Available targeting filters when recruiting participants from the Maze panel

Last updated: June 12, 2026

The Maze panel is powered by Prolific. To learn more about the participants, please see Prolific's documentation.

You can select the following screening criteria:

  • Basic: Country, Age, Sex

  • Advanced: Demographics & Geography, Work & Education, Health & Well-being, Family & Relationships, Beliefs, Interests & Lifestyle, Technology & IT, Shopping & Consumer Habits, Finance & Banking, Research, Other. Advanced filters are available for Enterprise plan users.

Please note that the pool size of available participants is significantly smaller for certain filters.

You can explore all panel available filters in the Home dashboard in app.maze.co.

Basic criteria

These filters are available to users on all plans.

Country

To hire participants, you must select a country or countries.

The panel has participants living in most OECD countries, including the United Kingdom, United States, France, Germany, Spain, among many others.

Gender

  • Any

  • Man

  • Woman

Age

You can select participants between 18 and 100 years old.

Advanced criteria

Advanced filters are available for users on the Enterprise plan.

Advanced criteria includes:

  • Demographics and geography

  • Work and education

  • Health and well-being

  • Family and relationships

  • Beliefs

  • Interests and lifestyle

  • Technology and IT

  • Shopping and consumer habits

  • Finance and banking

  • Research

  • Other

If you have placed a previous panel order recently on your account, you can select Recently used at the top of the filter selector, beneath Advanced criteria. This displays your 5 most recently used filters, making it faster to apply the targeting criteria you've used before without having to search through all available categories.

Recently used filters

If you have placed a previous panel order recently on your account, you can select Recently used at the top of the filter selector, beneath Advanced criteria. This displays your 5 most recently used filters, making it faster to apply the targeting criteria you've used before without having to search through all available categories.

Exclude Past Participants

Available for Enterprise plan users, the Exclude past participants toggle lets you prevent previously recruited participants from being included in a new panel order. There are two exclusion options:

  • From this project: Prevents participants who have already completed a study in the same project from being recruited again

  • From any project in your team: Prevents participants who have ever completed any study from your team from being recruited

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