UserTesting Alternative:
A Smarter Way to Run UX Research

Unlike UserTesting’s anonymous third-party panelists, Alida connects you directly with your own engaged community of real users. This means every piece of feedback comes from people who know, use, and care about your product – minimizing fraud and delivering actionable insights you can trust.

With built-in participant profiling, segmentation, and engagement tools, you can target the right users for every study and maintain long-term relationships to track changes over time.

Our platform also includes automated quality checks, participant verification, and AI-powered feedback enhancement to ensure authentic, in-depth responses. 

Yes – and this is where Alida stands apart from UserTesting. With UserTesting, most research is run as one-off studies with anonymous participants, meaning you start from scratch every time.

Alida gives you a branded, opt-in community you own and manage – so you can re-engage the same participants across multiple studies. This continuity lets you track changes over time, validate decisions at every stage, and build deeper relationships that drive higher engagement, faster responses, and richer insight.

Aldia covers the full range of UX research in one platform – usability testing, surveys, video interviews, focus groups, in-the-moment digital intercepts, and more.

Unlike UserTesting, which focuses primarily on one-off usability sessions, Alida gives you an always-on, fully integrated research hub – so you can move seamlessly from quick validation to longitudinal studies without stitching together multiple tools.

With Alida, you can go from idea to actionable insight in as little as 24-48 hours. Because you already have a branded, engaged community of your own customers, there’s no need to spend days recruiting or vetting participants – you simply target the right members, launch your study, and start collecting feedback immediately.

In contrast, UserTesting requires sourcing participants for each project, which can add time and introduce delays.

Yes. Alida integrates seamlessly with leading design, product, and collaboration tools – including Figma, Slack, Jira, and more – so you can embed research into the workflows your team already uses. Share insights instantly, keep projects moving, and ensure feedback turns into action without extra steps.

UserTesting charges per complete, so costs increase with every study. Aldia offers an unlimited research model with fixed, subscription-based pricing – giving you predictable costs, flexibility to run as many studies as you need, and significant savings at scale.

Alida makes switching simple. You’ll have a dedicated customer success manager and onboarding team to help set up your branded community, migrate research assets, and design your first studies – ensuring you’re fully supported from the start.

Yes. While many organizations choose Alida as their all-in-one research platform, it can also be used alongside tools like UserTesting. You can build a branded, verified panel of your own users in Alida and then direct them to a UserTesting study via an external link. This ensures you’re gathering feedback from real, verified users – not anonymous panelists – while still leveraging any UserTesting workflows you want to maintain.

That said, many teams find that Alida’s integrated capabilities – spanning quant, qual, video, and more – reduce the need to maintain multiple tools, streamlining workflows and lowering costs.