Kahoot Alternatives: 9 Tools Compared on What the Free Plan Actually Caps

The best Kahoot alternative depends on the number Kahoot's free plan breaks at: 10 players on a personal account, 40 on a K-12 teacher account. Over 40 in a classroom, or when you want no student accounts and more game modes, use Blooket (60 free) or Wayground (100 free). For a party or pub quiz, use a tool built for a TV and phones, such as PardyTime or Jackbox. For a 200-person all-hands, every option costs money, so compare paid tiers.

Below is a table of nine tools on the seven things that actually catch hosts out, then a straight pick for four situations, including the ones where PardyTime is the wrong answer.

Nine tools on the things that catch hosts out

Every competitor cell comes from the vendor's own published pricing or help pages, as of October 2026. "Not stated" means the vendor does not say, not that the answer is no. Prices change, so check the vendor's page before you pay.

Read the second column twice. AhaSlides lets 50 people in but stops at five quiz questions per presentation, which is a warm-up, not a quiz. Crowdpurr's free game is 15 questions for 20 people. Factile gives you a real board but only five teams and no phone buzzers until you pay. The free cap that matters is whichever one your night hits first.

Two things in the PardyTime row cost you on the free plan. Every free game is public, and anyone can find it in the library, so making one private needs Plus. And free accounts get five uploaded images or audio clips in total, so a 20-photo picture round is a Plus job or a job for links and text.

Pick by situation

A party at home

Kahoot breaks at the eleventh guest, and it is the wrong shape for a living room anyway: it is a fast multiple-choice race, and the loudest moment at a party is when one person is on the spot. Pick between two tools.

Jackbox is the better choice when nobody wants to prepare anything. Its games bring their own prompts, the audience feature lets extra people vote, and it is a one-off purchase rather than a subscription. The catch is eight players per game, and you cannot write a quiz about the birthday girl in it. Only four of its games take custom prompts, as text.

PardyTime is the better choice when the questions are the point: a board about the people in the room, a picture round of old photos, a dare deck once the quiz is over. It is free for 15 phones. Our guide to party games to play on your phone covers the two formats that need no writing at all.

An office meeting or an all-hands

Size decides this one. For a team of up to 15, a free Jeopardy maker on PardyTime gives you the format that works at work: teams on a phone each, a buzzer, and a host who rules on "close enough". The board is what gets people talking, because a team has to pick a category in front of everyone. Our company trivia questions for an all-hands are written for that format.

Two limits to respect. Free games are public, so anything about revenue, customers or unreleased work belongs in a Plus game set to private, or nowhere. And the free cap is 15 phones, so a 40-person meeting either plays in teams or needs Plus.

For 100 people or more, do not stretch a party tool. Kahoot! One allows 800 players and Crowdpurr's plans scale to 5,000, and both put the leaderboard on a conference screen. Crowdpurr has no per-event price: a one-off event means a 30-day plan, with auto-renew off by default, so put your rehearsal and the event inside the same month.

A classroom, free, with no student accounts

This is where PardyTime is usually not the answer. A class of 30 where every student plays on their own device is over the 15-player free cap. Kahoot's free teacher account covers 40, and Blooket (60 free, no student accounts, a stated no-ads policy) or Wayground (100 per session, guest join, no third-party ads) handles it at no cost. Gimkit's featured modes have no player cap either, but its image uploads need Pro.

The exception is a review game played in teams. Six tables of five, one phone per table, is six of your 15 slots, and a category board makes the class argue about the answer before they buzz. How to play Jeopardy in the classroom has five ways to score it so one table does not run away with the game. If you only need a board on the projector with no phones at all, JeopardyLabs is free, needs no registration and is ad-free, and our JeopardyLabs alternatives guide covers the rest.

Pub or bar trivia

A pub quiz is a team game, so count tables, not people. Kahoot's 10, Crowdpurr's 20-player and 15-question free game, and Factile's five free teams all run out before a normal Thursday does.

PardyTime fits a quiz of up to 15 tables for free: one phone per table, the board on the pub's TV, buzzers on, and you judging every answer. Open the host view on your own phone as well as the TV and you can peek at the answer there while the room only sees the clue. You can also add a team without a phone and score it by hand, for the regulars who will not get theirs out. What it does not do: there is no Daily Double and no Final Jeopardy, so the wager round in our pub quiz scoring systems stays on paper. Past 15 tables, Plus raises the cap to 100.

Test the board format before you switch

If Kahoot's question-by-question race is the thing you are moving away from, run this 25-clue board at your next game night. Five categories, five values each, readable out loud.

Check these three things before you commit

Whichever tool you pick, open its free plan and run a two-person test game a week before the event. Three things go wrong on the night and never in a demo: the player cap you forgot about (count tables or devices, not guests), a question limit hiding behind a generous player number, and a join screen that asks for a login a guest cannot be bothered with.

If your night is a party, a team meeting or a pub quiz of up to 15 teams, PardyTime runs it free on the TV with phones as buzzers. Build your own board in the editor, or host one someone else made from the public library.