PollSpark and Mentimeter
A focused Mentimeter alternative for UK teams
Both products can collect live audience responses. The practical choice is whether you need a broad interactive presentation platform or a focused, self-service polling tool with transparent UK prices and flexible billing.
PollSpark is designed for trainers, facilitators and teams who want to ask useful questions, show the room what it said and keep the buying process straightforward.
The short answer
Choose PollSpark for focus and flexibility
It keeps live polling separate from presentation authoring, bundles 10 seats into Teams plans and offers annual, committed-monthly and rolling-monthly buying.
Consider Mentimeter for a broader platform
It may fit better when integrated presentation creation, particular native integrations, enterprise administration or substantially larger audiences are requirements.
Mentimeter prices and product details checked 4 September 2026.
Quick comparison
Different shapes for different ways of working
This is not a scorecard. Each factor matters only if it matches something your team actually needs.
Intended use
Focused live polling for training, workshops, facilitation and team sessions.
Interactive polling within a broader presentation and audience-engagement platform.
Standard buying model
Published UK prices. Choose a standard plan and buy online without entering an enterprise sales process.
Free, Basic and Pro are publicly priced. Enterprise uses custom pricing.
Billing flexibility
Annual upfront, a 12-month commitment paid monthly, or rolling monthly without a 12-month commitment.
Public Basic and Pro prices are per presenter and billed yearly. A separate 30-day Conference product is available for one-off multi-presenter events.
Team access
Teams Starter and Teams Pro each include 10 presenter seats.
Each person who creates, edits or presents with paid features needs a paid presenter licence.
Participant scale
Paid plans are deliberately sized for sessions of 100, 250 or 500 participants, depending on plan.
Paid plans advertise unlimited participants and are suited to buyers with very-large-event requirements.
Presentation workflow
Gather live audience insight, then export the results for presentations, reports and follow-up work.
Build audience interaction into a wider presentation-authoring environment.
Templates
Teams plans include reusable PollSpark session templates.
Pro adds shared presentation templates within its broader presentation workflow.
Exports
PDF on every plan, with a watermark on Free. CSV is available on paid plans.
PDF, image and Excel exports are available on paid plans.
The core job
Both products let a room take part
PollSpark and Mentimeter overlap on the essentials. Participants can join through a browser using a code or QR code, respond without creating participant accounts, and see live results. Both support anonymous participation, Q&A, surveys, templates and result exports, although plan rules and workflows differ.
Browser participation
Join by code or QR code without asking every participant to create an account.
Live polling and results
Ask the room a question and show the combined result while the conversation is still happening.
Anonymous participation
Use an anonymous response setting when names are not needed, while recognising that anonymity is not a guarantee of candour.
More than one format
Use prepared-choice, free-text, scale and prioritisation formats rather than forcing every question into multiple choice.
Pricing and how you buy
Choose the commitment that suits the work
PollSpark publishes its standard prices and is designed to be self-service. Choose a plan online, buy it and get started without making a conventional enterprise sales process the default.
Every paid PollSpark plan has three buying options. Rolling monthly is a month-to-month subscription. Standard subscription terms still apply.
Individual
- Annual upfront
- £79/year
- 12-month commitment
- £7.90/month
- Rolling monthly
- £9.90/month
Teams Starter
- Annual upfront
- £499/year
- 12-month commitment
- £49.90/month
- Rolling monthly
- £59.90/month
Teams Pro
- Annual upfront
- £899/year
- 12-month commitment
- £89.90/month
- Rolling monthly
- £99.90/month
How Mentimeter presents its standard prices
On 4 September 2026, Mentimeter's UK pricing page showed Basic at £12 and Pro at £23 per presenter/month. Both were labelled as billed yearly and excluding tax. Enterprise used custom pricing. Mentimeter also offered a separate 30-day Conference product for one-off events with several presenters.
That is not the same buying model as a recurring rolling-monthly PollSpark plan. It may still suit a buyer planning one concentrated event.
Check Mentimeter's current plansBuilt for practical sessions
PollSpark concentrates on the audience-insight part
For training, a Confidence Meter gives a fixed 1 to 5 confidence reading at one point in time. Before & After runs two presenter-controlled phases in the same Live session and compares the group result. It does not match individual responses or prove that the session caused a change.
For workshops, Ranking orders every prepared option, while Dot Vote lets participants concentrate a limited number of dots. Word Cloud, Open Text, Likert Scale and moderated Q&A support other parts of a facilitated conversation.
Presentations, templates and exports
Keep your existing presentation workflow
PollSpark does not try to replace the deck, document or conversation around a session. It gathers audience insight and lets you reuse the result elsewhere.
PDF export is available on every PollSpark plan, with a watermark on Free. Paid plans add CSV export, and Teams plans include reusable session templates.
Mentimeter goes further into integrated presentation authoring, imported slides, shared presentation templates and embedded presentation workflows. That may be useful if you want the polling and presentation environment combined.
Survey and live use
Use the mode that fits the response moment
PollSpark supports presenter-led Live sessions and Survey for compatible question types. Survey participants follow a shared browser link and move through questions without a presenter controlling each step.
Free includes both Live and Survey, sharing 50 participant slots in each allowance period.
Before & After and moderated Q&A remain Live-only because they depend on presenter-controlled phases or live moderation.
Team and organisational requirements
Buy for the requirement you have, not every possible requirement
PollSpark Teams Starter and Teams Pro each include 10 presenter seats. For a team with several people creating or running sessions, that bundled model keeps normal purchasing predictable.
When PollSpark's deliberate scope fits
- Your work centres on training, workshops, facilitation or regular team sessions.
- You want transparent prices and the option to buy online.
- You want 10 presenter seats bundled into a Teams plan.
- You need session capacity up to 500 participants, depending on plan.
- You already have a presentation workflow and need the live audience-insight layer.
When Mentimeter may fit better
- You need integrated presentation authoring as part of the polling platform.
- A particular native meeting, presentation or learning-platform integration is required.
- You need organisation-wide SSO, SCIM or more complex enterprise administration.
- Your events are substantially larger than PollSpark's intended session range.
- AI-assisted presentation creation or response grouping is a specific current requirement.
Data location
A factual location difference, not a compliance shortcut
PollSpark's core application database is hosted in London. Specialist providers may process limited operational data in the UK or EEA as part of delivering the service.
Mentimeter says customer data at rest is hosted in the EU by default and identifies Ireland in its GDPR transparency material, with limited transfers outside the EEA possible.
Location is one procurement consideration. It does not make either product automatically more secure or compliant for a particular organisation.
Evidence and maintenance
Competitor information changes
Mentimeter prices, billing and product details on this page were checked against first-party Mentimeter material on 4 September 2026. PollSpark reviews pricing and plan information monthly, with wider feature and data-location checks each quarter.
A focused place to hear from the room
Choose a PollSpark plan when you are ready
Start free, select the billing option that fits your work and invite participants through their browser.