Mentimeter vs Pigeonhole Live (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Mentimeter if

• Fits if you teach or present and want the room answering from their own phones
• Works for a single big event, since the Conference plans sell 30 days of access from €350

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if it's just you presenting: Basic is €14 a month billed yearly, or €17.99 paid monthly
• Tight if you're staying free and speak to more than 50 people a month, apart from one open session
• Not for you if you need your own branding, a shared workspace or co-editing without Pro at €28 a month, billed yearly only
• Skip it if you want to import PowerPoint or Keynote slides or export results for free, as both need Basic
• Watch out: prices are listed in euros and exclude tax

Pick Pigeonhole Live if

• Fits if you run Q&A at meetings or conferences, up to 100 people free
• Works for presenters who want it inside PowerPoint or Google Slides

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if your audience is over 100 or you need more than 1 user on free
• Pricey if you grow, as prices rise with participants and users and Standard is $150 a month
• Watch out: the page shows yearly totals only, not a monthly-billed price
• Watch out: AI translation is a paid add-on and Enterprise is sold through sales

Mentimeter

• The Free plan is capped at 50 participants a month, apart from one session a month with unlimited participants.
• Importing slides and exporting results need Basic or higher, and custom branding, a shared workspace and co-editing need Pro.
• Pro is sold on yearly billing only; just the Basic plan can be paid monthly, at €17.99 against €14 a month billed yearly.
• Prices are listed in euros, as the plans page displayed them, and exclude tax.

Pigeonhole Live

• The monthly-billed price was not shown as a figure; the page shows only yearly totals, with the pre-discount amounts crossed out.
• The free Starter plan is capped at 100 participants and 1 user.
• Presenter and Standard prices rise with extra participants and users in the page's selectors.
• AI translation is a separate add-on, and Enterprise is sold through sales.

Mentimeter

Live polls and word clouds

Participants join with a link or code and answer from their own device, with no account needed, and the results appear on screen as responses come in.

Quizzes

Quiz questions run as a competition: results from every quiz question in a presentation add up to one final winner. Ready-made quiz templates are included.

Q&A

The audience submits questions during a session. On Pro the presenter can moderate incoming questions and manage them from a phone with Mentimote.

AI Menti Creator

Menti AI drafts a full interactive presentation, suggests questions and groups live responses so that trends are easier to spot. It is included in the Free plan.

Slide import and results export

From the Basic plan, existing PowerPoint, Keynote or PDF slides can be uploaded and mixed with interactive questions, and results can be downloaded as Excel or PDF.

Meeting and LMS integrations

Mentimeter works inside PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and in the Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle and Brightspace learning systems with optional gradebook sync.

Pigeonhole Live

Q&A and moderation

Audience questions with moderation; the Presenter plan adds a single-Q&A presentation format.

Polls, word clouds and surveys

Live polls, word clouds and surveys run alongside Q&A.

Slide add-ins

Interactions can be added from Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides.

Event tools

Standard adds registration, attendee access controls, an agenda and multi-track events.

Insights export

Attendee responses can be exported to PDF and Excel on paid plans.

AI translation

Listed as an add-on at $144 per user a year.

Mentimeter

• Free€0

  50 participants per month, unlimited participants once a month, Menti AI, polls, word clouds and quizzes, and insights into results.

• Basic€14

  per presenter / month, billed yearly (€17.99 billed monthly)

  Unlimited participants, import of PowerPoint, Keynote or PDF slides, and export of results to Excel or PDF.

• Pro€28

  per presenter / month, billed yearly

  Adds custom branding and themes, a shared workspace, co-editing of presentations, and phone control of a live session with Q&A moderation.

• Small Conference€350

  one-time payment for 30 days of access

  Paid features with unlimited participants for a single event, for up to 4 presenters.

• Large Conference€750

  one-time payment for 30 days of access

  The same 30-day event access as Small Conference, for up to 20 presenters.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Adds single sign-on, SCIM, participant verification, tailored onboarding and workspace insights; recommended for 10 or more licenses.

Pigeonhole Live

• Starter$0

  100 participants and 1 user, with access to all interactive features.

• Presenter$13

  per month for up to 250 participants and 1 user, billed yearly ($156)

  Interactive presentations with up to 1,000 participants; 1,000 participants adds $17 a month. The page crosses out $816 for the year.

• Standard$150

  per month, up to 2,000 participants, 3 users, billed yearly

  Billed yearly at $1,800. Large presentations and events up to 5,000 participants, with registration, multi-track agenda and sponsor branding.

• EnterpriseCustom

  More than 5,000 participants and more than 25 users, with enterprise security.

Mentimeter

• Annual discount

  Save 23% on Basic with yearly billing

  Basic is €14 per presenter a month billed yearly (€168 a year) against €17.99 billed monthly. Mentimeter labels the yearly option a 23% saving.

• Education

  Lower prices for teachers and students

  Mentimeter's education price list puts Basic at €132 a year (€11 a month) and Pro at €204 a year (€17 a month) per presenter, against €168 and €336 on the standard list.

Pigeonhole Live

No public discounts listed.