Legit online survey websites
Each site has a limited number of online surveys each month for each person. If you want to earn serious rewards it’s worth signing up to as many surveys for cash as possible.
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Swagbucks
Very popular with students, thanks to a wide variety of ways to earn rewards. Exclusive signup bonus!
Who are they? Swagbucks are a reliable survey site who also offer rewards for playing games and watching videos.
Rewards: Cash, vouchers and prize draws.
Amount per survey: 70 points called SB (40p).
Min. reward threshold: 1 SB.
Our review: We love Swagbucks, and we hear positive reviews from our readers about them too. We’ve found that completing surveys and polls every day provides the best return for your time, however you can also complete a much wider range of offers to bump up your earnings.
Surveys take around 10 minutes to complete, meaning you can earn around £2.40 an hour. Swagbucks also offers users the ability to complete surveys from multiple providers and give consolation points when you don’t qualify for a survey. Read our full Swagbucks review.
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Toluna
Test, keep products and earn vouchers.Who are they? A trusted opinion website working on behalf of leading companies. They want to know what you think about certain products, services and issues. In return, you get rewarded!
Rewards: Free products, Amazon vouchers and prize draws.
Amount per survey: 3,000 – 6,000 points (80,000 points gets you a £15 voucher).
Min. reward threshold: 500 for prizes, 80,000 for vouchers.
Our review: You won’t be sent products to test all the time, but we have received a couple over the space of a few months. So it’s worth signing up just to get freebies 🙂
You can also answer surveys on the site to earn yourself points which equal vouchers. Each survey takes around 15 minutes to complete, so it’ll take around 4 hours overall to earn a voucher.
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MySurvey
Make £3-5 per hour.Who are they? A popular consumer panel who are always looking for new members to participate in market research studies for rewards.
Rewards: PayPal payments, Amazon and high-street vouchers.
Amount per survey:Around 100 points.
Min. reward threshold: 345 points (£3).
Our review: Another one worth signing up for. We got lots of surveys sent from these guys, and they tend to match your profile and interests as a consumer.
The average survey takes about 15 minutes to complete, and gives you 100 points. So you could earn around £3-£5/hour.
Register below and wait for them to send you some surveys!
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i-Say (IPSOS)
Make £10+ a monthWho are they? One of the largest (and best paying) survey-based market research companies around, working with trusted brands and research companies worldwide Rewards: High-street and Amazon Vouchers, plus prize draws for all members.
Amount per survey: ~£1.
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Min. reward threshold: £10.
Our review: A well-trusted panel. They send you surveys every week to answer by email. The reward threshold is relatively low, and most people will be able to cash out in under 10 surveys.
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Global Test Market
Earn £100 per year.Who are they? This is a well know US survey site but they pay out cheques in £s.
Rewards: Cash, vouchers and prize draws.
Amount per survey: ~£1.20.
Min. reward threshold: 1000 points ($50/£32).
Our review: Surveys take around 15 minutes each so you could be earning £4.80 an hour. Be aware that cheques do take a while to arrive in the post, and we’d recommend not wasting your time with the ‘prize draw’ surveys (unless you’re feeling very lucky).
Tips for maximising your online survey profit
Rather than just leaving you with a list of online survey sites we wanted to make sure that you get the most out of all of them.
Here’s a few ways to make sure you get the maximum rewards or profit from each site.
Sign up to them all
It’s a good idea to sign up to as many as possible. This means that you will always have surveys to answer instead of waiting for one or two to come along every month.
There is no harm in signing up to loads and you can always unsubscribe if you don’t like the service that one of them is providing.
Set up an alias email
You don’t have to do this but we would recommend setting up a separate email for all of your survey site accounts. That way you can log in each day and easily see the surveys on offer (without it clogging up your personal inbox).
You should also check your emails regularly as some surveys are only open for a day (sometimes less).
Be honest
Try and be honest when filling in these online paid surveys as sometimes you can be penalised for contradicting yourself or giving inadequate responses. Also, don’t try to second guess the system by saying that you are a wealthy businessman or woman to get more surveys. It won’t work!
Watch out for scams and fake sites
A number of sites (we won’t call anyone out) advertise dodgy survey sites to students so make sure you avoid them. The ones to watch out for are generally the ones that sound too good to be true!
It’s also worth noting that you aren’t guaranteed to receive products from the product testing site as users are chosen at random so if anyone promises this you should be very wary.
Put it this way, there are 1000s of users on each survey site, do you really think that they can afford to send out 1000s of free PlayStations for people to test?
Cash in when you reach the limit
Unless you are looking to build up a big amount and aiming for one of the top rewards for which you have time for, then it’s best to cash in early with these paid survey sites.
Also be aware that some sites will have restrictions on when you can spend the points and how long they are valid for.
Don’t ever pay to join
All of the paid survey sites listed above are free to apply for and use. You shouldn’t get sucked into paying for a subscription to any online survey websites, whatever they promise you.
The sites listed on this page have been tried and tested and are genuine. If you are already a member of any of these survey sites or any that aren’t listed then please do let us know what you think of them!
