Formative vs Kahoot!

Formative is a web platform for creating interactive lessons, assigning assessments, and seeing student progress as responses arrive. It serves individual teachers, schools, districts, and K-12 students across subjects. Luna AI can generate standards-aligned activities from prompts, PDFs, or documents, then provide hints and feedback. More than 20 technology-enhanced question types and multimedia formats support varied assessments. Teachers receive live response data to identify misconceptions and adjust instruction during learning. Integrations with Google Classroom, Clever, ClassLink, Canvas, and other LMS or SIS systems support rostering, single sign-on, and assignment syncing. Formative says it complies with FERPA, COPPA, and other K-12 privacy standards; student information is not sold, and student work is not sent to a public chatbot. Access requires a current Chrome, Firefox, or Safari browser and stable high-speed internet. The Free Teacher plan costs nothing. Classroom Plan costs $20.75 a month, billed annually, and a 14-day trial is listed. There is no stated limit on students added to a class.

Kahoot! is a tool for interactive quiz and polling sessions, with live Q&A, anonymous responses and slide integrations. It runs on the web, Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. The listed audience limit is 50, though the plans specify different participant caps: Kahoot! Go supports up to 40, Bronze up to 50, Silver up to 100, Gold up to 200 and Kahoot! One up to 800. The free Go plan includes the classic live experience and quiz and true-or-false question types. Paid plans add features by tier: Bronze lists AI content creation and reports; Silver adds feedback question types and a lecture experience; Gold lists review and feedback question types and advanced reports; One includes all question types and live game experiences. Kahoot! is the maker, was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway. A free plan is available, and paid pricing starts at $3/mo (annual), with Bronze billed annually at $36.