Delve 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Delve

4.9

(188)

Pricing

Starting at $18.00 per month

About Delve

Delve is an online collaborative solution that helps businesses code and analyze qualitative data. It allows users to utilize various methodologies such as grounded theory, thematic, narrative, and more to conduct analysis across the data.

It provides a coding system, which administrators can use to find, group, refine and organize themes to streamline code merging processes. Users can also categorize data based on code, demographic information, and patterns. Additionally, it offers backlink functionality, which allows analysts to establish trails between findings and raw data.

Managers can add new team members as collaborators and facilitate real-time collaboration across projects. Pricing is available on monthly and annual subscriptions.

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Delve Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $18.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Delve

$50.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

Customer Support
Transcripts and Codes
Unlimited Projects

Delve Education Plan

$18.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

Customer Support
Transcripts and Codes
Unlimited Projects
Search Transcripts

Delve Features

Popular features found in Qualitative Data Analysis
Annotations
Data Visualization
Mixed Methods Research
Quantitative Analysis
Text Analysis
More features of Delve
Access Controls/Permissions
Categorization/Grouping
Collaboration Tools
Customizable Reports
Data Coding
Data Import/Export
Data Storage Management
Drag & Drop
Multi-Language
Multiple Data Sources
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Reporting & Statistics
Search/Filter
Statistical Analysis
Tagging
User Research Analysis
Visual Analytics

Delve User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.9

Ratings Breakdown

91%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.9

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

4.9

Functionality

4.7

Josh K.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

Delve Is a Game Changer for Organizing and Analyzing Insights

My experience was excellent. Delve made qualitative analysis feel manageable and even enjoyable. I plan to use it in my consulting work, especially for strategic planning, where I often need to synthesize insights from interviews or group discussions. It’s a tool that adds real value to both research and practice.

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Value for money

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Pros:

Delve made it incredibly easy to group and categorize thoughts, themes, and ideas. The platform is intuitive and user-friendly, which allowed me to quickly identify patterns and connections in my data. The training videos were a standout feature. They were clear, easy to follow, and helped me learn both the product and the broader process of coding qualitative data. I came away with new skills and a deeper understanding of analysis.

Cons:

Honestly, I just wish I had discovered it earlier. If I had known how powerful it is for organizing themes, I would have used Delve during my literature review process.

Shana H.

Verified reviewer

Professional Training & Coaching

Self-Employed

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

Loving Delve! A real life saver in coding for a student doing research - a few minor tweaks could make it amazing!

Overall, Delve has been a life saver and a great thing for someone with dyslexia to help organise my coding. I am so thankful and will use it for future projects too. I appreciate the bot who can answer most questions but liked speaking to [sensitive content hidden] as a human who was very helpful today.

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Pros:

I love the way it helps me to map out codes for my research and create codes and nest them into sections. You can search by keyword, and there are lots of helpful features like looking at snippets and filtering systems. The tutorials and mini-course on analysing data is great and helped me a lot. It has helped me a lot as a dyslexic learner to plan and organise my analysis. I will definitely recommend. Also to add, the customer service team are very responsive and helpful. Thanks Delve

Cons:

I would have liked an easy way to view all codes and move them around to rearrange them and add nesting, not only via the list, as you have to scroll up and down with the mouse and it is hard to find things. This was time-consuming. Also, it would be good to be able to move codes and nest items when you have searched by name. Currently, you cannot move anything when you are applying a filter. Last thing on my list would be to export codes and subcodes into a list (without the snippets) so you can see themes for planning the write up - even better if it made a mind map for you (but that might be wishful thinking)

Luqian C.

Verified reviewer

Entertainment

11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Reviewed January 2020

Good experience so far

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Very easy to use. No learning curve. Simplify the coding process so it is very friendly to beginners

Cons:

The multiple projects could not talk to each other

Stephen W.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

Great Product

Delve was a great tool for me and had a major positive impact in helping me complete my dissertation. I will definitely use Delve again for any future projects.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Delve was very easy to use and made completing my dissertation very straightforward. I looked at several similar products but Delve was the most user friendly and best value for the money. The ability to drag my codes around to organize them in various ways was very helpful. The "How to" videos also made the process simple and the coding tutorial was honestly better than the textbook sources I used.

Cons:

I didn't really have any cons with Delve. I guess if there was anything that I would have liked to have is the ability to print my work organized by codes/categories with the extracted quotes included.

Sharon M.

Verified reviewer

Research

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2025

Delve doesnt overcomplicate matters.

Delve’s simplicity and ease of use allowed me to concentrate fully on the analytical process. Unlike other tools that can feel overwhelming or overly technical, Delve supported my workflow without interrupting it. I appreciated being able to engage deeply with the content, knowing the platform was facilitating, not complicating my thinking. Overall, Delve proved to be a straightforward yet powerful tool for qualitative research. I would highly recommend it to researchers working with complex, culturally rich data who value clarity, usability, and a well-designed coding environment. I have shared my experience and shown others, both here at Reading University and at other universities where I have presented at conferences, so they can consider Delve for themselves.

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Value for money

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Pros:

I used Delve to analyse twelve one-hour interviews with heritage school leaders from a range of cultural backgrounds. The data was rich, nuanced, and deeply contextual, requiring a tool that could support thoughtful, systematic analysis without adding technical complexity. Delve delivered exactly that. One of the most impressive aspects of Delve is its intuitive coding interface. The visual layout made it easy to organise and refine codes, helping me stay focused on the data rather than the mechanics of the software. This was particularly valuable when working with detailed qualitative material from heritage language schools, where clarity and structure are essential.

Cons:

At the time, I found separating the codes into themes and subthemes just a little time-consuming. I reverted to doing this by hand. This was because I had over 300 codes and over 2000 snippets, which was exceptionally rich data.

Ekene M.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

Self-Employed

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed August 2025

Satisfied user

Ratings Breakdown

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Pros:

I used Delve software to support my thematic analysis for my masters thesis. I’ve never had to use a software for my qualitative analysis - so it’s interesting and yet challenging to use an entirely new software as a first timer. Its user-friendly interface made coding and refining themes straightforward, while the export options (to Word, Excel, and PDF) allowed me to integrate outputs directly into the dissertation. It also allowed me to import my transcripts directly as words instead of typing them out which would have discouraged me from using it. Delve also offers collaborative features for sharing projects with peers or supervisors, which, although not required in this study and I didn’t use it, could benefit larger team-based research. I selected Delve over more complex packages because it provided the core functionality I required in a simpler and more accessible format. Also, because my supervisor advised me against using such. Lastly, the emails from customer Support helped me learn some tips about using the software which I might not have figured out myself, such as merging codes under a theme.

Cons:

I can’t fault anything about Delve. I only feel it is quite on the high end price-wise. And this might discourage price sensitive students (which they are usually are) from using it.

Susan A.

Verified reviewer

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

Delvetool helped me to quickly cross my dissertation finish line

I had a great experience with Delve. I searched on other QDAS and Delve seemed to be the most comprehensive for my use. I was a bit apprehensive at first because I was not familiar with using QDAS technology but quickly became reliant on it's usage. I would highly recommend this tool for qualitative research.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Delve helped me to quickly highlight specific sentences, quotes, or phrases to be able to code them. It also helped me to organize my codes into themes and reorganize them later when I needed to move specific codes to another theme. I was also able to do quick searches for themes I needed and be able to quickly search for specific areas of my paper to write about the topics at hand. Lastly, when doing a search in my notes area, it found all my specific codes or possible themes, that I could quickly go to, and be able to quickly cut and paste into my dissertation. It helped me stay organized and continue my writing process without hiccups.

Cons:

I had to use a google spreadsheet to transfer all my codes and from Delve so I could holistically see my codes and possible themes. On the google spreadsheet, I was then able to combine/collapse themes to get a fuller picture of my writing.

Abayomi A.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2025

The best QDA platform by a mile

At the start of my research, I experimented with several QDA tools, including NVIVO and ATLAS.ti. However, I discovered that these tools were extremely complex and overloaded with features. Delve is a perfect tool for thorough qualitative analysis, with no unnecessary features, just exactly what you needed. The AI chat was very handy as well, as it allows those snippets that would be otherwise forgotten to be included in the write-up.

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

The tool has an excellent user interface, an easy-to-use layout, and AI chat options that work well, and overall, it is an excellent tool.

Cons:

It would have been useful if multiple statements could be coded at the same time. Instead of doing it individually.

Adriana C.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

10000+ employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Useful and handy

I have used this software for two projects, and it eases the tasks because it is not as hectic as other qualitative softwares.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The site is easy to use, and it is accompanied by how-to videos guiding the researchers on the coding process. It has a collaborative function which enables online, remote team work. Whenever you need help, you can click the customer support buttom to chat, and they answer quite rapidly. The data is secure in the site. The price is reasonable when it comes to having an institutional account. It is a lot easier to approach qualitative data because one can manage to categorize in a smooth way.

Cons:

Overall, I liked it a lot. I wish it were a far more cheaper, so more people could benefit from its use.

Dr. Michelle R.

Verified reviewer

Research

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2025

Coding in one place

It made my analysis of the data easier than I expected. Also the tutorials were spot on if a person needed to decide what type of coding to follow the tutorials guides them.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It was with ease that I could select the codes that was relevant to my research question. I was able to link it all in one place.

Cons:

It did not allow me to go more than three steps of coding and at a point I thought that could have made my coding a bit more robust

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