Blooket vs Kahoot Pricing and Player Limits for Teachers

For a single teacher, Blooket is the cheaper place to start and Kahoot is the easier one to price. Blooket's free Starter plan hosts up to 60 players a game with unlimited question sets, and Blooket shows its Plus price only inside a signed-in account. Kahoot publishes every teacher tier: Kahoot!+ Bronze is $36 a year for 50 players, Silver $84 for 100, Gold $144 for 200 and Kahoot! One $228 for 800, all billed up front for the year.

The Kahoot figures come from the Kahoot schools plans page in US dollars, and the Blooket figures from the Blooket help center, both read in October 2026. Where a number below comes from somewhere else, the sentence says so.

Blooket vs Kahoot pricing at a glance

Plan	Price for one teacher	Players per live game	What the money buys
Blooket Starter	$0	60	Unlimited sets, every free game mode, homework up to 14 days
Blooket Plus and Plus Flex	Shown only after you sign in (see below)	300, except Racing and team modes	Plus game modes, enhanced and downloadable reports, homework up to 365 days, audio, folders
Kahoot! Go	$0	40 in the plan table, 10 in the FAQ	Classic live quiz and true or false, one image
Kahoot!+ Bronze	$36 a year ($3 a month)	50	AI creation from a topic, a URL or a 3 page file, standard reports
Kahoot!+ Silver	$84 a year ($7 a month)	100	Files up to 150 pages, feedback question types like drop pin and scale
Kahoot!+ Gold	$144 a year ($12 a month)	200	Slider and precision types, advanced reports over time, AccessPass content
Kahoot! One	$228 a year ($19 a month)	800	All question types and experiences, plus the Drops language app

Kahoot's cards also print a "billed monthly" price for each tier ($9, $15, $25 and $34.99). The FAQ on the same page says the opposite: the monthly figure is a breakdown of the annual price, every educational plan is billed up front for the year, and "there is no option for monthly billing." Budget for the annual charge.

How much does Blooket Plus cost?

Blooket does not publish the price on an open page. Its help center sends you to Settings, then Plan, then Upgrade Now, where you choose between Plus, billed yearly, and Plus Flex, billed monthly. Payment is by card through Stripe, both plans renew automatically, and either can be cancelled at any time.

Third-party listings in 2026 (the Blooket fan wiki, SaaSworthy and Nibble) report Plus at $59.88 a year and Plus Flex at $9.99 a month. We could not open Blooket's upgrade page without an account to confirm that, and older articles still quote $35.88 a year, so read the number on your own Upgrade page before you put it in a purchase request.

Two details matter if you are choosing a billing option. You cannot switch from Flex to the annual plan in one step: Blooket's instructions are to cancel Flex, wait for the paid month to run out, then buy Plus. And school or district group plans are quoted by group size, with a downloadable quote you can pay by purchase order or card, which is how most teachers get Plus without paying for it themselves.

How much does Kahoot cost for teachers?

Kahoot sells four paid teacher tiers on its schools page, each priced per teacher. On the annual price Bronze is $36, Silver $84, Gold $144 and Kahoot! One $228. Silver, Gold and One show a struck-through higher price ($9, $15 and $25 a month), so the current figures are presented as a discount. School and district licenses are a separate product, Kahoot! EDU, sold by quote.

The jump that matters most for a teacher is Bronze to Silver. Bronze lets the AI build a kahoot from a topic, a web page or a file of up to three pages. Silver lifts that to 150 pages and adds the feedback question types. Gold is where reports start tracking a class over time.

One K-12 catch is on the same page: students under 16 cannot answer free-form questions such as word cloud, open-ended and brainstorm on these plans. Kahoot points younger classes to the EDU subscription for those question types.

How many players can join Blooket and Kahoot for free?

Blooket Starter allows 60 players in a live game, according to its help center, and Plus raises that to 300, except in Racing and team modes. For a class of 30, or two classes playing together, the free plan is enough.

Kahoot is less clear. The comparison table on the plans page puts the free Go plan at 40 participants. The FAQ further down lists Go at "up to 10 participants per game" and a separate Teacher essentials level at 40. If you run a full class on Go, test it with real students before a lesson depends on it. Bronze, at $36 a year, removes the doubt with a 50 player cap.

Is Blooket or Kahoot better for teachers?

They are built for different moments. Kahoot is a live quiz show: one screen, everyone answers the same question against the clock, and the leaderboard does the motivating. That makes it strong for a quick whole-class check and for anything outside a classroom, from staff meetings to events.

Blooket puts the same kind of question set inside a game. Students answer to earn coins, defend towers or race, and many modes let them play at their own pace. It tends to hold younger classes longer, and its free homework mode makes it easy to send a set home. Its reports are lighter on the free plan, and question-by-question data with individual student breakdowns is a Plus feature.

If you mostly run fast whole-class checks, Kahoot. If you want review games students will happily replay, Blooket. Plenty of teachers use both, which is a reason to keep your questions in a file rather than inside either one.

Blooket vs Kahoot for importing your own questions

Both accept a spreadsheet, and both want the correct answer as a number rather than a letter. That one rule is behind most failed uploads in either tool.

	Blooket	Kahoot
File the importer reads	Blooket's template saved as .csv	Kahoot's template as .xlsx only
Answers per question	2 to 4	2 to 4
How the key is written	Answer number, 1 to 4, comma separated for two	Answer number, comma separated for two
Time limit	Any number of seconds up to 300	A fixed list of values, anything else becomes 20 seconds
Typed answers	Write typing in column J	Quiz questions only through the importer
Getting questions back out	Printable worksheet and answer key, no question file	Results reports, no question file in the import layout

The column by column detail is in our guides to the Blooket CSV import template and to importing questions into Kahoot.

Is Blooket Plus worth it?

Count the players first. If your biggest live game stays under 60, Plus is not buying you capacity. It is buying the Plus game modes, longer homework deadlines, downloadable reports and audio questions. Those are real, but for one teacher they are a nice-to-have unless you lean on Blooket for graded practice and need the report data.

The better deal is usually a group plan. A department of eight teachers who all use Blooket every week should ask for a quote, because the school can pay by purchase order and nobody puts a subscription on a personal card.

The same logic applies to Kahoot. Bronze at $36 a year is cheap insurance against the Go player cap. Gold at $144 only pays off if you read the long-term reports, and Kahoot! One is for heavy users of the extra apps.

What neither plan solves

Both tools make the game easy and leave the writing to you. Kahoot's AI can draft from a topic, a web page or a short file, and Blooket points teachers to Khanmigo, which drafts from a topic you type. Neither writes from the lesson video you actually showed the class, and neither gives you a quiz that counts toward a grade in Canvas or Google Classroom.

That is where VidQuiz fits. Paste the lesson's YouTube link, or the transcript of any other recording, and it drafts multiple choice questions with four options, the correct answer, an explanation and a timestamp back to the moment each question came from. The CSV drops into Blooket's template with one formula for the answer numbers, the same columns fill Kahoot's .xlsx template, and the set also exports to QTI 1.2 for Canvas, to GIFT for Moodle or to a Google Forms file, so the review game and the graded check come from one set of questions. If the graded check is the part you care about most, a dedicated platform built to create and auto-grade assessments is worth a look as well.

VidQuiz starts with a free demo of 3 quizzes, then $49 a month for 40 quizzes or $288 a year. For one teacher that costs more than either game platform, so it pays off when writing the questions is what eats your evenings. Our Kahoot quiz generator and Gimkit import template pages show the same workflow for those platforms, the Kahoot pricing guide covers the business plans, and if Gimkit is also on your list, Gimkit vs Blooket pricing covers that matchup.