Honest comparison
ColligoLabs vs Mentimeter, AHA Slides, Slido & Kahoot
We built ColligoLabs because Mentimeter and AHA Slides are great products with premium pricing. If you run regular workshops, classes, or events, you don’t need ten templates and a Slack integration — you need fast, reliable polls, word clouds, and quizzes that look good on a projector. Here’s an honest side-by-side.
| Feature | ColligoLabs | Mentimeter | AHA Slides | Slido | Kahoot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Forever — 50 audience, 3 questions per poll | Forever — 50 audience, 2 questions per slide | Forever — 20 audience | Forever — 100 participants, limited polls | Forever — 10 participants for paid-feature quizzes |
| Paid entry tier | AUD $8/mo (~USD $5) | EUR €14/mo (~USD $15) | USD $7.95/mo (billed yearly) | GBP £8.75/mo (~USD $11) | USD $9/mo (Premium+) |
| Yearly entry tier | AUD $72/yr (~USD $48) | EUR €168/yr (~USD $182) | USD $95/yr | GBP £105/yr (~USD $135) | USD $108/yr |
| Unlimited audience | ✓ on Pro | ✓ on Basic | ✓ on Essential | Up to 2,500 on Engage | Pro: 100; higher on bigger tiers |
| Multiple choice + word clouds | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (quiz-first) |
| Quizzes with leaderboard | ✓ | Quiz competition mode | ✓ | Limited | Their flagship feature |
| Audience joins from any phone — no app | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-currency checkout | ✓ (Stripe Adaptive Pricing in 30+ currencies) | Limited | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Australian based | ✓ — built in Western Australia | Sweden | Vietnam / Singapore | Slovakia / Cisco-owned | Norway |
Prices as of June 2026, taken from each provider’s public pricing page. Currency conversions are approximate. Always check provider sites for current rates and regional pricing.
Where ColligoLabs wins
Price
AUD $8/month or $72/year for unlimited audience and unlimited questions. Mentimeter's nearest tier is €14/month. Slido's is £8.75. We're roughly 50–70% cheaper than the established players for the features most facilitators actually use.
Honest free plan
Free forever, 50 audience members, 3 questions per poll, no card required, no trial expiration. AHA Slides' free plan caps at 20 audience; Kahoot's at 10 for paid-feature quizzes. Ours is one of the most generous in the category.
Same audience UX
Audience scans a QR or types a 6-character code on any phone. No app install, no account, no email collection. Identical to how Mentimeter, AHA Slides, Slido and Kahoot work — because that's the only flow that doesn't make audiences groan.
Built in Australia
If you're in APAC, your data is closer (Cloudflare Sydney + Melbourne edges), latency is lower, and your AUD goes directly to a small Australian team — not into a foreign sales org.
Where Mentimeter / Kahoot might still be better for you
We’re not pretending to be better at everything. If any of these matter to you, the incumbents may still be the right call.
You need ten question types
Mentimeter has rating scales, rankings, image polls, slide builders, Q&A moderation, integrations with PowerPoint, Slack, Zoom, Teams. We have three question types (polls, word clouds, quizzes). If that's a problem, stay with Menti.
You're at >5,000 concurrent audience
We've stress-tested to a few hundred concurrent connections per session and the architecture scales cleanly past that — but Mentimeter has run conferences with tens of thousands of concurrent users. If you're at that scale today, talk to us; otherwise the incumbents have the track record.
You need brand familiarity
Mentimeter has 280 million users. ColligoLabs is new. If your buyer or audience already knows and trusts Menti, switching has a cost.
You want a templates library
Mentimeter and AHA Slides have hundreds of pre-built templates for icebreakers, retros, quizzes. We have none yet.
FAQs
What's the cheapest Mentimeter alternative?
ColligoLabs Pro is AUD $8/month (~USD $5) or AUD $72/year. Mentimeter's Basic plan is €14/month (~USD $15) — so ColligoLabs is roughly a third of the price for the same headline features (unlimited audience, unlimited questions, polls + word clouds + quizzes). For occasional small sessions, ColligoLabs' Free plan covers 50 audience members and 3 questions per poll with no card required.
Is ColligoLabs as polished as Mentimeter or AHA Slides?
It's leaner. Mentimeter has had a decade of feature accretion: rating scales, rankings, image polls, slide builder, integrations with Slack/Zoom/Teams. ColligoLabs focuses on the three formats that cover 90% of real workshop and classroom use: multiple choice polls, word clouds, and quizzes with live leaderboards. If you mostly run those three formats and don't need ten kinds of templates, you'll get the job done at a fraction of the price.
Does ColligoLabs do live quizzes like Kahoot?
Yes — competition-mode quizzes with nickname entry, per-question time limits, fastest-finger-first scoring (up to 1000 points per question), and a live leaderboard. Same model as Kahoot or Mentimeter Quiz Competition. Built into every plan including the free tier.
What does audience join look like?
Same as every modern audience tool: presenter shows a six-character join code and a QR code on screen. Audience scans (or types the code at colligolabs.com/join) on any phone. No app install, no account required. We tested it with 30 concurrent connections and median vote round-trip is under 2 seconds.
What's the catch with the free plan?
Two caps: 50 audience members per session, and 3 questions per poll. If you need more, Pro at AUD $8/month removes both. Free is genuinely free forever, no card needed, no time limit, no trial expiration.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Cancel from the Stripe billing portal inside your account. You keep Pro features until the end of your current billing period, then drop back to Free automatically.
Why is ColligoLabs cheaper?
Two reasons. First, the architecture: ColligoLabs runs on Cloudflare Workers and D1, which have aggressive free tiers and per-request pricing — our marginal cost per audience member is close to zero. Bigger competitors run traditional cloud infrastructure with larger fixed costs. Second, we're a focused product made by a small team based in Australia, not a venture-funded company funding a sales org. We pass that on.
Try it free. No card. No trial timer.
Run a real session in under a minute. If the free plan isn’t enough, Pro is $8 AUD per month.