# StreamAlive review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Chat-based polls and quizzes for Zoom, Teams and live streams

Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

StreamAlive is an audience-interaction layer that sits on top of a meeting, webinar or live stream rather than hosting one. Attendees answer polls, quizzes, word clouds and maps by typing in the chat of the tool they are already in, with no second screen or QR code. Plans are priced by how many sessions you run, and the audience never pays.

- **Category:** Webinars & Live Streaming
- **Made by:** StreamAlive
- **Website:** https://www.streamalive.com
- **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension
- **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want to host webinars, as it has no registration or replays.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 13, 2026, StreamAlive has a free plan, and paid plans start at $25 per month for 4 sessions a month, billed annually ($50 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free with no time limit: up to 5 participants per session, unlimited sessions, every interaction type, rehearsals, and analytics kept for 7 days.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Up to 5 participants per session, unlimited sessions, every interaction, limited AI summaries and 7 days of analytics. |
| Session Pack | $100 for 4 sessions, used within 12 months, one-time | Up to 250 participants per session, 50+ themes, AI summaries and 60 days of analytics. Sessions with 5 or fewer participants are free. |
| Starter | $25 per month for 4 sessions a month, billed annually ($50 billed monthly) | Up to 1,000 participants per session under fair use, 50+ themes, a small StreamAlive mark and 180 days of analytics. One presenter. |
| Pro | $75 per month, unlimited sessions, billed annually ($150 monthly) | Everything in Starter with unlimited sessions, your own logo, colors and backgrounds, and analysis in Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot, listed as coming soon. |
| Teams and enterprise | $5,000 per year, for 3 or more presenters | Single sign-on, invoicing, onboarding and premium support. Sold through sales. |

Read from https://www.streamalive.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with StreamAlive before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Annual billing at half the monthly price** (Annual discount): Starter is $25 a month billed $300 a year against $50 monthly, and Pro is $75 a month billed $900 a year against $150 monthly. Source: https://www.streamalive.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Chat-based interactions:** Live polls, quizzes with a leaderboard, word clouds, maps, rating polls, a spinner wheel and quick questions, all answered by typing in the chat.
- **Works inside other tools:** Listed to work with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, PowerPoint, YouTube Live and Twitch, plus a Chrome extension for StreamYard, Restream and LinkedIn Live.
- **Chat tracking:** A link library, ranked list of most active commenters, and a film-style credits crawl of everyone who commented.
- **AI help:** StreamAlive AI writes questions and summarizes answers; summaries are limited on the free plan.
- **Presentation builder:** Build slides and interactions together, with 50+ themes on paid plans.
- **Reports:** A report after every session, kept for 7 to 180 days depending on the plan.

## Good for

- Trainers and educators who want live polls inside Zoom or Teams
- Webinar hosts adding interaction to a stream on another platform
- Occasional users who prefer a pack of sessions over a subscription

## Worth knowing

- It adds interaction to a meeting or stream and does not host webinars, registration or replays itself.
- Participants are counted as people who type in the chat; the free plan allows only 5 per session.
- Starter is limited to 4 sessions a month, and Starter, Free and Pro are for one presenter; 3 or more presenters starts at $5,000 a year.
- Your own branding is only on Pro; Session Pack and Starter show a small StreamAlive mark.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. StreamAlive adds chat-based polls, quizzes and word clouds to Zoom, Teams and live streams. It does not host webinars, registration or replays, and the free plan allows only 5 participants per session.

- **Value for money: C.** Starter is $25 a month for 4 sessions on yearly billing and Pro is $75, between the $20.80 and $45 marks. It adds to a meeting rather than replacing a webinar tool.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** Free with no time limit, but only 5 participants per session and 7 days of analytics.
- **Features: D.** One narrow function: audience interaction. It needs a webinar or meeting tool to be useful at all.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You connect it to a meeting or stream and build your interactions.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and browser extension, with Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, PowerPoint, YouTube Live, Twitch and StreamYard.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from StreamAlive's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among webinar and live streaming tools

- StreamAlive's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 26 of the 60 other webinar and live streaming tools we grade, and level with 6.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 20 of 60) and worst on features (D, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $25 a month, against a middle price of $47 for the category: 13 of the 45 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 10 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/webinars

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace StreamAlive you would be making live video to hundreds of people at once. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $300 a year.

- You could make: Surveys and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Live video to hundreds of people at once.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet 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

Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, PowerPoint, YouTube Live, Twitch, StreamYard, Restream

**Tags:** Webinars, Surveys, AI features, Reports

## Alternatives

- [Restream](https://toolgpa.com/tools/restream): Multistream one live video to YouTube, Twitch, LinkedIn and more. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/restream-vs-streamalive)
- [Livestorm](https://toolgpa.com/tools/livestorm): Browser-based webinars, live or on demand, priced per attendee. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/livestorm-vs-streamalive)
- [Airmeet](https://toolgpa.com/tools/airmeet): Webinars and virtual events with networking features. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/airmeet-vs-streamalive)
- [BigMarker](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bigmarker): Marketing webinars and virtual, hybrid and in-person events. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bigmarker-vs-streamalive)
- [Zoom Webinars](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoom-webinars): Zoom's own webinar product, licensed per host by audience size. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/streamalive-vs-zoom-webinars)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026:

- https://www.streamalive.com
- https://www.streamalive.com/pricing

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/streamalive
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