Is Quizizz Free? Quizizz (Wayground) Pricing Explained for 2026

The short answer

Quizizz, renamed Wayground in its 2025 rebrand, is free for individual teachers on its Basic plan, and the free tier is genuinely usable: unlimited quizzes and homework, the huge community library, and live game sessions capped at 30 participants. What costs money is scale and administration. Whole school and district plans, advanced question types, private content libraries, reporting dashboards, and admin controls sit behind paid plans that are quoted per school rather than sold at a public sticker price. So Quizizz is free until you need more than 30 players in a room or the controls a department requires.

What the free plan actually includes

The free Basic plan is aimed at one teacher running quizzes with their own classes, and for that it holds up well. You get unlimited quizzes and assignments, access to the library of millions of community made quizzes, the live game modes with leaderboards that made Quizizz popular, and homework style assignments students complete on their own time. No credit card is required to start, and students join a live session with a code in a browser, no account needed on their end.

The main ceilings on the free tier are the 30 participant cap per live session and the limited set of basic question types. For a single class of typical size, neither is a problem. The cap starts to bite when you run a session for a large lecture, a whole grade level, or a combined event.

Where teachers outgrow it

The paid tiers, sold to schools and districts on a custom quote, add the things an institution rather than an individual needs. Based on what Quizizz publishes, that includes text to speech and accessibility features, audio and video response question types, private and school wide shared libraries, content moderation and admin dashboards for reporting, and test prep tools like rotating question sets and a review and submit mode. There is no flat consumer price for these because they are priced per campus.

The pattern is common across classroom quiz tools: the free plan is for the individual, the paid plan is for the organization. If you are a solo teacher, you may never hit the wall. If you are a coordinator trying to standardize assessment across sections or run analytics for a department, the paid plan is where those capabilities live.

Free to run is not the same as free to build

Here is the part the pricing page does not frame directly. Quizizz meters delivery, how many players and which admin features, but the questions are still yours to write or pull from the library. The free plan does not write a quiz about your Tuesday lecture. You either build each question in the editor or hunt the community library for something close enough and edit it.

For a lot of teachers that is the real cost, measured in evenings rather than dollars. A tool being free to run does not help if authoring the quiz is what eats your time. This is worth separating out when you compare options, because two tools can both advertise a free tier and still differ enormously in how much work you do after you sign up.

Quizizz vs generating the quiz from your material

If your teaching lives in recorded lectures, course videos, or webinars, the authoring gap is where a different kind of tool helps. Instead of a platform that delivers a quiz you wrote, a generator reads your video and drafts the questions for you. You paste the recording, it writes multiple choice items with answers and short explanations, and it stamps each one to the moment in the video it came from. You can compare that video-first approach against Quizizz in more detail, but the short version is that the two solve different halves: Quizizz runs the game, a generator writes the questions.

These are not mutually exclusive. A common pattern is to draft the questions from a video, export them, and then run them live in whatever engagement platform your class already loves. You pay for the authoring where it saves you the most time, and keep the free delivery where it works.

What about serious exam prep?

One place classroom quiz games stop short is high stakes, high volume drilling. A gameshow round is great for a Friday review, but a student preparing for a licensing test, a professional certification, or a competitive entrance exam needs hundreds of calibrated questions, spaced repetition, and detailed rationale, not a leaderboard. For that kind of sustained practice, a dedicated exam tutor built for unlimited mock tests and around the clock doubt solving is a better fit than a live classroom tool. Match the tool to the stakes: engagement tools for the room, practice tools for the exam.

So, is Quizizz worth paying for?

If you are an individual teacher who mostly runs live review games and homework for normal sized classes, the free plan is likely all you need, and it is a strong free plan. If you are running assessment across a department, need more than 30 players at once, want admin reporting, or require the advanced question types and accessibility features, the paid school plan is where those live, and you will need a quote because there is no public per teacher price.

And if the thing actually costing you time is writing the questions rather than delivering them, the pricing conversation is the wrong one to be having. Look instead at what produces the quiz from your material. When your source is video, you can generate the quiz from the recording and then deliver it wherever your students already play.