Which paid research sites accept you: 10 platforms checked for 17 countries in Europe, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

How we checked

We opened each platform’s own participant help centre on 3 October 2026 and copied its country list as published. We did not use review sites or forum posts: country rules change, and a two-year-old Reddit thread is the most common reason people sign up for a platform that then never sends them a study.

A country on a list means the platform says it recruits or pays people who live there. It does not mean you will get many invitations. Askable says plainly that recruitment feasibility and speed vary by country, and Respondent says its sign-up page is only in English, so responses skew towards English speakers in each country.

Eligibility depends on where you live, not on your passport. Prolific states this directly: a citizen of an unsupported country who lives in a supported one can join.

The table: 17 countries, 7 platforms

"Yes" means the country is on the platform’s official list. Respondent publishes two lists: a short list of primary markets, where it focuses its recruiting, and a full list of countries researchers can recruit in. "Primary" means the first, "listed" the second. For UserTesting, an asterisk means it recruits worldwide among people fluent in English, French or German, and asks you to check with it whether your country is supported. For TestingTime, "core" means one of the six countries it calls its main markets.

Prolific: the widest list in Europe

Prolific says it is open to participants in most OECD countries and publishes a list of 52. Every country in our table is on it, and so are Denmark, Finland, Norway, Greece, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, the Baltic states, Luxembourg, Malta, Cyprus, Iceland, Bulgaria and Romania.

You must be over 18 and verify your account. If your country is not listed, you can join a waitlist; Prolific says it sometimes invites people from unsupported countries and then asks for a passport or other photo ID.

Why Prolific is usually the first sign-up in Europe: it is the only platform here with a published minimum rate, £6 or $8 an hour, and its studies are short online surveys and experiments that rarely need a camera.

User Interviews and Askable: almost the same European map

User Interviews supports 34 countries, grouped as the Americas, Asia-Pacific and EMEA. In Europe that means Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. If your country is missing, you can still sign up and be told when recruiting opens there.

Askable recruits in 42 countries. Its European list matches ours except for Finland, which is not on it, and it adds Hungary and Slovakia. Askable works in English only, but researchers may write the screener and study description in your local language, and incentives are paid in your local currency where possible.

Both platforms run interviews, unmoderated tests and surveys, so they are the natural second and third sign-up after Prolific.

Respondent: well paid, but focused on English-speaking markets

Respondent says it specialises in remote qualitative interviews in countries with many English speakers. Its help centre names primary markets including the US, the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands, along with markets outside Europe such as India, Brazil and South Africa.

If you live elsewhere in Europe, you are not shut out. The same help page also gives a full list of countries researchers can recruit in, and Poland, Czechia, Sweden, Portugal, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland are all on it. Outside the primary markets, a researcher either sets the study to worldwide or adds a screener question for the country they need. In practice that means fewer studies for, say, Poland or Sweden, and more screener rejections.

Respondent pays the most per study in our data. In our catalogue 3 October, of 2,279 Respondent studies collected since 10 August 2026, the median paid $35 and one in five paid $100 or more.

TestingTime, UserTesting, dscout: language and market matter more than the list

TestingTime names six core markets: Switzerland, Germany, France, Austria, the UK and the Netherlands. You can register elsewhere, but most invitations go to those six. Its site is available in English, German, French, Dutch and Swedish.

UserTesting does not publish a country list. It recruits contributors worldwide among people who speak fluent English, French or German and pass an unpaid practice test, and suggests checking with its support whether your specific country is supported. For many people in Southern and Eastern Europe it is still one of the easiest platforms to get into.

Dscout lets you create an account at 16 or older in Europe (13 in the US), with a parent’s permission under 18. It describes its Scouts as based in the US, the UK and across the globe, but its help centre says the quick single-session studies are not shown to people outside the US and the UK.

uTest: live projects by country, 3 October 2026

uTest accepts testers worldwide, so its country list does not tell you much. What does tell you something is how many paid projects are open to your country right now. We count them in our catalogue every hour. The table shows projects open to residents of each country on 3 October 2026, 09:30 UTC: country-specific projects plus 9 open worldwide. In total 139 uTest projects were live.

The pattern is clear: uTest work concentrates in the US (62 open projects that day) and the UK, then Canada, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Australia. Smaller European countries mostly see only the worldwide projects.

Clickworker and Userlytics: open widely, with conditions

Clickworker says people can work from many countries, but it temporarily switches off registration in countries where it already has enough workers or little client demand. If your country is missing from the sign-up form, it suggests trying again later. Check the payment methods for your country before you start: Clickworker’s payment page lists PayPal, Payoneer, SEPA for EU countries, ACH for the US and direct bank transfers for a few non-EU countries, and says not every method is available to every Clickworker.

Userlytics says that if PayPal works in your country, you should have no trouble taking part, because PayPal is its only payout method.

A starter set for each region

Do not register everywhere at once. Each platform asks for a profile and screeners, and a well-filled profile is what gets you selected. These combinations follow directly from the lists above.

• UK, Ireland: Prolific, User Interviews, Respondent; add TestingTime in the UK
• Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland: Prolific, TestingTime, User Interviews; Respondent in Germany, France and the Netherlands
• Spain, Italy: Prolific, User Interviews, Respondent, UserTesting if your English is fluent
• Poland, Czechia, Sweden, Portugal, Belgium: Prolific, User Interviews, Askable, UserTesting
• Canada, Australia, New Zealand: Prolific, User Interviews, Respondent, Askable

What to check before you sign up

Country lists answer only the first question. Before you create an account, also check three things in the platform’s help centre.

• the payout method works where you live: most platforms here pay through PayPal; TestingTime also pays to a bank account, Clickworker to SEPA and Payoneer
• the language of studies: Askable works in English and Respondent’s sign-up page is English only; UserTesting needs fluent English, French or German
• your real location: platforms ban accounts that mask location, and Prolific asks for ID if it invites you from an unsupported country