Gimkit Pro Pricing, $59.88 a Year vs School Plan

Gimkit Pro costs $14.99 a month or $59.88 a year for one teacher, which works out to $4.99 a month on the annual plan. Schools buy it through Gimkit Groups instead: a Department license is $650 a year for up to 20 teachers and a School license is $1,000 a year for every teacher in the building. Gimkit Basic stays free, with unlimited students, classes and reports, but only the game modes Gimkit is rotating through at the time.

Those figures come from Gimkit's own help center, the Gimkit Pro FAQ updated May 20, 2026 and the article explaining Gimkit Groups. The group prices are the part most pages leave out, and they are where a school can save the most.

Gimkit pricing at a glance

Plan	Price	Who it covers	How it bills	Cost per teacher
Gimkit Basic	$0	One teacher	No billing	$0
Gimkit Pro monthly	$14.99 a month	One teacher	Automatically, every month	$179.88 over 12 months
Gimkit Pro annual	$59.88 a year	One teacher	Automatically, once a year	$59.88
Department license	$650 a year	Up to 20 teachers	Once, for 365 days, no auto renewal	$32.50 at 20 teachers
School license	$1,000 a year	All teachers in one building, or up to 100 across buildings	Once, for 365 days, no auto renewal	$10 at 100 teachers

The last column is our arithmetic, not Gimkit's. It is there because the break-even points are the useful part of the decision, and Gimkit does not print them.

How much does Gimkit Pro cost?

$59.88 a year on the annual plan or $14.99 a month on the monthly plan, both billed automatically until you cancel. Gimkit's own rule of thumb is that annual is the better deal if you will use Gimkit for four months or more out of twelve, since four monthly payments come to $59.96, eight cents more than a full year.

In practice that means monthly only makes sense for a short burst, such as a single test prep unit in May. For a teacher who plays Gimkit through the school year, annual costs a third of what monthly does.

There is also a Pay For Me link, which lets a teacher send the checkout to someone else, a parent organization, an administrator or a grant, instead of paying and filing for reimbursement. Gift cards are redeemable against a subscription too.

Is Gimkit free?

Yes. Gimkit Basic is free with an educator account, and Gimkit is unusually generous about what it includes. On Basic you can play with as many students as you want, set up classes, and collect reports, and Gimkit's FAQ says plainly that it is everything you need to play as much as you want for as long as you need.

The catch is game modes. Basic gives you the modes Gimkit is featuring at the moment, generally three at a time, and they rotate. If your class has a favorite mode, it will not always be there.

What do you get with Gimkit Pro?

Four things, according to the Pro FAQ, and only the first one is about the games:

• Every game mode, all the time. Gimkit calls these Pro Exclusives. No waiting for a mode to rotate back in.
• Assignments. Kits assigned as homework, so students play on their own time instead of in a live session.
• Image uploads in questions. Uploading your own diagram or screenshot into a question is a paid feature.
• Audio in questions. Useful for language classes and for students who need questions read aloud.

Your kits, assignments, classes and seasons are kept if you upgrade or downgrade, so trying Pro for a month and dropping back to Basic loses nothing you built.

Gimkit Pro vs the Department and School licenses

The group pricing is flat, which makes the math easy. A Department license costs as much as 10.85 individual annual subscriptions ($650 divided by $59.88), so it pays for itself at 11 teachers. That is not a coincidence: Gimkit says a department license can start with 11 teachers and grow to 19 or 20 without a new quote or purchase order.

The School license at $1,000 costs the same as about 16.7 annual subscriptions, so it beats individual plans from 17 teachers up. It does not beat the Department license until you pass 20 teachers, because the Department license stays at $650 all the way to its cap. So the rule is simple: under 11 teachers, individual plans; 11 to 20, Department; more than 20, School.

Teachers using Gimkit Pro	Individual annual plans	Department license	School license	Cheapest option
5	$299.40	$650	$1,000	Individual
10	$598.80	$650	$1,000	Individual
11	$658.68	$650	$1,000	Department
17	$1,017.96	$650	$1,000	Department
20	$1,197.60	$650	$1,000	Department
25	$1,497.00	Not available	$1,000	School
60	$3,592.80	Not available	$1,000	School

Two details matter when you buy. Group licenses run for 365 days from purchase and do not auto renew, so someone has to put next year's purchase in the calendar. And a teacher above the seat limit does not force an upgrade, since that teacher can use the Pay For Me link to be covered separately.

Does Gimkit take purchase orders?

Only for group licenses. You create a quote on the Gimkit Groups page, and the quote link is what a business office uses to pay by purchase order or card. Quotes expire after three months, purchase orders are invoiced on NET45 terms, and an unpaid group license is deactivated after 90 days. Individual Pro plans are card only.

Gimkit also makes a point of the process having no sales calls and no long quote forms, which is worth knowing if you have waited weeks on a quote from other classroom vendors. Everything from the quote to adding managers happens in the group admin tool.

What Gimkit Pro does not include

Pro unlocks how you play. It does not change how kits get written. The kit editor offers the same routes on Basic and Pro: typing questions by hand, importing a CSV from one of two spreadsheet templates, pasting a flashcard set, pulling questions from the public Question Bank, or the Generate with AI button, which writes 10 to 30 questions from a prompt you type.

For a general topic review, that button is the quickest option and it costs nothing extra. It is less useful when the kit is meant to follow a specific lesson, a lecture you recorded or a YouTube video you assigned, because it writes from your prompt and has never seen the video.

That is the job we built VidQuiz for. Paste the lesson's YouTube link, or the transcript of any other recording, into VidQuiz 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. Because the export writes the correct answer as text, it drops into Gimkit's Template 1 with one formula for the three wrong answers. Our Gimkit import template page walks through it column by column. Plans start at $49 a month for 40 quizzes, or $288 a year ($24 a month), after a free demo of 3 quizzes. For one teacher that costs more than Gimkit Pro, so it pays off when writing kits by hand is what eats your evenings.

Is Gimkit Pro worth it?

For a teacher who runs Gimkit every week, yes. $59.88 a year is less than most single classroom subscriptions, and assignments alone change how the tool gets used, from an occasional Friday game into homework review. If you only play once or twice a month and your class is happy with whatever three modes are free, Basic is genuinely enough and Gimkit says so itself.

If the choice is between Gimkit Pro and Blooket Plus rather than Pro or nothing, the deciding factors are player caps and homework, which we set side by side in Gimkit vs Blooket pricing and player limits.

For a department or a school, the better question is how many teachers already pay out of pocket. From 11 to 20 teachers the Department license is cheaper than reimbursing them, and above 20 the School license is.

If your department is weighing whether the game should also count toward a grade, that is a different purchase. Gimkit is built for review and practice, while a unit test that has to be scored and recorded usually lives in the LMS or in a platform built to create and auto-grade assessments. Plenty of schools run both, with the same questions feeding each.

How to get more out of the Gimkit plan you pay for

The value of any Gimkit plan depends on how many good kits you have, and good kits take time. A few habits help:

• Write the wrong answers with care. A game where the distractors are obviously wrong is a speed test, not a review. Three plausible wrong answers per question is what makes students think.
• Keep your source file. Gimkit's export is copied text, so the spreadsheet you imported from is your real backup, and it is the file you reuse in Kahoot, Wayground or your LMS.
• Build kits from what you taught. A kit drafted from the lesson video matches the vocabulary and examples students actually heard, which is the point of a review game.

If a video lesson is where your unit starts, paste it into VidQuiz, check the draft against the video, and move it into your Gimkit spreadsheet import. The same questions export to Canvas, Moodle, Google Forms or a printable PDF with the answer key, so the kit and the quiz that counts come from one set.