Paid surveys with Pi: how Sibr Earn works

On Sibr, creators can reward people for answering with SIBR, an in-app credit, and Sibr Earn lists paid studies for verified Pi accounts, best pay per minute first. The creator's budget is held in escrow when the survey is published, and each respondent is paid from it when they finish, unless their answers are held for a quality review.

Sibr is a polling, survey and paid-study app on the Internet Computer, open to Pi Network users and everyone else. This guide covers both sides: answering paid studies and running them.

What is SIBR?

SIBR is Sibr's in-app credit. You can buy SIBR packages with Pi in the Pi Browser, earn it by answering paid surveys and studies, and spend it on extras such as survey rewards, poll boosts and country targeting.

Be clear about what it is not: SIBR is not money and has no cash value. It cannot be withdrawn, cannot be exchanged back into Pi or any other currency, and cannot be transferred to another user except through features in the app.

What is the difference between a rewarded survey and an Earn study?

A rewarded survey is the simple option: set a reward per response and the number of responses to fund. An Earn study adds the tools researchers expect from a research panel.

How do I earn as a respondent?

1. Sign in with Pi. Pi verifies the identity of every account holder, so a Pi account counts as a verified human right away. Read Verified human respondents.
2. Open Earn. You see the paid studies open to you, with the pay, the estimated time and the best pay per minute first.
3. Review the consent step. Before you start, Sibr lists how your answers may be used. Research use is always part of a study. Other uses, such as quotes or a public anonymised dataset, are unticked choices, and AI training is always its own separate checkbox. You are paid the same whether or not you tick optional uses.
4. Answer any screener questions. If the study is not looking for people like you, or your group is already full, you are paid the screen-out fee and your answers are not kept.
5. Finish the study. Most answers are paid the moment you submit, and the SIBR is in your balance right away.

You can leave before submitting. Leaving is not paid and your answers are not kept. You can have up to 3 studies in progress at once.

Why might my pay be held?

Paid answers attract some people who rush. To protect creators without punishing careful respondents, Sibr holds answers instead of rejecting them when:

• an attention check is failed (one failed check in a study under 5 minutes, two in a study of 5 minutes or more), or
• the answers come in far too fast: under 30% of the estimated time, or under 3 seconds per answer.

The creator then approves or rejects. A rejection needs one of four reasons: failed attention checks, low effort, did not follow instructions, or suspected fraud. If the creator does not decide within the review window, the answers are approved automatically and you can claim your pay. My earnings, linked from the Earn page, shows each study's status.

How do I run a paid study as a creator?

Funding a study needs an account signed in with Pi. The cost has three parts:

• Pay per complete: what each respondent receives, in full.
• Platform fee: currently 20% on top of pay, charged only for places that are paid.
• Screen-out pay: required when a study has screener questions; by default 10% of pay, at least 0.1 SIBR, plus the fee.

The total leaves your balance when you publish and is held for the study. Unused budget, including fees on unused places, is refunded when the study ends or is closed. Held places settle one by one as you approve, reject or the window passes.

How to do it on Sibr

1. Build a survey in the survey builder, then turn on Make this survey a paid study in the settings.
2. Choose who can take part, set the estimated minutes, the pay per complete and the number of completes to fund.
3. Mark up to 5 choice questions as screener questions, add quotas to cap how many people with a given answer can join, and add up to 3 attention checks.
4. Choose the data uses: research is always included; mark other uses as required or optional; ask for profile details such as an age band if you need them.
5. Set the review window (3 to 14 days, 7 by default) and check the cost summary.
6. Publish. The study appears in Earn for verified people, and you review held answers on the results page.

New to the terms? The Sibr glossary defines escrow, screeners, quotas and more. For results and exports, see Results, insights and CSV export. For what respondents' data looks like in an export, see How Sibr protects respondent privacy.