Sprig Pricing 2026 and What Sprig Costs Per Year Now That the Free Plan and Starter Tier Are Gone
Sprig removed its free plan and its $175 Starter tier and now quotes every customer on response volume, capabilities and deployment environments. What buyers actually sign, how the price moved since 2024, and where to negotiate.
By the UserInsight team
October 2026 · 7 min read
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Sprig pricing is quote-only in 2026. Read from Sprig's US pricing page on 13 October 2026, there is one enterprise platform, a demo button, no free plan, no starter tier and no published price. Sprig quotes on three things: total response volume across your studies, which research capabilities you switch on, and which deployment environments you use. The best independent number is Vendr's: a median Sprig contract of $21,557 a year, across a range from $7,015 to $120,500.
How much does Sprig cost?
Expect a five-figure annual contract. Sprig no longer prints a price, so the realistic budget comes from purchase data. Vendr, a procurement company that publishes aggregate figures from deals it has seen, reports a median of $21,557 a year based on 52 purchases, with buyers saving 30 percent on average against the first quote. The low end of its range is $7,015 and the high end is $120,500.
| What you need to budget | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Published list price | None | sprig.com/pricing, read 13 October 2026 from a US connection |
| Free plan | None on the current page | sprig.com/pricing |
| Median contract | $21,557 a year | Vendr, 52 purchases |
| Contract range | $7,015 to $120,500 a year | Vendr |
| Average saving against first quote | 30 percent | Vendr |
| Last published entry price | $175 a month billed annually (Starter, 2024) | Archived copy of sprig.com/pricing, September 2024 |
Vendr's figures are third-party data about what buyers signed, not prices Sprig publishes. They are still the most useful number you can put in a budget request, because the median reflects real contracts and the range shows how far scope moves the bill.
What does Sprig base its price on?
Sprig's page lists three pricing drivers. The first is total response volume across all studies, so a team running a monthly experience survey to every active user pays for every answer it collects. The second is which research capabilities you activate. Sprig sells five: experience measurement, strategic and foundational discovery, journey and behavioral research, market and consumer insights, and concept and prototype testing. The third is deployment environment: link surveys, email, web apps and websites, and iOS and Android apps.
Enterprise onboarding and support are included rather than sold as an add-on, according to the page. Everything else is in the quote. The practical consequence is that two teams of the same size can get very different prices. A product team surveying inside one web app on one capability is a small deal. A research organization using panels, email, mobile and all five capabilities is the top of Vendr's range.
Does Sprig have a free plan?
Not anymore. Sprig's current pricing page shows no free tier, no self-serve signup and no starter plan, only "Book a demo". That is a recent change, and many guides ranking for Sprig pricing still describe a free plan and a Starter tier, so it is worth knowing the timeline.
- September 2024. An archived copy of the pricing page shows a Free plan at $0 with 1 in-product study a month and 5,000 monthly tracked users, a Starter plan at $175 a month billed annually with 2 studies and 25,000 tracked users, a 14-day free trial, mobile app delivery at $200 a month extra, and custom Enterprise pricing. Seats were unlimited on every plan.
- September 2025 to March 2026. The page became "Bundles & Pricing" with three bundles, Research Core, Digital Experience and Digital Behavior, no prices printed, and an FAQ confirming a limited free plan.
- By May 2026. The page shows today's single enterprise platform with a demo button and the three quote drivers above.
So a $175 Starter figure in a budget spreadsheet is two pricing models out of date. The unit changed too: in 2024 Sprig metered monthly tracked users, and today it quotes on response volume.
Why do Sprig pricing guides disagree?
Because each one describes a different version of the page. Vendr's own Sprig page carries both a current transaction median and an older written summary that still describes a $175 Starter plan for 500 monthly active users, a Plus tier at $500 to $1,200 a month and Enterprise above $2,000 a month. Other guides describe the free plan from 2024 or the 2025 bundles. None of those tiers appears on Sprig's page today.
The fix is simple. Use the Vendr median and range for budgeting, ignore any named Sprig tier with a fixed monthly price, and ask Sprig to quote at your real response volume.
Is Sprig worth it for a product team?
It is worth it when research is a program rather than a project. Sprig now sells itself as survey infrastructure for organizations running studies across several teams and products, with AI agents that design studies, field them, run statistical analysis and synthesize a report, plus a panel it describes as more than 300,000 verified participants. Its page lists SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA and the Data Privacy Framework. If you have a research team, several product lines and a mandate to measure experience continuously, a contract near the $21,557 median buys a lot of capability.
It is harder to justify for a single product team that wants a few in-app surveys a month. Sprig's current navigation lists surveys, agents, email, panels and web and mobile deployment; session replays and heatmaps, which the 2024 and 2025 pages sold, no longer appear. A small team can run targeted in-app surveys with published self-serve pricing elsewhere, and we compare three of those tools on cost per response in Survicate vs Sprig vs Qualaroo pricing.
What are the cheaper alternatives to Sprig?
For in-app surveys alone, Survicate and Qualaroo both publish prices. Survicate's Growth plan runs from $56 to $289 a month billed annually, and the full ladder with cost per response is in our Survicate pricing breakdown. Qualaroo Business was $599.88 a year when we read it in September 2026.
For user testing and recruited participants, the comparison is UserTesting and Maze, which bill on a different axis entirely; see Maze vs UserTesting.
For the analysis side, which is what Sprig's Analyze and Synthesize agents do, the question is whether you need a survey tool at all. Most product teams already have the answers somewhere: support tickets, cancellation comments, app store reviews and the open-text field of whatever survey tool they already pay for. UserInsight reads those together, groups them into themes with the number of customers behind each one, and ties each theme to product usage and churn. It publishes its prices, from $119.50 a month billed annually, and you can paste your own feedback into the tool above to see a report before you create an account. The full feature view is on our user research platform page.
How do I negotiate a Sprig contract?
Go in with three numbers: your expected yearly response volume, the capabilities you will actually use in the first year, and the deployment environments you need on day one. Each is a pricing driver, so trimming any of them trims the quote. Ask for a price at your volume and at double it, which shows how the price scales before you are locked in.
Use the Vendr data as your anchor. Buyers report 30 percent off the first quote on average, so a first number well above $21,557 for a single product team has room to move. Ask for any annual increase to be capped in writing, and ask whether unused responses roll over, because Sprig's page does not say.
Finally, plan how the findings will reach the people who fund the next study. Sprig's Synthesize agent turns results into a research report, and most leadership teams still want it as a deck; tools that turn a written report into presentation slides save the analyst an afternoon at every readout.
The short version
Sprig publishes no price in 2026 and has no free plan. Budget around Vendr's $21,557 median, expect a range from about $7,000 to well over $100,000 depending on response volume, capabilities and environments, and treat any $175 Starter figure as history. If you need targeted in-app surveys or feedback analysis rather than an organization-wide research program, compare it with tools that publish their prices before you book the demo.
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