OnePulse alternative: what changes, and what you should not expect
OnePulse surveys real people through its own mobile panel. Audience Seems simulates focus groups with synthetic audiences from Spain, Mexico and Chile. They are not the same product, and anyone who tells you otherwise will disappoint you in the first meeting. This page compares price, lead time and reach using what both companies publish — theirs checked on 14 September 2026 — and says which job each one is for.
What each one does
OnePulse is a survey platform on top of its own panel: you publish a short "Pulse" and real people answer it from a mobile app, with results in minutes or hours. Their site reports 9.8 million responses a month across 50+ countries, and 500 responses in around 10 minutes.
Audience Seems has no human panel. It seats six synthetic archetypes — or the ones you build yourself — in a room, injects the economic and social context of the chosen market, and has them react live to your stimulus: a claim, a concept, a price, a logo or a visual. A session takes two minutes and returns a transcript and an executive report.
The practical consequence: they give you a number you can project with the right sample; we give you a conversation that produces hypotheses and vocabulary. Different phases of the same project.
Price, with their figures and ours
Their published pricing on 14 September 2026: a pay-as-you-go Standard plan with a stated average cost of $1.30 per response, 2 demographic filters, up to 3 questions and limited AI analysis; a Professional plan at $10,400 billed annually with $1.04 average per response, up to 10,000 responses, 70+ filters and up to 6 questions; and an Enterprise plan on a flat fee.
Ours: a free Demo with one question every 48 hours and no sign-up; Focus Sprint at €7.99 one-off for 10 questions to the panel of six — 60 responses, 30 days to spend them; Studio Pro at €59.99 a month with 100 questions and two parallel rooms. Tax included.
The euro comparison is striking and it is also misleading if read as "the same thing, cheaper". What is expensive in their model is exactly what their model has and ours does not: real people to ask.
Where they are better
Anywhere the answer has to come from a person. If you need a number you can defend in a board meeting, quotas by age and region, the true incidence of a behaviour, or readings across 50 markets, a human panel has no synthetic substitute and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Also on geography: their panel spans dozens of countries. We cover three markets — Spain, Mexico and Chile — with local depth instead of broad coverage.
Where we fit better
In the phase before, and in the iteration after: the two nobody covers.
- Exploring with no approved budget: first question free, no sign-up, no card.
- Longer guides: 10 questions per session against 3 on their entry plan and 6 on the annual one.
- Following up on one specific answer and asking the rest of the room to react to it.
- Depth in Spanish-speaking markets: currency, reference prices, retail, media and current affairs injected per session.
- An agency deliverable: executive report with drivers, barriers and recommendations, exported to PDF, PowerPoint and CSV.
- Iterating after the expensive study, without reopening the fieldwork budget.
How to choose, in one sentence
If your question starts with "how many" or "what share", buy panel — theirs or someone else's. If it starts with "how does this read", "what do they compare it to" or "what am I leaving out of the questionnaire", simulation answers that in minutes at two orders of magnitude less.
And there is a third option, the one the best agencies use: both, in that order. Discard cheaply, measure expensively only what survives.
About this comparison
We have no commercial relationship with OnePulse. Their figures here come from their own public website and were checked on 14 September 2026; platform pricing changes, so verify before deciding.
If anything here is out of date or unfairly represented, write to us and we will correct it. A comparison that overstates only works until the first demo.
OnePulse and Audience Seems, by each company's published information
| OnePulse | Audience Seems | |
|---|---|---|
| Who answers | Real people from their panel | AI-generated synthetic archetypes |
| Projectable to a population | Yes, with the right sample | No |
| First answer | Minutes to hours | Under 2 minutes |
| Getting started | Registration required | 1 question, no sign-up, no card |
| Paid entry point | $1.30 per response (Standard) | €7.99 for 60 responses |
| Plan with full targeting | $10,400 a year | €59.99 a month |
| Questions per study | 3 on Standard, 6 on Professional | 10 on Sprint and Studio Pro |
| Markets | 50+ countries | Spain, Mexico and Chile, with local context |
| Live follow-up questions | No | Yes |
What it costs to settle the question
Move the two variables and compare what the same question costs down the three usual routes.
- Online panel surveyReal people. Projectable when the sample is designed for it.€600 – €1,600€1.50–€4.00 per response · market estimate
- Qualitative with peopleTwo or three recruited groups, moderation and report.€3,000 – €9,000market estimate
- Synthetic room · Focus SprintSix archetypes from the chosen market. Hypotheses and vocabulary, not figures.€7.99€0.13 per response · published price
Panel and qualitative figures are indicative market ranges for Spain, excluding design and analysis. The synthetic figure comes from our published price.
Frequently asked questions
Per response in euros, by a wide margin — and that comparison misleads, because their responses come from real people and ours from synthetic archetypes. The honest version: we solve the exploratory phase for a fraction of the cost, and measuring with people still costs what it costs.
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Last reviewed: 2026-09-14. Participants are AI-generated synthetic archetypes, not real people.