Insightquiz
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The Poll Everywhere Alternative Without the Price Cliff

Poll Everywhere is a solid response system with a steep step between plans. InsightQuiz charges one flat price per workspace — and keeps working after the poll closes.

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Poll Everywhere has been the dependable classroom and boardroom response system for years, with genuinely good PowerPoint and Google Slides plugins and, unusually for this category, real LTI support. Its pricing is where people get stuck. The Present plan is $10 per month; the next useful tier, Engage, is $49; Teams is $84 per presenter per month. For an instructor who needs one feature from the higher tier, that is a hard jump to justify.

The second limit is scope. Poll Everywhere measures what a room thinks right now. It does not build a self-paced lesson, sequence lessons into a course, issue a certificate when someone passes, or keep knowledge alive with spaced repetition. If your responsibility ends when the session ends, that is fine. If it does not, you end up buying a second tool.

InsightQuiz puts both in one place at a flat price: live sessions with up to 2,000 participants, lessons and courses with pass marks and PDF certificates, SM-2 flashcards, AI grading for written answers, and diagnostic reports that name the three concepts the group actually missed. Poll Everywhere still wins on presentation add-ins and on being a known quantity in US higher-ed procurement — both are legitimate reasons to stay.

InsightQuiz vs. Poll Everywhere, feature by feature

Competitor prices are public list prices researched in September 2026 and can change — check polleverywhere.com before you budget against them.

FeatureInsightQuizPoll Everywhere
Pricing & billing
Pricing modelFlat, per workspacePer presenter
Entry price$14.90/mo (Solo)$10/mo (Present)
Team price$39/mo + $9/seat$84/presenter/mo
Free plan30 participants, forever25 responses
Live sessions
Live polls
Word clouds
Live quiz with scoringLimited
Real-time leaderboardLimited
Question types9 types~10 activity types
Self-paced / async mode
Learning features
Self-paced lessons
Multi-lesson courses
PDF certificates on completion
Flashcards with spaced repetitionYes (SM-2)
AI question generation
AI grading for open-text answers
Analytics
Knowledge-gap analysisLimited
Competency radar per participant
CSV export
Integrations
LTI 1.3 (Canvas, Brightspace, Moodle)
Grade passback to the LMS
PowerPoint / Google Slides add-in
SAML single sign-onOn the roadmapCampus plans
Privacy
Participants join without an account
EU data hosting

What you get for one flat price

The practical comparison is not feature against feature, it is bill against bill. Four instructors on Poll Everywhere Teams is roughly $336 a month. Four people on InsightQuiz Team is $39 plus three seats at $9, so $66 a month, and that includes the lesson builder, the course engine, certificates, flashcards and AI grading rather than only the live layer. Prices are September 2026 list prices and worth verifying.

The other difference is what the reports are for. Poll Everywhere tells you how the room responded. InsightQuiz is built to answer a different question: what did people fail to understand, and how confident should you be that they understood the rest? That means per-question difficulty against response time, an engagement curve across the session, a guessing indicator, and a competency radar per participant.

Choose InsightQuiz when

  • The jump to Poll Everywhere's higher tiers is hard to justify
  • You need self-paced lessons or courses, not only live responses
  • Completion has to produce a certificate or a pass record
  • You want diagnostics, not just response counts
  • Several colleagues need access and per-presenter pricing is adding up

Stay with Poll Everywhere when

  • You run everything from inside PowerPoint or Google Slides
  • Your campus already has a site license covering all instructors
  • Procurement prefers a long-established US vendor
  • You only ever need live responses, nothing after that

Common questions

Poll Everywhere is priced per presenter: $10 a month for Present, $49 for Engage, $84 for Teams. InsightQuiz Team is $39 a month plus $9 per additional seat, so four people cost $66 a month total rather than per person. For a single presenter on the cheapest tier Poll Everywhere is less expensive; the moment you add colleagues or need higher-tier features, the flat model wins. These are September 2026 list prices.

Yes, and this is one of the few places both tools are strong. InsightQuiz implements LTI 1.3 with LTI Advantage: deep linking to pick content from inside Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard or Moodle, auto-join so students need no separate account, and grade passback into the gradebook. Scores are derived server-side, so a participant cannot spoof a grade.

Its presentation integrations are more mature — the PowerPoint and Google Slides plugins are a core part of the product and InsightQuiz has no equivalent add-in yet. It is also far better known in US higher education, which matters if your procurement office prefers established vendors. Both are fair reasons to stay.

Thirty on the free plan, 100 on Solo, 500 on Team and 2,000 on Business — and the price does not change with attendance. A session with 30 people and a session with 300 cost the same, which is the opposite of how per-response and per-participant licensing works.

No. InsightQuiz is hosted in the EU, in Frankfurt, under GDPR. For most US buyers that is neutral rather than a plus, so the honest framing is this: participants join with a name and a PIN, no participant accounts or emails are created, session data deletes automatically on a schedule you set, and a data processing agreement is available on request. There is no SOC 2 Type II report or published VPAT today. A US data region is on the roadmap, not shipped.

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