# Slido review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Live polls, Q&A and quizzes for meetings and events Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Slido is an audience interaction tool: hosts run live polls, audience Q&A, word clouds, quizzes and surveys that participants join from their own devices. It plugs into slide software and meeting apps and is now part of Cisco's Webex. Plans are priced by participant cap and by member seats. - **Category:** Presentations - **Made by:** Cisco Systems, Inc. - **Website:** https://www.slido.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: 100 participants and 3 polls per slido. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Slido has a free plan, and paid plans start at Free; Engage $12.50 per month, billed $150 annually. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Basic: up to 100 participants, basic audience Q&A and 3 polls per slido. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | $0 | Up to 100 participants, basic audience Q&A and 3 polls per slido. | | Engage | $12.50 per month for 1 user, billed $150 annually | Up to 200 participants, unlimited polls and quizzes, surveys and data exports. | | Professional | $50 per month for 2 users, billed $600 annually | Up to 1,000 participants, moderation of questions, branding, advanced privacy options and organization analytics. | | Enterprise | $150 per month for 3 users, billed $1,800 annually | Up to 5,000 participants, SSO for members and participants, member provisioning and spaces. | Read from https://www.slido.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Slido before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Discounted education plans** (Education): Slido lists discounted plans for schools and universities, starting at up to 500 students, for people with an academic email address. Source: https://www.slido.com/pricing - **Nonprofit discount** (Nonprofit): The pricing FAQ says nonprofit organizations can apply for a discount, with eligibility criteria on its site. Source: https://www.slido.com/pricing ## Key features - **Live polls and quizzes:** Poll an audience in real time or run quizzes. Basic allows 3 polls per slido; Engage and up are unlimited. - **Audience Q&A:** Participants ask questions from their own devices and vote on them. Moderation of questions starts at Professional. - **Word clouds, ideas and surveys:** Also lists word clouds and idea collection; surveys are in Engage and above. - **Slide and meeting integrations:** The site lists integrations with PowerPoint, Google Slides, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Webex. - **Slido AI:** Suggests polls and refines their wording, according to the product menu. - **Analytics:** Data exports start at Engage; organization-wide analytics start at Professional. ## Good for - Meetings, all-hands and webinars that need live questions - Conference organizers who want polling across large audiences - Presenters who want polls inside PowerPoint or Google Slides ## Worth knowing - The page says it takes no monthly payments: you buy a one-time plan for an event of up to 7 days, or an annual plan. - Annual plans do not renew automatically; the vendor emails a reminder 30 days before they expire. - Participant caps differ by plan: 100 on Basic, 200 on Engage, 1,000 on Professional, 5,000 on Enterprise. - Prices shown exclude VAT, and one-time plan prices were not read. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Slido runs live polls, audience Q&A and quizzes in meetings and events, with PowerPoint, Zoom and Teams connections. Basic is free for up to 100 participants and 3 polls per slido. Plans are annual or one-off, with no monthly billing, and the cap rises from 200 to 5,000 people with price. - **Value for money: C.** Engage is $150 a year, $12.50 a month, for one user and 200 participants. Professional is $600 a year for 2 users and Enterprise $1,800 for 3. Prices exclude VAT. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Basic is free with 100 participants and 3 polls per slido. You will reach the poll cap in an ordinary meeting. - **Features: C.** Polls, quizzes, Q&A, word clouds, surveys and AI. Moderation, branding and advanced privacy start at Professional. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You build polls and link them to your slides or meeting tool. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with PowerPoint, Google Slides, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Webex. No phone or desktop app is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Slido's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among presentation tools - Slido's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 18 of the 51 other presentation tools we grade, and level with 8. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 20 of 51) and worst on ease of use (C, above 3). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/presentations ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Slido you could make: surveys. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. - You could make: Surveys: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: A slide editor. - You could not: Several people working in it at the same moment. - You could not: It plugs into other products, PowerPoint, Google Slides and Zoom among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with PowerPoint, Google Slides, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex **Tags:** Presentations, Surveys, AI features, Real-time collaboration ## Alternatives - [Mentimeter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mentimeter): Interactive presentations with live polls, quizzes and Q&A. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mentimeter-vs-slido) - [Poll Everywhere](https://toolgpa.com/tools/poll-everywhere): Live audience polling that works inside slide decks. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/poll-everywhere-vs-slido) - [AhaSlides](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ahaslides): Interactive presentations with live quizzes, polls and word clouds. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ahaslides-vs-slido) - [Vevox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vevox): Live polling, Q&A and quizzes for meetings, training and classes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/slido-vs-vevox) - [Wooclap](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wooclap): Live polls, quizzes and word clouds for classes and training. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/slido-vs-wooclap) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.slido.com/pricing Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/slido Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).