How Fiuto and Lyssna compare
Every claim about Lyssna on this page is sourced and dated. All of them were checked on 27 July 2026 against Lyssna's own site or a public review platform, and where Lyssna publishes nothing, this page says so instead of guessing at a number.
Both tools let you run usability studies without a research background. The differences show up in whose respondents you use, how far AI reaches into the study, and how many methods live under one roof.
| Fiuto | Lyssna | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Published: free, then £19 and £49 a month, flat per account. | Published: free, then $165 a month for Growth. Enterprise is custom. |
| Cost per seat | No per-seat charge at either price. | About $33 a seat: Growth is $165 across 5 seats. |
| Built from a coding agent | Yes, over MCP, from seven agents, verified 27 July 2026. | None published, checked 27 July 2026. |
| AI by plan | Every plan including Free, same Claude models throughout. | Follow-ups and summaries start on the paid Growth plan. |
| First analysis | Free once per account, on every plan. | No published equivalent, checked 27 July 2026. |
| Respondents | Your own only. No panel, no per-respondent fee. | Unlimited self-recruited, plus a pay-per-use panel of over 690,000. |
| Methods | 18 method blocks, every one on every plan including Free. | Card sort, tree test, five-second, first click, surveys, interviews, and more. |
Sources, checked 27 July 2026: Lyssna's pricing page, Lyssna on G2, Lyssna on Capterra, and Lyssna's pricing breakdown on G2.
Why choose Fiuto over Lyssna
Lyssna's breadth is real: interviews, tree testing, screeners, and a large self-recruited and pay-per-use panel all live on one platform. Fiuto is narrower on purpose, and here's what separates it:
- You build it from your coding agent. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Lovable, v0, Replit, and Bolt can all draft and launch a Fiuto study over MCP, all seven verified against the live server on 27 July 2026. Point any of them at mcp.fiuto.ai and see for yourself. Lyssna has no published coding-agent or MCP integration.
- AI runs the whole loop, on every plan. Drafting the study, analysing responses, and building the insights deck all work on Free, running the same Anthropic Claude models Fiuto uses on Pro. Which model handles a task depends on the task, never on your tier. Lyssna's AI follow-ups and summaries start on the paid Growth plan.
- Every response comes from someone you invited. No recruited panel to pay for, no per-seat pricing, no per-respondent fee. Response volume follows your plan: 10 on Free, 100 on Core, unlimited on Pro. Results are readable in-app on every tier; raw export and the API open up from Core.
- The price is flat, not per seat. £19 and £49 a month, per account. Lyssna's Growth plan is $165 a month split across 5 seats, about $33 a seat before adding people or in-depth studies.
- Sharing has no headcount limit. Publish a study, its results, its insights, or its deck behind a view-only link for as many people as you want. Only inviting someone in to edit needs a paid plan.
- Your first study is free, end to end. A whole study start to finish on the free plan, and real responses turned into findings at no cost in credits, once per account, on every tier.
- You can be live the same day. Say what you want to learn, review the drafted plan, and launch, instead of adding another seat to a shared plan first.
- Your study data stays in the EU. Study data, recordings, and analytics run on EU-hosted infrastructure.
- Method depth without suite pricing. 18 method blocks, every one on every plan including Free, ranking, card sorting, tree testing, matrix surveys, five-second tests, first-click tests, preference tests, and prototype or live-site tests among them.
Pricing, in more detail
Fiuto's free plan includes every test method, 1 live study a month, 10 responses per study, and 300 AI credits a month, no card required. Core is £19 a month, held from £39 at current launch pricing, with 3 live studies a month, 100 responses per study, and 3,000 AI credits a month. Pro is £49 a month, held from £99, with 10 live studies a month, unlimited responses per study, and 12,000 AI credits a month. Templates give you a zero-credit way to start drafting.
Lyssna's free plan covers 3 seats, unlimited quick studies, and 15 self-recruited test and survey responses a month. Growth is $165 a month for 5 seats, 5 in-depth studies a month, and unlimited quick studies and self-recruited responses. Enterprise pricing is custom, with unlimited seats and in-depth studies.
Lyssna's price is per seat: Growth's $165 a month covers 5 seats, about $33 a seat, before Enterprise custom pricing. Fiuto's £19 and £49 plans are flat per account, no matter how many people use it.
Respondents and methods
Fiuto has one respondent path, by design: bring your own. No recruited panel to pay for, no per-seat pricing, no per-respondent fee. Invite as many of your own users as you want; how many responses each study collects still follows your plan. Lyssna offers unlimited self-recruited responses on every plan, the same bring-your-own model Fiuto uses, plus a pay-per-use panel of over 690,000 people with more than 395 demographic filters when you need recruitment.
Lyssna's method list is broad: card sorting, first-click and five-second tests, live-site and prototype tasks, preference testing, screen recordings, surveys, tree testing, and moderated interviews, in one platform. Fiuto's 18 method blocks centre on the forced-choice and ordering questions that turn a fuzzy opinion into a decision: ranking, card sorting, tree testing, matrix surveys, five-second impressions, first click, and preference testing, plus prototype and live-site tasks, each drafted from a plain-language brief rather than assembled question by question.
Moving a study from Lyssna to Fiuto
There is no account to migrate and nothing to export. Run one study in both places and compare what comes back.
Pick one study you already run in Lyssna
The last five-second test, card sort, or survey will do. Write down in a paragraph what you needed to learn from it.
Let Fiuto draft it
Paste that paragraph in, or ask your coding agent to do it over MCP. What comes back is a full study plan to edit, not an empty form.
Invite your own respondents
Share the link with the customers, users, or community you already have. No seats to add and no per-respondent fee.
Read the findings, then decide
Fiuto turns the responses into findings and a shareable deck. Compare that with what the same study gave you last time before you move anything else.
Who tends to fit which tool
Fiuto fits teams with their own audience
You already have users, customers, or a community to test with and want AI to draft the study from the start.
Fiuto fits coding-agent workflows
You're prototyping inside a coding agent already and want the study drafted there too, not in a separate tab.
Lyssna fits teams that want one platform for everything
You want usability testing, surveys, interviews, and recruitment together, without adding more tools.
Lyssna fits teams that need a recruited panel
You have no existing audience to test with and want pay-per-use access to one, with fine-grained filters.
Frequently asked questions
01Is Lyssna free to use?
Lyssna has a free plan: 3 seats, unlimited quick studies, and 15 self-recruited responses a month. Its paid Growth plan is $165 a month for 5 seats and 5 in-depth studies a month. Fiuto's free plan is £0 a month for 1 live study, 10 responses per study, and 300 AI credits a month. Lyssna's Growth plan works out to about $33 a seat before adding more people or in-depth studies; Fiuto's £19 and £49 plans are flat per account, not per seat.
02Can I build a Fiuto study from a coding agent instead of a web form?
Yes. Ask Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Lovable, v0, Replit, or Bolt to draft and launch the study over Fiuto's MCP server, without leaving your editor, or use the plain web app either way. All seven were verified against the live server on 27 July 2026, and you can check any of them yourself by pointing it at mcp.fiuto.ai. Lyssna has no published coding-agent or MCP integration, checked 27 July 2026.
03Does Lyssna include a recruited respondent panel?
Yes. Lyssna offers pay-per-use access to a panel of over 690,000 people with more than 395 demographic filters, alongside unlimited self-recruited responses on every plan. Fiuto only supports bringing your own respondents: no recruited panel, no per-seat pricing, no per-respondent fee. Invite as many of your own users as you like; how many responses each study collects still follows your plan (10 on Free, 100 on Core, unlimited on Pro).
04Does Lyssna use AI to help build studies, or only to read the results?
Lyssna's AI features start on its Growth plan: AI follow-up questions during a study and AI summaries of the responses afterwards. Fiuto's AI is available from the free plan and drafts the whole study from a plain brief, then helps turn the responses into a shareable deck.
05Is Fiuto's AI only available on paid plans?
No. Every Fiuto tier, including Free, gets the full AI surface: drafting the study, analysing responses into findings, and building the insights deck. Free runs the same Anthropic Claude models Fiuto uses on Pro; which model handles a task depends on the task itself, not on your subscription tier. Report depth then scales by tier, with Core and Pro returning more findings per study, and the cross-study overview opening up from Core. The first single-study analysis costs nothing in credits, once per account. Lyssna's AI features, by contrast, start on the paid Growth plan.
06Which testing methods does Lyssna support?
Card sorting, first-click testing, five-second testing, live website testing, preference testing, prototype testing, screen recordings, screeners, surveys, tree testing, and user interviews.
07Is Fiuto's study data stored in the EU?
Yes. Study data, recordings, and analytics run on EU-hosted infrastructure.
08Can I share Fiuto results with people outside my team?
Yes, with no headcount limit. Publish a study, its results, its insights, or its deck behind a view-only link for as many people as you want. Inviting someone in to edit the study itself is the one thing that needs a paid plan.
