Best Slido Alternatives in 2026 (Honest Comparison for Teams & Events)

Slido owns conference Q&A. Its Webex integration and moderator workflow are genuinely useful at enterprise scale. But at roughly $17.50/organizer/month for the entry Engage plan - and higher if you want full live polling - it is hard to justify for smaller teams, classrooms, or organisers running fewer than ten events a year. Here are the best Slido alternatives in 2026, compared on price, Q&A depth, and what your audience actually has to do to participate.

What makes a good Slido alternative

• Live Q&A with upvotes - the core Slido feature
• Anonymous question submission - quieter voices get heard
• Live polls - multiple choice, word cloud, scale, ranking
• Browser-only join - no app for the audience
• Flat workspace pricing - not a per-organizer seat tax

1. PollsLive - best value for teams and recurring events

PollsLive runs live Q&A with audience upvoting and host moderation in the same deck as polls, word clouds, quiz slides, and ranking. Participants join by PIN or QR with no account. One Pro workspace ($4.17/mo annual, 21-day trial) covers up to 10 seats.

• Live Q&A with upvotes and host moderation
• No per-organizer pricing - flat Pro workspace
• Permanent async URLs - polls persist after the event ends
• EU-hosted, GDPR-ready
• Trade-off: no native Google Slides or PowerPoint add-in yet (present from the host console or embed async links)

2. Mentimeter - best if you live in Google Slides

Mentimeter includes Q&A on the free plan (within the two-question cap). Word clouds are best-in-class and the Google Slides add-in is mature. Pro starts around $12/presenter/month. Strongest full-feature alternative when budget allows. See the Mentimeter comparison.

3. Pigeonhole Live - best for large branded conferences

Pigeonhole is built for enterprise events - speaker management, multiple sessions, branding. Pricing is event-based ($400+/event for larger venues). Specialist choice when logistics matter more than weekly team meetings.

4. Poll Everywhere - best PowerPoint integration

Poll Everywhere has the most mature PowerPoint and Keynote embed. Universities use it heavily. Free tier: 25 responses. Paid plans start around $120/year per presenter - similar per-presenter math to Slido.

5. Wooclap - best education free tier

Wooclap allows up to 1,000 participants on free (with feature limits). Question types include matching and fill-in-the-blank - useful for classroom testing. Less refined for pure conference Q&A moderation.

Pricing comparison

• Slido - Free: 3 polls, 100 participants · Engage: ~$17.50/organizer/mo · Enterprise: custom
• PollsLive - Free: 3 polls, 500 responses · Pro: $4.17/mo (10 seats) · Compare
• Mentimeter - Free: 2 questions/presentation · Pro: ~$12/presenter/mo
• Pigeonhole - $400+/event (enterprise events)
• Poll Everywhere - Free: 25 responses · Presenter: ~$120/year
• Wooclap - Free: 1,000 participants (limited features) · Pro: from ~$8/presenter/mo

Run a Slido-style Q&A session in four steps

1

Add a Q&A page

In the editor, add a Q&A page. Enable anonymous submissions and upvotes.

2

Open the host console

Click Present live. Share the PIN or QR so the audience can submit questions.

3

Moderate live

Pick which questions to show, pin important ones, and dismiss duplicates.

4

Share results after

End the session and copy the results link - or export CSV on Pro.

The bottom line

For teams running regular meetings, workshops, or small-to-medium events, PollsLive and Wooclap offer the best value. For large conferences where branding and speaker logistics dominate, Pigeonhole is the specialist. For Google Slides-native teams, Mentimeter's add-in is worth the premium. Slido remains the safe enterprise choice when deep Webex integration is required - but that is a narrow use case. See the full Slido comparison for feature-by-feature detail.