ProProfs Pricing: Quiz Maker Cost Per Quiz Taker

ProProfs Quiz Maker bills by active quiz taker, not by seat or by quiz. In 2026 the published plans are Essentials at $19.99 per 100 active quiz takers a month ($239.88 billed annually, capped at 300 takers a month), Business at $39.99 per 100 ($479.88 billed annually, capped at 500), and Business Complete Elite at $0.83 per active quiz taker a month ($9.96 a year per taker) with no cap, annual billing only. A free plan exists but stops at 12 questions and 90 days of history. The whole model turns on one definition, so start there.

Per taker pricing is unusual in quiz software and it catches finance teams out, because the bill moves with how many people take the quiz rather than with how many people build them. That is fine when you are quizzing one class. It is a different conversation when a compliance quiz goes to every employee in the same week.

Everything below was read from the ProProfs Quiz Maker plan page on August 21, 2026. Vendors change pricing, so confirm anything you are about to budget against.

How much does ProProfs Quiz Maker cost?

Plan	Price	Ceiling	Billing
Free	$0.00	12 questions, 90 day history	Forever free
Essentials	$19.99 per 100 active quiz takers a month	Max 300 takers a month	$239.88 billed annually
Business	$39.99 per 100 active quiz takers a month	Max 500 takers a month	$479.88 billed annually
Business Complete Elite	$0.83 per active quiz taker a month	Unlimited takers	$9.96 a year per taker, annual only
ProProfs Learning Suite	Starts at $499 a month	Six tools bundled	Annual plans only

Essentials and Business are sold in blocks of 100 takers. Business Complete Elite switches to a straight per person rate and adds the things procurement usually asks about: HRIS sync, single sign on, an API and automations. That plan is also where the ceiling disappears, which matters more than the feature list if your audience is the whole company.

What is an active quiz taker?

ProProfs defines it precisely in its billing FAQ: "An active quiz taker is a person who takes your quiz in a month. Each unique person (identified by email or ID) who takes your quiz counts as a quiz taker. If a single person takes 5 quizzes (or attempts them multiple times), that person will be counted as a single active quiz taker."

Two consequences follow, and they run in opposite directions. In your favor, the count is per person and not per attempt, so a learner who retakes a quiz four times still costs one slot, and someone sitting five different quizzes in the same month is still one taker. Against you, the count resets monthly and it counts unique humans, so a quiz that reaches a wide audience is exactly the thing that raises the invoice.

ProProfs is direct about the monthly reset: "You can even have a new set of 100 people take the quiz each month." Read that as a warning as much as a feature. A quarterly refresher pushed to a rolling audience bills as fresh takers every month it runs.

When does per taker pricing get expensive?

Do the arithmetic before you pick a tier, because the block pricing scales linearly until you hit a ceiling and then forces a plan change. At the Essentials rate, 100 takers a month is $239.88 a year, and filling the plan to its 300 taker ceiling costs roughly $720 a year. On Business, filling all 500 slots at $39.99 per 100 runs to about $2,400 a year.

Past 500 takers in any single month there is only one option: Business Complete Elite at $9.96 per taker per year. Quiz 1,000 people and the list math lands near $9,960. That is not a criticism of ProProfs, which is a broad and capable suite, but it is the number that decides whether the model suits you.

The shape of your audience matters more than its size. A steady 80 learners a month is cheap on Essentials. One annual all hands compliance quiz that 900 people take in the same fortnight is the expensive pattern, because you pay for the peak month rather than the average. If that is your situation, ask ProProfs directly how an annual commitment handles a single spike month before you sign.

Is ProProfs Quiz Maker free?

There is a genuine free plan at $0.00, described as forever free for small quizzes, and it is limited in two ways that matter: 12 questions and 90 days of report history. Twelve questions is enough to evaluate the editor and the question types. It is not enough to run a real assessment, and losing reporting after 90 days rules out anything you need for an audit trail.

Treat the free plan as an extended demo rather than a tier you can operate on. That is a fair design, and it is more generous than plenty of competitors offer.

ProProfs education and certification pricing

Schools are priced separately and much lower. The K-12 Teacher plan is $4 per teacher a month, billed at $48.00 annually, covering one teacher and a maximum of 150 students. School and District pricing drops to $0.25 per student a month, billed at $3.00 annually, with unlimited teachers and custom student capacity.

Eligibility is checked. ProProfs states you must be employed, full time or part time, or contracted by a recognized school or school district serving kindergarten through 12th grade, and you must provide proof of eligibility. A corporate training team cannot buy the teacher rate.

Two further elite tiers sit outside the main table. Professional certifications and exams are $1.00 per candidate a month, billed at $12 annually, with a minimum of 100 candidates a month. Pre-employment and skills screening uses the same $1.00 per applicant a month with the same 100 applicant minimum. Both are annual only.

What do the ProProfs add-ons cost?

Three add-ons are published at $300 a year each: white label, which removes the powered by branding; an e-commerce package for selling quizzes, courses and exams; and web forms and surveys, which bundles Survey Maker Business with a 500 response monthly limit.

If you plan to sell quizzes, read the payment terms closely. Connecting your own Stripe account carries no ProProfs fee, while using the ProProfs gateway takes 9.5%. On any meaningful revenue that gap dwarfs the $300 add-on. On billing generally, ProProfs accepts Visa, MasterCard and American Express, does not accept PayPal, and for purchases over $3,000 will take ACH or check with an additional $100 processing fee.

How per taker pricing compares to paying per video

The alternative model is to meter the thing you create rather than the people who consume it. VidQuiz counts videos converted into quizzes and starts at $19 a month, learners take a quiz through a shared link with no account, and they are never counted against the plan. Send a quiz to 40 people or 4,000 and the invoice is identical.

Neither model is universally better, and it is worth being clear about the trade. Per taker pricing is cheaper for a small, steady audience and it comes with a free tier to start on. Per video pricing is cheaper the moment an audience grows, and the free plan on that side is small (3 videos a month on VidQuiz), so a large free tier is not what you are buying. Match the model to the shape of your usage: metered by audience if your audience is small and predictable, metered by content if your content is finite and your audience is not.

There is a scope difference too. ProProfs is a full assessment suite with 20+ question types, a large ready made question library and AI assisted grading of written answers. VidQuiz does one job, turning a recording into multiple choice questions with answers, explanations and timestamps, then exporting them as a Google Forms CSV, a QTI 1.2 package, a Moodle GIFT file, a Blackboard tab delimited file, PDF or CSV. If you need one vendor for every kind of assessment, that breadth is real and worth paying for. The detailed feature comparison lives on our ProProfs alternative page.

If the real goal is running an entire training program rather than scoring a single quiz, quiz pricing is the wrong lens altogether and a corporate learning platform built to onboard and certify staff is a different category of purchase with its own per learner math to check.

Which ProProfs plan should you buy?

Start from your peak month, not your average, and from the audience rather than the content. If fewer than 100 unique people take a quiz in your busiest month, Essentials at $239.88 a year is the plan. Between 100 and 500, price both Essentials and Business against your actual peak, remembering the 300 and 500 ceilings are hard limits. Above 500 in any month, Business Complete Elite is the only route and the honest question becomes whether $9.96 per person per year is worth it against a tool that does not meter people at all.

Whatever you choose, confirm the numbers on the ProProfs plan page before you commit. Assessment vendors reprice regularly, and per taker models in particular tend to get restructured. For a broader look at how these models differ, we compared them in quiz maker pricing per quiz taker versus per quiz, and we did the same exercise for a competitor in the Quizizz and Wayground pricing breakdown. If your questions already exist and you only need them moved between platforms, a converter is a much cheaper purchase than either, which we cover on the GETMARKED alternative page.

ProProfs is a trademark of its owner and is referenced here only for comparison. Prices were read from the ProProfs Quiz Maker plan page on August 21, 2026.