# Kahoot! Alternatives 2027: 9 Paid, Free & Open-Source

Source: https://zekaiwork.com/alternatives/kahoot/
Prices checked: 2026-11-13 (Zekai Price Ledger)

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 | Type | Starting price | Free plan limit | Licence | Best for | Price checked | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kahoot! (the tool being replaced) | — | $19/mo | Kahoot! Go: 40 players, quiz and true/false only | — | — | 2026-11-13 | [pricing](https://kahoot.com/schools/plans/) |
| Wayground | Free | Free plan; paid price not published | Free sign-up for teachers; plan caps not shown on the page | — | One platform for quizzes, slides and flashcards | 2026-11-13 | [site](https://wayground.com/) [pricing](https://wayground.com/) [Zekai page](https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/wayground/) |
| Gimkit | Free plan + paid | $14.99/mo | Basic: three rotating free game modes; Pro-only modes cap at 5 players | — | Strategy-style classroom games on a small budget | 2026-11-13 | [site](https://www.gimkit.com/) [pricing](https://help.gimkit.com/en/article/gimkit-pro-faq-14h6d62/) |
| Blooket | Free | Free plan; paid price not published | Free: unlimited question sets, hosts up to 60 players | — | Free arcade-style review games | 2026-11-13 | [site](https://blooket.com/) [pricing](https://help.blooket.com/hc/en-us/articles/17351034967959-Is-Blooket-Free) |
| Mentimeter | Free plan + paid | $14/presenter/mo | Free: 50 participants a month, 23 slide types | — | Live polls and Q&A for presentations | 2026-11-13 | [site](https://www.mentimeter.com/) [pricing](https://www.mentimeter.com/plans) |
| Nearpod | Free plan + paid | $159/yr | Silver: 40 student joins per lesson, 300 MB storage | — | Teacher-paced interactive lessons with quizzes | 2026-11-13 | [site](https://nearpod.com/) [pricing](https://nearpod.com/pricing) [Zekai page](https://zekaiwork.com/ai-tools/nearpod/) |
| ClassQuiz | Open source | Free (self-hosted) | No limit (self-hosted) | MPL-2.0 | Self-hosted Kahoot-style quizzes for schools |  | [site](https://classquiz.de/) [code](https://github.com/mawoka-myblock/ClassQuiz) |
| Razzia | Open source | Free (self-hosted) | No limit (self-hosted) | MIT | Small events with a manager screen and room codes |  | [site](https://github.com/Ralex91/Razzia) [code](https://github.com/Ralex91/Razzia) |
| Fuiz | Open source | Free (self-hosted) | No limit (self-hosted) | AGPL-3.0-or-later | Rust-built live quizzes with team support |  | [site](https://github.com/fuiz-us) [code](https://github.com/fuiz-us/game) |
| Quizmaster | Open source | Free (self-hosted) | No limit (self-hosted) | Apache-2.0 | Quizmaster-hosted pub quizzes with YAML questions |  | [site](https://github.com/nymanjens/quizmaster) [code](https://github.com/nymanjens/quizmaster) |

## How each alternative compares with Kahoot!

- **Wayground** (Free, Free plan; paid price not published): 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. Switch 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.
- **Gimkit** (Free plan + paid, $14.99/mo, checked 2026-11-13): 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. Switch if you teach one or two classes and want a game-show format with homework assignments for under $60 a year. Stay with Kahoot! if you need Kahoot's 800-participant ceiling, presentation tools or PDF-to-quiz conversion up to 150 pages.
- **Blooket** (Free, Free plan; paid price not published): 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. Switch if you want a free arcade-style review game with 60 players per game and no upgrade needed. Stay with Kahoot! if you run sessions above 60 players, need Kahoot's reports or want AI quiz generation from PDFs and URLs.
- **Mentimeter** (Free plan + paid, $14/presenter/mo, checked 2026-11-13): 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. Switch if you present to adult audiences and want polls and word clouds inside slides billed per presenter. Stay with Kahoot! if you teach students and want a game format with teams, music and a free plan that needs no per-presenter pricing.
- **Nearpod** (Free plan + paid, $159/yr, checked 2026-11-13): 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. Switch if you deliver a full lesson with slides and checks for understanding to up to 90 students per session. Stay with Kahoot! if you only need a quick competitive quiz and prefer paying $3 to $10 a month on Kahoot!+ tiers.
- **ClassQuiz** (Open source, Free (self-hosted)): 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. Switch if your school can run Docker and wants live Kahoot-style quizzes with no per-teacher licence. Stay with Kahoot! if you have no one to maintain a server and rely on Kahoot's 55-language AI generator.
- **Razzia** (Open source, Free (self-hosted)): 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. Switch if you host a pub quiz or meetup of a few dozen people and want hardware buzzers on your own server. Stay with Kahoot! if you need Kahoot's reports, teams and an 800-player live limit without running anything yourself.
- **Fuiz** (Open source, Free (self-hosted)): 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. Switch if you are comfortable running Rust services and want team quizzes with leaderboards on your own domain. Stay with Kahoot! if you want a mature product with support, since this repo has few stars and a small contributor base.
- **Quizmaster** (Open source, Free (self-hosted)): 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. Switch if a human quizmaster should score answers live on a big screen, as at a pub quiz or office event. Stay with Kahoot! if you want students to answer and see automatic scoring on their own devices with ready-made kahoots.

## Open-source options in detail

- **ClassQuiz** (https://github.com/mawoka-myblock/ClassQuiz): Licence: MPL-2.0; 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.; Last commit: 2026-08-04; GitHub stars: 734 (2026-11-13)
- **Razzia** (https://github.com/Ralex91/Razzia): Licence: MIT; 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.; Last commit: 2026-10-10; GitHub stars: 1,100 (2026-11-13)
- **Fuiz** (https://github.com/fuiz-us/game): Licence: AGPL-3.0-or-later; 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.; Last commit: 2026-10-29; GitHub stars: 19 (2026-11-13)
- **Quizmaster** (https://github.com/nymanjens/quizmaster): Licence: Apache-2.0; 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.; Last commit: 2026-07-12; GitHub stars: 326 (2026-11-13)

## Questions

### What is the best alternative to Kahoot! in 2027?
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).

### Is there a free version of Kahoot!?
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.

### Is there a 100% free alternative to Kahoot!?
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.

### What is cheaper than Kahoot!?
Gimkit starts at $14.99/mo, against $19/mo for Kahoot!, as listed on each vendor's pricing page on 13 Nov 2026.

### How much do Kahoot! alternatives cost for a team of 5?
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.

### Which is better, Wayground or Kahoot!?
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.

### Why are people leaving Kahoot!?
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.

### Are there games like Kahoot for big groups?
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.

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