{
    "title": "Kahoot! Alternatives 2027: 9 Paid, Free & Open-Source",
    "url": "https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/kahoot/",
    "summary": "The best Kahoot! alternatives in 2027 are Wayground (best overall), Blooket (best free plan: Hosts up to 60 players) and ClassQuiz (best open source, MPL-2.0). Kahoot! itself starts at $19/mo. Zekai checked these prices on vendor pages on 13 Nov 2026; 6 more are compared below, including 3 with a free plan and 3 open source.",
    "tool": {
        "name": "Kahoot!",
        "starting_price": "$19/mo",
        "free_plan": "Kahoot! Go: 40 players, quiz and true/false only",
        "price_checked": "2026-11-13",
        "pricing_url": "https://kahoot.com/schools/plans/"
    },
    "task": "AI tutor / learning platform",
    "prices_checked": "2026-11-13",
    "date_modified": "2026-11-13",
    "alternatives": [
        {
            "name": "Wayground",
            "type": "Free",
            "starting_price": "Free plan; paid price not published",
            "free_plan_limit": "Free sign-up for teachers; plan caps not shown on the page",
            "best_for": "One platform for quizzes, slides and flashcards",
            "difference": "Wayground generates assessments, presentations, homework, videos and flashcards from a topic, document or upload, and ships accommodations such as translation and reading supports; Kahoot centres on live game sessions.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "pricing_url": "https://wayground.com/",
            "website": "https://wayground.com/",
            "zekai_score": 8.8,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/wayground/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Gimkit",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$14.99/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "Basic: three rotating free game modes; Pro-only modes cap at 5 players",
            "best_for": "Strategy-style classroom games on a small budget",
            "difference": "Gimkit Pro is $59.88 a year against $228 for Kahoot! One, adds Assignments for homework play, and lets live games run to a hard limit of 500 students.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "pricing_url": "https://help.gimkit.com/en/article/gimkit-pro-faq-14h6d62/",
            "website": "https://www.gimkit.com/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Blooket",
            "type": "Free",
            "starting_price": "Free plan; paid price not published",
            "free_plan_limit": "Free: unlimited question sets, hosts up to 60 players",
            "best_for": "Free arcade-style review games",
            "difference": "Blooket's free tier hosts up to 60 players and lets you build unlimited question sets; Plus raises the limit to 300 players, except in Racing and team modes.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "pricing_url": "https://help.blooket.com/hc/en-us/articles/17351034967959-Is-Blooket-Free",
            "website": "https://blooket.com/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Mentimeter",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$14/presenter/mo",
            "free_plan_limit": "Free: 50 participants a month, 23 slide types",
            "best_for": "Live polls and Q&A for presentations",
            "difference": "Mentimeter is built around presentation slides (word clouds, polls, quizzes, Q&A) priced per presenter, and its free plan allows 50 participants a month plus one unlimited session.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "pricing_url": "https://www.mentimeter.com/plans",
            "website": "https://www.mentimeter.com/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Nearpod",
            "type": "Free plan + paid",
            "starting_price": "$159/yr",
            "free_plan_limit": "Silver: 40 student joins per lesson, 300 MB storage",
            "best_for": "Teacher-paced interactive lessons with quizzes",
            "difference": "Nearpod runs teacher-paced lessons with embedded activities and tiers by student joins per lesson (40 free, 75 on Gold, 90 on Platinum) instead of Kahoot's single-quiz participant caps.",
            "price_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "pricing_url": "https://nearpod.com/pricing",
            "website": "https://nearpod.com/",
            "zekai_score": 8.7,
            "zekai_review": "https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/nearpod/"
        },
        {
            "name": "ClassQuiz",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MPL-2.0",
            "best_for": "Self-hosted Kahoot-style quizzes for schools",
            "difference": "ClassQuiz is MPL-2.0 code you host yourself, so there are no plan tiers; Kahoot! Go caps a live game at 40 participants and Kahoot! One at 800.",
            "website": "https://classquiz.de/",
            "repository": "https://github.com/mawoka-myblock/ClassQuiz",
            "commercial_use": "Yes; MPL-2.0 requires sharing changes to the covered files you distribute.",
            "runs_on": "A server running its Docker stack; the README gives no minimum RAM.",
            "setup": "moderate: Docker Compose with PostgreSQL, Redis and Meilisearch, per the README.",
            "github_stars": 734,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "last_commit": "2026-08-04"
        },
        {
            "name": "Razzia",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "MIT",
            "best_for": "Small events with a manager screen and room codes",
            "difference": "Razzia stores quizzes in a config folder, exposes a WebSocket protocol for custom clients such as an ESP32 buzzer, and documents Traefik, Nginx and Caddy proxy setups.",
            "website": "https://github.com/Ralex91/Razzia",
            "repository": "https://github.com/Ralex91/Razzia",
            "commercial_use": "Yes (MIT).",
            "runs_on": "Docker, or Node.js 24+ and pnpm 10.16+; ports 3000 and 3001.",
            "setup": "moderate: One Docker image plus a required MANAGER_PASSWORD environment variable.",
            "github_stars": 1100,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "last_commit": "2026-10-10"
        },
        {
            "name": "Fuiz",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
            "best_for": "Rust-built live quizzes with team support",
            "difference": "Fuiz is a Rust monorepo with real-time quiz games, multiple question types, team play and leaderboards, split into a game server and a separate image server.",
            "website": "https://github.com/fuiz-us",
            "repository": "https://github.com/fuiz-us/game",
            "commercial_use": "Yes; AGPL-3.0 means sharing changes if you run it as a service.",
            "runs_on": "Server for two Rust services; Rust 1.88+ to build from source.",
            "setup": "hard: Two Rust servers plus the website behind Caddy.",
            "github_stars": 19,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "last_commit": "2026-10-29"
        },
        {
            "name": "Quizmaster",
            "type": "Open source",
            "starting_price": "Free (self-hosted)",
            "free_plan_limit": "No limit (self-hosted)",
            "licence": "Apache-2.0",
            "best_for": "Quizmaster-hosted pub quizzes with YAML questions",
            "difference": "Quizmaster separates a player answer page, a display screen with audio and video, and a master control page where the host scores answers and runs the timer, with questions written in YAML.",
            "website": "https://github.com/nymanjens/quizmaster",
            "repository": "https://github.com/nymanjens/quizmaster",
            "commercial_use": "Yes (Apache-2.0).",
            "runs_on": "Java 11 on any server, or Docker; serves on port 9000.",
            "setup": "easy: Unzip a release and run bin/server, or one docker-compose command.",
            "github_stars": 326,
            "stars_checked": "2026-11-13",
            "last_commit": "2026-07-12"
        }
    ],
    "faq": [
        {
            "q": "What is the best alternative to Kahoot! in 2027?",
            "a": "Wayground is the best overall Kahoot! alternative on this page (Free plan; paid price not published). For no cost, Blooket has a free plan (Free: unlimited question sets, hosts up to 60 players). To self-host, ClassQuiz is open source (MPL-2.0)."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a free version of Kahoot!?",
            "a": "Yes. Kahoot! has a free plan: Kahoot! Go: 40 players, quiz and true/false only. Paid plans start at $19/mo, checked on 13 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "Is there a 100% free alternative to Kahoot!?",
            "a": "Yes. ClassQuiz, Razzia, Fuiz, Quizmaster are open source and free to self-host. Wayground, Gimkit, Blooket, Mentimeter, Nearpod have a free plan with limits, shown in the table."
        },
        {
            "q": "What is cheaper than Kahoot!?",
            "a": "Gimkit starts at $14.99/mo, against $19/mo for Kahoot!, as listed on each vendor's pricing page on 13 Nov 2026."
        },
        {
            "q": "How much do Kahoot! alternatives cost for a team of 5?",
            "a": "If each of 5 people buys the entry paid plan, at the prices Zekai checked on 13 Nov 2026, the monthly cost is Nearpod $66.25/mo, Mentimeter $70/mo, Gimkit $74.95/mo, against Kahoot! $95/mo for Kahoot!. Team and business plans can cost more per seat. The Zekai Cost Finder on this page recalculates for any team size."
        },
        {
            "q": "Which is better, Wayground or Kahoot!?",
            "a": "Wayground generates assessments, presentations, homework, videos and flashcards from a topic, document or upload, and ships accommodations such as translation and reading supports; Kahoot centres on live game sessions. Choose Wayground if you want quizzes, interactive slides, video and flashcards from one AI-generated activity library for a whole department. Stay with Kahoot! if your lessons depend on the live, music-driven game format and a 800-player cap on Kahoot! One."
        },
        {
            "q": "Why are people leaving Kahoot!?",
            "a": "The documented reasons are: Free Kahoot! Go limits a live game to 40 participants and quiz or true/false questions; the 800-participant limit needs Kahoot! One at $19 a month billed yearly (13 Nov 2026); On Kahoot! 360 business plans, commercial rights for external events (webinars, conferences, recruitment) are only included on Pro Ultra, listed at $99 a month and $79 a month billed annually under an introduction offer (13 Nov 2026). Each is sourced in the section above."
        },
        {
            "q": "Are there games like Kahoot for big groups?",
            "a": "Gimkit allows up to 500 students in a live game and Blooket Plus up to 300. Mentimeter Basic removes the participant cap for presentations. Kahoot! One allows 800 and Pro Ultra up to 5,000."
        }
    ],
    "publisher": "Zekai (zekaiwork.com) — independently reviewed; prices read on vendor pages on the dates shown.",
    "licence": "Free to quote with a link to https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/kahoot/. Bulk copying or republishing the dataset is not permitted."
}