Survimo says you can earn up to $5 for every answer you give in a survey.
That’s a lot. A whole lot.
I know paid surveys are among the simplest ways to make money online, and that you can fill them out from any country, from home or from wherever suits you, but I’ve gone through hundreds of sites like this, and an amount like that gave me pause. I didn’t go in with much hope that it was true ($5 for one answer sounds like an overblown ad).
So, is Survimo a legitimate site or a scam?
To find out, I tested it myself, including that promise. Below is everything I learned about it, so you know ahead of time what to expect there and can decide whether Survimo is a good opportunity for you.
What is Survimo and how does it work?
On Survimo, you answer surveys and the site pays you for your answers. You really do get the money. It’s not a scam.
Survimo is owned by Opinodo ApS, a Danish marketing company. They didn’t build their own market research program. Instead, they connected the site to Cint AB, a very large platform in Stockholm, Sweden, where surveys from all over the world are gathered and exchanged, and from there Survimo takes you to them (meaning it’s a middleman, not the one that creates the surveys).
What you don’t know yet is the money part: whether the time you put in there pays off, and whether the amount is really the one they promise. I don’t rely on promises. That only becomes clear once you understand how Survimo works, and the best way to understand it is through the way you can earn there, which I’ll show you below.
When I logged into my account, the first page showed me the list of surveys, and next to each one it said how much I’d get for it and roughly how long it would take, so I knew from the start which ones to go for. When you’re in a hurry, small things like these help you choose. I like that I see the amount before I start, instead of only finding out at the end.
And that’s pretty much all you do on Survimo. They don’t have any other way to earn besides paid surveys, and the surveys all come from Cint, the company the site relies on (I mentioned it above).
If you’ve used other survey sites before, you know how it goes. First you answer a few qualifying questions, meaning the site asks you some things to see if you fall into the group of people wanted for that survey. If you fit, you then complete the survey to the end and get the reward listed for it. If you don’t fit, you leave it and try another one.
There aren’t many options, though. I had 11 surveys in my account, paying from $0.18 to $0.60 and taking from 1 minute to 13 minutes.
There’s a way to get more of them, and I’ll get to it a little further down.
Now, the $5 per answer from their ad. Even the best-paying survey on the list doesn’t go over 60 cents, so $5 is still about 8 times that amount, and we’re talking about a whole survey, not a single question. I wasn’t surprised, because I’ve seen rewards that size on almost none of the survey sites I’ve tried over all these years. You can get $5, but at the end of a survey you complete from start to finish, exactly as I expected. Someone who hasn’t spent time on sites like this takes them at their word, though, even if the figure doesn’t appear anywhere on their list. That’s what I noticed on Survimo before anything else.
If you want to see other survey sites I’ve tried, you can look at my reviews of Marketagent, Surveoo, InboxDollars, or Survey Club. Reading them, you’ll learn more about each one and can put them side by side.
The ads are the part that turned me off completely. On Survimo you run into a bunch of pop-ups on every page you open, something I rarely see on a survey site (I know it more from Paid-To-Click sites and from some of the Get-Paid-To ones, or GPT sites). They really annoyed me and killed any interest I had in staying on the site. Far too many for a survey site.
Bonus Challenges
If you take surveys on Survimo and log in to your account often, the Bonus Challenges page gives you a few more cents for things you do there anyway: completing a set number of surveys, doing one survey a day for several days in a row, and logging in every day.
There are 8 challenges, and the payouts look like this:
- $0.20 for Survey Starter, after 5 surveys
- $0.40 for Survey Pro, after 10 surveys
- $0.60 for Survey Master, after 20 surveys
- $0.10 for Survey Streak, with one survey a day for 3 days in a row
- $0.20 for Survey Legend, with one survey a day for 5 days in a row
- $0.10 for Login Streak, for logging in 3 days in a row
- $0.25 for Dedicated User, for logging in 10 days in a row
- $0.75 for Loyal Legend, for logging in 30 days in a row (more than Starter and Pro combined)
Check off all 8 and you get $2.60. Almost half of that comes from logging in ($1.10), then from the survey-count challenges ($1.20), and the survey streaks give only $0.30. The withdrawal threshold is $15, and the challenges don’t even cover $3 of it.
For that amount you need weeks in a row with no skipped days, for both surveys and logins. And even if you don’t miss a single one, you get less than someone at a fast-food place in your town is paid for 15 minutes of work. Very little money for that much discipline.
I don’t have that kind of patience.
When I get enough surveys for a streak to come together on its own, I take that money as small change that adds up by itself. But I never log in just for a streak, even though logging in is exactly what pays most easily.
How do you get paid?
Every survey you finish adds some money to your Survimo account balance (I covered how much above), but that money stays there until the total reaches $15, and only then can you request it through PayPal or exchange it for a reward.
The threshold isn’t high. It’s just that with surveys paid one at a time, this money adds up little by little.
Once you reach it, you can choose from:
- PayPal, with the money sent straight to your wallet
- AirTM, a digital wallet for currency exchange and transfers between countries, a lifesaver in countries where PayPal has heavy restrictions
- GCodes
- prepaid Visa cards
- digital gift cards for well-known stores
- a donation to partner charities
I figured out how payouts work on Survimo quickly. There’s nothing confusing about them. I’m glad they included PayPal too, because out of the payment methods I know, it’s one of the most convenient.
What you see in your own account may be different: the methods and the threshold aren’t the same in every country. Before you start taking surveys, check which options you have and how much you need before you can cash out.
How much money can you make?
When you sign up for Survimo, you may get a first few days with lots of surveys that are a good fit for you, piling up in your account one after another, and think this site really has a lot to give.
On Reddit and Trustpilot, though, people in the community share what comes next.
When your balance gets to around halfway to the payout threshold, so about $7.50 of the $15, the algorithm changes and the surveys that match you start coming much less often. It happens right when you’ve built up enough that you’d be sorry to quit. The rest of the way to $15 can stretch over weeks or months.
Even without that change, how much you earn depends mostly on how often you have a survey to complete, and there aren’t many surveys on Survimo (I’ve mentioned this before). Most of the ones that show up pay between $0.18 and $0.60, very far from the amounts the site, once again, says you can earn.
At $0.60, to get to $15 you need 25 completed surveys. At $0.18, it’s 84. How much time is that, on a site where you can barely find a few? A lot.
There’s no way to get an income you can live on or a steady hourly rate out of this site. I think the earning potential is low, and that, even though the amounts are small, they take up a great deal of your time before you clear the threshold and see your money paid out.
Survimo Trustpilot
The “Unprompted” label shows up on a large share of the negative reviews on Trustpilot. The page also says the company hasn’t asked customers to leave reviews lately. Nobody collected praise to push the rating up, so the frustration you read is people’s own, written the way it came to them.
And there’s plenty of it.
Across 133 reviews, the rating comes out to 2 out of 5, with the vast majority at one star and very few at 4 or 5 stars. People accuse the site of two things: that it shows more surveys than it actually lets them take, and that the money they’ve collected doesn’t make it to their account.
The story most of them tell starts well. You do a few surveys, build up a small amount (just enough to start trusting it), then the surveys start rejecting you one after another. Those who still get further say that once they reached somewhere between $4 and $14 in their balance, their account got blocked or they stopped seeing any surveys at all. They would still have been between $1 and $11 short of the $15 threshold, after collecting the rest little by little. If I were a single dollar short and my account got blocked, it would really eat at me.
People have a term for this, bait-and-switch, and no other complaint comes up as often. They feel the site takes their time and their data without giving them any realistic way to reach the $15.
You can only cash out through PayPal or AirTM, and when a withdrawal gets stuck, people say they write to support and wait for a reply that’s slow to arrive or never arrives at all.
Few as they are, there are also reviews with a good ending. Some people came back and changed their review to say the payment did come through after all, once they got in touch with support. It’s rare, but it happens.
Red flags you should never ignore
If you want to know how safe your balance is on Survimo, their terms answer that more clearly than any page on the site, and the answer isn’t a good one. At several points on the way to a payout, the company keeps the right to change the rules in its own favor:
- Until your first successful payout, your balance doesn’t even count as real money (clauses 3.1 and 3.4). The company can change, freeze, or delete it whenever it decides, without telling you why and without any warning.
- At $15, which is the payout threshold, several people who don’t know each other tell the same story: their surveys disappear right when they get close to that amount. Clause 4.1 lets the company move the threshold at any time, without notice, so their story doesn’t sound like a coincidence at all.
- After a partner rejects a survey, they can take points away as “reconciliation deductions” (clause 3.5), even if your balance goes negative, and nothing requires them to tell you.
- When the account is closed, everything you’ve built up is lost for good, with no compensation (clauses 6.1 and 6.3).
That last one is a trap for anyone who wants to take their data off Survimo, because leaving costs them their whole balance.
At least I haven’t found any verified penalty from an authority, and Google Safe Browsing doesn’t report malware on their site. But a site that collects huge amounts of data about you and reserves the right to change your balance however it wants puts you at risk in two ways at once: the time you invest in surveys and your personal data. The risk isn’t small.
Who can use Survimo?
On their official site, Survimo has 36 language versions, and that makes it pretty clear where they look for people. For the Americas and Europe, there’s English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Greek, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian, while in Asia and the Middle East, there’s Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, and Arabic.
The list of countries isn’t a short one anymore, either. When I first tried Survimo, it worked in a lot fewer places, and now there are over 100 (you can see which ones exactly as soon as you open the site, in the top right corner, and that’s also where you set your country).
You create the account with a single form, but the email you put in it matters more than it seems. It has to be the same address you use for PayPal or AirTM, letter for letter. With any other address, when you want to withdraw your rewards as cash, their system won’t be able to process them. Building up rewards and not being able to get them out because of an email address is the kind of thing I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
The rest goes quickly:
- In the top right corner you’ll find the “Sign up” button, which was green for me (maybe they’ve changed its color since).
- The button takes you to the new account form, where you enter your email and password, and then you click “Get Access.”
- Survimo sends you a confirmation email, and it’s a good idea to look for it in your spam folder too if it doesn’t show up in your inbox. When I made my account, mine ended up there, not with my regular messages.
- In that email you click the “Activate” button, and your registration is complete.
- You fill in your profile with your first name, gender, country, and date of birth, which are all required, then click “Save” and you get into your account, where you can see how many surveys you have.
The faster option is signing up with Google. I preferred email.
After you log in, you could in theory go straight to the surveys, although the site asks you to fill out your profile anyway right after you confirm your address. The profile isn’t just a formality. As I said above, having it filled in gives you a better chance of getting survey offers.
Can you use it on your phone?
It works on your phone, but how you access Survimo depends on which phone you have.
On Android, you search Google Play for their official app, Survimo Paid Surveys, which is separate from the website and is listed there under the developer “Applicationspot.” It has over 50,000 downloads, and you need at least Android 8.0.
On iPhone, there’s no app. You won’t find anything official for iOS in the App Store, so you open Safari or Chrome and use the desktop site, even on the small screen.
The small screen, though, is also where the ads I told you about earlier feel a lot worse. The site has plenty of them, and some pop up over the page out of nowhere every now and then. On a phone, where you don’t have room to get around them, they quickly turn into a headache. Some look like the survey buttons, and people complain that they’ve opened them by mistake. I don’t like that you have to look twice before you tap (tapping with a finger, you can easily fall for a fake button).
You can do the surveys on your phone too, just more carefully than on a computer.
Is Survimo REAL or FAKE?
On Survimo, most surveys end in a disqualification, not a payout. And when you do manage to finish one, it pays poorly, new surveys are few, the page is cluttered with ads, and the withdrawal threshold, from what people who’ve tried to get there say, seems hard to reach. The $5 per response they promise misleads you quite a bit.
And that’s even though there’s a real company behind it. Survimo is legally registered in Denmark, it’s run by Opinodo ApS, which openly gives its name, and it complies with GDPR and CCPA (at least formally: the paperwork is in order). The transparency stops at the paperwork, though. The way the site works comes with serious risks.
The points you earn there, according to their terms, aren’t real money. The company can change them or take them away whenever it wants, without explaining why. So you spend time on surveys for a balance that stays theirs until the moment the money reaches you. That’s not something I rely on.
It might work for someone who accepts upfront that they’ll get disqualified often and is willing to give up time and personal data for small rewards you can’t even be sure will arrive. Not many people, I think. For reliable payouts and clear-cut earnings, I wouldn’t choose it, and I don’t think it’s worth your time either, when there are much better options for paid surveys.
That’s why I’m pointing you to the top 10 survey and GPT sites. Each one gives you better chances of earning than Survimo, most of them (maybe even all) don’t bombard you with ads, and wherever you live, you’ll find one you can sign up for.
If you’ve tried Survimo, have a question, or want to tell me how it went for you, I’ll be waiting in the comments!