quizquiz.co vs Mentimeter, Slido and AhaSlides for office quizzes

If you're organising a work social, a team offsite, a Christmas do or a remote team quiz, there's a good chance your company already pays for Mentimeter, Slido or AhaSlides. That's a perfectly good reason to look at them first. The seat is there, nobody needs to approve a purchase, and your colleagues may have seen the interface before.

My verdict, in plain words: if the quiz is a few minutes inside a bigger meeting, use the tool you've got. If the quiz is the whole event, and people will play in teams, quizquiz.co is built for that shape in a way the polling tools aren't. They're audience-interaction tools with a quiz feature bolted alongside the polls and word clouds. AhaSlides is the closest of the three to a real quiz tool, and even there its docs say Team Play isn't available on every plan.

The short version in a table

Everything here was checked on 21 October 2026. Prices and limits change, so follow the links before you budget.

That last row is the one thing all four get right. Nobody installs anything: participants open a browser, enter a code or scan a QR, and play. If you've sat through an all-hands with a Slido on the screen, you've done it.

Participant counting: the tools meter people

These products make money by selling bigger audiences, so the free plans are limited by how many people show up. That makes sense for them. It's awkward for a party.

Mentimeter. The help centre says you can present as many presentations as you like each month until you hit a total of 50 participants. The plans page, though, also advertises "unlimited participants once per month". Those two statements don't sit comfortably together, and I couldn't resolve it. I'd trust the help centre and ask Mentimeter before relying on the other one for a 60-person event.

AhaSlides. Its pricing FAQ currently says the free plan lets you create and present up to 5 quiz questions and 3 poll questions in a single presentation, with an audience of up to 50. Five quiz questions is a warm-up, not a quiz night.

Slido. The free Basic plan takes up to 100 participants and allows 3 polls per slido. That's the most generous free participant limit of the three, and for a 40-person office quiz it's plenty. The catch is the other half of that sentence: unlimited polls and quizzes only arrive on the paid Engage tier, so a free Slido quiz is a short one.

quizquiz.co. The site publishing this article, so discount accordingly. It doesn't count players, and team play is unlimited on the free plan. The free limits are 3 saved quizzes and 20 AI-generated questions. Rounds, questions and quiz nights are unlimited. If you have 40 people split into eight teams, nothing about that costs you anything.

Teams: a work quiz is a team game

Nobody wants to play a Christmas quiz as 60 individuals staring at their own phones. The fun is the argument over whether it was Bruce Springsteen, and that needs a table of people sharing one answer.

Slido is the clearest case. Staff say on the forum that there's currently no way to create and join teams in Slido, and suggest one representative answering on a shared device. You can run a team quiz that way, but you'd be doing the team bit by hand.

AhaSlides has a Team Play feature. Its docs say it's "not available on every plan" and that you'll be prompted to upgrade if yours doesn't include it. I couldn't confirm which plans do.

Mentimeter is the one I'm least sure about. I found no built-in team scoring in its quiz competition help page, and its own quiz guide just suggests splitting a larger group into teams of 3 or 4. That's not the same as Mentimeter having no way to do it, only that I didn't find one.

quizquiz.co starts from teams. Each team scans the QR code on the big screen, picks a team name and answers on one phone. The leaderboard is by team. If your office would rather use pen and paper, it'll generate printed answer sheets too. Here's how to come up with team names if your colleagues need a nudge.

Music and pictures

This is where a quiz tool and a polling tool really diverge, because a good Christmas quiz has a "name that tune" round and a picture round.

Slido. A staff member said in October 2025 that there's no option to play audio with a Slido question, with the workaround being another tool. For images, you can pick from Pexels and GIPHY for free, but uploading your own needs a paid plan.

AhaSlides. Its docs say that on any paid plan you can add audio to your quiz questions. So the free plan, as far as I can tell, doesn't.

Mentimeter. There's a quiz music toggle that plays upbeat background tracks while people answer. I found no evidence of playing your own clip inside a question, though its quiz guide does suggest an audio round where you play the first five seconds of a track. How you'd do that inside the tool, I couldn't work out from the docs.

quizquiz.co. Paste a YouTube link, set where the clip starts and how long it runs, and play it from the presenter. No downloading MP3s, no trimming files. I've written a longer comparison of tools for quiz music rounds, and there are music round ideas and picture round ideas if you're short on material.

How each tool scores

Scoring differs more than you'd think, and it changes who wins.

Mentimeter lets you choose. Fixed points give 1000 for every correct answer. Time-based scoring runs from 1000 down to 500 depending on how fast you answered. Wrong or missing answers score nothing. The leaderboard slide shows the top 10.

Slido ranks people by who got the most correct answers first, and only uses speed to separate a tie, according to a staff reply on the forum. I think that's a sensible design. Knowing the answer matters more than having quick thumbs.

AhaSlides has speed scoring, which its docs say "encourages players to answer quicker".

For a pub-style team quiz, you generally want the knowledge to decide it, not the reflexes, which is why I like Slido's approach. quizquiz.co has no speed element, and no buzzer format either. If you want a race, see quizquiz.co vs Kahoot and quizquiz.co vs SpeedQuizzing.

What they cost

Mentimeter's plans page lists Basic at $11.99 and Pro at $24.99 per presenter per month, billed yearly, excluding tax. The page shows "$" without naming a currency, so check yours before you assume.

AhaSlides is the cheapest of the three if you commit to a year: Essential is $5.55 a month and Pro $7.95 a month billed yearly, or $11.95 and $24.95 month to month. Pro carries a 2,500 participant limit, which is far more than an office party will ever need, so Essential and its 100 participants is the realistic line.

Slido is the one worth reading properly, because it sells two different things. An annual plan starts at Engage, €15 a month billed at €180 a year, for up to 200 participants. But there's also a one-time option priced per event: €60 buys Engage for a single 7-day event, which is the right shape if you want one good Christmas quiz and nothing else all year. Professional is €240 an event and Premium €499. For an annual company offsite, paying per event beats a subscription nobody uses in March.

On the quizquiz.co side, Pro removes the save limit and the AI cap, and adds your own colours and branding. Current prices are on the pricing page. Presenting, answer sheets, the phone remote and team play are free.

When Mentimeter, Slido or AhaSlides is the better choice

Often, honestly.

The quiz is five minutes inside a longer meeting. An all-hands with a quick "guess the office fact" round is better in the tool that's already on screen. Switching to a different website mid-meeting costs more than you gain from a nicer quiz.

Your company already pays for one. The seat's there. If it covers what you need for the night, spending your own time and money elsewhere is hard to justify.

You want word clouds, open Q&A, live polls and audience questions. That's what these tools are for, and quizquiz.co does none of it. If your event is a conference session with a quiz bolted on, they're the right call.

You're presenting from PowerPoint, Google Slides or Teams. Slido's integrations page lists all three, along with Zoom and Webex, which matters for a corporate presentation. quizquiz.co has nothing comparable.

It's a remote all-hands with hundreds of people and no teams. Individual play on individual laptops is the right format there. The polling tools are designed for exactly that crowd, and Slido's Professional tier takes 1,000 participants.

You want one big event and nothing else all year. Slido sells per event as well as per year: €60 covers its Engage tier for a single 7-day event, up to 200 participants. For one annual Christmas do, that's a cleaner purchase than a subscription you'll forget to cancel.

Your IT department wants a vendor. quizquiz.co is a small independent project, not a company with an account manager and a procurement process. If someone needs a contract, an invoice and a name to call, that counts, and these three are all established companies.

When quizquiz.co is the better pick

When the event is the quiz. A team social, an offsite evening or a Christmas do that runs an hour or more, where people sit at tables, argue over answers and want a proper leaderboard by team. You get rounds, picture and music questions, printed answer sheets if you want paper, and a phone remote so you can walk the room.

It has gaps too. There's no library of ready-made professional question packs, so you're writing or choosing your own (there are plenty of free questions on the blog, and AI can help with the last few). It has no buzzer format and no season-long league tables. Only 3 quizzes stay saved on the free plan.

If you're unsure, try both. Build a short quiz in the quiz maker, no account needed, and see whether the team format feels right for your group. If a five-question warm-up in the tool your company already pays for does the job, use that and don't think twice.