EVOCA vs Slido: which live engagement tool fits your event?

If you run talks, meetups, or conferences, you've almost certainly seen Slido. It popularized live Q&A, and it still does polls, quizzes, and word clouds. EVOCA does not include live polls. We cover upvoted Q&A, emoji reactions, a live wall, and a speaker view, with pricing aimed at one conference or a small organizing team.

This isn't a takedown. Slido is a mature product, and paying once is not unique to us. Slido sells one-time plans too. The honest edge on our €49 One-time Event is what the window includes: 7 days, unlimited attendees, and unlimited sessions and talks.

At a glance

Pricing

EVOCA is free for events up to 100 attendees, with 1 admin and 1 conference. Past that: €49 once for a 7-day window with unlimited attendees and unlimited talks (1 admin), €29/month on Growth (3 admins, call for papers), or €89/month billed yearly on Scale. A recurring series is €19.99/month. Speaker Pro is €5/month billed yearly.

We reloaded slido.com/pricing on 21 October 2026, with the one-time toggle selected. Basic was free for up to 100 participants per slido, with basic Q&A, 3 polls, and 1 quiz. That free cap matches ours. It is not lower. Engage was $60 for one 7-day slido and up to 200 participants: unlimited polls and quizzes, surveys, and exports, without moderation or multiple rooms. Professional was $240 for up to 1,000 participants, and that plan adds moderation, branding, privacy controls, and multiple rooms. Premium was listed at $1,000 for up to 5,000 participants. All of those prices were in US dollars, excluding VAT.

TrustRadius still lists Engage one-time at $49 and Professional one-time at $199, and a May 2026 Slido community thread describes the jump as $60 to $240. Treat the public range as roughly $49–60 for Engage and $199–240 for Professional, and use the number on Slido's own page the day you pay. The annual toggle that same day showed Engage at $210 per year. Prices move, and the page can show a different currency depending on where you load it.

If you run one event a year, both products will sell you a single 7-day window. Ours does not cap the headcount and does not cap the number of talks inside that window. Slido Engage one-time caps the room at 200 and keeps the event in one slido without multiple rooms. Professional lifts the cap to 1,000 and adds rooms, at the higher one-time price.

What EVOCA does better

Live emoji reactions float across the room, and the same feed can sit on a projected wall. The speaker view keeps the top unanswered questions beside the slides. Attendees join from the browser, so there is nothing to install. And the €49 window is the one we would actually buy for a weekend conference: unlimited attendees, every talk in the schedule, one admin.

What Slido does better

Polls, quizzes, surveys, and word clouds. EVOCA does not include live polls. Slido also has years of enterprise deployments and direct integrations with PowerPoint, Google Slides, Webex, Teams, and Zoom. Moderation, branding, and multiple rooms are on Professional and above, not on the $60 Engage one-time plan. If your venue contract or your slide tool already assumes Slido, that maturity is a real reason to stay.

The verdict

For developer conferences, meetups, and hackathons that want reactions, Q&A, and quick setup at a fair price, EVOCA is the stronger pick. If you need enterprise integrations you already rely on, stay on Slido. Either way, the best test is a live one: try the EVOCA demo and judge for yourself.