You’ve probably looked into user testing before. Maybe you even tried it once. You saw how much you could learn from watching a real person struggle with something you built.

Then you looked at the pricing. Most user testing tools are built for research teams, with budgets to match. For a founder, a freelance designer, or a small product team without a dedicated research line item, even one round of testing felt like a real purchase. So testing became something you did once, if at all.

That’s exactly what our new Starter plan is for.

What’s new in the Starter plan

Starter is now $49/month. For that, you get:

• 3 sessions with real testers every month, drawn from Userbrain’s pool of 180k+ qualified testers, or invite your own users instead
• 1 test setup per month: describe what you want to test and let AI do the heavy lifting, ready to send to testers in minutes
• 2 seats (you plus one teammate)
• Every analysis feature Userbrain offers, including AI Insights, transcripts, and automated reports, with nothing held back for a higher tier

AI Insights highlights the patterns and key moments across your sessions, so you know where to look first. It doesn’t replace watching your testers. You still get the recordings and still watch them. It just means you’re not starting from a blank video with no idea what you’re looking for.

If you want to see Starter next to Userbrain’s other plans, the pricing page has the full breakdown.

Who the Starter plan is for

Starter is built for people who need real user feedback regularly, but not in large volume: startup founders validating an early product, freelance UX designers working across several small clients, and product teams who are just starting to build a testing habit.

You don’t need a research background to use it. You need a task you want to test and a few minutes to set it up.

Why test every month instead of once

Usability expert Steve Krug has a simple rule for this: test with three users once a month. Three people won’t give you statistical proof of anything, but they’ll reveal most of your product’s significant usability problems, and give you enough to act on before the next round.

That’s a different way of thinking about user testing than most teams start with. It’s not a big project you schedule twice a year. It’s a small, repeatable habit, the same way you’d treat a recurring design review or a sprint retro.

Starter is priced and sized for exactly that. Three testers, every month, for as long as you need them.

Finally, a budget-friendly way to make testing a habit

You already know that products improve when real people test them, again and again, not just once before launch. What stopped you before wasn’t the idea. It was the cost of doing it regularly.

That excuse is gone.

Starter gives you real testers, a full test setup, and all of Userbrain’s AI analysis features for $49/month. See how Starter compares to Userbrain’s other plans, or start a free 30-day trial to try it yourself first.