From the right people to the right decision.
Both DLYTE and Respondent help businesses conduct research. The difference is what the platform is designed to help you achieve.
DLYTE guides you from the business question to the right test, the right Australian participants and a clear decision on what to do next.
Recruitment, testing and analysis work together — so you get direction, not just more research data.
DLYTE's current public panel describes 20K+ Australian testers and dedicated consumer, professional, accessibility and specialist audiences.
The comparison
DLYTE vs Respondent
Last reviewed 25 September 2026 · Based on publicly available Respondent information. Features and pricing may change.
| Capability |  DLYTE |  Respondent |
|---|---|---|
| Core approach | Start with what you need to learn. DLYTE guides the research approach, conducts the testing and helps identify what to improve next. | Describe what you want to learn and configure research using its panel and research tools, including AI-assisted project creation.[1] |
| Australian participants | 20K+ Australian tester network + growing fast | Approx. 59K Australian participants[2] |
| Global reach | Australia-first | 4.3M+ participants across 150+ countries[3] |
| Consumer audiences | ✓ | ✓ |
| Professional audiences | ✓ Professional & B2B recruitment with structured work profiles | ✓ |
| Professional trust & verification | ✓ Optional work-email verification on organisational domains, with periodic reverification and researcher-visible verification status. | Not assessed for this comparison |
| Professional audience relationship | ✓ Recruit people who work in an industry, are interested in it, or qualify through either route. Avoid treating professional experience and category interest as the same thing. | Not assessed for this comparison |
| B2B decision context | ✓ Target by relevant experience and purchasing involvement, including approvers, selection-group members and influencers. Find people closer to the decisions your research is actually about. | Not assessed for this comparison |
| Accessibility audiences | ✓ Functional access and assistive-technology matching | ✓ 415K participants self-reporting disability; 120K using assistive technology[2] |
| Specialists & experts | ✓ Specialist and targeted expert recruitment | ✓ 450K subject-matter experts[2] |
| Advanced targeting & matching | ✓ Persistent profiles across demographic, professional, behavioural, device and accessibility criteria — including industry, role, job function, organisation size, relevant experience and purchasing involvement. Match people on the context that matters to the research, not only demographics or job titles. | ✓ 50+ demographic, professional and behavioural attributes, screening and matching[2] |
| Study qualification | ✓ Profile eligibility + study-specific screeners | ✓ Targeting + screener qualification |
| Participant risk controls | Account, phone, profile, device, payout-recipient and connected-account signals, with review pathways | Identity verification and fraud controls; Respondent reports an audited fraud rate below 1%[2] |
| Research scheduling | ✓ Integrated availability, booking, status, reminders, rescheduling and attendance workflow | ✓ Automated scheduling, calendar integration, booking rules and moderator assignment[4] |
| Participant messaging | ✓ Conversations remain connected to the study | ✓ Participant management and communication workflows |
| Session readiness | ✓ Camera, microphone and connection readiness before moderated sessions | Scheduling and meeting preparation integrated into the research workflow |
| Moderated research | ✓ Interviews, scheduling, recordings and transcripts | ✓ Human-moderated interviews |
| Unmoderated research | ✓ Structured website, concept and behavioural testing | ✓ Unmoderated research and usability testing[5] |
| Behavioural flow analysis | ✓ Journey funnels, direct and indirect paths, detours, backtracking, recovery, dead ends and participant-level paths | Supports usability and unmoderated testing, including observing clicks, hesitation and participant behaviour[5] |
| Research guidance | ✓ Tell DLYTE what you want to learn and DLYTE maps the question to an appropriate test and research method | ✓ AI can turn a plain-language research goal into a project, targeting and screener[1] |
| Research interpretation | Structured findings, primary gaps, behavioural signals and evidence-linked recommendations | AI synthesis of themes, sentiment, evidence, quotes and recommendations[6] |
| What to improve next | ✓ Improvement recommendations + recommended follow-up validation based on the detected research gap | AI-generated research reports can include a recommended next move[6] |
| Built for non-researchers | ✓ Core product principle — start with the business question, not research jargon | AI-assisted project creation reduces research setup complexity |
| Built for researchers | ✓ Full research workflows remain available to experienced practitioners | ✓ Strong research-team and research-operations focus |
| Pricing approach | Pay for the research you need. No subscription lock-in. | PAYG, credit bundles and higher-volume options; PAYG charges on completed sessions plus participant incentives[7] |
More confidence in Professional recruitment
See the context behind the match. Professional profiles can include industry, role, organisation size, relevant experience and purchasing involvement. Where provided, researchers can also see current work-email verification status and LinkedIn profile information before recruiting.
Work-email verification is periodically renewed so the trust signal stays current. It confirms control of an eligible organisational email address, not employment or job title.
DLYTE's product architecture is built around Problem → Question → Test → Decision, translating business uncertainty into structured research rather than requiring a business to know the method first.
Research expertise shouldn't be a prerequisite.
Research professionals can use DLYTE's targeting, screeners, scheduling, moderated and unmoderated testing, transcripts and behavioural results directly.
But DLYTE is also designed for businesses that simply know what they need to learn.
You tell DLYTE:
- “Why aren't people completing checkout?”
- “Do customers understand our pricing?”
- “Does our offer make sense?”
- “Is this idea worth pursuing?”
DLYTE helps determine:
What to test → who to test it with → what happened → what deserves improvement next.
The method recommendation system is designed to take a business goal and map it to the appropriate test type and research methods.
What you can expect from DLYTE
20K+
Australian participant network
Recruit consumers, professionals, accessibility participants and specialists from one audience model.
Advanced matching
Match by more than demographics
Use consumer behaviour, professional context, accessibility needs, relevant experience and study-specific criteria to find people who genuinely fit.
Research-ready
Fit + practical readiness
Scheduling, messaging, camera, microphone and connection checks are connected to the research workflow.
Decision-ready
Not just research output
Findings, behavioural patterns, recommendations and what to validate next.
Both platforms can help you run research.
The difference is what DLYTE is designed to optimise for.
Respondent’s primary advantage is scale. It operates a substantially larger international participant network across many markets. [3]
DLYTE competes differently: Australia-first, guided and decision-led.
Both platforms support advanced targeting, scheduling, research setup, moderated and unmoderated studies, and synthesis. DLYTE is designed to connect those capabilities into a structured path from business question → participant → study → evidence → decision.
DLYTE's Signal Engine is designed as a diagnostic reasoning layer: it evaluates participant evidence against intended outcomes, identifies gaps, generates improvement recommendations and can map those gaps to appropriate follow-up validation.
Frequently Asked Questions
From question to decision
Find the right people.
Know what to improve next.
Tell DLYTE what you're trying to understand.
We'll help guide the research, connect you with relevant Australian participants and turn what people say and do into clearer direction for the next decision.
No research expertise required.