September 12, 2024
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Prime Opinion is a free rewards site where you can earn cash, gift cards, and other rewards for taking surveys.
They claim that the average user withdraws their first cash payout on the same day that they sign up, but do they live up to their promises?
We sent our professional tester to find out.
Prime Opinion is worth it if you’re looking for a survey site that will give you a quick payout. It has a low minimum redemption threshold of $5 (whereas many similar sites require you to earn $10–$15 before you can withdraw anything).
Prime Opinion doesn’t pay users a particularly high hourly rate, so you won’t earn big money by taking surveys on this site. However, the rate we earned on Prime Opinion was far from the worst we’ve seen on the rewards sites we’ve tested.
We tested Prime Opinion for just over 3 hours. Here’s what we earned.
*We’ve calculated the hourly rate and average time to redeem rewards including the $1 signup bonus.
The Prime Opinion site itself features live statistics to give you an idea of how much you can earn. Here’s how those stacked up with our findings:
| What Prime Opinion says | What we found |
|---|---|
| The average user earns around $11 per day. | After your first day (when your earnings are boosted by the signup bonus), it will take around 7 hours to earn $11, so this is an ambitious goal. |
| Surveys pay up to $5 each. | The highest-paying survey we took was worth $1.08 (108 points). |
| The average user withdraws their first cash on the same day. | This is plausible; you can easily reach the withdrawal threshold within a day. |
Prime Opinion’s claims didn’t match with our experience. You can earn real money by using this site—but probably not as much money as they say.
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Prime Opinion isn’t the only game in town. If you’re interested in learning about other platforms that will pay you to take surveys and complete other small tasks, check out our reviews of:
On Prime Opinion, you earn rewards by collecting points.
The value of 1 point on Prime Opinion depends somewhat on the method you choose for redemption and the amount you redeem.
However, in most cases, 1 point is worth 1 cent. This means you need 100 points to earn $1.
To get paid on Prime Opinion, you’ll need at least 500 points, which is usually equivalent to $5. However, you can choose to forfeit this low redemption threshold in exchange for a larger signup bonus. We’ll go into more detail about this later in the section on signing up.
Prime Opinion says that when you withdraw cash or gift cards on the site, you’ll receive them immediately.
Prime Opinion says that there’s no limit on how many surveys you can complete in a day, which means that there’s no limit on how much you can earn.
However, their “Help” section also says that, depending on your location and profile, you may run out of surveys occasionally (in which case you should come back a few hours later), so in practice, this may limit the amount you can earn.
We didn’t run out of surveys at any point while we were testing, so as Prime Opinion says, this may be an infrequent occurrence.
Here are the ways you can earn money with Prime Opinion:
The signup process for Prime Opinion is easy. You just have to enter your email address, choose a password, and confirm your email address by clicking the link that they send you.
You will get a bonus for signing up. Unusually, the amount depends on the minimum redemption threshold you choose. Prime Opinion gives you three options:
| Welcome Bonus | Minimum redemption threshold |
|---|---|
| 100 points ($1) | 500 points ($5) |
| 200 points ($2) | 1,000 points ($10) |
| 500 points ($5) | 2,500 points ($25) |
We chose the smallest bonus of 100 points to get the fastest possible payout.
After you pick your welcome bonus, you’ll have to complete an initial survey to unlock all of the others on the site. The first survey is worth 20 points (about $0.20), and Prime Opinion estimates that it will take 2 minutes.
Signing up for Prime Opinion took us less than 2 minutes. We then did the “First Survey,” which, as predicted, took us just 2 more minutes.
We appeared to earn 21 points (worth about $0.21) instead of the 20 points Prime Opinion promised. We’re not sure where the extra point came from. Perhaps our answers were particularly impressive.
After you’ve signed up for Prime Opinion and completed the first survey, you’ll get access to a host of other surveys. These are organized into the following tabs:
To give you an idea of how long the Prime Opinion surveys are and how many points they give you, most of those we saw were worth between 9 and 280 points and were estimated to take between 1 and 37 minutes. Needless to say, these are fairly wide ranges.
As we’ve already mentioned, we had to do the first survey to complete the signup process and unlock others. After this, we took another 19 surveys. Of these:
Best survey experience: $8.10 per hour
The best survey we did took us just 8 minutes to complete and paid us 108 points—equivalent to an hourly rate of $8.10.
Worst survey experience: $1.28 per hour
Apart from the surveys that disqualified us with no rewards (most of which we only spent 1–3 minutes on), the worst survey we did took us 14 minutes and gave us 30 points, which is equivalent to an hourly rate of just $1.28.
You can get extra rewards on Prime Opinion by inviting your friends to join the site. To refer someone, send them the referral link you should find under the “More” tab.
For you to receive your reward, your friend must use your link to sign up and take enough surveys to redeem their first reward. You’ll then receive a bonus of 100 points after they redeem.
Prime Opinion has extra features that will help you earn more points.
There are four achievements you can unlock on the Prime Opinion site. You get these by completing:
We unlocked our first achievement. Prime Opinion gave us a 25-point reward, as promised.
You need to take 10 surveys before you can qualify for the Prime Opinion Leaderboard. According to online reports, users who make the Leaderboard get bonuses as a perk for being so active.
However, we found no specific information about these bonuses on the Prime Opinion site. It’s unclear how large they are.
We didn’t complete enough surveys to qualify for the Prime Opinion leaderboard, so we didn’t test this feature.
You can maintain a “Streak” by completing just one survey per day. If you achieve a seven-day Streak, you get entered into a prize draw. Prizes range between 50 and 1,000 points.
We weren’t consistent enough to get a Streak on Prime Opinion, so we didn’t test this feature.
Prime Opinion has “levels” you can graduate through to get added benefits and extra points.
You’ll see a colored circle at the top right of the screen on the Prime Opinion website or app, which will show what level you’re at. If you click on the circle, you’ll see the number of points you need to earn to reach the next level, your progress, and the bonus award you’ll get when you reach the next one.
To level up on Prime Opinion, the first earning milestone we had to reach was 200 points (which we managed within an hour or two).
When we did this, we got 20 bonus points, and we graduated to Level 2. To reach Level 3, we needed to earn another 300 points, but we never progressed that far.
We were surprised and impressed by the smorgasbord of redemption options on Prime Opinion. There are several methods you can use to redeem your rewards:
For ACH transfers, Prime Opinion has a simple system: you can usually exchange 100 points for one dollar. You can redeem the following amounts:
After your first cashout, two more options will open up; you’ll be able to cash out your points in denominations of $1 and $2.
If you withdraw such a small amount, you’ll have to pay an extra 25 points, giving you a little less bang for your buck. In other words, the exchange rate for these options is:
We chose to redeem our rewards as a $5 ACH transfer. Prime Opinion said we would receive our reward within 30 minutes.
Venmo is one of the redemption methods available on Prime Opinion. It gives you the same exchange rates and denominations you can get with ACH transfers:
Again, the $1–$2 options won’t be available for your first cashout, for which you’ll need to redeem at least 500 points.
If you want to redeem via PayPal, you can choose among the following five options:
We saw gift cards for over 100 retailers on Prime Opinion. All of the cards we saw had an exchange rate of 100 points for $1. For example, $5 gift cards cost 500 points, and $10 gift cards cost 1,000 points.
The following retailers had $1 gift cards for 100 points:
Retailers we saw with $5 gift cards included:
We also saw a few other interesting gift card redemption options that required quite a few points to cash out. These included:
You can choose to redeem your Prime Opinion rewards as a prepaid card.
If you go for this option, you can choose between a physical Visa card or a virtual Visa. You can use physical Visas almost anywhere that takes card payments—online or offline. Virtual Visas can also be used online, or you can add them to your mobile wallet or digital payment services to use in physical stores that allow contactless payments.
Both physical and virtual Visas are available in the following denominations on Prime Opinion:
We saw dozens of charities that you can donate your Prime Opinion points to. For most of these, you’ll need 500 points or more to donate, and some charities we saw required upwards of 1,000 points.
Charity donation options we saw included:
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