Is Quizizz Free? Wayground Pricing and Participant Limits

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.

How many participants can you have in Quizizz for free?

Thirty. The free Basic plan caps a live session at 30 participants, and that limit is per session rather than per day, so you can run back to back games with different groups. Assignments students complete on their own time are not capped the same way. Raising the live ceiling means moving to a paid plan.

Thirty covers a normal class, which is why most individual teachers never notice the limit. It becomes a problem in three predictable places: a large lecture section, a combined assembly or grade level event, and a staff training session where the whole department is in the room. If any of those are your regular use, the cap is the first thing that will push you to a quote.

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 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.

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
Live session size	Up to 30 participants	Higher limits, set by the plan you are quoted
Quizzes and assignments	Unlimited	Unlimited
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 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.

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.