Buyer's guide · updated October 2026
Six audience-response tools compared on free-plan limits, real cost for your room size and what each is genuinely best at.
| Tool | Cheapest plan covering that room* |
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*Monthly price on annual billing, from each vendor's published pricing as of October 2026. Seat, tax and add-on costs not included.
Best value for big rooms
Free (50/poll) · Pro $9/mo for 700
All seven poll types and the PowerPoint add-in on the free plan, sessions you step through with a clicker, attendance check-in, a $29 one-time Event Pass, and branding removal at $44/mo. Newer than the others, without enterprise extras like SSO or LMS sync.
Try it free →Long track record with universities and large companies
Free: 40 audience members · From $10/mo (Present, billed $120/yr, annual only)
Native PowerPoint, Google Slides and Canva integrations. Enterprise security certifications (SOC 2, ISO) and SSO. Choose it if you need Keynote or Canva integrations, SSO, LMS gradebook sync or formal security paperwork for procurement.
Pingroom vs Poll Everywhere →Polished slide-style presentations built inside the tool
Free: 50 participants per month (all presentations combined) · From $11.99/presenter/mo (Basic, billed yearly)
Large template library. Strong brand recognition in corporate training. Choose it if you want to build the whole presentation inside the polling tool, with its template library, rather than polling on top of your own slides.
Pingroom vs Mentimeter →Excellent moderated Q&A for large events
Free: 100 participants per event, 3 polls + 1 quiz per event · From $17.50/mo (Engage, 200 participants)
Deep Webex, Teams and Zoom integrations (Slido is part of Cisco). One-time event plans for single conferences. Choose it if you run very large conferences (5,000+ people) or your company lives in Webex.
Pingroom vs Slido →Cheapest paid entry price in this category
Free: 50 participants; 5 quiz + 3 poll questions per presentation · From $7.95/mo (Essential, 100 audience, billed yearly)
Lots of slide and quiz types. Unlimited audience on Pro. Choose it if your audiences are 51–100 people and price is everything — AhaSlides Essential is cheaper than our Pro at that size.
Pingroom vs AhaSlides →The best-known game-show quiz format
Free: 40 participants per session (personal use) · From $19/mo (Kahoot! 360, 50 participants, billed yearly)
Huge public library of ready-made quizzes. Very high student energy. Choose it if you mainly run game-show quizzes for students and want a big ready-made quiz library.
Pingroom vs Kahoot! →It depends on your limits. Slido free allows 100 people but only 3 polls per event; Mentimeter free caps you at 50 participants a month; Pingroom free allows 50 responders per poll with unlimited questions.
At 500 responders, Pingroom Pro ($9/mo) and Poll Everywhere Present ($10/mo, annual only) are the cheapest published options; AhaSlides Pro ($15.95/mo) has an unlimited audience.
Sources (checked October 2026): Poll Everywhere plans · meetergo — Mentimeter alternatives (prices checked Aug 2026) · Product Compass — Mentimeter free plan (Sep 2026) · AhaSlides — PowerPoint add-ins compared · Capterra — Slido pricing · Capterra UK — Slido one-time pricing · Slido community — free plan limit · Capterra — AhaSlides pricing · AhaSlides pricing table · AhaSlides PowerPoint integration · Koji — Slido alternatives (Kahoot free tier) · Kahoot! for PowerPoint on Microsoft AppSource. Prices change — check each vendor's site before buying.