Updated October 2026. Conveo is a video-first AI interview platform used by big consumer brands, and its $50M Series A in September 2026 has put it on a lot of shortlists. The main alternatives in 2026 are Yazi, Listen Labs, Outset, Voxpopme, Verso, QualSights, Strella, Glaut, Tellet and Discuss.

Most of them run AI interviews through a browser link, so the real differences are who you can reach, whether video is required, what else the platform runs, and what a study costs. This guide compares all ten on those points.

What Conveo Does Well

Conveo, founded in Antwerp in 2024, runs async AI video and voice interviews and reads the video as well as the words, with emotion and facial analysis on concept, pack, ad and claims tests. It also covers pricing questions such as Van Westendorp and Gabor-Granger, journaling and diaries, screen-share usability, and StoryLines, an always-on interview programme launched in July 2026. It runs in 48 languages.

It says it works with 400+ enterprises, including Unilever, AB InBev and JDE Peet's, and raised a $50M Series A in September 2026 with DST Global and Balderton. It lists SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

Why Teams Look for a Conveo Alternative

• Price. Conveo's G2 listing puts enterprise plans from $45,000 a year, prepaid. There's a pay-as-you-go option, but many teams want to try a study before committing.
• The setup participants need. Conveo interviews run in a browser on a computer by default, with a microphone required and the camera often on. That's a high bar for mobile-first audiences.
• Recruitment. Conveo has no panel of its own and relies on partners such as Respondent and Norstat, or your own list.
• Method. Teams that want text answers, surveys alongside interviews, or live sessions need a different mix.

Conveo Alternatives Compared

The table below shows how participants take part in each platform, whether it has its own panel, and what it is best for. All ten have some form of AI moderation or analysis, and most price on a custom quote, so we've focused on how each one works.

1. Yazi: AI Interviews, Diaries and Surveys Inside WhatsApp

Conveo and the other platforms in this list send participants to a web link or an app. Yazi runs the whole study inside WhatsApp, the app people already open dozens of times a day. There's no link to open, no camera to switch on and no account to create, and participants answer the way they'd reply to a friend: a quick text, a voice note on the way home, or a photo or video of what's in front of them.

AI moderation with a human in the loop: The AI moderator follows your discussion guide and follows up on every answer in the chat. A researcher can take over any conversation live and hand it back, and group discussions can be run by a human moderator or the AI.

More than one interview: Yazi runs AI interviews, surveys, multi-day diaries and WhatsApp group discussions from one platform, so a study can screen with a survey, go deep with an AI interview and then follow people for days or weeks, with reminders in the same thread.

Reporting: Answers are grouped into themes as they arrive, with an AI-written executive summary you can edit and export to PDF or PowerPoint, cross-tabs, transcripts that read like the original chat, and highlight reels cut from participants' own voice notes and videos.

Panel and reach: A 1.8M+ panel with reach in 25+ countries, or your own customer list. Yazi moderates natively in English, isiZulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Setswana, Sesotho, Swahili, French, Portuguese and others, with AI translation across 100+ languages. Studies hold a 90% completion rate.

Quality and compliance: Automated checks flag inconsistent answers and responses that look AI-generated. Yazi is POPIA, GDPR and CCPA compliant, with research data hosted on AWS in the UK and Ireland.

Where it fits less well: Participants need WhatsApp, and Yazi isn't built for screen-share prototype testing or live video focus groups. For those, the browser-based tools below are the better fit.

Best for: Diaries and studies that run over days; research with a client's own customers or a general population; studies that mix quant and qual; teams who want AI scale with a researcher able to step in; and mobile-first audiences in Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and anywhere WhatsApp is the default way people talk.

2. Listen Labs: Enterprise AI Interviews, Now Joining Salesforce

San Francisco-based Listen Labs, founded in 2023 by Alfred Wahlforss and Florian Juengermann, has grown faster than almost anyone in the category. It raised a $69M Series B led by Ribbit in January 2026, and on 29 September 2026 Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire it, in a deal reported at around $2 billion and expected to close between November 2026 and January 2027.

What it does: AI-moderated interviews by video, voice or text, screen-share usability on desktop and mobile, concept, prototype and creative tests, quant question types such as MaxDiff and Gabor-Granger, and Pulse, a conversational tracker launched in August 2026. Interviews and reports run in 120+ languages.

AI: A Research Agent and Study Composer for designing studies, a Research Library across projects, ready-to-share decks, an MCP connection and a Research Skill for Claude, and a new AI interviewer released in September 2026.

How participants take part: Through a browser link, with video by permission. Mobile screen-share studies use the Listen Labs iOS app. Recruit from its own panel, which Listen Labs puts at 50M+, or bring your own.

Worth knowing: Pricing is quote only. Compliance is strong: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 42001 and GDPR. Salesforce says it will offer the capabilities through its products, including Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud, and hasn't said what standalone access will look like, so it's worth asking before a long contract.

Best for: Enterprise and tech brands running high-volume, multilingual studies, especially teams already on Salesforce.

3. Outset: AI Interviews and Prototype Testing for Enterprise

San Francisco-based Outset was founded in 2022 by Aaron Cannon and Michael Hess and has raised $51M, including a $30M Series B led by Radical Ventures in December 2025 with Microsoft's M12 taking part. Customers include HubSpot, Microsoft, Nestlé, Coinbase and WeightWatchers.

What it does: AI-moderated interviews by video, voice or text, screen-share usability on Figma prototypes, live sites and apps, concept tests and rating questions with probing. In 2026 it added Visual Intelligence, the Outset Agent for Claude, ChatGPT, Figma and Notion (May), Co-Design (July), diary studies (August) and digital twins.

How participants take part: Asynchronously through a link, mostly by voice, with Outset recommending a desktop or laptop. Outset doesn't run its own panel; recruitment is built in through 25+ partner panels such as Prolific and User Interviews, or your own list.

Worth knowing: Pricing is a subscription on a custom quote. Outset is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 42001 certified. Independent reviews are scarce, with none on G2 at the time of writing.

Best for: Enterprise insights and UX teams who want AI interviews and prototype testing in one place, on a recruitment panel they already use.

4. Voxpopme: Video Answers at Scale, with an AI Interviewer

Voxpopme, founded in 2013 with bases in Park City, Utah and Birmingham, UK, is built around short video responses. You can run standalone video surveys or embed video questions in a quant survey, run AI-moderated voice and video interviews, and hold live one-to-one interviews (IDIs), with a repository and showreel builder on top.

What's new: AI Moderator launched in June 2025, with Smart Probing and stimulus testing added that September. In May 2026 Voxpopme launched Compass, an AI research agent that searches past studies, builds slides and showreels, and can launch new studies.

How participants take part: In the browser on any device. Recruitment comes from Voxpopme's On Demand Community, which recruits in 27 countries, or your own customers.

Worth knowing: It's built for single-session video feedback rather than multi-day diaries. Pricing is an annual subscription on a custom quote. Reviewers like the ease of use and support, but mention the work of handling large volumes of video and uneven video quality.

Best for: Enterprise and mid-market CPG, retail and consumer tech teams who want video feedback at scale and showreels for stakeholders.

5. Verso: Consumer Interviews and Living Personas

Paris-based Verso, founded by Lydia Bellahouel and Camille Epitalon, raised a $6M seed round led by Angular Ventures on 8 October 2026. It works with 30+ companies including Ferrero, Orange and Michelin.

What it does: AI-moderated video and voice interviews, stimulus tests, screen-share tasks and diaries. Instead of a static report per study, Verso builds consumer personas that update as new interviews come in, alongside a Research Agent and PowerPoint generation.

How participants take part: Through a browser link with no app or account, by audio or video. Recruitment runs through partners such as Respondent, Prolific and Rakuten, or your own customers.

Worth knowing: Verso is ISO 27001 certified (April 2026) and keeps data in the EU. It works in 25+ languages. Pricing is prepaid credits on a quote.

Best for: European consumer and FMCG teams who want fast video qual and a growing picture of their consumer.

6. QualSights: Remote Video Capture and In-Home Usage Tests

Chicago-based QualSights, led by founder and CEO Nihal Advani, raised a $7.7M Series A in 2022 and counts Clorox, Colgate, General Mills and PepsiCo among its customers. It specialises in remote video capture and in-home usage testing, and leans on AI transcription and theme tagging to work through hours of footage.

What it does: Diaries and ethnography, concept tests, in-home usage tests (live or async), in-store and online shop-alongs, screen recording, video surveys, and live IDIs and focus groups with backroom chat. Its patented Smart Coasters and Smart Tags log product use passively, and its XMOT Method triggers a video or audio prompt at the moment the product is used. UseSights, launched in September 2025, adds category usage benchmarks.

AI: Generative AI summaries and theme generation, transcription and translation, sentiment and emotion analysis, object and brand spotting in video, auto-clipping, a presentation builder, and VoiceSights, an AI-moderated voice interviewer.

How participants take part: Through the QualSights app on iOS and Android, with a camera for video tasks. Bring your own participants or have QualSights recruit them.

Worth knowing: Pricing is on a quote. Independent reviews are few, with 8 on G2 at the time of writing.

Best for: Large CPG, beauty and health brands running in-home usage tests who want video of real product use.

7. Strella: AI Interviews and Usability for Product Teams

New York-based Strella, founded by Lydia Hylton and Priya Krishnan, raised a $14M Series A led by Bessemer in October 2025, a year after launching. Customers include Amazon, Chobani and Duolingo.

What it does: AI-moderated interviews, usability and prototype tests, mobile app tests, card sorts (added July 2026) and, since October 2026, human-moderated studies. Analysis includes automatic response coding and an AI chat for building highlight reels, and Strella is available as a connector in Claude and ChatGPT.

How participants take part: Browser voice or video calls. Some studies need a desktop with a webcam and screen sharing. Strella says its panel reaches up to 8M participants, with incentives paid in the platform, or you can bring your own.

Worth knowing: Pricing is on a quote. G2 rates it 4.4 out of 5 from 22 reviews.

Best for: US product, UX and consumer teams who want AI interviews and usability tests with a built-in panel.

8. Glaut: Voice AI Interviews for Research Agencies

Glaut was founded in Milan in late 2023 and is built for experienced researchers rather than as a black box. It runs AI-moderated voice interviews and classic surveys on one platform, with coding, cross-tabs and reports, and agencies including Ipsos appear among its customers.

What it does: Voice AI interviews (participants can type instead), surveys, real-time coding of open ends and reports with PowerPoint export. Recent releases include Reason With Data (November 2025) and an Asset Test Loop for creative testing (February 2026), under what Glaut now calls Glaut OS.

How participants take part: Through a browser link, or embedded inside an existing survey tool, so respondents answer AI-moderated questions in the same flow. There's no own panel; it plugs into your sample provider.

Worth knowing: Glaut is ISO 27001 certified and works in 50+ languages. Pricing isn't published, and there's a free trial.

Best for: Agencies that want to add voice depth to quant surveys and keep control of the method.

9. Tellet: Voice-Note Style Interviews from Europe

Amsterdam-based Tellet was started by Merik te Grotenhuis, who previously sold CG Research to Norstat. It runs asynchronous AI interviews built around a mobile chat where participants can answer by voice, video, photo or text, and it can also drop AI probing into existing surveys.

How participants take part: A link, QR code or embed opens a mobile chat in the browser. You bring your own sample or recruit through Tellet's panel partners.

AI: An AI co-pilot for the discussion guide, one-click analysis, and AI Search for asking questions of every transcript after fieldwork.

Worth knowing: Pricing is on a quote. Tellet is GDPR compliant, lists ISO 27001 as coming soon, and supports 50+ languages.

Best for: European agencies and brands who want fast, voice-led exploratory interviews.

10. Discuss: Live Video Qual Plus AI Interviews

Discuss is built around live video interviews and focus groups in 100+ markets, with a client backroom, live translation and clips. Since 2025 it has added AI-moderated interviews in 50+ languages, and in November 2025 it combined with Voxco, bringing surveys under the Discuss name.

AI: AI-moderated interviews alongside live sessions, and Discuss Intelligence, a library you can search and question across studies.

How participants take part: Live sessions in the browser at a set time, or AI interviews through a link.

Best for: Teams who want live, human-moderated video qual with clients watching, and AI interviews from the same vendor. See Yazi vs Discuss.

Also Worth a Look

Indeemo: App-based video diaries and mobile ethnography over days, with AI analysis of the footage.

Yasna: An AI interview tool with built-in recruitment and published pay-as-you-go credit packs.

Remesh: Live AI-assisted sessions with hundreds of people voting on each other's answers.

How to Choose

Start with your participants. Ask how many of the people you need would open a link, sit at a computer or switch on a camera for a research study. If it's most of them, choose on features and price. If it isn't, choose on how little you ask of them before the first answer.

• The closest like-for-like for video consumer interviews: Verso or Voxpopme.
• In-home usage tests and video of real product use: QualSights.
• Enterprise AI interviews at scale with a built-in panel: Listen Labs or Strella.
• AI interviews plus prototype testing: Outset or Strella.
• Agencies adding voice depth to quant surveys: Glaut or Tellet.
• Live sessions with clients watching: Discuss.
• Participants who won't switch on a camera, studies that run over days, or a mobile-first audience: Yazi.

For the wider category, see the best AI-moderated interview tools, and for how the three best-funded platforms compare, Outset vs Listen Labs vs Conveo.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best alternative to Conveo?

For video consumer interviews, Verso or Voxpopme. For in-home usage tests, QualSights. For enterprise AI interviews with a built-in panel, Listen Labs or Strella. For AI interviews, diaries and surveys answered in WhatsApp by text, voice or video, Yazi.

How much does Conveo cost?

Conveo's pricing page offers a demo rather than prices, but its G2 listing puts enterprise plans from $45,000 a year, prepaid, with a pay-as-you-go option at a higher price per credit.

Do Conveo participants need a camera?

Conveo interviews run in a browser on a computer with a microphone. The camera can be optional or required, depending on how the study is set up.

Does Conveo have its own panel?

No. Conveo recruits through partners such as Respondent and Norstat, or you invite your own participants. Yazi, Listen Labs, Strella and Voxpopme all have panels of their own.

Competitor details come from each vendor's website, release notes, help centre and review listings, and from funding news, checked in October 2026. Products change quickly, so confirm current features and prices with the vendor. Spotted something out of date? Email hello@askyazi.com.