Mentimeter vs Slido: which is better in 2026?

Free plans: what each one actually counts

This is where the three differ most, and where people get caught out. Slido's free plan takes 100 per slido — a slido is one event or meeting, and Slido counts every device that joins over it. The catch: the free Basic plan allows 3 polls per slido. Mentimeter's free plan caps participants at 50 per month: one pool shared by every presentation in the month, plus one session a month with no cap; once the pool is spent you cannot present again until it resets. The count resets on the day of the month you signed up. Mentimeter never cuts off a presentation that is running: go past the limit mid-session and it carries on, with an 8-hour grace period to finish; after that, nothing can go live until the reset. Quizotic's free plan is 50 per session, unlimited sessions: every session starts from zero, and participant 51 is turned away at the door. Its limits sit elsewhere — 10 saved quizzes, 3 saved presentations of up to 20 slides each, reports for your last 3 sessions, and 10 AI-written questions a month (20 in your first week).

Paid plans: prices and billing terms

Slido sells its paid plans by the year, or as one-time plans for a single event; there are no monthly payments. Slido Engage is $12.50 a month billed $150 a year (200 participants, unlimited polls and quizzes, surveys and exports); Slido Professional is $50 a month billed $600 a year (1,000 participants, 2 users); Slido Enterprise is $150 a month billed $1,800 a year. Mentimeter lists Basic at $11.99 and Pro at $24.99 per presenter a month on its US price list, and €14 and €28 on the list it shows a visitor in India — billed yearly, excluding tax — with Enterprise priced on request. Basic adds unlimited participants, slide import, and Excel and PDF export. Pro can't be paid month to month. For Basic it depends on the page you see: on 25 September 2026 the plans page shown in India said Basic and Pro are yearly subscriptions only, while the US version said Basic is available for monthly billing. Mentimeter's education plans cost less: Basic $8.99 and Pro $14.99 per presenter a month, billed yearly. Quizotic is free today — unlimited sessions of up to 50 participants, with no card required. A Pro plan is planned at $4.99/month or $49/year (₹399/month or ₹3,999/year in India) for larger rooms and heavier AI use, and Pro+ at $6.99/month or $83.88/year (₹599/month or ₹7,188/year in India); neither is on sale yet, and the plan you sign up on is the floor. Institutions are priced on request.

Quizzes, Q&A, word clouds and PowerPoint

Live polls, word clouds and audience Q&A are on all three, free plans included. Q&A is Slido's signature: people ask from any device and upvote the questions they want answered, and Slido plugs into Webex, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, PowerPoint and Google Slides. Mentimeter has Q&A on every plan and adds moderation on Pro; it has a PowerPoint add-in, and its paid plans import PowerPoint, Keynote or PDF decks. For quizzes, Slido runs multiple-choice quizzes with a leaderboard, with unlimited quizzes from Engage up, and Mentimeter's quiz slides add up to one competition with a live leaderboard. Quizotic is built around the quiz: scored multiple choice, multi-select, true/false, fill in the blank, matching, image choice and pin-on-image questions, a speed bonus, team mode, and a Confidence Grid in the report that shows who answered wrongly while feeling sure. It also runs inside PowerPoint as a content add-in, with the live question and leaderboard on your slide; it installs from a manifest today, and the Microsoft Marketplace listing is in progress. The add-in and importing a whole PPTX deck are both part of Pro.

Which is better for teachers?

For a classroom, the free plans matter more than the paid ones. Take a teacher with five classes of 30 — 150 people a week. On Mentimeter's free plan, the first class uses 30 of the month's 50; the second crosses the limit and is allowed to finish; after that, nothing can go live until the monthly reset. On Slido's free plan each class fits under the cap of 100, but each slido allows 3 polls, and unlimited polls and quizzes are an Engage feature. On Quizotic's free plan each class is its own session of up to 50, every week, with scored quizzes, a leaderboard and a report after each one. Where the others are stronger for teachers: Mentimeter's slides look more polished and it has education pricing ($8.99 a month for Basic, billed yearly), and Slido's anonymous Q&A is an easy way to hear from students who never raise a hand.

Which is better for corporate trainers and events?

For meetings and all-hands, Slido is the natural choice if your organisation already runs on Webex or Microsoft Teams: people ask and upvote questions without leaving the call, and the free plan seats 100 per event. For a large event, Slido Professional covers 1,000 participants for $600 a year, or you can buy a one-time event plan. Mentimeter is the better presenter's tool — cleaner slides, and branding on Pro — and Basic removes the participant cap entirely, which is the simplest answer for a trainer with big rooms who can pay for a year. Quizotic fits trainers who want to check what people learned, not just poll them: scored questions, a leaderboard and teams in the same session as your polls and Q&A. Its free plan seats 50 per session, so a 20-person workshop every day costs nothing; a 300-person town hall does not fit on it today, and Pro (500 per session) is planned and not yet on sale.

Based on reviews? What the limits mean in practice

Review-site scores change every week and are hard to compare fairly, so this page does not quote them. The frustrations you are most likely to hit are the ones the pricing pages predict. On Slido's free plan it is the fourth poll: a slido allows 3, and more need Engage. On Mentimeter's free plan it is the monthly pool: 50 people is one busy meeting, and after the session that crosses it you wait for the reset. On both, the listed prices assume a yearly plan, with one-time packages for single events. On Quizotic's free plan it is the room: 50 per session covers a class or a workshop, not an assembly or a town hall.

Where Quizotic fits — and where it doesn't

Quizotic is the youngest of the three. It is built for sessions that mix scored quizzes with polls, word clouds and Q&A; a free plan that resets every session rather than every month; and a 267 KB join page — Mentimeter's is 597 KB and Slido's 1,087 KB, measured 12 September 2026 — which matters when thirty phones share one Wi-Fi link. Questions can be written in Hindi or any other language; the participant screen is in English. What it does not have yet: native Webex, Teams or Zoom apps, and a paid plan you can buy — Pro is planned and not yet on sale. If you need either of those this month, Slido or Mentimeter is the better choice.

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