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Best Kahoot! Alternative

Shiken vs Kahoot!

Did you search for ‘Kahoot alternative’ or ‘Kahoot pricing’? Kahoot! is the best-known live quiz game, and Kahoot! 360 adds AI question generation, self-paced challenges and courses on its higher plans. Shiken offers live quiz games too, and adds spaced repetition, spoken AI roleplays, a meeting recorder and a full learning platform, with a free plan for learners and teachers.

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A Shiken quiz running inside a Microsoft Teams chat: multiple-choice options with a Submit Answer button, then a "Correct!" reply with an explanation, XP and streak awards, and a confidence check.
Feature
Shiken
Kahoot!
Host live quizzes
Yes
Yes
Self-paced challenges
Yes
Yes
AI question generation from documentsKahoot! 360 generates from prompts, slides, URLs and PDFs; page limits vary by plan.
Yes
Yes
Courses and learning pathsKahoot! 360 includes courses and learning paths on Pro Plus and above.
Yes
Yes
Integrations (Teams, Zoom, PowerPoint, LMS)Kahoot! LMS integration via LTI is Enterprise-only; Shiken uses SCORM, xAPI and Zapier.
Yes
Yes
Reports and player tracking
Yes
Yes
Mobile app
Yes
Yes
Free planKahoot! 360 Express is a free evaluation plan limited to 15-minute sessions for up to 15 participants.
Yes
Yes
Spaced-repetition review schedulingNot described on kahoot360.com at the review date.
Yes
Not listed
Hot-spot, ranking and spoken-answer question types
Yes
Not listed
AI roleplays (spoken practice)
Yes
Not listed
Meeting recorder & call scoring
Yes
Not listed
Certificates and compliance trackingNot described on kahoot360.com’s pricing page at the review date.
Yes
Not listed

How we compared

Kahoot! ratings last reviewed on 21 October 2026. Each row reflects what Kahoot!'s published product pages described on that date, and Shiken's own product at the same date. "Not listed" means the capability was not described in those materials; it does not mean the vendor cannot offer it another way. Capabilities and packaging change, and some are tied to specific plans or add-ons.

Sources checked: kahoot360.com/pricing, kahoot360.com.

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Why teams switch from Kahoot!

What that looks like in Shiken

A quiz that only lives in a browser tab gets played once. Shiken drips it into Teams and Slack and keeps score.

A drip session report for a World Capital Cities quiz delivered in Teams, showing enrolled, active and completed counts, 100% completion, the weekday drip schedule, and per-learner progress and scores.
A drip session report: who is enrolled, who finished, and where each person is up to.
The Create Content dialog in Shiken, offering question sets, polls and surveys, courses, role plays, book summaries and AI video and slides, plus announcement types for articles, events, messages and media.
Start from a question set, poll, course, role play or book summary.

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