> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL.
> For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/llms.txt.
> For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://docs.prolific.com/_mcp/server.

# Studies

> **Important**
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> The Studies API has rate limits in place to prevent researchers from launching too many studies with low numbers of participants.
> If your study URLs each represent a variant of the same task, with a specified number of participants accessing each variant, please consider using our Taskflow product, which is tailored for this and does not have a publishing limit.
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> Take me to the taskflow documentation

To recruit participants for your research, you create a draft study with your audience filters and cost and then publish the study to start recruiting.
This is a two step process because publishing a study to participants requires many different and complex steps:

* Checking if your account has sufficient balance to pay participants
* Locking the amount required
* Launching our algorithm to find the best suitable participants for you
* Sending emails and more

By separating it into 2 steps, researchers can be confident that their study is created, no information is lost and it can be updated before publishing.

[Quick guide to using Prolific](https://researcher-help.prolific.com/en/article/6de1aa?_gl=1*19h792c*_gcl_au*ODg5MjU0ODM4LjE3NjE5MzQyMjM.)

![Study flow](https://assets.prolific.com/assets/img/api/study.jpg)

## Docs

- [The study object](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/the-study-object.md)

## API Docs

- Studies [List all studies](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/get-studies.md)
- Studies [Create a draft study](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/create-study.md)
- Studies [List all studies in a project](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/get-project-studies.md)
- Studies [Delete a study from a project](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/delete-project-study.md)
- Studies [Retrieve a study](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/get-study.md)
- Studies [Delete a study](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/delete-study.md)
- Studies [Update a study](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/update-study.md)
- Studies [Transition a study's status](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/publish-study.md)
- Studies [Create a test study](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/create-test-study.md)
- Studies [Get taskflow progress](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/get-study-access-details-progress.md)
- Studies [Show Study cost](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/get-study-cost.md)
- Studies [List study submissions](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/get-study-submissions.md)
- Studies [Count study submissions by status](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/count-study-submissions-by-status.md)
- Studies [Download credential usage report](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/download-study-credential-report.md)
- Studies [Download demographic data](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/export-study.md)
- Studies [Export demographic data](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/export-demographic-data.md)
- Studies [Get demographic export history](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/get-demographic-export-history.md)
- Studies [Duplicate a study](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/duplicate-study.md)
- Studies [Calculate the study cost](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/calculate-study-cost.md)

## OpenAPI Specification

The raw OpenAPI 3.1 specification for this API is available at:
- [OpenAPI JSON](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/openapi.json)
- [OpenAPI YAML](https://docs.prolific.com/api-reference/studies/openapi.yaml)