Kahoot Pricing: Plans, Cost and Player Limits

Kahoot pricing splits into two completely separate products that share a logo, and picking the wrong one is the usual reason a budget conversation goes sideways. Kahoot! for schools sells teacher and school plans. Kahoot! 360 sells work plans, and that is the one with published USD prices, a per-plan cap on how many people may join a session, and the numbers a business buyer actually needs.

Everything below was read on August 22, 2026 from Kahoot's own pricing pages. Where a figure only renders in a local currency, it is left out rather than converted, because a guessed price is worse than no price.

How much does Kahoot cost for business?

Kahoot! 360 publishes five paid tiers in USD on annual billing, from $19 a month up to $79 a month. What separates them is almost entirely the participant ceiling: how many people can join a single kahoot. Prices exclude VAT, and Kahoot notes that promotional pricing may be shown against a crossed-out original.

Plan	Price (annual billing)	Billed yearly	Participants per session
Pro Start	$19 / month	$228 / year	50
Pro Standard	$25 / month	$300 / year	200
Pro Plus	$49 / month	$588 / year	1,000
Pro Max	$69 / month	$828 / year	2,000
Pro Ultra	$79 / month	$948 / year	5,000 (onboarding required)

Two details matter more than the sticker price. A license is needed per presenter or host, not per attendee, and participants who join with a PIN code do not consume a license. So the cost driver is how many people on your team run sessions, multiplied by how big the biggest session gets. Pro Plus, Pro Max and Pro Ultra are also sold as team plans at the same monthly rates. Enterprise is quoted.

What is the Kahoot free plan player limit?

On the schools and personal side, the participant limit is the feature the plan ladder is built around, and Kahoot states it plainly: the limit is the number of participants who can join a live kahoot, and the same ceiling applies to instructor-led live sessions and self-paced assignments alike. The classic tiers step up through 40, 50, 100, 200 and 800 participants as you move from the entry plan to the top consumer tier.

That is the single most useful thing to know before you compare Kahoot with anything else. You are not buying question types or storage. You are buying room size, and every step up the ladder is mostly a bigger room.

Kahoot pricing for teachers

Kahoot's teacher and personal plans (Kahoot!+ Bronze, Silver and Gold, then Kahoot! One and Kahoot! One Ultra) are sold on a separate page from the business plans, and the prices render in the currency of wherever you are browsing from. Because we could not read a reliable USD figure for those tiers first-party, they are not listed here. Check the schools pricing page from a US connection, and note that Kahoot! EDU, the school-wide product, is quoted rather than sold at a sticker price.

Kahoot pricing compared with Wayground

Wayground, the product formerly called Quizizz, is the closest direct comparison, and it prices on the same axis: seats plus a ceiling on participants per session. We read its numbers first-party the same day.

Plan	Price	Seats	Participants per session
Kahoot! 360 Pro Start	$19 / mo, $228 / yr	1 host	50
Kahoot! 360 Pro Standard	$25 / mo, $300 / yr	1 host	200
Wayground Business Essential	$75 / mo billed annually, $900 / yr	Up to 3	150
Wayground Business Pro	$125 / mo billed annually, $1,500 / yr	Minimum 5	1,000
Kahoot! 360 Pro Plus	$49 / mo, $588 / yr	1 host	1,000

Read that table by the job rather than by the price. For one trainer who occasionally runs a session for a room of 150, Kahoot Pro Standard at $300 a year is dramatically cheaper than Wayground Essential at $900. For a team of five who all build and host, Wayground bundles the seats where Kahoot would want five licenses. Neither is overpriced; they are sold to different shapes of team.

Worth noting on the K-12 side: Wayground Basic is free forever for individual teachers with no card, capped at 20 saved activities and listed for 100 students, and its School and District plan is quote only. The full breakdown sits on our Wayground pricing and plans comparison.

When per-participant pricing is the wrong model

Both products charge you, in effect, for the size of your audience. That is the right model when the audience is the point: a live, competitive, in-the-room session where energy comes from everyone playing at once.

It is the wrong model when the audience is incidental. If what you actually need is a knowledge check attached to a recorded training video, watched by whoever happens to be onboarding this month, then a participant ceiling is a tax on something you do not care about. You are not running an event. You are confirming that people understood a recording, and the number of people is whatever headcount says it is.

This is the split worth thinking through before you buy, and we worked the arithmetic in detail in per quiz taker versus per quiz pricing. The short version: metered-audience pricing punishes growth, and metered-authoring pricing punishes volume. Pick the one that meters the thing you do less of.

What VidQuiz costs instead

VidQuiz counts videos, not people. Paste a YouTube link and it reads the video itself, then writes multiple choice questions with the correct answer marked, a one line explanation and a timestamp back to the moment each question came from. For a Vimeo link, an MP4, a webinar recording or a screen capture, paste that video's transcript alongside it, because VidQuiz has no speech-to-text of its own.

Each video counts once against a monthly allowance no matter how many questions it produces or how many people answer it. Learners open a share link in a browser, need no account, and are never metered. The free plan is 3 quizzes a month at up to 30 minutes of video each, with no card and no expiry, and the paid tiers are published on the pricing page. Card payments are not connected yet, so no plan can be purchased today and nobody is charged.

The export side is where it stops being a platform and starts being a step in your existing workflow. A quiz leaves as a QTI 1.2 package for Canvas, a Moodle GIFT file, a tab-delimited file for Blackboard, a Google Forms CSV, or plain PDF and CSV. Nothing has to live on our servers for a score to reach your gradebook. If the whole training program needs somewhere to live that tracks completion and certifies staff, that is a job for a corporate learning platform built to onboard and certify a whole company, and a question file drops into it cleanly.

Which one should you buy?

Buy Kahoot! 360 if the session is the product: live, hosted, energetic, and you know roughly how big the room gets. Start at the tier whose participant ceiling covers your biggest session and ignore the rest of the ladder, because that is mostly what you are paying for.

Buy Wayground if several people on the team need to build and host, and you want the seats bundled rather than bought one license at a time, or if you are K-12 and the free teacher plan already covers you.

Use something like a tool that turns a training video into a quiz if the material is already recorded and the quiz is the follow-up rather than the event. If your questions need to end up inside Kahoot specifically, the Kahoot quiz generator page covers the spreadsheet template Kahoot imports and the column rules that silently break it.

One last piece of advice that costs nothing: check the price yourself before you commit. Several well-known review sites currently list Wayground Essential at $600 a year, while Wayground's own help center says $75 a month billed annually and $900 a year. Aggregator pricing for this category goes stale fast, and the vendor's own page is the only source worth budgeting against.