Gimkit vs Blooket Pricing and Player Limits

For one teacher, Gimkit is the easier one to price and the better fit for big classes, and Blooket is the easier one to start free with a younger class. Gimkit publishes Pro at $59.88 a year or $14.99 a month, and its free Basic plan lets as many students join a game as you want. Blooket's free Starter plan caps a live game at 60 players, Plus raises that to 300, and Blooket shows the Plus price only inside a signed-in account.

The Gimkit figures come from the Gimkit Pro FAQ and the Blooket figures from the Blooket help center, both read in October 2026. Where a number comes from anywhere else, the sentence says so.

Gimkit vs Blooket pricing at a glance

Plan	Price for one teacher	Players per live game	Homework	How group plans work
Gimkit Basic	$0	As many as you want	Not included (Assignments are Pro)	Not applicable
Gimkit Pro	$59.88 a year or $14.99 a month	As many as you want	Assignments, played on the student's own time	Department $650 a year for up to 20 teachers, School $1,000 a year
Blooket Starter	$0	60	Up to 14 days	Not applicable
Blooket Plus and Plus Flex	Shown only after you sign in (see below)	300, except Racing and team modes	Up to 365 days	Quoted by group size, pay by purchase order or card

The pattern is the opposite of what most teachers expect. Gimkit's free plan is generous on players and stingy on game modes. Blooket's free plan is generous on game modes and homework and stingy on players.

How much does Gimkit Pro cost?

Gimkit Pro costs $59.88 a year on the annual plan or $14.99 a month on the monthly plan, and both bill automatically until you cancel. Gimkit's own rule of thumb is that annual wins if you will use Gimkit for four months or more out of twelve, because four monthly payments already come to $59.96.

Pro unlocks every game mode, which Gimkit calls Pro Exclusives, plus Assignments for homework and images and audio in questions. Basic rotates its free modes, and the FAQ says there are generally three free modes at any given time. Your kits, classes and assignments stay put if you upgrade or downgrade. The full breakdown, including the Pay For Me link and gift cards, is in our Gimkit Pro pricing guide.

How much does Blooket Plus cost?

Blooket does not print the price on an open page. Its help center sends you to Settings, then Plan, then Upgrade Now, where you choose Plus, billed yearly, or Plus Flex, billed monthly, and pay by card through Stripe. Both renew automatically.

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, so read the figure on your own Upgrade page before it goes into a purchase request. If those reports are right, the two annual plans cost exactly the same and the decision comes down to what each one unlocks.

One billing detail to know before you pick Flex: Blooket's instructions for moving from Flex to the annual plan are to cancel Flex, let the paid month run out, then buy Plus. There is no one-click switch.

Is Gimkit or Blooket better for a class of 30?

For a single class of 30, both free plans work. Blooket Starter's 60 player cap is twice the class, and Gimkit Basic has no cap at all. The difference is what the free plan feels like after a few weeks. On Gimkit Basic you are choosing from about three rotating modes, and there is no homework. On Blooket Starter you get the free game modes plus homework of up to 14 days.

That makes Blooket the safer free choice for a teacher who wants variety and home practice without paying, and Gimkit the one more likely to push you to Pro once students tire of the same few modes.

Which is better for big groups and combined classes?

Gimkit, clearly. An assembly-style review with three sections in the gym, or a whole grade level in one game, does not fit inside Blooket Starter's 60 players, and Blooket Plus stops at 300 and excludes Racing and team modes from that higher cap. Gimkit lets as many students as you want join, even on Basic.

Gimkit vs Blooket for homework and reports

	Gimkit	Blooket
Homework on the free plan	No, Assignments need Pro	Yes, up to 14 days
Homework on the paid plan	Assignments, played individually	Up to 365 days
Reports on the free plan	Reports are collected on Basic	Game history and summary reports
Question-by-question and per-student data	Not broken down in the Pro FAQ	Plus only
Report download as a spreadsheet	Not covered in the Pro FAQ	Plus only, with Overview and Participant Summary tabs
Classes and rostering	Included on Basic	Students join with a game code

If detailed reports are what you need to show a department head, Blooket puts question-by-question data and the download behind Plus, while Gimkit's Basic plan already collects reports. Either way the score lives in the game platform. Neither one writes it into your gradebook for you.

Does Gimkit or Blooket take a purchase order?

Both do, but only for group plans. Gimkit's FAQ says it accepts purchase orders for group licenses only, and its Groups pricing is fixed and public: Department $650 a year for up to 20 teachers, School $1,000 a year for the whole school. That works out to $32.50 a teacher at 20 teachers, and $10 a teacher if 100 teachers in a building use it (our arithmetic, not Gimkit's).

Blooket group plans are quoted by group size through the Upgrade page. You download the quote, then pay by purchase order or card. If several teachers in one building play weekly, ask for the group quote before anyone puts Plus on a personal card.

Importing your own questions into Gimkit and Blooket

Both import a spreadsheet, and the two templates disagree on the one thing that breaks most uploads: how the right answer is written.

	Gimkit	Blooket
Where you import	Kit editor, Import from Spreadsheet	CSV Import on Set Creator, Spreadsheet Import on Set Edit
Columns	Question, Correct Answer, Incorrect Answer 1 to 3	Question #, Question Text, Answer 1 to 4, Time Limit, Correct Answer(s)
How the key is written	The correct answer as text, in its own column	The answer number, 1 to 4, comma separated for two
Built-in AI drafting	Generate with AI, from a prompt and grade level	Khanmigo Blooket Generator, from a topic and grade level
Getting questions back out	Copied text	Printable worksheet and answer key

The column by column detail is on our Gimkit import template and Blooket CSV import template pages.

Is Gimkit Pro or Blooket Plus worth it?

Pay for Gimkit Pro if you play every week and students are bored of the free rotation, or if you want homework at all, since Basic has none. At $59.88 a year that is about $1.66 a week of school.

Pay for Blooket Plus if you regularly need more than 60 players, if you want to download reports for grading conversations, or if homework has to stay open longer than two weeks. If none of those apply, Starter is enough, and the money is better spent elsewhere.

Most teachers who use both pick one per class. That is a good reason to keep the questions in your own file rather than typing them into either platform.

What neither plan solves

Both tools make the game easy and leave the writing to you. Their AI helpers draft from a topic you type, not from the lesson you actually taught, and neither gives you a quiz that counts toward a grade in Canvas, Google Classroom, Moodle or Blackboard.

That is the job VidQuiz does. 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 same set fills Gimkit's template (the correct answer is already written out as text), fills Blooket's template with one formula for the answer number, and exports to QTI 1.2 for Canvas, GIFT for Moodle, a Blackboard file or a Google Forms CSV for the graded check. If the review material is a handout rather than a recording, you can turn the PDF worksheet into questions the same way.

VidQuiz starts with a free demo of 3 quizzes, then $49 a month for 40 quizzes or $288 a year. That costs more than either game, so it pays off when writing forty questions and their wrong answers is what eats your Sunday night. If you are weighing other platforms too, our Blooket alternative comparison and the Blooket vs Kahoot pricing guide cover the rest of the field.