Educaplay vs Kahoot: which one fits your classroom?

Kahoot was built around one moment: the teacher at the front, the question on the screen, thirty phones lighting up. Everything in it serves that moment, from the music to the podium at the end. It works, and teachers love it for a reason.

Educaplay was built around the content. You put in your words, questions, images or a map, and you get a game your students can play in class, at home, on paper or inside your LMS. The live competition is one of the ways to play it, not the only one. That difference explains every row in the table above.

Educaplay's Basic plan has no cap on games or players. You can make as many games as you want (one per hour after your first five) and share each one with your whole grade at once. It shows ads and keeps your Reports for a month, and the games are public.

Kahoot! Go is also free, with a different trade-off: no ads, but a limit of 40 players per live session for K-12 teachers and only the quiz and true/false question types. To host a bigger class you move to a paid plan, starting at 50 players with Kahoot!+ Bronze.

This is the widest gap. Kahoot has one game, the quiz, and grows it with question types: polls, puzzles, type-answer, sliders, most of them on paid plans. Educaplay has 20 games, each with its own mechanics. A word search and a crossword drill spelling; a matching game and a memory game drill pairs; a map quiz drills geography or anatomy; a dictation drills listening; a fill-in-the-blanks drills grammar. All of them are free, and all of them are graded automatically.

If your lesson is "who knows this?", a quiz is enough. If your lesson is "practice this until it sticks", the format matters, and that is where Educaplay pulls ahead.

Educaplay's live mode is the Multiplayer Session, a Kahoot-style race on Froggy Jumps with a game pin, a leaderboard and a podium. It is included on the free plan with no player cap. Challenges string several games into a competition your students play at their own pace, also with a pin.

Where Kahoot still wins is polish: the music, the timing, the show. If live play is most of what you do, try both with your class before deciding.

On Educaplay, a game can be posted to Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams, or added to Moodle, Canvas and other LTI platforms, and the score lands in the gradebook. The free plan includes 5 trial uses; the Academic plan makes them unlimited. On Kahoot, LTI integrations with your LMS come with the Kahoot! EDU licenses for institutions.

Both show you who played and how they did. Educaplay's free plan keeps score and time per game for the last month; the Academic plan keeps a year, adds every answer each student gave and exports to Excel or Google Sheets. Kahoot's free plan includes reports and reserves the advanced ones for its Gold plan and above.

Educaplay's free plan is supported by ads, in the games and in the catalog, and the Advanced plan removes them. Kahoot's free plan has no ads and limits features instead. Which is better depends on what you would rather give up: an ad-free screen, or the 40-player cap.

The first paid step is cheap on both sides. Educaplay's Advanced plan costs 57.00 USD a year (4.75 USD a month billed annually). Kahoot!+ Bronze starts at $36 a year for US teachers when billed annually; Kahoot prices vary by country, so check its plans page for yours. Limits and prices on this page were checked on September 30, 2026 on each product's own plans page.

Pick Kahoot if live quiz competitions are your main format and 40 players is enough. Pick Educaplay if you want practice games in many formats, unlimited players, students without accounts and a free way into Google Classroom, Teams, Moodle or Canvas. Many teachers use both: Kahoot for the Friday show, Educaplay for the practice that fills the week.