Wayground pricing and what Quizizz now costs a school or district

Short answer: Wayground, the product formerly called Quizizz, is free for teachers on the Basic plan and sold to schools and districts by custom quote only. Wayground prints no per-teacher or per-student price for the School and District plan, and payment is by purchase order, check, credit card or ACH. Any dollar figure you see for it on a review site is not a school price.

A quote request is a sales call, so the useful question is what the quote has to contain before it is worth signing. This article reads Wayground's own plan pages and Help Center article, shows what the free plan stops you doing, lists what the paid plan adds, and gives you a way to budget when the vendor will not name a number. Coeducate is not affiliated with Wayground or Quizizz. We sell a different kind of product, an AI tutor that writes a mastery record from student work, and the last section says plainly when Wayground is the better buy. Facts were checked on November 11, 2026.

How much does Wayground cost for a school?

Wayground does not publish it. The Wayground plans page shows Basic as free and School and District as "Request a quote," with the button text "Get a quote." The company's Help Center article Understanding Wayground Plans lists three tiers and sends you to the pricing page for amounts, which are not printed there either.

Some items are add-ons on top of the quote. Wayground's page names school-wide benchmark assessments, state test data imports and on-demand professional development as separate purchases, so ask for them as separate lines.

Is Wayground free?

Yes for a single teacher, within limits. The Basic plan needs no credit card and covers assessments, presentations, passages, flashcards and videos, live and student-paced delivery, AI tools to generate and adapt content, and more than 20 accommodations including text-to-speech. The limits are 100 students, 20 activities in storage and no shared school library. A teacher who hits the 20-activity ceiling in October is the usual reason a school ends up asking for a quote.

Is Quizizz the same as Wayground?

Yes. Wayground is the new name for Quizizz, and older district pages, board agendas and review listings still say Quizizz. When you search a board packet or a purchasing record for a comparable price, search both names, or you will miss half the documents.

Why review-site prices for Wayground do not match

Search for Wayground pricing and you meet figures from $19 to $125 per user per month on aggregator pages, and the numbers contradict each other. One lists a starting price of $19 a user a month, another $59 for a Standard tier and $99 for Premier, and a 2026 snapshot shows $125. A marketplace listing describes a single individual plan billed per user monthly. None of these comes from Wayground's school page, which has no amounts at all. They are scraped or modeled from older Quizizz plans and corporate-training tiers, so do not put them in a district budget request.

What should a school budget for Wayground in 2026-27?

Without a published rate, build the budget as a range from comparable tools and then make the quote prove it is lower. Two public benchmarks from our own pricing research are the closest comparison for a classroom engagement platform that sells to schools by quote.

• The Pear Deck order forms we read show $4.26 per student for a 730-student school and $2.25 per student a year for a 13,500-user district on a three-year deal. See Pear Deck pricing for schools.
• Edpuzzle sells a teacher plan and a school license, and its school quotes depend on seat count. See Edpuzzle pricing for schools.

Use those as a sanity ceiling. If a Wayground quote for a 600-student school lands far above the Pear Deck school figure, you are paying for the admin dashboard and Customer Success Manager, and you should decide whether you will use them. Wayground says its School and District plan qualifies for federal funding sources including Title I, and that it holds ESSA Level 3 (Promising Evidence) status. Check the current rules with the U.S. Department of Education ESSA page before you charge it to a Title I line, because eligibility depends on the use, not the vendor's statement. Pandemic relief money such as ESSER has largely been spent, so assume general fund or Title I for a new purchase.

Questions to ask before you sign a Wayground quote

1. Is the price per student, per teacher or per school? The three can differ by a factor of ten in a 40-teacher, 700-student school.
2. What is the term and the renewal increase? Ask for the year-two and year-three price in writing, not "then-current rates."
3. Which of the add-ons are in the number? Benchmarks, state data imports and PD are listed as separate purchases.
4. What happens to teacher-built content? Teachers on Basic have built activities under personal accounts. Ask how those migrate into a shared school library.
5. Is the AI grading included for every teacher? The page lists full AI grading with custom and state rubrics under the school plan, so confirm there is no per-use cap.
6. Can we pay by purchase order? Wayground states it accepts purchase order, check, credit card or ACH, which makes a board-approved PO possible. If your business office reconciles the payment against the bank export, a PDF statement to Excel converter such as Bankxlsx saves the manual typing.

When Wayground is the better buy, and when it is not

Wayground is a good fit when teachers already run live quiz games and student-paced practice, and the school wants those activities shared, with admin reports on top. It is a classroom engagement and assessment tool, and on the free plan it does that well enough that many schools never need more.

It is the wrong buy when the problem is a group of students who are behind and need individual practice with feedback that updates after every answer. A quiz platform tells a teacher which questions were missed. It does not hold a running record of what each student has mastered. That is the job of the AI teaching assistant and tutor we build, and our AI tutor for schools pricing is published, so you can compare it with a quote line by line. If your decision is between a quiz platform and intervention support, do not let a single renewal cycle cover both questions.

Frequently asked questions about Wayground pricing

How much does Wayground cost?

Wayground Basic is free for teachers. The School and District plan is by custom quote and Wayground publishes no amount, so the only real price is the one on your quote. Review-site figures from $19 to $125 per user per month are not school pricing.

What is Wayground pricing for schools?

Schools request a quote and pay by purchase order, check, credit card or ACH. The plan adds all question types, unlimited students and storage, a shared library, AI grading, admin dashboards, LMS and rostering integrations and a dedicated Customer Success Manager.

Is Quizizz pricing the same as Wayground pricing?

Yes, it is the same company and product under a new name. Old Quizizz plan prices on review sites are out of date, and the current School and District plan has no published price.

Is there a Wayground free trial or free plan?

There is a free Basic plan with no credit card. It caps sessions at 100 participants and storage at 20 activities. A school trial is arranged through the quote request.

Does Wayground qualify for Title I funding?

Wayground states that its School and District plan qualifies for federal funding sources including Title I, and that it has ESSA Level 3 status. Your district's grants office decides whether a specific purchase fits the grant.