Wayground pricing: Quizizz plans, cost, participant limits and a video quiz alternative

Is Wayground free?

Yes, for individual teachers, and genuinely so. Wayground Basic is free forever with no credit card and no commitment, and it includes assessments, presentations, flashcards, passages, videos, AI generation and more than 25 accommodations including Read Aloud. It is one of the more generous free tiers in education software.

The free plan is bounded in three places rather than by a timer. Saved activities are capped at 20, the plan is listed for 100 students, and question types are described as limited against the 20-plus types on the paid plan. Google Classroom sync is included but marked limited. Nothing expires.

How many participants can join a Wayground session?

On Wayground for Business the caps are published and specific: Essential supports up to 150 participants per session whether you pay monthly or annually, and Pro supports up to 1,000 per session. Wayground draws a firm line between seats, the licensed people who create and host content, and participants, the people who join to answer.

On the K-12 side no per-session figure is published. The plan comparison lists 100 students on Basic against unlimited on School and District, which is a roster number rather than a live-session cap. If a specific live ceiling matters to you, ask Wayground before you commit, because the public pages do not state one.

What is the difference between Wayground Basic and School and District?

Wayground answers this on its own plans page: a site-wide plan unlocks unlimited library access and storage, exclusive features such as standards tagging and accommodation profiles, a shared library for collaboration across the organization, and LMS integrations beyond Google Classroom.

In practice the paid tier is about administration rather than about teaching. It adds all 20-plus question types, full AI grading against custom and state rubrics, longitudinal growth graphs, an admin dashboard across schools, Canvas and Schoology via LTI 1.3, Clever and ClassLink rostering, and a dedicated customer success manager. Wayground also holds ESSA Level 3 status, so it can be bought with ESSER, EANS or Title I funds.

Why the pricing you find on review sites does not match

Search Wayground pricing and you will get several review sites quoting an Essential plan at $600 a year for 5 collaborators and 100 active participants a month. Wayground's own business help center, read on August 22, 2026, says Essential billed annually is $75 a month and $900 a year, for up to 3 seats and 150 participants per session.

Those cannot both be right, and the first-party page has the stronger claim: $75 a month multiplied by twelve is $900, which is internally consistent, while $75 a month against $600 a year is not. Treat aggregator pricing for this product as stale and confirm with Wayground directly before you budget.

Where a video-first tool fits instead

Wayground for Business will turn a dropped presentation or video into a quiz, so there is real overlap. The difference is what you are buying around it. With Wayground you are buying a platform to deliver and score that quiz live, with gamification, rosters and admin reporting, and you pay per seat with a ceiling on how many people may join.

VidQuiz is the narrow half. You paste a YouTube link, it reads the video and writes multiple choice questions with the answer marked, a one line explanation and a timestamp back to the moment each question came from. Then you export it: QTI 1.2 for Canvas, GIFT for Moodle, tab-delimited for Blackboard, or a Google Forms CSV. Delivery stays wherever it already is.

The pricing consequence is the part worth doing arithmetic on. VidQuiz counts videos, not people. A quiz can be taken by thirty learners or three thousand and the bill does not move, and learners need no account. If your constraint is audience size rather than authoring volume, that is a different cost curve to a per-seat platform with a participant ceiling.