QuestionWell Pricing: Free, Premium and School Cost

QuestionWell costs $0 on its free plan, $5.83 a month or $70 billed annually on Premium, and $100 per seat per year on the school and district plan, which is sold in bands from 5 to 50 seats. Those are the figures published on QuestionWell's own pricing page, read on 18 September 2026. The free plan is real rather than decorative, but almost everything on it is metered at five a month.

That is the whole answer if you came for a number. What follows is what each tier actually unlocks, the two free-plan limits that are not monthly counters and catch people out, the point at which a $100 seat beats a $70 account, and the one thing none of the three plans will do regardless of what you pay.

QuestionWell pricing by plan

Plan	Price	Questions at a time	Monthly caps	Storage
Free	$0	5 or 10	5 of most actions, 2 imports, 5 AI question edits, 2 classes	3 months
Premium	$5.83 a month, or $70 a year	Up to 30	None on the listed features	Unlimited
School and district	$100 per seat per year, 5 to 50 seats	Up to 30	None on the listed features	Unlimited

Annual Premium works out at $5.83 a month, so paying yearly is the only way to get that rate. For a single teacher, $70 for twelve months of unlimited question generation is among the lowest prices in this category, and any comparison that skips past that is not being straight with you.

Is QuestionWell free, and what does the free plan actually block?

There is a permanent free plan at $0. It caps most of what you would want to do at five a month: five reading exports, five vocabulary worksheet exports, five video quizzes, five runs of the research-backed tools, five exports out to Kahoot, Quizizz, Canvas and the rest of the list, and five AI question edits. Imports are capped lower, at two a month. Questions generate five or ten at a time instead of thirty.

The two limits worth reading twice are not counters. The first is two classes. That is fine for an evaluation and awkward the moment you teach four sections, because the class is the container the assignments sit in. The second is three months of storage. Question sets you built in the spring are not waiting for you in the autumn, which is the opposite of how most teachers assume a library works.

Whether five a month is enough is a question about your rhythm, not about the software. If you build a quiz most weeks, you will hit the ceiling in the second week of every month. If you build a unit assessment every few weeks and mostly work inside one course, you may genuinely never notice. The cheapest way to settle it is to run the free plan through one ordinary month and count what you bumped into.

When does the $100 school seat beat ten $70 accounts?

Ten teachers buying Premium individually costs $700 a year. The same ten on the school plan costs $1,000. So the school plan carries a $300 premium on a ten-person department, or $30 per seat, and the question is whether the extra features are worth $30 a head.

Team size	Individual Premium	School plan at $100 a seat	Difference
5 teachers	$350	$500	$150
10 teachers	$700	$1,000	$300
25 teachers	$1,750	$2,500	$750
50 teachers	$3,500	$5,000	$1,500

The arithmetic in that table is ours, taken from the two published rates. It only tells you the gap, not whether the gap is worth paying, and the honest answer depends on one thing: whether anybody above the teachers needs to see anything.

What the extra $30 a seat buys is administration and alignment rather than generation. Configurable Bloom's levels, custom standards, readings roughly ten times longer, LTI 1.3 gradebook integration including Canvas, sharing settings for classes, a usage dashboard with analytics, quarterly reports, and custom professional development with office hours. If a curriculum lead has to evidence standards coverage or a principal wants to know whether the licences are being used, those are the features that answer them, and they do not exist on individual Premium at any price.

If none of that applies, ten Premium accounts generate questions identically for $300 less. The trap is buying the school plan for the discount, because there isn't one. It is priced above individual Premium, not below it, which is unusual and worth catching before it reaches a purchase order.

What Premium adds over the free plan

The headline is the cap removal, but three of the upgrades change what the tool can be used for rather than how often.

• Thirty questions at a time instead of five or ten. This is the difference between drafting a unit test in one pass and stitching one together from four runs.
• Document uploads. Premium accepts PDF, DOCX, PPTX, JPEG and PNG files as source material. On the free plan you are working from a pasted reading, a topic, a website link or a YouTube video.
• Reading length. QuestionWell describes roughly 1,000 words on free and roughly 10,000 words on Premium. A thousand words is about four minutes of speech, which is short for anything that behaves like a lesson.

Premium also lifts storage to unlimited and classes to unlimited, adds fill-in-the-blank and short-answer question types alongside multiple choice and discussion questions, and includes dedicated email support.

What none of the plans will do

No tier accepts an uploaded video or audio file as the source. QuestionWell's features page describes its video route as finding a YouTube video or linking a website to use as context, and the file types Premium accepts are PDF, DOCX, PPTX, JPEG and PNG. Those are documents and images. There is no row on any plan for an .mp4, an .mov or an .mp3.

For classroom teaching that rarely matters, because the video you want is usually already on YouTube. For workplace training it matters more often, because the recordings that most need a comprehension check are frequently the ones nobody publishes. Getting those into QuestionWell means publishing them somewhere public first, or transcribing them yourself and pasting the text in under the word ceiling.

It is worth saying that the tools competing with it mostly share this gap. VidQuiz has no speech recognition of its own either: it reads a YouTube link unaided, and for any other recording you paste that recording's transcript, which is the text the questions get written from. The difference is the ceiling on that pasted text, 60,000 characters against QuestionWell's roughly 10,000 words on Premium, and the fact that the pasted route is available on every plan rather than being the thing you upgrade for.

If your source material is a slide deck or a PDF rather than a recording, that upload path is exactly what Premium is for, and there are also tools built only for that job that will turn the document itself into a question set without a subscription to a full teaching suite. The choice between them comes down to whether you want the surrounding standards and worksheet machinery or just the questions.

How QuestionWell pricing compares with per-user video quiz tools

They bill on the same axis, per person, which makes this an unusually clean comparison. QuestionWell Premium is $70 a year. A per-author video quiz tool typically starts near $19 a month, or $114 for a year if it discounts annual billing, which is roughly 60 percent more for one seat.

You are not paying that difference for better question writing. You are paying it for a different output. A QuestionWell alternative built around exports rather than integrations hands back six file formats you keep: QTI 1.2 zipped with imsmanifest.xml at the root for Canvas and Brightspace, Moodle GIFT, a Blackboard tab-delimited upload, a Google Forms CSV, plain CSV and a PDF with the answer key after a divider. It also puts the timecode of the originating moment on each question, so checking a doubtful draft against the recording takes seconds instead of scrubbing.

It is also worse on the axes QuestionWell is strong on, and pretending otherwise would be useless to you. Six file formats against more than twenty named platform integrations. No Kahoot, Blooket or Gimkit. No gradebook sync, no standards alignment, no vocabulary worksheets, no AI-written readings, no document uploads, and a free tier that is a one-time demo of three quizzes rather than a renewing allowance. Plenty of departments run both and split the work by where the questions have to end up, which costs more than either alone and less than making one tool do a job it was not built for.

If the export format is the part you are weighing rather than the price, the QTI converter page covers which LMS reads which version and why a loose .xml file gets rejected on import.

The short version

QuestionWell is $0 with almost everything metered at five per calendar month and only three months of storage, $70 a year for one teacher with the meters removed and document uploads added, and $100 per seat per year for a school that needs standards configuration, gradebook sync and a usage dashboard. The school plan costs more per person than individual Premium, not less, so buy it for the administration features or not at all. And no plan takes a media file as a source, so if your material starts life as a recording, check how long a transcript each candidate will accept before you price the seats.

Figures on this page were read from QuestionWell's published pricing page on 18 September 2026. Vendors change prices, so confirm against the source before you build a budget on it.