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Checked Mentimeter’s pricing and got sticker shock?
You’re in the right place. In this article, we’ll break down its cost and analyze if it’s right for your needs. Whether you’re a corporate educator, university professor, team leader, or an education administrator, we’ll explore how to engage hundreds of learners without breaking the bank.
We reviewed Mentimeter for business and educational purposes, so we’ll also cover a few usage-based pricing insights that you won’t get just by reading its pricing page.
Mentimeter established itself as popular interactive presentation software, offering tiered pricing from free to enterprise levels with a focus on audience engagement through live polls, quizzes, and word clouds. While it excels in professional environments with its polished interface and engagement tools, it doesn't support educational use cases as well as alternatives. Also, its pricing structure requires annual commitments and scales per presenter.
In this comprehensive guide, we'll cover:
First, let's start with an overview.
Mentimeter | Wooclap |
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Free Plan | |
- 50 participants/month limit with 30-day lockout | - 1,000 participants per event |
Basic Plan | |
For individuals and teams | For individuals and teams |
Pro Plan | |
For individuals and teams | For individuals and teams |
Enterprise Plan | |
For individuals and teams | For individuals and teams |
Online Reviews | |
Best For | |
Business professionals and executives looking to improve attention and participation during team meetings, presentations, and seminars | Higher education lecturers and professional instructors who want to boost active participation and knowledge retention during teaching sessions. |
Mentimeter’s pricing structure caters to a wide audience, from individuals exploring interactive presentations to large enterprises in need of robust engagement tools.
Alongside specialized Education and Conference options, it features four plan types:
Then there are the education and conference options:
The Free plan is a way to try Mentimeter's core features without time limitations.
It supports up to 50 participants per month. Once you reach the 50-participant limit, you'll be unable to present for 30 days unless you upgrade. There’s one exception: Mentimeter will never kick participants out of your presentation, so, technically, you can host one presentation per 30 days with unlimited participants. The plan includes setting up unlimited presentations with unlimited question slides, quiz slides, and content slides.
Almost all question types are included, except for the Quick Form slide type which is reserved for Pro users.
Pros | Cons |
✅ Completely free with no time limit | ❌ 50-participant monthly limit with 30-day lockout |
✅ Access to almost all question types | ❌ Limited privacy (questions may be anonymized and shared) |
✅ Unlimited questions, quizzes and content slides |
This plan is for users that want to try Mentimeter or those with small, infrequent presentation needs. The participant limit makes it impractical for regular large-group presentations, but the unlimited slides and question types provide good functionality for testing the platform's capabilities.
Mentimeter's free plan is generous with features but restrictive with audience size. If you’re looking to present to a larger audience for free, consider an alternative platform.
Priced at $13.00/presenter/month (billed annually at $156.00 per presenter), the Basic plan is tailored for solo presenters.
It removes the free plan’s participant limits, allowing unlimited attendees per presentation, unlocks unlimited questions and quiz slides, and adds slide imports and Excel data exports. Collaboration remains basic, with no branding options. It also already requires you to commit to an annual subscription.
Pros | Cons |
✅ Unlimited participants | ❌ No custom branding |
✅ Data export to Excel | ❌ Limited collaboration tools |
✅ Full access to all question types | ❌ Annual billing only |
The Basic plan is a cost-effective upgrade if you’ve been using the Free version and outgrew its restrictions. It’s ideal for presenting to large groups if you don’t need any additional features like custom branding or collaboration. Overall, the price offers solid value if you can commit annually.
Mentimeter’s basic plan is slightly more expensive than what you’ll find on most of its competitors. We would recommend looking into alternatives if you’re a solo user or a small team engaging with more than 50 participants per presenter monthly.
However, there is one use-case for Mentimeter’s basic plan: budget-conscious small teams (up to 20) people with simple presentation needs. That’s because the plan offers basic team collaboration features and allows you to invite up to 20 free users to collaborate on your projects — each of them is allowed to use free features and present to up to 50 participants per month.
At $27.00/presenter/month (billed annually at $324.00 per presenter), the Pro plan targets teams and professionals that need more advanced features like custom branding, invoicing, Quick Form slides, moderation tools for Q&A sessions, team templates, and advanced collaboration features like private presentation sharing.
For your end users, the main difference from the basic plan is that it makes your presentations more polished because of the extra customization features.
Pros | Cons |
✅ Custom branding options | ❌ Steep price jump from Basic |
✅ Advanced collaboration and templates | ❌ Overkill for solo users without branding needs |
✅ Enhanced engagement tools | ❌ No monthly billing option |
This plan is made for businesses or teams of professionals that can justify its cost with branding, collaboration, and additional features for interaction. However, the $14 per presenter monthly increase from Basic is definitely not optimal for solo professionals.
Mentimeter is only slightly more expensive than its competitors at this price point. That’s why the biggest point of comparison becomes the feature set. Read our full breakdown of Mentimeter’s features against Wooclap to learn more.
The Enterprise plan caters to large organizations with complex team management and security needs. It starts at 10+ licenses for a custom price and includes all Pro features, plus Single Sign-On (SSO), SCIM user groups, valuable insights on user activity, and a dedicated success manager.
Typical contracts for organizations with 200 real users range from $15,600 to $31,400 annually, suggesting per-user costs between $6.50-$13.08 monthly because of volume discounts.
Pros | Cons |
✅ Scalable for large teams | ❌ Minimum 10-license requirement |
✅ Advanced security (SSO) | ❌ Potentially costly for smaller firms |
✅ Dedicated customer support | ❌ Features may exceed small team needs |
This plan is best for corporations in need of enterprise-grade tools and customer support. It’s a scalable and customizable solution that can grow with the organization while maintaining administrative control. A premium choice for those with significant resources.
If you’ve been happily using the Mentimeter Pro plan so far and outgrew it, this is the plan for your organization. The only thing you won’t get with this plan, if you’re an educational institution, is integration with popular LMS like Moodle, Canvas or Blackboard.
For those who find Mentimeter's audience limits restrictive or its pricing less competitive, Wooclap offers a compelling alternative that offers more value in many cases — especially for educational settings and large audiences.
Unlike Mentimeter's restrictive 50-participant monthly limit, Wooclap's free plan supports up to 1,000 participants per event, though it limits you to only 2 questions per event. You can create unlimited events and access all question types, with attendance monitoring included.
✅ 1,000 participants per event (20× Mentimeter's limit) | ❌ Limited to 2 questions per event |
✅ Unlimited events | ❌ Limited attendance export options |
✅ No monthly participation cap or lockout period | ❌ Support limited to help center |
Wooclap's free plan dramatically outperforms Mentimeter for audience size (1,000 vs 50), making it ideal for presenters who need large audience reach but can work with simple, focused interactions. Where Mentimeter locks you out after exceeding monthly limits, Wooclap keeps your events running with no monthly participant tracking.
Priced at €9.99/€6.99/user/month, Wooclap’s Basic plan is more affordable than Mentimeter's Basic plan. It comes with unlimited questions per event while maintaining the 1,000 participant limit per event. Notably, it adds Excel and PDF exports and supports both live and self-paced questionnaires during presentations for real-time feedback and audience responses.
Pros | Cons |
✅ Unlimited questions per event | ❌ Doesn’t include team management and collaboration features |
✅ Data export to Excel and PDF | ❌ Annual billing only |
✅ Lower price point than Mentimeter |
While Mentimeter's Basic plan is "slightly more expensive than most competitors," Wooclap offers better value with a lower price point and unlimited questions. For solo presenters and educators who rarely exceed 1,000 participants per session, Wooclap's Basic plan delivers all essential functionality at approximately €3 less per month than Mentimeter's equivalent.
At €24.99/user/month (compared to Mentimeter's €27.00), Wooclap's Pro plan adds team collaboration, custom branding (including logos), AI question creation, SMS student engagement, and presentation moderation tools. Education pricing is particularly competitive at €14.99 (vs Mentimeter's €16.00).
Pros | Cons |
✅ Team collaboration and sharing | ❌ Annual billing only |
✅ AI-powered question creation | |
✅ Custom branding and themes | |
✅ Email and chat support | |
✅ Very competitive education pricing |
While both platforms offer pretty much the whole functionality, Wooclap edges out Mentimeter with its AI question creation tool and slightly lower price point. For educational institutions, Wooclap's education discount delivers exceptional value, making it the better choice for academic teams needing advanced engagement features.
Wooclap's Enterprise plan includes all Pro features plus unlimited participants per event, seamless authentication (SAML/SSO/CAS), LMS integration, synchronized attendance with learning management systems, and dedicated support.
Pros | Cons |
✅ Unlimited participants per event | ❌ Minimum 5-user requirement |
✅ Native LMS integrations | ❌ Features exceed small team needs |
✅ Advanced authentication options | |
✅ Synchronized attendance with LMS systems |
Wooclap's Enterprise plan specifically addresses Mentimeter's education integration weakness by offering native LMS integrations (Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, etc.). For educational institutions, this provides tremendous value that Mentimeter's Enterprise plan lacks. With a lower entry point (5+ users vs. Mentimeter's 10+), it's also more accessible for growing teams and departments.
When thinking about the value of a platform, it’s important to consider which functionality you get as well as the price.
Mentimeter offers strong value for business presentations with its clean interface and audience sentiment tools. However, its pricing structure has limitations — the free plan's 50 participant monthly cap with a 30-day lockout period is restrictive for any useful application, so you need to use a paid plan. And, at €13/month (Basic) and €27/month (Pro), Mentimeter positions itself as a premium business tool.
On the other hand, Wooclap has better feature value at comparable price points — especially when you factor in its educational features. Its free plan allows 1,000 participants per event with no monthly cap, though limited to 2 questions. This means the free plan is useful for certain non-testing use cases.
At €9.99/month (Basic) and €24.99/month (Pro), Wooclap is more affordable than Mentimeter over all. And it offers more education-focused features at a slightly lower price than Mentimeter.
Mentimeter excels in professional settings with its presentation-focused tools and its 15 brainstorming and idea capture focused question types. The Mentimote remote control feature also delivers good ROI for business meetings and corporate events.
Meanwhile, Wooclap has better educational ROI with 21 diverse question types, a fun but unobtrusive UI, presenter view, two-way interaction tools, and competitive mode — perfect for educational lecturers and professional training environments. It also comes with detailed performance analytics to help instructors measure learning outcomes.
Mentimeter supports only 4 integrations (PowerPoint, Zoom, Teams, Hopin).
Wooclap offers the same integrations except Hoppin, in addition to LMS platforms (Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard). So it offers way better value for educational institutions and academic users.
For an in-depth comparison of their features, read our direct comparison of Wooclap vs Mentimeter.
There are also a few details about Mentimeter’s pricing that you might miss if you only read their pricing page.
Mentimeter charges per presenter rather than per organization, audience size, or simply per user.
This means you should set up paid accounts only for presenters, while other stakeholders can collaborate by reviewing and sharing presentations on the free plan.
This model works in your favor if you’re an organization with only a few presenters and many stakeholders
Its model doesn’t work in your favor if you’re an organization with occasional presenters who don't justify a full annual license or if every team member and stakeholder is also a presenter and requires a separate license
For example, while a small marketing team with two content creators might manage well with just two licenses (2 × €27 × 12 = €648 annually), a university department with 20 instructors needing creation privileges could face significant costs (20 × €16 × 12 = €3,840 annually) under this model.
Unlike some competitors that offer monthly billing options, Mentimeter requires annual commitments for all paid plans:
This annual-only approach can be problematic for organizations with fluctuating needs or budget constraints.
An easy-to-miss detail is that Mentimeter's advertised pricing doesn't include applicable taxes such as VAT:
So, calculate the full post-tax cost, based on your location, when making platform comparisons to get an accurate picture of your actual investment.
Mentimeter's refund policy has some limitations:
Mentimeter offers a polished interactive presentation experience with strong business features for a fair price.
It’s a viable option for business users with stable, year-round presentation needs and a sufficient budget. However, compared with Wooclap, it provides less value for certain users — particularly in educational settings. Wooclap is the superior choice for:
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At the end of the day, the best approach you can take is to try both platforms' free tiers to experience their interfaces firsthand, calculate your total cost of ownership, including taxes and multi-presenter needs, and factor in your growth trajectory and how pricing will scale with additional presenters.
Yes, Mentimeter offers a free plan, but with significant limitations. The free plan allows unlimited presentations but restricts you to 50 participants per month. Once you hit this limit, you'll face a 30-day lockout period where you can't create new presentations unless you upgrade. While the free plan includes most question types, it lacks data export options and custom branding features.
Mentimeter's main disadvantages include:
Can Mentimeter be billed monthly?
No, Mentimeter requires annual commitments for all paid plans. You must pay for the entire year upfront with no option to pause or downgrade mid-subscription. This lack of flexibility can be problematic for organizations with seasonal or project-based needs.
Mentimeter supports unlimited participants on all paid plans (Basic, Pro, and Enterprise). The free plan is limited to 50 participants per month, after which you face a 30-day lockout period.
Yes, Wooclap is a strong alternative to Mentimeter, especially for educational settings. Wooclap offers more generous participant limits (1,000 per event on the free plan), slightly lower pricing, better LMS integrations, and education-specific features. Other alternatives include Slido, Poll Everywhere, and Kahoot.
On Mentimeter's free plan, you can host presentations for up to 50 participants per month. Once you reach this limit, you'll be unable to present for 30 days unless you upgrade. There's one exception: Mentimeter won't kick participants out of an ongoing presentation, so technically, you can host one large presentation per 30 days with unlimited participants.
Yes, Mentimeter can be embedded into PowerPoint presentations.
You can embed Google Slides in Mentimeter. There’s no official information that would support embedding Mentimeter in Google Slides, though.
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