Is Quizizz Free? Yes, Up to 100 Students (Wayground)

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: assessments, presentations, flashcards, the huge community library, AI generation and more than 25 accommodations, with no credit card and no expiry. What costs money is scale and administration. Checked on August 22, 2026, the free plan is bounded by a 20 saved activity limit, a listed ceiling of 100 students, and a limited set of question types, while whole school and district plans, all 20 plus question types, admin dashboards and rostering sit behind a plan that is quoted per school rather than sold at a public sticker price.

How many participants can you have in Quizizz for free?

Wayground no longer publishes a live-session participant cap for the free K-12 plan. What its plan comparison does state, read on August 22, 2026, is a ceiling of 100 students on Basic against unlimited on School and District, which is a roster figure rather than a live game limit. The widely repeated figure of 30 participants no longer appears on Wayground's own pages.

Where Wayground is precise is on the business side. Wayground for Business publishes a hard ceiling per session: 150 participants on the Essential plan and 1,000 on Pro. If a specific live ceiling matters for a large lecture, an assembly or a whole department training session, ask before you commit, because the K-12 pages do not state one. The full plan by plan breakdown is on our Wayground pricing comparison.

How does that cap compare with other quiz tools?

Wayground's 100 student roster on Basic sits in the middle of the field. Kahoot's classic ladder runs 40, 50, 100, 200 and 800 participants, and its business tiers reach 5,000. Mentimeter allows 50 participants a month free and removes the cap entirely on paid plans. Slido allows 100, but counts joined devices cumulatively across a meeting rather than at any one moment, which is a stricter rule than it first appears.

The counting basis is the part that decides the bill, and it differs by vendor more than the headline numbers do. Our comparison of quiz participant limits sets every published cap side by side with what each vendor actually counts, and the cost per learner at 500, 2,000 and 5,000 people works out which billing model wins at each size.

Is Wayground the same as Quizizz?

Yes. Wayground is the new name for Quizizz following the June 2025 rebrand. Accounts, saved quizzes, and library content carried across, and old Quizizz links redirect to wayground.com. Most teachers still search for it as Quizizz, so you will see both names used interchangeably, including in this article.

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 up to 20 saved activities, 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 20 saved activity limit, the 100 student figure on the plan comparison, and the limited set of question types against the 20 plus types on the paid plan. For a single class of typical size, none of them is a problem. They start to bite when you build a library over a few terms, or run assessment across a whole grade level.

What is the difference between Quizizz free and paid?

Free is built for one teacher and one class. Paid is built for an institution. The split is less about question quality and more about how many people can be in a session at once and who gets to see the reporting afterward.

	Free Basic plan	Paid school and district plans
Students listed on the plan	100	Unlimited
Saved activities	20	Unlimited storage
Community library	Full access	Full access, plus private and school wide libraries
Question types	The basic set	Advanced types including audio and video responses
Reporting	Basic per quiz reports	Admin dashboards and standards aligned reporting
Accessibility	Limited	Text to speech and accessibility features
Who writes the questions	You, or you adapt a library quiz	You, or you adapt a library quiz
Price	$0, no card required	Quoted per school, no public sticker price

Note the row that does not change. Paying does not get the questions written for you. That is true of almost every classroom quiz platform, and it is the reason the pricing page is often the wrong page to be reading.

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 to build past 20 saved activities, 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.

What is not included in a paid Wayground plan?

Several things people assume come with School or District are sold on top of it. Checked against the Wayground plans comparison in September 2026, the following are listed as add-ons rather than as included features of the paid tier:

• Wayground Original Library, the ready made item bank
• School and district wide benchmark assessments
• Standards growth and mastery reporting
• Importing state test and universal screener data
• In-product and in-person professional development

This matters when you are comparing quotes, because the feature that justified the upgrade may not be in the number you were given. If the reason for buying is the item bank or benchmark assessments, confirm in writing that they are inside the quote rather than beside it. Wayground does state ESSA Level 3 evidence and eligibility for ESSER, EANS and Title I funds, so the add-ons are fundable, but they are a second line item.

Getting questions into Wayground without typing them

Whichever plan you land on, the questions still have to get into the platform, and the creator makes you build them a card at a time. Wayground has a spreadsheet importer for exactly this, and it is more capable than most people realize: the template takes up to five answer options and includes an Answer explanation column, so the reasoning behind each answer arrives with the question instead of being retyped later. The one field that catches people is Correct Answer, which wants the option number from 1 to 5 rather than the letter.

If your material is a recorded lecture, training session, or webinar, the fastest route is to use a Quizizz quiz maker that drafts the questions from the video and hands you the columns the template expects. The full walkthrough, column by column, is in our guide to importing questions into Quizizz. And if the score has to reach a gradebook rather than a leaderboard, a QTI package your LMS imports as a native quiz sidesteps the participant cap entirely.