exclude tax, so check the company's own page before you buy. This comparison is general information, not advice.
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