EVOCA vs Pigeonhole Live: one Q&A for the event, or one per talk?

If you already compared us with Slido and Mentimeter, Pigeonhole Live is the other name that shows up on conference shortlists. The newer free tools, including QuestionWall and Audience Reacts, are a separate list: free live Q&A and reaction tools. Pigeonhole is an audience platform for presentations and events: Q&A, polls, reactions, chat, and surveys. EVOCA does not include live polls. We run upvoted questions, emoji reactions, a live wall, and a speaker view, with a price aimed at one conference or a year of them.

The conference floor we have in mind is the one in live engagement for tech conferences. Parallel talks should not share a question list. The organizer steps are in how to run a tech conference, and the wider shortlist is Slido alternatives for conferences.

At a glance

Where Pigeonhole Live wins

Polls, quizzes, surveys, chat, and word clouds. A Presentation Pigeonhole, in their help center, can hold unlimited polls, quizzes, and surveys, and one Q&A. EVOCA does not include live polls, and we do not run a survey builder or a chat channel. If the keynote is a sequence of those prompts, this is the tool.

Moderation is the other real win. Question filtering, which holds a question until an admin allows it, is not on the free Starter plan. It is on Presenter. Their Q&A page also describes anonymous questions, replies back to the person who asked, and an AI translation add-on. On the pricing page that add-on was listed at $144 per user per year. A stage moderator link, for starring questions on the projector, is Standard and above.

Standard is the conference product: multiple Q&As, multi-track support, registration, a customisable agenda, sponsor logos, and embedding into an event site. Enterprise adds SSO, API access, and support up to 100,000 participants. Reactions are real there too: up to four emoji, on the audience view and the projector, with custom uploads on Presenter and above. We are not the only product that can put an emoji on a screen.

Where EVOCA wins

A weekend of talks. Each talk has its own session, so the questions and reactions from one room stay in that room. The top unanswered questions sit beside the slides the speaker is already presenting. Emoji reactions use six choices, and an optional note of up to 160 characters shows as a text card on the live wall. When the session ends, attendees leave a star rating and a comment. Pigeonhole can collect a survey. That is a different object from a rating on the way out of the talk.

The invoice is the other practical win when the job is the whole programme, not one presentation. One-time Event is €49 for 7 days, unlimited attendees, unlimited talks, 1 admin. Presenter, the plan that showed $13 a month on the yearly toggle, is presentations only. Their own copy says to pick Standard once you need agendas, speakers, and tracks. That is the plan a multi-track conference actually buys.

Joining is a browser on both sides. Pigeonhole says so on the pricing FAQ. We use a QR or a link into that talk. Nothing to install is true of both.

Pricing

Our prices, from the plan catalog: free up to 100 attendees, 1 admin, and 1 conference. One-time Event is €49 for a 7-day window. Growth is €29/month, with call for papers and 3 admins. Scale is €89/month billed yearly. A recurring series is €19.99/month. Speaker Pro is €5/month billed yearly. Current cards are on the pricing page.

We loaded pigeonholelive.com/pricing on 11 November 2026 with yearly billing selected. Starter was $0 for 100 participants and 1 user. Presenter showed $13 per month, billed at $156 per year, for the 250-participant yearly checkout, marked 81% off a struck-through $816. The page describes Presenter as presentations, AMAs, and classes up to 1,000 participants. Standard showed $150 per month, billed at $1,800 per year, for the 2,000-participant yearly checkout, marked 68% off a struck-through $5.616. That discount only lands on $1,800 if the dot is a thousands separator, so read it as $5,616. Standard is described as events up to 5,000 participants. Enterprise was Custom. Workspace members go to 25 on Starter, Presenter, and Standard, per their pricing help article.

Their FAQ is explicit that one-time Pigeonholes are gone. A monthly subscription is how they want you to buy a single event, then cancel. The monthly amounts were not on the toggle we loaded, so confirm that number before you budget one month. Participant dropdowns also change the checkout. The $13 and $150 figures are the defaults on the yearly plans above, not a quote for a 5,000-person plenary.

A single presentation under a few hundred people can be cheaper on Presenter than on our €49window, and that plan includes the polls we don't have. A multi-track weekend is the Standard comparison: $1,800 for the year at the 2,000-participant yearly price we saw, against €49for seven days with no attendee cap. If you run events all year, compare Standard's subscription with Growth at €29/month.

The verdict

Pick Pigeonhole Live when the conference needs polls, a moderated queue that holds every question, registration, or an embed inside an event platform you already run. Pick EVOCA when each talk should take questions and reactions from a phone, and you want that weekend on a one-time price with no headcount cap. The live demo is the fastest way to see the speaker view before you decide.