Mentimeter pricing, plans and cost per presenter, plus what the free plan really allows

Mentimeter costs $0 on Free, $14 per presenter per month on Basic and $28 per presenter per month on Pro, both billed yearly and quoted excluding tax. Enterprise is priced by quote. Those are the US dollar figures Mentimeter shows on its own plans page, read on August 26, 2026.

The word doing the work in that sentence is presenter. Mentimeter charges for the people who build and run the session, and does not charge for the people who answer. On any paid plan the audience is unlimited, so the cost of a session with 30 people in a room and the cost of a session with 3,000 people watching a town hall stream are identical. One person running everything pays $168 a year. That is unusual pricing in this category and it is the single most important thing to understand before you compare it with anything else.

It also means the question "how much does Mentimeter cost for my company" has a much smaller answer than most people expect. Count the people who will actually build slides and press present. In most organizations that is a handful of facilitators, an internal comms lead and a couple of team managers, not the whole department. Everyone else joins with a code on their phone and costs nothing.

Yes, permanently, and the free plan is more capable than most free tiers in this category. You get Menti AI, 23 slide types including word clouds, polls, quizzes and open ended questions, audience Q&A, and the insights view after a session. There is no time limit and no card required.

The ceiling is participants, and the way it is counted is the detail people miss. Free gives you 50 participants per month, not per session, plus one session a month with unlimited participants. So a trainer running weekly workshops for twelve people each is fine at 48 a month. A trainer running weekly workshops for twenty is over the line in the third week and cannot present again until the month rolls over.

Two other limits matter more than they sound. You cannot import an existing PowerPoint, Keynote or PDF into a free Menti, so anything you present has to be rebuilt inside Mentimeter rather than added to the deck you already have. And you cannot export results, so once the session ends, the data lives in Mentimeter and comes out by screenshot. For evaluation that is fine. For anything where somebody will ask you for the numbers afterwards, it is not.

Basic is one person presenting properly. Pro is a team building together. The $14 gap buys shared workspaces, co-creation, branding and participant names, none of which a solo presenter usually needs.

Basic at $14 per presenter per month removes the participant cap and adds the three things the free plan withholds: importing existing slides so your Menti can live inside the deck you already built, exporting results to Excel or PDF, and making presentations private. For a single facilitator or an individual manager who runs their own sessions, Basic is very often the correct and final answer, and $168 a year is not a difficult approval.

Pro at $28 doubles the seat to buy collaboration and polish. Workspace collaboration lets a team share Mentis, themes and templates, co-creation lets two people edit and present the same Menti, custom design capabilities let you match brand guidelines, participant names attach identities to responses instead of leaving everything anonymous, and phone control lets you flip slides and moderate Q&A from your hand rather than standing at a laptop. If more than one person in your organization builds sessions and you want them working from shared templates, Pro is the tier. If they are each doing their own thing, two Basic seats at $336 a year cost less than two Pro seats at $672 and lose only the sharing.

No. Mentimeter states in its own pricing FAQ that "for Mentimeter Pro and Basic, we only offer yearly subscriptions." The $14 and $28 figures are monthly rates on an annual commitment, not a month to month option you can cancel after one billing cycle.

This is worth flagging early because it changes the real decision. The choice is not $14 for a month, it is $168 for a year, and $336 or $672 for two Pro seats. That is still modest software spend, but it is a commitment, and it is a commitment made before you have run more than the handful of sessions the free plan allows.

Mentimeter does have an answer for the one off case, which it points to in the same FAQ: a conference deal that gives you everything unlimited for 30 days. It is $350 for up to 4 presenters and $750 for up to 20, and Mentimeter offers a full refund if you cancel within 14 days and have not used it at a live event. For a single annual summit or a user conference, that is the honest comparison against buying seats you will use twice.

Payment is by card or PayPal, and Pro can be invoiced with Net 30 terms via bank transfer in selected countries. Mentimeter does not accept checks, which occasionally matters for US procurement teams that still cut them.

Fifty a month on the free plan, counted across every session you run, plus one session a month where participants are unlimited. On Basic, Pro and Enterprise there is no participant limit at all.

The monthly pooling is what surprises people, because every competitor in this category caps per session instead. Slido free allows 100 participants in any single meeting and does not care how many meetings you run. Mentimeter free allows 50 across the whole month. Which is more generous depends entirely on your pattern: for one big quarterly all hands, Mentimeter free is better because the unlimited monthly session covers it. For weekly team sessions of 25 people, Slido free is better because Mentimeter runs out after the second week.

If your audience regularly exceeds a couple of hundred, Mentimeter becomes the cheapest serious option in the category by a wide margin, because the audience simply is not what you pay for. A single $14 Basic seat handles an audience of 5,000 exactly as well as an audience of 15. That is the arithmetic that decides most internal comms and town hall purchases.

Mentimeter is cheaper when the audience is big and the presenter count is small. Slido is cheaper when the audience is small and you want free. The two tools price on opposite axes, so the answer flips depending on your shape rather than on which product is better.

The structural difference behind every row is simple. Mentimeter meters presenters and leaves the audience uncapped. Slido meters the audience, bundles one to three members with each tier, and charges for extras. Slido also has a quirk worth knowing: an additional member costs more as you move up, $17.50 a month on Engage, $37.50 on Professional and $50 on Enterprise, so growing a team on Slido gets progressively more expensive per person rather than less.

Where Slido genuinely wins is the free plan for small recurring meetings, the depth of its Q&A moderation, and the fact that Cisco owns it, so the Webex and Microsoft Teams integrations are first class. Where Mentimeter genuinely wins is large audiences, the AI slide generation built into every tier including free, and a much lower price for teams that present to a lot of people. Full plan detail for the other side is in Slido pricing, and the wider category with every vendor's current numbers sits on brainstorming software cost.

No. Mentimeter states plainly that sharing an account "will cause unexpected behavior and it is a violation of our terms of use." Per presenter pricing is enforced as a licensing rule, not just a billing convention.

The supported answer is Pro, which lets you add licensees to one subscription and share questions, themes and templates between presenters. If two people in your team both need to build and run sessions, that is two Pro seats at $672 a year, and they get a shared workspace in exchange rather than just permission.

There is one narrower thing that does work without extra seats. On Pro you can share a presentation within your team so it can be accessed from different accounts, which covers the common case where one person designs a session and someone else delivers it. That is a shared artifact rather than a shared login, and it is the intended path.

For reading a room, yes, and it is very good at it. For producing the ideas the room is supposed to react to, it was never designed to do that job, and it is worth being clear about the line.

Mentimeter's core loop is a question to a crowd and an answer back in seconds. Open ended questions build a word cloud from what people type. Scales and rankings turn opinion into a number the room can see. Q&A collects what people will not say out loud. In a workshop that is genuinely valuable twice: at the start, to surface where a group actually stands rather than where the loudest person says it stands, and at the end, to converge with a vote everyone can see. Menti AI, included even on Free, will draft the slides and suggest the questions.

What it collects is what the room already thinks. If eighteen people arrive with four ideas between them, a word cloud shows you four ideas rendered in different sizes, which is a clear picture of a thin starting point rather than a way out of one. The polling tools measure the input; they do not create it. That is the constraint why group brainstorming fails walks through, and it is why the fix sits upstream of the vote. For designing the agenda that surrounds the polls, SessionLab pricing covers the session design category, and facilitation tools maps how the five kinds of workshop tool fit together.

Brainstormer prices in plain US dollars with nothing metered: Solo $16 a month, Pro $39, and Team at $99 for five seats, with unlimited brainstorms and nothing metered. A registered account gets 3 full brainstorms a month at no cost. We are not a Mentimeter replacement and would be a poor one. Mentimeter is live audience engagement, and we do not put anything on a screen in front of 400 people.

We do the step before the vote. Type "cut churn in the first 30 days" and thirty seconds later the wall holds two dozen genuinely different directions, each tagged with the angle that produced it, so ten ideas are ten directions rather than one idea wearing ten costumes. Push the whole wall through SCAMPER or Six Thinking Hats yourself. Then converge: the three strongest ideas across all six personas lift out as a shortlist, each with its reasoning written in sentences you can paste into a deck.

For most teams running workshops the sensible answer is both, in sequence. Bring the shortlist into the room, then let Mentimeter show you what the room thinks of it, which is a far better use of a live vote than asking a tired group to invent options on the spot. If you are still comparing tools, the verified numbers are on Miro pricing, Mural pricing, FigJam pricing and Confluence whiteboards pricing, the category is ranked on best brainstorming software, and innovation workshop tools covers running the session end to end. What a facilitator costs, if you are weighing buying software against hiring help, is in strategic planning facilitator cost.