Mentimeter's free plan stops at 50 participants per month and Basic costs $11.99 per presenter monthly, billed yearly (checked 2026-08-28). AhaSlides replaces it for $95.40 a year, Slido owns Q&A in large meetings, and meetergo's free poll tool wins when nothing is projected. Screen or link decides which.
Key Takeaways
- The free-tier limit that hurts is counted per month, not per session. Mentimeter allows 50 participants across a whole month, so two workshops exhaust it.
- Below $100 a year, only one paid option qualifies. AhaSlides Essential costs $95.40. Every other entry tier lands between $120 and $228 per presenter.
- Participant ceilings are the tier gate, not the feature list. Slido's entry plan caps at 200 and Kahoot's at 50, so one all-hands forces an unwanted upgrade.
- If nobody watches a projected screen, you are paying for the wrong thing. A free survey tool sends the same pulse check by link, uncapped.
Why do people look for a Mentimeter alternative?
People look for a Mentimeter alternative for two reasons, and only one is about features. Mentimeter holds 3.9 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 55 reviews (checked 2026-08-28). Trustpilot's summary of the 36 most recent credits easy navigation and immediate result visualisation, and records complaints about limited slide customisation and entry codes too small to read from the back of the room.
The other reason is price per head. In a cost thread in r/managers, a trainer sets a budget under $100 a year and works through Kahoot, Baamboozle and Wordwall without landing on one.
Mentimeter Alternatives at a Glance
| Tool | Free tier | Entry price | Participants at entry | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
meetergo | Free forever, unlimited | €0 (survey tool) | Unlimited | Polls shared by link |
Toolmeetergo Free tierFree forever, unlimited Entry price€0 (survey tool) Participants at entryUnlimited Best forPolls shared by link | ||||
AhaSlides | 50 per presentation | $7.95/mo billed yearly | 100 | Full slide set on a small budget |
ToolAhaSlides Free tier50 per presentation Entry price$7.95/mo billed yearly Participants at entry100 Best forFull slide set on a small budget | ||||
Slido | 100 participants | $17.50/mo billed yearly | 200 | Q&A and upvoting in large meetings |
ToolSlido Free tier100 participants Entry price$17.50/mo billed yearly Participants at entry200 Best forQ&A and upvoting in large meetings | ||||
Poll Everywhere | 40 audience members | $10/mo or $120/year | 700 | Presenters working inside PowerPoint |
ToolPoll Everywhere Free tier40 audience members Entry price$10/mo or $120/year Participants at entry700 Best forPresenters working inside PowerPoint | ||||
Kahoot! 360 | None on business plans | $19/mo billed yearly | 50 | Competitive quiz formats |
ToolKahoot! 360 Free tierNone on business plans Entry price$19/mo billed yearly Participants at entry50 Best forCompetitive quiz formats | ||||
Prices checked 2026-08-28 on each vendor's own pricing page (Mentimeter, AhaSlides, Slido, Poll Everywhere, Kahoot! 360), excluding tax. Mentimeter itself: $0 for 50 a month, $11.99 for Basic, $24.99 for Pro.
1. meetergo: for polls that run on a link
meetergo is a European scheduling and forms platform with a permanently free survey and poll tool. It is the one entry here that does not put the vote on a projected slide. You build the question, share a link, and results update as a live chart. That covers the job teams quietly borrow Mentimeter for, the mood check after an all-hands.
Key Features
Voting without an account
Participants answer from the link with no sign-up, no app and no email address, which lifts response rates and keeps collected personal data close to zero.
Live results with no participant cap
The chart redraws as answers arrive, single-choice or multiple-choice, with no upper limit. A company-wide poll costs the same as a poll of eight.
Forms for anything longer than a poll
When one question grows into a questionnaire, the form builder adds conditional logic, rating scales and file uploads, and routing forms pass the respondent to a booking step. Question design guidance sits in our open-ended survey questions write-up.
European hosting and no US corporate parent
90+ integrations including HubSpot, Salesforce, Stripe and Zoom sit alongside European servers, a data processing agreement and no US corporate parent, so responses stay under EU law. Criteria are in our GDPR-compliant software guide.
Pricing
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
Survey and poll tool | Free forever |
PlanSurvey and poll tool PriceFree forever | |
Free | €0/month |
PlanFree Price€0/month | |
Light | €9.90/month |
PlanLight Price€9.90/month | |
Suite (all apps) | €29.90/month |
PlanSuite (all apps) Price€29.90/month | |
Premium | €49.90/month |
PlanPremium Price€49.90/month | |
Enterprise | On request |
PlanEnterprise PriceOn request | |
The poll tool is free permanently and needs no subscription. Paying starts only when booking pages, CRM or e-signatures come in. Paid tiers include a 7-day trial; detail sits on the pricing page.
Where meetergo shines
- No participant ceiling on the free poll tool, where the other four cap between 40 and 100 on their free tiers.
- Voters need no account and no app, so response rates pay no registration tax.
- Polls, forms, scheduling and CRM share one data store, and scheduling votes run in the same product, covered in our appointment polls piece.
Where meetergo falls short
- No word clouds, quiz leaderboards or animated slide types for a projector.
- No PowerPoint or Google Slides add-in for a live vote inside a running deck.
- The wider platform targets scheduling and revenue workflows, not classroom pedagogy.
Customer Reviews
meetergo holds 4.8 out of 5 from 95 reviews on OMR Reviews (checked 2026-08-28). Reviewers most often name how quickly it goes live and that data stays in Germany; the recurring criticism is that the feature set takes a while to learn. The ratings cover the platform, not the poll tool alone.
Who meetergo is best for
Teams using Mentimeter for feedback and quick votes rather than talks, and organisations with a hard EU data requirement, including the 1,000+ institutions on meetergo's education pages.
Build a free poll and share the link
2. AhaSlides: the cheapest way to keep the slides
AhaSlides is interactive presentation software covering live polls, quizzes, word clouds and Q&A, at the lowest paid entry point here. Its free plan allows 50 participants per presentation with unlimited events, which behaves very differently from a monthly budget. Scope stops at the presentation: no video conferencing, no e-signatures, no payments and no CRM behind the responses.
Key Features
The standard slide set
Polls, quizzes, word clouds, open questions, spinner wheels and Q&A all appear on the free plan, capped at 5 quiz and 3 unscored slides.
Participant scaling that jumps rather than climbs
Essential covers 100 participants and Plus jumps to 2,500 (checked 2026-08-28), so mid-sized events skip a tier rather than paying incrementally.
AI slide generation
Plus adds AI question generation and AI image labelling, alongside custom branding and Q&A moderation.
Pricing
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
Free | $0, up to 50 participants |
PlanFree Price$0, up to 50 participants | |
Essential | $7.95/month billed yearly, up to 100 participants |
PlanEssential Price$7.95/month billed yearly, up to 100 participants | |
Plus | $15.95/month billed yearly, up to 2,500 participants |
PlanPlus Price$15.95/month billed yearly, up to 2,500 participants | |
Enterprise | Custom, up to 100,000 participants |
PlanEnterprise PriceCustom, up to 100,000 participants | |
Essential works out to $95.40 for the year, the only paid tier here under the r/managers budget ceiling (checked 2026-08-28).
Where AhaSlides shines
- The full Mentimeter slide format, word clouds included, at roughly a third of the annual cost.
- Unlimited events on the free plan, so the 50-participant cap resets every presentation instead of draining a monthly pool.
Where AhaSlides falls short
- Free plan question limits bite quickly at 5 quiz and 3 unscored slides.
- Paid plans bill yearly, so there is no cheap month-by-month trial.
- No data residency commitment on the pricing page.
Customer Reviews
AhaSlides holds 3.6 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 6 reviews (checked 2026-08-28), too small a sample to weigh as a rating. A reviewer on 23 September 2024, under "Better pricing than other interactive software", praises fast support and names one hard limit: the bar chart colour cannot be changed on the results screen. AhaSlides is also the first name raised in a nine-comment r/AskReddit thread on free apps like Mentimeter.
Who AhaSlides is best for
Trainers and teachers paying out of pocket who want the Mentimeter format at roughly a third of the cost.
3. Slido: for Q&A in large company meetings
Slido belongs to Cisco and is built for moderated audience feedback in corporate meetings, with question upvoting, polls and quizzes inside Zoom, Teams and PowerPoint. Its scope is deliberately narrow. Sessions are the unit of work, and everything around them belongs to another vendor: no forms builder, no scheduling, no payments, no CRM. The pricing page names no hosting location.
Key Features
Question upvoting
Attendees submit questions anonymously or by name and vote on which gets answered first, the function town halls buy it for.
Meeting platform integrations
Polls and Q&A run inside Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Google Slides and PowerPoint rather than on a separate screen.
Participant tiers built around event size
Tiers are defined by joined devices per session: 100 on Basic, 200 on Engage, 1,000 on Professional, 5,000 on Enterprise (checked 2026-08-28).
Pricing
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
Basic | $0, free forever, 100 participants |
PlanBasic Price$0, free forever, 100 participants | |
Engage | US$17.50/month billed annually ($210/year), 200 participants |
PlanEngage PriceUS$17.50/month billed annually ($210/year), 200 participants | |
Professional | US$75/month billed annually ($900/year), 1,000 participants |
PlanProfessional PriceUS$75/month billed annually ($900/year), 1,000 participants | |
Enterprise | US$200/month billed annually ($2,400/year), 5,000 participants |
PlanEnterprise PriceUS$200/month billed annually ($2,400/year), 5,000 participants | |
Monthly billing is not offered. The only alternative is a one-time plan covering a single event of up to seven days. Extra members cost US$17.50 per month on Engage and US$37.50 on Professional (checked 2026-08-28).
Where Slido shines
- The free Basic tier covers 100 participants per session, twice Mentimeter's whole monthly allowance and free forever.
- Q&A moderation and upvoting are the deepest here, which is why town halls standardise on it.
Where Slido falls short
- No monthly billing, so the entry commitment is $210 up front.
- The 200-participant Engage cap forces a $900-a-year jump for one large all-hands.
- Extra presenters cost close to full seat price, at US$17.50 to US$37.50 each per month.
Customer Reviews
Slido holds 4.2 out of 5 on Trustpilot, also from only 6 reviews (checked 2026-08-28), so read it as anecdote. The praise points at integration rather than design: a reviewer on 11 March 2022, under "Great tool for increasing interaction!", credits the Google Slides integration with making it easy for their audience to ask questions. The recurring objection is commercial, the annual-only commitment.
Who Slido is best for
Enterprises running all-hands where Q&A moderation outranks slide design, and teams already standardised on Webex or Teams.
4. Poll Everywhere: for presenters working inside their deck
Poll Everywhere is an audience response system built around add-ins for PowerPoint, Google Slides and Keynote, so the poll lives inside the existing deck. It does not extend past the response: no form builder, no scheduling, no payments, no CRM to hold the answers. The audience ceiling is flat rather than tiered, capping at 700 on every business plan below Enterprise.
Key Features
Native slide add-ins
Polls render inside PowerPoint, Google Slides and Keynote, so presenters keep one deck instead of switching apps mid-talk.
A free tier sized for a classroom
The Intro plan is free and allows 40 audience members, with a 700-member allowance for the first 30 days.
Seat-based team plans
Engage and Teams add seats at $294 and $499 annually, aimed at departments where several people present (checked 2026-08-28).
Pricing
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
Intro | Free, 40 audience members |
PlanIntro PriceFree, 40 audience members | |
Present | $10/month, or $120 billed annually, 700 audience |
PlanPresent Price$10/month, or $120 billed annually, 700 audience | |
Engage | $49/month, or $588 billed annually, 700 audience |
PlanEngage Price$49/month, or $588 billed annually, 700 audience | |
Teams | $84/month, or $999 billed annually, 700 audience |
PlanTeams Price$84/month, or $999 billed annually, 700 audience | |
Enterprise | Custom, custom audience size |
PlanEnterprise PriceCustom, custom audience size | |
Present at $120 a year is the second-cheapest paid entry here and the cheapest with genuine monthly billing (checked 2026-08-28).
Where Poll Everywhere shines
- The only tool here you can rent for one month at $10 and stop, which suits a single conference talk.
- Add-ins keep the vote inside PowerPoint, Google Slides or Keynote, with no second screen.
Where Poll Everywhere falls short
- The free tier's 40-member cap is the tightest here once the 30-day window ends.
- Audience size does not grow with price below Enterprise.
- Additional seats cost a lot relative to the base plan.
Customer Reviews
Poll Everywhere has no Trustpilot profile (checked 2026-08-28), and no verified aggregate rating from another source was collected here. That gap is worth stating rather than filling with a vendor-published score. The complaint visible in the plan design itself is the flat 700-member ceiling. A department upgrading from Present to Teams pays roughly eight times as much and reaches the same number of people.
Who Poll Everywhere is best for
Presenters who will not give up PowerPoint or Keynote for a browser tool, and occasional users paying for one month and stopping.
5. Kahoot! 360: for competitive quiz formats
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform, and its business arm Kahoot! 360 sells the same timed, scored, leaderboard-driven quiz format to corporate training teams. That format is the whole proposition and also its limit. There is no free business tier, no form builder, no scheduling and no CRM, and reflective formats barely exist because the mechanic rewards speed.
Key Features
Scored, timed quiz rounds
Questions run against a clock with points for speed and accuracy and a leaderboard between rounds, which is what separates it from a straight poll.
Five business tiers by audience size
Pro Start covers 50 participants, Pro Standard 200, Pro Plus 1,000, Pro Max 2,000 and Pro Ultra 5,000 (checked 2026-08-28).
Training-oriented reporting
Session reports target L&D teams tracking completion and comprehension across sessions.
Pricing
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
Pro Start | $19/month billed annually, 50 participants |
PlanPro Start Price$19/month billed annually, 50 participants | |
Pro Standard | $25/month billed annually, 200 participants |
PlanPro Standard Price$25/month billed annually, 200 participants | |
Pro Plus | $49/month billed annually, 1,000 participants |
PlanPro Plus Price$49/month billed annually, 1,000 participants | |
Pro Max | $69/month billed annually, 2,000 participants |
PlanPro Max Price$69/month billed annually, 2,000 participants | |
Pro Ultra | $79/month billed annually, 5,000 participants |
PlanPro Ultra Price$79/month billed annually, 5,000 participants | |
Pro Start is $228 a year, the highest entry price here, and covers the smallest audience (checked 2026-08-28).
Where Kahoot! shines
- No tool here beats it on scored comprehension checks, where the leaderboard between rounds does real motivational work.
- Session reporting is built for L&D teams tracking completion across a programme, not a one-off talk.
Where Kahoot! falls short
- The highest entry price here for the smallest audience allowance.
- Business plans carry no permanently free tier.
- The gamified format fits comprehension checks, not open reflection or anonymous feedback, because the mechanic rewards speed.
Customer Reviews
Kahoot! holds 3.6 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 537 reviews (checked 2026-08-28), the only large sample among these four. Trustpilot's summary of those reviews reports engaging quizzes and a deep library of premade games, set against complaints about the subscription model, confusing pricing and basic features locked behind expensive tiers (checked 2026-08-28). A reviewer on 20 August 2026, under "I'll look for another way.", writes that "everything has to be billed annually or $50 a month" and that Kahoot! "clearly care more about their shareholders than they do about their teachers". A retired family physician teaching university clinical-skills classes wrote on 4 August 2026 that one summer class sold them on it. Format, not price, is the constraint in a 10-plus comment r/education discussion, where the teacher wants reflection on questions with no single right answer.
Who Kahoot! is best for
Corporate learning teams running knowledge checks and onboarding, where competition drives engagement rather than distracting.
How do you choose a Mentimeter alternative?
You choose a Mentimeter alternative by settling the delivery method first, then the participant ceiling, then the seat count, then the data question.
Start with delivery. If the vote has to appear on a screen in front of a room, you are shopping among AhaSlides, Slido, Poll Everywhere and Kahoot!, and price per presenter decides it. If the vote goes out as a link, on-screen slide types are dead weight and a free survey tool wins on cost.
Then check the ceiling that will stop you. Free tiers look similar and count differently: 50 per month at Mentimeter, 50 per presentation with unlimited events at AhaSlides, 100 per session at Slido, 40 at Poll Everywhere. Work out your largest session and your monthly volume separately, because one hits the wall first and it is rarely the expected one.
Third, price the seats rather than the plan. Slido charges close to full price per extra member, Poll Everywhere adds $294 to $499 per seat annually, and Mentimeter's per-presenter model puts six presenters on Basic at roughly $863 a year (checked 2026-08-28). Cheap for one trainer is rarely cheap for a team.
Finally, decide whether responses need to stay under EU law. Only meetergo among these five states server location and a data processing agreement as standard. Mentimeter itself is Swedish, so switching away is not automatically a sovereignty upgrade. Related criteria sit in our customer surveys guide.
Booking + video conferencing in one tool.
Booking + video conferencing in one tool.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a free version of Mentimeter?
Yes. Mentimeter's free plan allows 50 participants per month at $0 (checked 2026-08-28). The allowance is monthly rather than per session, so two workshops of 25 people use it up. Slido's free Basic tier allows 100 per session.
Which is better, Slido or Mentimeter?
Slido is better when moderated Q&A and question upvoting matter more than slide design, and it runs inside Webex, Zoom, Teams and PowerPoint. Mentimeter is better for building the interactive presentation itself. Slido starts at $210 a year with no monthly option; Mentimeter at $11.99 per presenter per month billed yearly.
What is better, Kahoot or Mentimeter?
Kahoot! is better for scored, timed comprehension checks where a right answer exists. Mentimeter is better for opinion and open reflection, because scoring gets in the way when disagreement is the point. Kahoot! 360 has no free business tier and starts at $228 a year.
The Short Version
There is no single best Mentimeter alternative, because Mentimeter does two jobs for two buyers. $95.40 a year buys AhaSlides Essential and 100 participants, the clearest swap for projected slides. Slido owns Q&A moderation, Poll Everywhere the PowerPoint add-in, Kahoot! 360 scored quizzes. For teams who never project anything, none of those tiers buy what a free, uncapped poll tool already does. More in our client feedback surveys piece.
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