Faster open-end coding for agencies and data processing teams
When open-ends are a line item on every job, coding time is margin. SurveyCat does the first pass in minutes, your coders review and sign off, and the file goes back to tabs in the same format it arrived in.
No credit card · No subscription required · monthly plans from $100 · CSV, Excel, SPSS & Stata
The open-ended part is always the slow part
Coding eats the margin
Open-ends are quoted at a fixed price, but the hours to code them aren't fixed.
Trackers drift
Codeframes change between coders and waves, and wave-on-wave comparisons suffer.
Clients ask how it was coded
"We used AI" isn't an answer. You need a codeframe someone approved and a QA trail.
Upload, approve the categories, download
Pick the open-ended columns, let the AI suggest categories, edit them until they're right, then every response is coded. You get percentages, the option to check and recode, and your file back with a 0/1 column per category.
- Open-ends on every wave of a multi-wave tracker
- "Other (please specify)" back-coding
- Codeframes supplied by the client in a spreadsheet
- Ad-hoc studies with several open-ended questions
- SPSS deliverables that go straight into tab software
The features that matter to you
The client's codeframe, or an AI draft
Paste in the codeframe you were given, or let the AI draft one from the data. Nothing is coded until a researcher approves it.
A codebook per client and tracker
Saved, versioned codebooks keep code names and definitions identical wave after wave, so last wave's syntax runs on this wave's file.
Included with Research ProQA on every run
Low-confidence answers are flagged. Recode individually or in bulk, then download a review log with the share of answers kept as coded.
The data file comes back untouched
SPSS, Stata, Excel or CSV returns in the same format with variable labels, value labels and missing codes intact, plus stable 0/1 code variables.
Crosstabs on the results page
Break every code down by any banner in the file, on a base of people who answered, and export to Excel for a quick client preview.
Included with Research Monthly and Research ProOne login for the team
Research Pro is one account your whole coding team can share. No per-seat pricing.
What most people like you choose
Research Pro is built for agency volume: the most monthly credits at the lowest per-response rate, with codebooks and crosstabs included. Coding more than that every month? Email support@surveycat.ai about volume pricing.
Research Pro
$500/month
30,000 monthly credits (≈1.67¢ per coded response), with AI category suggestions included.
- Crosstabs: break down categories by any column (region, age, NPS group…)
- Saved codebooks: reuse your categories on the next survey
Research Monthly
$200/month
10,000 monthly credits (2¢ per coded response), with AI category suggestions included.
- Crosstabs: break down categories by any column (region, age, NPS group…)
Everyone starts with 80 free credits. 1 credit = one classified response to one question. See all pricing →
Common questions
Can several coders work in it?
Research Pro is one login a team shares, by design, so there are no seats to buy. Everyone works from the same codebooks.
Will variable names stay the same across waves?
Yes. Code variables are named from the question and the code, so reusing the same codebook gives the same names, and last wave's syntax keeps working.
Can we use it for client work?
Uploads are deleted within 30 minutes and results within an hour, responses are never stored in our database, and they're never used to train AI. If a client needs a data processing agreement, email support@surveycat.ai.
How does it compare with Survey Coder Pro?
We've written a side-by-side comparison of workflow, formats and pricing. See "SurveyCat vs. Survey Coder Pro" in the reading list below.
More in the full FAQ.
Further reading
Try it on your own survey
Upload a file, approve the categories, and see your results in minutes. Your first 80 credits are free.
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