Classroom game comparison
Blooket vs Gimkit: Which Is Better for Your Class, and What Each One Costs
Two arcade quiz platforms, almost the same price, very different classroom feel. Both start you at an empty question form. Upload the chapter here, get the question set, then run it in whichever game your students respond to.
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The short answer
Blooket gives you more different games, most of them short, and a free tier that actually works with a full class of 60. Gimkit gives you fewer but deeper games built on one economy: answer questions, earn cash, buy upgrades, and the round can carry a whole period. Blooket is the better pick for variety and for a teacher paying out of pocket. Gimkit is the better pick when you want students inside one sustained activity, and when a department or school is buying.
Price is close to a tie for individuals. Blooket Plus is $4.99 a month billed annually, $59.88 a year. Gimkit Pro is $14.99 a month or $59.88 a year. Where they separate is the free tier and the group plan. Blooket Starter hosts 60 players; a free Gimkit Basic account runs Pro-only modes with a five player cap, which makes it a demo rather than a classroom tool. On group pricing, Gimkit is unusually transparent: $650 a year for a 20 teacher department, $1,000 a year for a school, no quote form.
Neither writes your questions, and both want a set of 20 to 30 because the games recycle them. That authoring hour is the real cost of either platform.
Last updated July 2026. Gimkit group pricing read directly from gimkit.com/group/pricing. Blooket plan features and player limits read from Blooket's own help center articles. PDFQuiz is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blooket or Gimkit. Confirm current prices on each vendor's site before budgeting.
Blooket vs Gimkit, head to head
Both wrap your questions in a game economy. The difference is how long a round lasts and how much of it is actually answering.
| What you care about | Blooket | Gimkit |
|---|---|---|
| Core mechanic | Many separate arcade modes, each with its own rules | One economy: answer, earn cash, buy upgrades and powerups |
| Typical round length | 5 to 15 minutes, then switch modes for variety | 15 to 40 minutes, one sustained session |
| Question density | Varies by mode, some modes are mostly game time | High, since income depends on answering |
| Free tier for a real class | Workable. Starter hosts up to 60 players | Limited. Pro-only modes cap at 5 players on Basic |
| Paid player ceiling | 300 on Plus | No player cap on modes with Pro |
| Individual price | $4.99/mo billed yearly ($59.88/yr), or $9.99/mo flexible | $14.99/mo, or $59.88/yr |
| School pricing | Group plans priced by teacher count | Published flat rates: $650 department, $1,000 school |
| Homework and assignments | Deadlines up to 14 days on Starter, 365 days on Plus | Assignments with automatic grading, stronger class management |
| Question media | Audio questions on Plus | Images and audio attached to questions with Pro |
| Getting a finished set in | Type or paste in the set editor, or import a Quizlet set | Type or paste in the Kit editor, KitCollab lets students submit |
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What Blooket and Gimkit cost in 2026
Both sell one paid tier to individual teachers at almost the same annual number. The difference shows up in the free tier and in what a department pays.
| Plan | Published price | Players | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blooket Starter | Free | Up to 60 | Unlimited sets, core game modes, homework deadlines up to 14 days |
| Blooket Plus | $4.99/mo billed yearly ($59.88/yr) | Up to 300 | Plus-only modes, folders, question bank, enhanced reports, audio questions, 365 day homework window |
| Blooket Plus Flex | $9.99/mo, no annual commitment | Up to 300 | Same features, month to month billing |
| Gimkit Basic | Free | 5 in Pro-only modes | Kit creation, core play, enough to trial the platform |
| Gimkit Pro | $14.99/mo or $59.88/yr | No cap on modes | All game modes, assignments, images and audio on questions |
| Gimkit Department | $650/yr | No cap | Pro for 20 teachers, $32.50 per teacher, admin panel, purchase orders |
| Gimkit School | $1,000/yr | No cap | Pro for every teacher at the school, admin panel, purchase orders |
The group math is the part worth taking to a department head. Gimkit School at $1,000 a year covers every teacher in the building, which is roughly the cost of 17 individual Blooket Plus seats. If more than about 17 teachers would use it, the school license is cheaper per person than everyone buying their own. Gimkit accepts purchase orders and publishes a W-9 and a sole source letter, which is exactly the paperwork a district business office asks for.
Which one should you actually pick
Start with how long the activity needs to run. Blooket is built for short bursts. A mode lasts a few minutes, you switch to a different one, and the novelty does a lot of the engagement work. That suits a warm-up, a station, or the last ten minutes of a period. It also means the question set gets a lot of use, because most modes recycle the same items repeatedly.
Gimkit is built for one long session. Students answer to earn money, spend it on upgrades that make answering more lucrative, and the loop pulls them forward. Because income depends on answering, students in a Gimkit round tend to hit more questions than they would in an equivalent Blooket block. If the goal is practice volume rather than variety, that matters.
The free tiers are where the real decision often gets made. Blooket Starter runs a full class. Gimkit Basic is fine for building kits and trying the platform, but the five player cap on Pro-exclusive modes means you cannot really run the good games with a class before paying. If you want to test with students before spending anything, start with Blooket.
And the honest caution about both: the game economy can outrun the learning. Neither leaderboard tells you who understood the material, because upgrades and luck influence the ranking. Use the game for motivation, then check understanding with a plain set. A short question bank you own, run as a straight quiz, gives you the data the game does not.
The step neither platform does for you
A Blooket set or a Gimkit kit wants 20 to 30 questions to feel right, because both recycle them. That is the part that takes an evening if you type it.
Upload the source
The chapter PDF, the deck, the handout, your notes. Questions built from what you actually taught use your students' vocabulary, which a library set never does.
Keep answers short
Both platforms show answer choices in small tiles inside a busy game screen. Trim the options to a few words each and the round reads much better on a Chromebook.
Paste and play
Drop the reviewed questions into a Blooket set or a Gimkit kit and host. Same set works in both, so you can try each with the same content and let the class decide.
Real situations, and which one fits
Ten minute warm-up
Blooket. Pick a short mode, run one round, move on. Variety across the week keeps it from going stale.
A full period of review
Gimkit. One round can hold a class for thirty minutes, and students answer far more questions than they would in a series of short games.
Trying it before paying anything
Blooket. The free Starter tier handles a real class of up to 60, so you can judge it properly before deciding.
A department buying together
Gimkit. $650 a year for 20 teachers is $32.50 each, and the purchase order route means nobody expenses a personal card.
Homework over a long break
Blooket Plus, whose homework deadlines stretch to 365 days, or Gimkit assignments if you want the grading tied to your class roster.
Corporate training refresher
Either can work for a light knowledge check, but the source is a policy doc or a deck. Start from the employee training quiz maker.
Questions teachers ask when choosing between them
Which is better, Blooket or Gimkit?
Blooket is better for variety and for a teacher paying personally, because the free tier runs a real class and the paid tier is cheap. Gimkit is better for one long, sustained session and for a department or school buying together. Both cost about $60 a year for an individual, so the deciding factor is game feel, not budget.
How much does Gimkit cost compared to Blooket?
Gimkit Pro is $14.99 a month or $59.88 a year. Blooket Plus is $4.99 a month billed annually, which also lands at $59.88 a year, with a $9.99 monthly Flex option. Gimkit's group pricing is published flat: $650 a year for a 20 teacher department and $1,000 a year for an entire school.
Is Gimkit free for teachers?
There is a free Basic account, but Pro-exclusive game modes run with a five player cap on it, so you cannot host most of the good modes with a class without paying. Blooket's free Starter plan is the more usable free tier for classroom play, hosting up to 60 players.
Can Blooket or Gimkit make questions from a PDF?
Neither builds a question set from an arbitrary chapter PDF. Both give you an editor where you type or paste questions, and Gimkit's KitCollab lets students submit questions in real time. Generating the set from your document first, reviewing it, then pasting it in is the fastest path on either one.
Which one do students actually prefer?
It splits by age. Upper elementary and middle school students usually pick Blooket, because the modes are short and the collecting mechanic is appealing. Older students more often prefer Gimkit, since the strategy layer gives them something to optimize. Run the same question set in both and let one class vote before you buy.
Can I use the same questions in both?
Yes. Keep the set as plain text rather than only inside one platform's editor and it pastes into either. That also protects you when a platform changes pricing or a mode you relied on disappears, since the questions are the asset and the game is just the delivery.
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