Slido vs Poll Everywhere: which polling tool fits your meetings and lectures?

• How participants are counted

  Slido counts every device that joins a slido during the event, so its 100-person free cap and 200-person Engage cap apply to the whole session. Poll Everywhere counts responses per poll — 40 on the free plan and 700 on most paid plans — so 20 people answering twice already hit the free limit.

• Billing and one-off events

  Slido bills annually only but sells one-time plans for a single event of up to 7 days at $60 (200 participants), $240 (1,000) or $1,000 (5,000). Poll Everywhere lists no event price; its FAQ points you to sales or to a monthly plan, from $99 for Engage, that you downgrade afterwards.

• Q&A vs teaching tools

  Slido's audience Q&A with upvoting, moderation and labels is its best-known feature. Poll Everywhere leans toward teaching, with attendance management and archived results on Engage and Educator plans, grading and a Canvas integration on campus plans, and SMS voting for people without a data connection.

• Quizzes and competitions

  Poll Everywhere's Competitions award 1,000 points per correct answer plus up to 1,000 for speed, show a leaderboard between questions and come with every plan, even free, though they can't be answered by SMS. Slido's quiz is multiple choice only with a top-5 leaderboard, and its free plan allows one quiz per event.

• Integrations and platform changes

  Slido lives inside PowerPoint, Google Slides, Teams, Zoom and Webex, and it retired its participant mobile apps in March 2026. Poll Everywhere works with PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, Teams, Zoom and Webex, and its rebuilt 2.0 platform at pe.app, launched in August 2025, adds Canva support and WCAG 2.2 AA compliance.

Slido's US prices as of October 2026 are Engage at $17.50/month ($210/year, 200 participants), Professional at $75/month ($900/year, two users, 1,000) and Enterprise at $200/month ($2,400/year, three users, 5,000), all billed annually; education plans cost $7/month ($84/year, 500 participants) and $12/month ($144/year, 1,000), and single events cost $60, $240 or $1,000. Poll Everywhere's business plans are Present at $10/month billed annually ($120/year), Engage at $49/month annually or $99 monthly and Teams at $84/month annually or $249 monthly, each accepting up to 700 responses per poll; education plans cost $9, $16 and $27 a month billed annually, and Educator+ raises the cap to 2,000. For businesses, Poll Everywhere Present undercuts Slido Engage; for teachers, Slido's $84 education Engage plan is the lower entry price; and for a one-off conference or town hall, Slido's $60 pass is the cheapest option.

• you run town halls or conferences where attendees submit and upvote questions
• your meetings happen in Webex, Teams or Zoom and you want polls without leaving them
• you'd rather buy a 7-day event plan than a subscription
• you need self-serve plans for audiences of up to 5,000
• you're a teacher who wants 500 participants for $84 a year

• some participants need to vote by text message
• you teach at a university and need attendance, grading or Canvas integration
• you want speed-scored trivia even on the free plan
• you'd rather pay month to month for a short project
• you present from Keynote

• you run live, game-show style quizzes and want one simple price: $9/month, billed monthly
• your groups are big — up to 500 players per game
• players should be able to read every question on their own phone (large rooms, hybrid and video calls)
• you don't need homework, self-paced or presentation features

Pick Slido if Q&A is the centerpiece, your meetings run in Webex, Teams or Zoom, or you only need coverage for a single event. Pick Poll Everywhere if you teach or train regularly and value SMS voting, attendance, grading and a free plan with every activity type, or if you need a monthly option. For events where the quiz itself is the main attraction, Quizzo ($9/month, billed monthly) adds a game-show format with a podium for up to 500 players.