Free Kahoot Alternatives in 2026: 8 Options for Large Groups

Gimkit's help center gives the most generous free answer on this list. Gimkit Basic requires a free educator account and lets you play the featured modes with as many students as you like, set up classes and collect reports. The hard limit for a live game is 500 students, and 2D game modes have a separate limit of 60.

The catch is the mode list. Usually only about three free modes rotate at a time, and the Pro Exclusive modes are capped at 5 players for Basic accounts. Gimkit Pro gives access to all modes, assignments for homework and image and audio uploads. The help center lists Pro at $59.88 billed annually or $14.99 billed monthly, and says annual is cheaper if you use it four months or more.

Gimkit is a strong pick for a large class that wants a game feel, as long as you are happy to use whichever featured mode is available that week.

Slido is built for events, meetings and training, not for classroom games. Its pricing page lists a free Basic plan with up to 100 participants, basic audience Q&A and 3 polls per slido. That is a bigger audience than most free plans here, though the poll cap is tight.

Paid plans are priced for professionals. Engage is $12.50 per month billed at $150 annually and supports 200 participants. Professional is $50 per month billed at $600 a year, with up to 1,000 participants, question moderation and branding. Enterprise is $150 per month billed at $1,800 annually and supports 5,000. All prices exclude VAT.

Community answers from Slido staff say the participant count is cumulative if you reuse the same slido for several sessions, so create a fresh one for each class or event. Choose Slido when you want audience questions and polls from a big room, not points and leaderboards.

Quizizz is now Wayground, and the company's own homepage says so. It describes a platform that creates AI-powered assessments, presentations, videos, flashcards and homework, and offers a free sign-up for teachers.

According to Wayground's help center, the Starter (Basic) plan has limited library access, limited activity storage and up to 100 participants per session. The Individual (Super) plan has full library access, unlimited storage and up to 1,000 participants per session. The help center article does not list prices, so we call the starting price See website.

Be aware that plans have been moving. A separate help article says the Starter plan has a storage cap of 20 resources since January 1, 2026, and mentions a revised Starter plan for Free-For-Schools users from September 1, 2026. Check your own account to see which limits apply to you.

Blooket's tagline calls its games fun, free and educational. Blooket's help center says free accounts can create unlimited question sets and host a game with up to 60 people, and Plus members can host up to 300 players, with exceptions for some modes such as Racing and team modes, where the limit stays at 60.

That makes Blooket a fit for a typical classroom or a split class, but not a single large lecture hall on the free plan. The Plus price is where sources disagree. Third-party pages list figures from about $2.99 to $9.99 a month depending on billing, and we could not open Blooket's upgrade page without logging in, so check inside your account.

Blooket plays well for review games after a unit. It does not aim for audience polling, so pick a different tool if that is your need.

Mentimeter turns a presentation into an interactive session with polls, word clouds, quizzes and Q&A. Its plans page lists the free plan at $0 with 23 slide types and 50 participants per month, and also says unlimited participants once per month, which seems to describe one big session.

The help center explains the monthly limit as an account-wide pool: you can run as many presentations as you want until the total reaches 50 participants, then upgrade or wait 30 days. Mentimeter will not kick participants out of a live presentation. The help center also lists an exporting feature under the Basic plan.

Basic costs $11.99 per presenter per month billed yearly, and Pro is $24.99 per presenter per month billed yearly. An education page offers discounts but the amounts were not shown. For one large session a month, Mentimeter's free plan can work. For weekly classes, the pool runs out quickly.

AhaSlides's pricing page says the free plan supports up to 50 participants and unlimited presentations a month, but with a cap of 5 quiz questions and 3 poll questions per presentation. If attendance exceeds 50, the presentation carries on but extra participants cannot join.

Base prices for paid plans were not listed in the page text we read. It mentions a yearly saving of 67 percent and special rates for teachers, students and nonprofits on a separate education page. That is why the starting price is See website.

The five-question quiz limit is the real constraint for classes. AhaSlides works for a short warm-up or a presentation with a few interactive moments, not a full review game. Check the education page if you teach, because pricing differs there.

Socrative is a quiz and assessment tool, and its plans page shows a table with three tiers. Free is $0 with 50 students per activity. Essentials is $10 per seat per month, billed at $120 annually, with 50 students. Pro is $16.67 per seat per month, billed at $200.04 annually, with 300 students and a two-seat minimum plus a 10 percent discount for two or more seats.

A search summary of the official page also mentioned free plan limits of 5 quizzes and 1 room, but we only confirmed the table figures when we opened it. Older third-party listings show different prices and limits, so treat those as outdated.

Socrative suits teachers who want fast formative checks, such as a five-question exit ticket. It does not try to be a game show. If you need more than 50 students at once, you have to move to Pro.

Poll Everywhere is here as an honest counterexample. Its plans page lists the free Intro plan at up to 40 participants, which is not enough for a large group. The free plan includes unlimited questions and 10 AI prompts a month, but not email support, reporting or attendance management.

Paid plans start with Present at $10 per month, billed annually at $120, which supports 700 participants. Engage is $49 per month billed annually ($588), or $99 on monthly billing. Teams is $84 per month billed annually ($999), or $249 on monthly billing. Education pricing sits on a separate page.

If your group is under 40, the free plan is a simple way to run polls. For bigger groups, the first paid plan covers 700 participants, but it is a subscription you have to budget for.