Editor Sebastiaan Smits ·
Published November 5, 2026 · Updated November 5, 2026
Presenters look past Mentimeter when the free plan runs out at 50 participants a month, when results cannot be exported without paying, or when a team of presenters is billed per head. Most go to Slido or Poll Everywhere for a similar polling flow, or to AhaSlides and Sendsteps when cost is the driver.
Short answer: The closest replacements for Mentimeter in our audience response software ranking are Slido, Poll Everywhere and AhaSlides. Choose Slido if you run one conference or town hall and want a one-time plan with moderated Q&A. Everything below is drawn from the Best Audience Response Software in 2026 shortlist and judged only against Mentimeter, including when it is wiser to remain with Mentimeter.
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Mentimeter's plans page lists 50 participants per month on Free and 23 slide types, with unlimited participants only on Basic and above. A trainer with one cohort of 80 people hits the cap in the first session and has to buy a seat to run the next one.
The help center says Excel export is available on Basic, Pro and Enterprise only. The PDF and screenshot download is listed for paid plans as well. A presenter who tries the Free plan cannot take the answers out of the tool.
The plans page prices Basic and Pro per presenter per month, billed yearly, and the terms set a twelve-month subscription period paid upfront. A team of several presenters pays for each one, and a single event still carries a full year.
Listed from best to weakest fit for people moving off Mentimeter. The rightmost column shows where we rank each one out of 13.
| # | Alternative | Headquarters | Switch if | Our rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Slido | Slovakia | you run one conference or town hall and want a one-time plan with moderated Q&A | #5 |
| 2 |  Poll Everywhere | United States | you lecture to hundreds and want a published price per audience size | #9 |
| 3 |  AhaSlides | Singapore | you want monthly billing and a cheaper all-rounder for small groups | #8 |
| 4 |  Wooclap | Belgium | you teach or train and need LMS links, attendance records and many question types | #1 |
| 5 |  Vevox | United Kingdom | you run staff meetings where anonymous questions matter and the office uses Microsoft 365 | #2 |
| 6 |  Sendsteps | Netherlands | you have large rooms and want to try a live session with no participant cap | #7 |
| 7 |  Beekast | France | you facilitate workshops and want euro pricing you can pay month by month | #3 |
| 8 |  Kahoot! | Norway | your sessions are quizzes and team rounds, not polls and word clouds | #6 |
| 9 |  Klaxoon | France | you want to vote on ideas collected on a board in the same tool | #10 |
| 10 |  Socrative | Canada | you are a teacher who wants marked quizzes and exit tickets for a class | #13 |
| 11 |  Nearpod | United States | you teach school lessons and want questions embedded in slides, videos and activities | #11 |
| 12 |  Pear Deck | United States | your teachers already build lessons in Google Slides and use Google Classroom | #12 |
Built around audience questions that others upvote and a moderator ranks, which suits town halls and conferences. It sells one-time event plans next to annual and education plans, so a single event avoids a yearly term. Amounts load only with JavaScript, and the page offers a quote by email.
Switch from Mentimeter if you run one conference or town hall and want a one-time plan with moderated Q&A.
Prints every price on one page: Present at $10 a month for a 700-person audience, Engage at $49 with reporting and attendance management, Teams at $84 with branding removal. Reporting starts one step above Present. The interface is older than Mentimeter's slide look, and a second 2.0 interface runs beside the classic one.
Switch from Mentimeter if you lecture to hundreds and want a published price per audience size.
Free for 50 live participants but with unlimited presentations a month, where Mentimeter counts 50 participants monthly. Adds a spinner wheel and sells monthly or yearly plans, with a 14-day refund if no live event was held. Paid amounts are not shown in the page text, and the company is in Singapore.
Switch from Mentimeter if you want monthly billing and a cheaper all-rounder for small groups.
Starter is free with unlimited participants but only five questions a month. Basic adds PDF and Excel export and question import from Excel, Moodle and Brightspace, and Pro adds moderator mode. Corporate starts from six presenters and adds LMS links, so it suits universities and training teams more than keynotes.
Switch from Mentimeter if you teach or train and need LMS links, attendance records and many question types.
Centers anonymity: staff can submit questions and answers without a name, with Teams and PowerPoint add-ins and attendance tracking. Business and Education plans are listed, but the pricing pages we reached print no amounts. Upgrades from a free plan carry a 30-day full refund.
Switch from Mentimeter if you run staff meetings where anonymous questions matter and the office uses Microsoft 365.
The free plan allows unlimited participants and twenty-plus question types, but only two AI creations and two PowerPoint imports every 30 days. Starter and Professional are per user, Professional adds a moderator mode, and Campus or Enterprise is quoted and can switch AI off on request. Amounts are not shown.
Switch from Mentimeter if you have large rooms and want to try a live session with no participant cap.
Aimed at facilitators who run a series of activities in one session. Plus is EUR 29 a license monthly or EUR 21 annually, Pro EUR 65 or EUR 49, so monthly billing is possible. The free plan gives 30 participants and three sessions a month, with PDF reports. Master sessions can be cloned for a second cohort.
Switch from Mentimeter if you facilitate workshops and want euro pricing you can pay month by month.
Game-style quizzes with a leaderboard, sold on the business pricing page as Pro Start at $9 per month ($108 billed annually), Standard at $25 and Pro Plus at $39, with an Enterprise route by contact. Ready-made content and AI presentations are included, but the tone is competitive rather than a quiet poll.
Switch from Mentimeter if your sessions are quizzes and team rounds, not polls and word clouds.
Polling sits beside visual boards and brainstorms in one suite. Starter is $24.90 per host per month billed annually and covers up to four Pro users; Enterprise starts at five. Participants join without a license. You pay for the whole collaboration product, which is more than a poll-only buyer needs.
Switch from Mentimeter if you want to vote on ideas collected on a board in the same tool.
One room, one code, auto-marked quizzes. Free covers one room and 50 students; Essentials is $10 per seat a month ($120 annually) with 5 rooms; Pro raises limits to 300 students per activity. It targets teachers, and it has no word cloud or moderated Q&A comparable to Mentimeter's.
Switch from Mentimeter if you are a teacher who wants marked quizzes and exit tickets for a class.
Questions sit inside full lessons that students follow on their own devices. Silver is free with 40 student joins per session, Gold is $159 a year for 75, Platinum $397 for 90, with school and district licenses quoted. Priced per teacher per year, so it does not fit conference or company use.
Switch from Mentimeter if you teach school lessons and want questions embedded in slides, videos and activities.
An add-on for Google Slides that puts questions on slides and shows each student's answer on a teacher dashboard. Teacher Free is $0 and Teacher Premium is $149 a year with the educator discount; assessment is a separate product. It follows Google Classroom and Slides, not open audiences or PowerPoint.
Switch from Mentimeter if your teachers already build lessons in Google Slides and use Google Classroom.
Mentimeter remains the right choice when presentations are the product: it imports PowerPoint, Keynote and PDF files, has 23 slide types, and lets a presenter run results from a phone. It also fits a company that wants SSO, SCIM and verified participants on Enterprise, and one that pays by bank transfer on invoice. If the only complaint is the participant cap or export, one paid seat may cost less than migrating.
Excel export gives one Voters tab and a tab per session, with all earlier sessions included. PDF and image downloads are listed for paid plans. Neither is a question bank: slides, word clouds and quiz keys are rebuilt by hand in the new tool, so budget time per presentation.
Mentimeter's terms set a twelve-month subscription period paid upfront and no part refund, apart from a 14-day full refund after first purchase. Price changes are announced 30 days before a charge. Move at renewal and leave a few weeks to rebuild and rehearse.
Participants join with a code or link, so nothing changes for them, but the new tool has different caps and add-ins. Test the join page on the venue network and check the plan's participant limit against your largest room before the live session.
Yes, on paid plans: results download as an XLSX file from the results page, and Basic, Pro and Enterprise include it. The Free plan has no Excel export. The file has a Voters tab and one tab per session, and Menti Live can also be saved as PDF or slide images.
Only as PDF or images, not as a question bank. The help center describes a PDF of all slides or chosen slides, and screenshots per slide, for paid plans. Nothing it lists moves questions into another audience tool, so plan to retype or copy them.
By email to hello@mentimeter.com, according to the terms. You can end the subscription at any time, but already paid fees are not repaid and fees for the full subscription period stay due. Termination follows your confirmation that all your data, including user data, is deleted.
Yes, a full refund for Basic or Pro if you cancel within 14 days of the initiation day. Ask in writing at hello@mentimeter.com; the terms promise the refund within 14 days of registering the request. It does not apply at the start of a later billing period.
It can: Mentimeter reserves the right to change subscription prices, never retroactively. The terms say it emails you 30 days before any automatic charge, and if you do not cancel before the new period, you are renewed at the new price.
Yes in general: the terms set a twelve-month subscription period, paid upfront, unless otherwise agreed. Invoice and bank transfer can change the payment date. A single event is better served by a tool with monthly or one-time plans.
With AWS, according to its trust pages, encrypted in transit with TLS 1.2 or higher and at rest with AES-256. The pages state an ISO 27001 management system. The country of the data center is not stated there, so ask in writing if your file needs it.
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