--- title: "AI Panel Pricing: FAQ | Minds" canonical_url: "https://getminds.ai/faq/ai-panel-pricing-faq" last_updated: "2026-07-05T19:10:08.693Z" meta: description: "How much does an AI panel cost? Answers on Minds pricing tiers, hidden costs of traditional research, and how to size a research budget with AI panels." "og:description": "How much does an AI panel cost? Answers on Minds pricing tiers, hidden costs of traditional research, and how to size a research budget with AI panels." "og:title": "AI Panel Pricing: FAQ | Minds" "twitter:description": "How much does an AI panel cost? Answers on Minds pricing tiers, hidden costs of traditional research, and how to size a research budget with AI panels." "twitter:title": "AI Panel Pricing: FAQ | Minds" --- Minds May 16, 2026·Faq·Alexander Doudkin, CEO & Co-Founder # **AI Panel Pricing: FAQ** How much does an AI panel cost? Answers on Minds pricing tiers, hidden costs of traditional research, and how to size a research budget with AI panels. Quick answers to the questions teams ask most about ai panel pricing. For deeper walk-throughs, the [Guide](https://getminds.ai/guide/overview) and [Blog](https://getminds.ai/blog) cover individual topics in depth. Budget conversations about research tooling usually start in the wrong place: with the sticker price. The more useful starting point is what a team currently spends to answer a single audience question. Recruiting, incentives, fielding, moderation, and analysis stack up quickly in traditional research, and a single focus group or fielded survey can consume a meaningful share of a quarterly insights budget. Subscription-based synthetic panels change that arithmetic, because the marginal cost of one more question, one more segment, or one more rerun is zero. Minds prices on published subscription tiers rather than per-project quotes. Individuals can start free, self-serve plans cover regular users and small teams, and enterprise agreements add the controls larger organizations expect, including single sign-on, data processing agreements, service levels, and dedicated onboarding. Because the tiers are public, procurement does not begin with a discovery call, and there are no per-query or per-panel meters running in the background. The absence of metering matters more than it first appears. Research behavior changes when every additional question has a price tag: teams batch questions into big, slow studies, and small but urgent questions simply go unanswered. With a flat subscription, iteration becomes the default. You can test a concept, rewrite it, and test again the same afternoon without touching the budget. A sensible way to size the decision is to list the research activities from the last year, mark the ones that were directional rather than statutory, and price what they cost in vendor fees and elapsed weeks. Directional work (message tests, concept screens, persona exploration, objection mapping) is exactly what a synthetic panel replaces. Statutory work, such as regulatory studies or claims that need representative human samples, stays with traditional methods, and the combined stack still comes out far cheaper than routing everything through fieldwork. Commercially, the platform behaves like standard modern software. Self-serve plans are monthly and can move up or down as needs change, the trial requires no card, and enterprise contracts run annually with invoicing. That flexibility is deliberate: research demand is spiky, and a pricing model that punishes experimentation defeats the purpose of fast research. One caution keeps budgets honest: the subscription replaces tool spend, not judgment. Teams still decide which questions matter, and the highest-stakes claims still deserve real-respondent validation. Budget for that final validation layer explicitly, and let the panel absorb everything before it, which is where most of the volume and most of the waiting used to live. ## **Frequently asked questions** ### **How much does a Minds subscription cost?** Minds offers published pricing tiers. Free costs 0 EUR per month for individuals. Teams costs 79 EUR per month per seat. Premium costs 29 EUR per month for power users. Enterprise custom pricing. ### **How does AI panel pricing compare to traditional research?** A single traditional focus group costs 5,000 to 15,000 EUR including recruitment, facility, moderation, and analysis. A Minds subscription lets you run unlimited panel sessions for a fraction of that cost. ### **Is there a free tier?** Yes. Minds offers a free trial that lets you create Minds, run conversations, and experience the platform before committing to a paid plan. No credit card required. ### **What is included in the Enterprise plan?** Enterprise plans include panel sessions with 15 to 100 Minds per panel, priority support, custom Mind configurations, SSO, DPA, SLA, and dedicated onboarding. ### **Are there hidden costs?** No. Minds pricing is published and inclusive. There are no per-query fees, no per-panel charges, and no professional services requirements. ### **How do I budget for AI panel research?** Start by calculating what you currently spend on research that AI panels could replace. Most teams find that a Minds Teams or Premium subscription replaces 50,000 to 200,000 EUR in annual research spend. ### **Can I upgrade or downgrade at any time?** Yes. Minds subscriptions are monthly with no long-term commitment. Enterprise plans are annual but can be adjusted at renewal. ### **What payment methods does Minds accept?** Minds accepts major credit cards for self-serve plans. Enterprise plans can be invoiced with NET 30 payment terms.