The best Kahoot alternatives in 2026

Giga Quizzes. It plays the way Kahoot does, 10 out of 10 in our rating, and everything in it is free, with no paid plan: up to 500 players and all 11 question types, teams, seven game modes, homework for a class group, polls with word clouds, AI quiz generation and a report of every game.

Giga Quizzes and Blooket, both 10 out of 10 in our rating. Every Giga Quizzes game plays the way Kahoot does: questions on one big screen, players answering on their phones against a countdown, more points for faster answers, a leaderboard, a podium and avatars. Blooket’s Classic mode works the same way. Wayground’s instructor-paced mode comes close (8), and Mentimeter and AhaSlides run Kahoot-style quiz slides inside a presentation (7).

Because paying rarely makes sense either way. For a one-off event, nobody wants to buy a plan for a single game; for a class that plays every week, a subscription keeps charging and adds up over the years. Giga Quizzes has no paid plan at all, so neither costs anything.

Giga Quizzes and Gimkit. Giga Quizzes allows up to 500 players in every mode; Gimkit’s hard limit is 500 in its free featured modes, and 60 in its 2D modes. On the free plans, Wayground allows 100 per session, Vevox and Slido 100, Plickers 63 per class, Blooket 60, Socrative, AhaSlides and Genially 50, and Nearpod 40. Mentimeter allows 50 participants a month. Games for Crowds takes 2 to 2,000 or more depending on the game, and is free while it is in testing.

Plickers. Each student holds up a printed card turned to show their answer, and the teacher scans the room with a phone.

Not to join a game in any tool in the comparison table: players type a code or open a link, or hold up a card. Wayground asks students to log in only when a homework session limits their attempts.

Giga Quizzes (homework for a class group), Wayground (asynchronous sessions), Blooket (homework due within 14 days), AhaSlides (self-paced mode) and Nearpod (student-paced lessons). A Socrative quiz can stay open as long as you need, and every AskQuiz quiz is self-paced. Genially shares a student-paced genially by link, but tracking the answers is on its paid plans. Gimkit’s assignments are on Gimkit Pro, and Vevox’s self-paced quizzes on its paid plans.

Giga Quizzes (up to 6 teams), Blooket (in its team game modes), Wayground (Team mode), Gimkit (a team option in the game settings), Socrative (Space Race) and Games for Crowds. In Mentimeter a team shares one device. AhaSlides’ and Vevox’s team quizzes are on their paid plans, and Slido’s quiz has no teams.

Giga Quizzes (30 generations a day), Wayground (with limits on the free plan), Mentimeter (Menti AI), AhaSlides, Socrative (15 a week), Genially, Vevox, Slido, Games for Crowds and AskQuiz. Blooket sets can be generated with Khan Academy’s Khanmigo Blooket Generator. Kahoot’s and Nearpod’s AI tools are on their paid plans.

Giga Quizzes lays out right-to-left quizzes from right to left, on the host screen, on players’ phones and in print, and the site itself comes in 8 languages including Arabic and Hebrew. AhaSlides’ help pages say it has no right-to-left layout yet, so Arabic text there displays left to right.

Mostly, yes. Giga Quizzes imports Blooket question sets, Quizlet sets and CSV or Excel files. Blooket imports from Quizlet and spreadsheets, Gimkit from flashcard text and CSV files, Wayground from documents, Google Forms and spreadsheets, Socrative from Excel, AskQuiz from CSV, Nearpod, AhaSlides and Genially from PowerPoint and PDF, and Plickers from text pasted from anywhere, Kahoot included.

On their free plans only, from each company’s own help centre, plans page, product page or blog, read in September and October 2026, and rated 1–10 on how close each live game is to Kahoot’s. The sources are listed under the comparison table. Plans change, so check a company’s site before you decide.