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Gorilla is a cloud-based platform for building and running online behavioural research. It offers intuitive tools for creating surveys, reaction-time tasks, games, multiplayer studies, and consumer research – all through an easy-to-use graphical interface.
Exclusive Jisc packages
25% discount on the first year for all new universities and colleges
Advanced tools included for free on packages over 12k tokens
Agreement start: 1 August 2025
Agreement end: 31 July 2028
Invoice date: annually three months in advance of the anniversary of the licence start date.
Site license
Institutions may participate in the Agreement at any time during the agreement period, and are bound by its Terms and Conditions, including payments, until the end of the institutions three year licence subscription.
Higher and Further Education and Research Councils in the United Kingdom, and to Universities and Colleges of Further Education in the Republic of Ireland. Other organisations supporting education, including research bodies and the public sector, may ask to participate in the Agreement. Chest will liaise with the Supplier about any such requests.
Licensor: Cauldron Science Limited, 2 Old Bath Road, Newbury, Berks, RG14 1Q, Company Number: 07071678.
Gorilla Experiment Builder is a cloud based research platform that allows users to create and host behavioural experiments online.
Gorilla encompasses questionnaire, task builder and experiment configuration tools. Users can create questionnaires and tasks and link them together into an overall experimental protocol to create a true behavioural study.
Gorilla allows you to capture respondents' behaviour in terms of accuracy and reaction times, and gather survey responses using Questionnaire Builder.
Gorilla is built for running behavioural studies. The tool allows you to add randomisation, counterbalancing, repeats and delays to create a range of experiments quickly and easily, generating powerful data.
There are 3 different tooling tiers available to purchase: (1), (2) and (3)
(1) Questionnaire Builder Only - IDEAL SURVEY TOOL
(2) Task Builder + (1) - IDEAL FOR PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENTS
(3) Standard Tools + (1) and (2) - IDEAL FOR SITE WIDE SUBSCRIPTIONS
At higher volumes Gorilla only have a Standard Tools package (3). Gorilla believe this is the right package for all site wide subscription as it has useful tools for psychology / linguistics / social science / economics / medicine / education / business / marketing departments.
| Experiment Builder Visual tool to link questionnaires, tasks together with powerful control nodes to enable randomisation, branching, repetition and more. |
Yes |
| Task Builder Visual tools to create novel reaction time tasks |
Yes |
| Task Templates Pre-existing tasks that you can clone and populate with your own stimuli |
Yes |
| Questionnaire Builder Visual tool to create questionnaires and surveys |
Yes |
| Participant Requirements Limit participants by device, browser, location or connection speed to ensure high quality data |
Yes |
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CONSORT Diagram |
Yes |
| Recruitment Policies Policies for a wide range of recruitment scenarios |
Yes |
| Prolific Integration Easy interface with the most popular recruitment in behavioral science |
Yes |
| Support | Yes |
| Single Platform All functionality provided within a single platform for ease |
Yes |
| Open Materials Open access repository for sharing tasks and materials |
Yes |
| Extensible Tools augment our functionality by writing custom code |
Yes |
| Java Scrip code Editor For hosting jsPsych and Lab.js tasks |
Yes |
| Voice Recording | Yes |
| Mouse Tracking | Yes |
| Gaze Detection | Yes |
| Canvas Painting | Yes |
| Teaching Tools | Yes |
| GDPR Compliance | Yes |
Free trials are available with direct contact to Gorilla Support Contact Form and are offered for an unlimited time period with 20 respondent tokens included.
Training and Training Materials:
Onboarding webinar is built to guide new users through every aspect of Gorilla, including...
Large and detailed database of guides for all tools, designed to support users through each step when building their experiments. The documents are kept up to date by Gorilla support team.
Support desk gives users a place to get in touch with the Gorilla Support Team directly. Once a request is submitted to the team, users can expect to receive a personal response within two working days.
Gorilla Presents is a webinar series all about behavior science research, covering a wide array of subject areas.
Case Studies & Testimonials:
This webinar, recorded in December 2025, showcases Gorilla's new AI tools for behavioural science research. The session demonstrate features such as creating interactive AI chats, guiding conversations with prompts and safeguards, and scoring open-text responses.
This webinar, recorded in October 2025, provides an introduction to the Jisc-negotiated Gorilla agreement and includes a comprehensive walkthrough on getting started with using the platform.
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