Paideias is a qualitative research tool that combines AI-assisted codebook generation, real-time collaborative coding, and built-in inter-coder agreement — free to start, nothing to install, and QDPX import so your existing NVivo projects come with you.
Migrating from NVivo
Both tools speak QDPX (REFI-QDA), the open interchange standard for qualitative data analysis software. Migration is a three-step process, and it works in both directions — Paideias is built to be the tool teams switch to, not one that locks their data in.
What you get
Upload interview transcripts and documents (encrypted in your browser before they sync), build a hierarchical codebook manually or let AI propose one grounded in your framework, code in Focus Mode with multi-coding support, retrieve every coded passage across documents, measure inter-coder reliability, and generate analysis-ready charts — code frequency, hierarchy, treemaps, co-occurrence — exportable as PNG or SVG for your methods section. The documentation walks through every step with real screenshots, and the live demo lets you try the actual workspace without an account.
Frequently Asked Questions
Paideias is a browser-based NVivo alternative with AI-assisted codebook generation, real-time collaborative coding, built-in inter-coder agreement (Cohen's Kappa, Krippendorff's Alpha), and client-side AES-256-GCM encryption. It is free to start, requires no installation, and imports/exports the QDPX format so existing NVivo projects can be migrated without re-coding.
Yes. Paideias has a free plan that covers individual researchers getting started — upload transcripts, build a codebook, code manually or with AI assistance, and export results. Paid plans add capacity and team features. NVivo, by contrast, requires a paid per-seat licence after its trial.
Paideias imports and exports the QDPX (REFI-QDA) format, the open interchange standard NVivo also supports. Export your NVivo project to QDPX, import it into Paideias, and your codebook and coded excerpts come with it — and you can export back at any time.
Yes — Paideias runs entirely in the browser, so it works identically on Mac, Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS. There is no desktop install and no feature gap between platforms, unlike NVivo where the Mac release has historically lagged the Windows version.
Yes. Real-time collaboration is built in: multiple coders work on the same document simultaneously, every coding decision is attributed to the researcher who made it, and inter-coder agreement is computed live. See how team collaboration works, demonstrated with two real accounts.