Kahoot! vs PollsLive

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.

PollsLive is a web and API service for live polls, quizzes and Q&A, showing responses to presenters in real time. People join in a browser through a link, QR code or six-digit PIN, without downloading an app or creating an account. Question formats include multiple choice, quizzes, scales, rankings, Planning Poker, open-ended prompts, Q&A and content slides. Polls can run live or asynchronously, and published polls can be embedded with an iframe or JavaScript widget. Presenters can use it with PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex and Google Meet. Integrations include REST API access, OAuth 2.0, signed webhooks, Slack incoming webhooks and Zapier workflows through Webhooks by Zapier. PollsLive says its application, database and cache use EU infrastructure, with TLS and HSTS for encrypted traffic. The free plan costs nothing, billed with no card required, and includes three published polls, 500 responses per poll, 50 live participants, three live sessions per month and one presenter. Pro starts at $9 a month, or $96 a year, per presenter.