Kahoot! alternatives · updated 7 October 2026
Kahoot! is the live quiz tool most people know, but its headline prices are per month billed annually and every tier caps players per game. This guide compares nine alternatives on list price, player limits and free plans, read from the vendors' own pricing pages on 7 October 2026. ZappyQ is the lower-priced option: one Host Plan at $9.99 a month, billed monthly, no player cap, and players always join free by QR code or PIN.
The comparison
List price, player limit of the cheapest paid plan, free plan and best use. Every figure is the vendor's own, checked on 7 October 2026.
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| Tool | Price (per month) | Players per game (cheapest paid plan) | Free plan | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZappyQ | $9.99/mo (€9.99, £8.99 or 99 kr depending on country), billed monthly, cancel anytime | No player cap on the Host Plan | Yes, no time limit: 25 players per game, all 6 question types, 10 AI drafts in total, no card | Hosts who want one flat price and free players: classrooms, training, quiz nights |
| Kahoot! | Kahoot!+ from $3/mo billed annually ($36 a year; $9 billed monthly) · Kahoot! 360 for business $19–79/mo billed annually | 50 (Kahoot!+ Bronze) · 100–800 on higher Kahoot!+ tiers · 50–5,000 on Kahoot! 360 | Kahoot! Go: 40 players for teachers (10 personal), quiz and true/false only | Schools that want the largest library of ready-made quizzes |
| Mentimeter | $11.99–24.99 per presenter/mo, billed yearly, excl. tax | Unlimited participants per month on Basic; no per-presentation cap listed | 50 participants per month | Meetings and lectures where the quiz is one slide among many |
| Slido | €15–150/mo, billed annually | see vendor pricing | see vendor pricing | Corporate meetings with Q&A and polls inside PowerPoint, Teams or Webex |
| AhaSlides | see vendor pricing (Essential and Pro plans, monthly or yearly billing) | see vendor pricing | 50 participants per presentation, 5 quiz questions and 3 poll questions, unlimited presentations | Presenters who want quizzes and polls in one deck on a small budget |
| Socrative | $10 per seat/mo (Essentials) or $120 a year · Pro $16.67 per seat/mo billed annually, min. 2 seats | 50 students per room (Essentials) · 300 on Pro | 1 room, 50 students, 5 quizzes, 30-day report history | Teachers running exit tickets and formative checks |
| Baamboozle | $4.99/mo billed yearly ($59.88) or $7.99/mo billed monthly (Baamboozle+) | Team play on one shared screen; team and question limits not listed on the pricing page | Basic: free; restrictions not listed on the pricing page | Young learners and language classes playing in teams on one screen |
| Poll Everywhere | Present $120 a year (annual billing only) · Engage $49/mo billed annually ($99 monthly) · Teams $84/mo billed annually ($249 monthly) | 700 audience members (Present) | Intro: 40 audience members (700 for the first 30 days) | Lecturers and presenters with large rooms |
| Vevox | €11.95/mo (Starter, business) billed annually · education from €8.45/mo | 250 (Starter) · 1,500 on Pro | 100 participants, 1 user, basic polls, quizzes and Q&A | Universities and company town halls, priced in euro |
We opened each vendor's public pricing page on 7 October 2026 and copied the listed monthly price, billing basis, the participant limit of the cheapest paid plan and the free plan's limits. Where a page loads prices by script and showed none, the cell says "see vendor pricing". Promotional prices shown next to a list price were ignored.
Kahoot!, Mentimeter, Slido, AhaSlides, Socrative, Baamboozle, Poll Everywhere and Vevox are trademarks of their owners; ZappyQ is not affiliated with any of them. Figures are the vendors' listed prices and limits on 7 October 2026 and may change.
Tool by tool
Strengths, limits and who each tool suits, in about seventy words each.
ZappyQ is a live quiz platform from Sweden with one plan instead of tiers: $9.99 a month, billed monthly, for no player cap, all six question types, 200 AI drafts a month and CSV export. Players join free by QR code or PIN, no app, no account. The free plan never expires: 25 players per game, 10 AI drafts in total. It is new, has no public quiz library and speaks English and Swedish only.
Kahoot! Go, the free plan, allows 40 players for teachers (10 on the personal plan) and two question types: quiz and true/false. Kahoot!+ Bronze lists at $3 a month billed annually ($9 billed monthly) for 50 players, rising to $19 for 800 on Kahoot! One; Kahoot! 360 for business runs $19 to $79 a month billed annually for 50 to 5,000 participants. The strength is the huge public quiz library. The weakness is the ladder: every extra player tier costs more.
Mentimeter is a presentation tool first: slides with polls, word clouds, Q&A and quiz competitions, answered from the audience's phones. The free plan allows 50 participants a month, a monthly pool rather than a per-session cap. Basic costs $11.99 per presenter a month and Pro $24.99, billed yearly and excluding tax, with unlimited participants per month. Good for workshops and lectures; heavier and pricier than a plain quiz with a leaderboard needs.
Slido, now part of Cisco, is built for meetings: live Q&A, polls, word clouds and quizzes inside PowerPoint, Google Slides, Microsoft Teams and Webex. Its paid plans list at €15 to €150 a month billed annually, so even the entry plan costs more than ZappyQ's Host Plan. The pricing page loads participant limits and free-plan details by script, so check the vendor page. It suits companies that live in Teams or Webex, not a classroom.
AhaSlides puts quizzes, polls and Q&A in one slide deck, and its free plan is generous on audience size: 50 live participants per presentation, capped at 5 quiz questions and 3 poll questions, with unlimited presentations a month. The paid Essential and Pro plans bill monthly or yearly, with separate rates for teachers; their list prices are rendered by script and did not load in our check. The free tier covers a five-question warm-up, not a full quiz.
Socrative is a formative assessment tool rather than a game show: quizzes, quick questions, exit tickets and the Space Race team mode in a room students join by name. The free plan allows one room, 50 students, 5 saved quizzes and 30 days of reports. Essentials costs $10 per seat a month or $120 a year for 5 rooms, still 50 students; Pro raises that to 300. Choose it for quiet checks and reports, not energy.
Baamboozle is a different format: a team game on one shared screen, where the teacher clicks a tile, reads the question and awards points. Students need no phones, which makes it popular in primary and language classrooms. Basic is free; Baamboozle+ costs $4.99 a month billed yearly ($59.88) or $7.99 billed monthly and lifts all restrictions, though the pricing page lists no team or question limits. There are no individual scores, device answers or per-question reports.
Poll Everywhere began as a polling tool for lectures and now adds competitions, Q&A and word clouds inside PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides. The free Intro plan allows an audience of 40 (700 during the first 30 days). Present costs $120 a year, with annual billing only, for a 700-person audience; Engage ($49 a month billed annually, $99 month to month) and Teams ($84 billed annually, $249 monthly) keep that cap. Good audience per dollar among the slide tools here, but the quiz is one activity among many.
Vevox is a polling, quiz and Q&A platform from the UK with business and education price lists in euro. The free plan allows 100 participants with one user. Business Starter costs €11.95 a month (€143.40 billed annually) for 250 participants and Pro €24.95 list price for 1,500; education Starter is €8.45 a month. It integrates with PowerPoint and Microsoft Teams, but pricing is per user and per year, so paying monthly is not an option.
Credit where due
Kahoot! has the largest public library of ready-made quizzes on this list, so a teacher who needs a fractions review in two minutes will often find one already made. Students know the brand, the music and the colours.
Kahoot! Go allows 40 free players on the teacher plan against 25 on ZappyQ's free plan, so a teacher with a class of 32 who will not pay is better served by Kahoot!. For events with thousands of participants, Kahoot! 360 publishes tiers up to 5,000.
Once you pay, the maths flips: ZappyQ's Host Plan at $9.99 a month costs about the same as Kahoot!+ Bronze billed monthly ($9), yet has no player cap where Bronze stops at 50 and includes what Kahoot! spreads across tiers: AI drafts, every question type and CSV export.
Price
The cheapest line in the table is Kahoot!+ Bronze at $3 a month, but that is $36 up front for a year, capped at 50 players, or $9 a month paid monthly. Baamboozle+ at $4.99 a month billed yearly is cheaper still, but it is a one-screen team game.
ZappyQ has one Host Plan at $9.99 a month (€9.99, £8.99 or 99 kr by country, VAT included in Europe), billed monthly, with everything included: no player cap, all six question types, 200 AI drafts a month, themes, reports and CSV export. You never pay more because the room got bigger, and players never pay at all.
For a small group the free plan is a plan, not a trial: 25 players, all six question types, 10 AI drafts in total, no card, no time limit. See the pricing page, or how teachers and trainers use ZappyQ.
Switching
Three steps, and the first one needs no account.
Paste your topic or notes into the AI quiz generator for up to 20 editable questions, or build by hand with six question types. No account needed.
Create a free account, press host and put the game on the projector. ZappyQ shows each question with a QR code and a six-digit PIN.
Students scan, pick a nickname and play from their own phones at zappyq.com/join. Games are deleted 24 hours after creation.
FAQ
It depends on group size. ZappyQ's free plan allows 25 players per game with all six question types and 10 AI drafts in total, and never expires. Kahoot! Go allows 40 players for teachers (10 on personal plans) but only quiz and true/false questions. Socrative's free plan takes 50 students and Vevox's 100 participants, without game-show scoring.
ZappyQ's Host Plan has no player cap: a class of 30 and a kick-off of 300 join the same way, by QR code or PIN, for the same $9.99 a month. Every Kahoot! plan caps players by tier, from 10–40 on Kahoot! Go to 5,000 on Kahoot! 360. Mentimeter lists unlimited participants per month, priced per presenter.
No. Every tool here that uses student devices works in a phone browser; Baamboozle runs on one shared screen. ZappyQ players need no account either: they scan the QR code or type the six-digit PIN at zappyq.com/join, choose a nickname and play. Game data is deleted 24 hours after the game is created.
ZappyQ is operated by Expi AB in Sweden under the GDPR. Players join with a nickname only, so no student email, name or account is collected, and game data is deleted after 24 hours. Hosting runs on Vercel in Stockholm with Upstash as the database; the privacy policy lists every processor.
Yes. ZappyQ's AI quiz generator turns a topic or pasted text into up to 20 questions with answers, in English or Swedish, and you edit everything before hosting. The free plan includes 10 drafts in total, the Host Plan 200 a month. Only your prompt goes to OpenAI, never player data.
Try the alternative
Build your first quiz free, host it for up to 25 players, and get the Host Plan when you need more. Players always join free.