Leverages Zoom to drive savings without compromising the high-quality online fieldwork experience your clients expect. Enjoy a bug-free, smooth experience for your participants and clients alike.
Works effortlessly with Zoom, delivering substantial savings while ensuring premium observer experience with dedicated client chatrooms.
| flowres | Forsta | |
|---|---|---|
| Transparent Pricing | Automatically available over email submission | No transparent pricing |
| Price | Pay as you go starting at $70 per credit. Subscription and credit packs available. | No Pay as you Go. Subscription/commitment for 1000 hours starting at 199 USD/ hour for IDI and 299 USD/ hour for FGDs |
| Video Conferencing | Built on top of Zoom; a popular, reliable, efficient video conferencing platform. Makes it easy to adopt, for your teams, clients, participants. Teams & Meet integrations also available, for Enterprise clients | Own technology, involves learning curve for your teams, Clients and Participants |
| Automated Transcription | 90% accuracy in English. Ability to add custom vocabulary | Accuracy Unspecified |
| Client Backroom | With separate chatroom for Internal project teams. Audio only mode for Privacy compliance | Yes |
| Live Moments Bookmarking | Yes | Yes |
| Video Clipping | Yes | Yes |
| Reel Making | Yes | Yes |
| Analysis Abilities | Specialized AI module with Grid format. Rated No. 1 by leading researcher in independent evaluation. | Yes (In beta stage) |
| security and Compliance | GDPR compliant, HIPAA Compliant, ISO 27001:2022 certified | HIPAA, GDPR and SOC2 Compliant |
“Analysis was actually really great... the platform learned and understood the conversation flow pretty soon and accurately. So when I prompted, it accurately answered the questions and provided quotes that accurately reflected what I was trying to capture. The synthesis reflected what I was hoping for summarize, as a moderator and analyst.”
“We used specialized platforms only for a few projects when clients demanded it. When I realized how much we had spent on these platforms in 2022, I decided to search for a better option. I spent days looking at several platforms out there, and the platform that I found to be meeting all our needs was flowres.”
“I took the same questions from my interview guideline and asked them to that collective set of 20-plus interviews. I was able to catch nuances- see the thread and the corresponding quotes. Digging in, uncovering, discovering. A perfect example of human-centered AI: I'm in the driver's seat.”
“What I appreciate most is that the technology doesn’t replace the researcher. We’re still reading, questioning, checking themes against the transcripts, looking for contradictory evidence, and discussing where our interpretations differ. flowres.io helps us get closer to the data and makes it easier to explore patterns across a large body of qualitative work. And that is exactly how I want to use AI in research: not to hand over thinking, but to give researchers more capacity to think.”
“There's so many examples of how supported we felt and how we really appreciated ways of working that you guys demonstrated to us. There's several times the Tech team went over and above, to help work with the tool.”
Data security is our top priority. flowres.io is GDPR-compliant and ISO 27001 certified, ensuring top-tier data security.
The platform operates as a secure, walled garden; your data is safeguarded and never used to train any large language model (LLM).
Built on robust AWS infrastructure, flowres.io guarantees the highest level of protection for every virtual focus group you run.
Invite team members and grant them instant project access. Seamlessly share meetings, transcripts, AI analysis, and more, all in one place. flowres.io is the consumer insights platform that keeps your entire team aligned, from fieldwork through to final debrief.
For teams running online interviews and focus groups, flowres.io covers live sessions, transcription, a client backroom, clipping, reels, and AI analysis. Forsta uses its own video technology. flowres.io is built on Zoom, with Teams and Google Meet available for enterprise clients.
Forsta does not list public pricing and does not offer pay-as-you-go. It requires a subscription or commitment for 1,000 hours, starting at 199 USD per hour for IDIs and 299 USD per hour for focus groups. flowres.io starts at $70 per credit, with subscriptions and credit packs, and pricing is sent by email.
Yes. Forsta includes a client backroom. flowres.io also includes one, with a separate chat for the internal project team and an audio-only mode for privacy compliance.
flowres.io includes a specialized AI module with grid format. Forsta analysis is available and marked as in beta. Transcription on flowres.io is about 90% accurate in English and supports custom vocabulary. Forsta does not publish a transcription accuracy figure.
Yes. Forsta supports live moments bookmarking, video clipping, and reel making. flowres.io supports the same, and bookmarks can be used later in analysis and reporting.
Yes. You can upload audio, video, or transcripts into flowres.io for transcription and AI analysis.