Poll Everywhere is the enterprise-grade version of live audience polling. Big companies use it in town halls, universities use it in lecture halls, and it integrates into PowerPoint and Google Slides natively. It's solid software with a price tag to match.

QR Poll is not that. If you need to poll 10,000 people during a CEO keynote with results streaming into a PowerPoint deck, Poll Everywhere is the right call. But a lot of people who land on Poll Everywhere's pricing page are looking for something much simpler.

The feature gap is the point

Poll Everywhere has: live polling, Q&A, clickable images, surveys, competitions, PowerPoint/Keynote/Google Slides integration, LMS integration, SSO, response history per participant, admin dashboards, and a bunch of enterprise compliance stuff.

QR Poll has: polls behind QR codes with real-time results. That's pretty much it.

If you're an L&D team at a Fortune 500 company, you probably need what Poll Everywhere offers. If you're a workshop facilitator, restaurant owner, or conference organizer who wants quick feedback, you're paying for a lot of stuff you'll never touch.

Pricing

This is where it gets stark.

Poll Everywhere:

Free: 40 responses per activity
Presenter: ~$120/year
Team/department plans: pricing on request, generally $1,000+/year
Enterprise: custom, usually multi-thousand

QR Poll:

Free: 3 active polls, 250 responses/month, no ads
Starter: $6/mo ($60/year), unlimited polls, 1,500 responses/month
Pro: $15/mo ($150/year), unlimited polls, 10,000 responses/month
Business: $40/mo ($400/year), unlimited responses, team features

Poll Everywhere's free tier caps at 40 responses per activity. That's one small meeting. Their Presenter plan runs about $120/year, which is competitive with QR Poll Pro, but it's still designed around the live-presentation workflow. Once you need teams or admin features, you're looking at four figures.

For the "I just need feedback from people at my event" use case, QR Poll is a fraction of the cost.

Live vs. passive

This is the same divide as the Slido and Mentimeter comparisons. Poll Everywhere is built for a presenter running polls in real time with an audience. QR Poll is built for leaving a QR code somewhere and collecting responses over time.

Both work. The question is whether you need a presenter in the loop.

Education

Poll Everywhere has solid education pricing and LMS integrations (Canvas, Blackboard, etc.). If you're a professor running polls during lectures and need it tied into your grading system, Poll Everywhere makes sense.

If you're a teacher who just wants exit ticket feedback at the end of class, a QR code on the whiteboard and QR Poll's free or Pro tier does the job without the LMS overhead.

When to use Poll Everywhere

Large live audiences with a presenter driving engagement
You need PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides integration
Enterprise compliance and SSO requirements
University lectures with LMS integration
Budget isn't the primary constraint

When to use QR Poll

Unattended feedback collection in physical spaces
You're budget-conscious and need simple polling
You want QR code as the primary access method
No live presentation required
Small to mid-size feedback scenarios: workshops, restaurants, events, classrooms

Bottom line

Poll Everywhere is built for enterprises running live audience engagement at scale. QR Poll is built for people who need feedback from a physical space without the enterprise overhead.

If you're evaluating Poll Everywhere and the price makes you wince, ask yourself whether you actually need live presentation features. If the answer is "not really, I just want feedback from people in a room," you might be overbuying.

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QR Poll vs Poll Everywhere: Simple Feedback vs. Enterprise Polling