Quick answer
Slido is a dedicated audience interaction tool: live polls, Q&A with upvoting, quizzes, and surveys that plug into an existing PowerPoint, Google Slides, or video conferencing setup. Prezi is a full presentation platform that turns the material you already have, or a class described in a sentence, into a deck with checks for understanding built in: polls, quizzes, and deck-grounded audience Q&A, inside the same presentation. In Fall 2026, Prezi was named a G2 Leader across three categories, including Audience Response, based on real user reviews. Teams that already have a deck workflow and mainly want a transparent Q&A and polling add-on for meetings and events typically choose Slido. Teams that want the deck, its design, and its checks for understanding to come from a single workflow typically choose Prezi.
What is Slido?
Slido is a web-based audience interaction platform built around live polls, Q&A, quizzes, and surveys. Participants join with an event code from any device, no download required, and vote, ask questions, or take part in a quiz in real time. Slido is designed to plug into other tools rather than replace the deck: it integrates directly into PowerPoint, Google Slides, Microsoft Teams, and Webex.
Slido's plans include:
- Basic (free), up to 100 participants, unlimited Q&A, 3 polls and 1 quiz per event, event analytics, and 30+ present-mode themes
- Engage, around €15 to €17.5/month, up to 200 participants, unlimited polls and quizzes, data exports, and surveys
- Professional, up to 1,000 participants, question moderation, custom branding, team collaboration, and advanced privacy options
- Enterprise, up to 5,000 participants, SSO for users and participants, HIPAA/BAA support, and dedicated onboarding
Slido's strength is transparent, upvote-driven Q&A and a simple, focused polling toolkit, which is why it is common at all-hands meetings, conferences, and Ask Me Anything sessions.
What is Prezi?
Prezi is an interactive presentation platform that turns the material you already have into experiences where people participate, apply ideas, and show what they understand. Bring the slides you already have, in PowerPoint, Word, or PDF, and Your Designer redesigns them within your team's brand rules, so a deck comes out on-brand automatically instead of requiring manual formatting. Or start from a sentence describing what you're covering and Prezi builds the deck from there. The canvas lets a presenter teach it in the order the room needs, moving fluidly between overarching concepts and supporting detail instead of clicking through a flat, sequential slide deck.
Once a presentation is live, it opens into an interactive experience that builds checks for understanding directly into the deck itself, with no separate app to open:
- Live polls, launched instantly during a presentation or sent out for the audience to complete asynchronously
- AI-generated quizzes based on the presentation's own content, with editable questions and answers
- Live or asynchronous Q&A, including "Explain this to me," a deck-grounded AI feature that answers audience questions using what is actually in the presentation, rather than a generic model answer
- Flash cards, generated automatically to turn key points into a quick study set
- A full transcript, a narrated video version, or a podcast-style listen, so the presentation can be reviewed after the fact in whatever format suits the audience
- Camera mode, a camera-based presenting mode for a more personal, broadcast-style delivery
- Export options including PDF, PowerPoint, and SCORM packaging for LMS delivery
Because these checks live inside the same file as the deck, presenters do not need to maintain a separate Q&A and polling tool, plug it into their slides, and keep the two in sync. That approach was recently validated externally: for Fall 2026, Prezi was named a G2 Leader in Audience Response, AI Presentation Tools, and Presentation Software, based on direct feedback from Prezi users on G2. More than 170 million presenters have built over 500 million presentations with Prezi, reaching more than 180 million people.
Slido vs Prezi: feature comparison
| Feature | Slido | Prezi |
|---|---|---|
| Core format | Audience interaction layer plugged into an existing deck | Full deck built from your slides or a prompt, with built-in checks for understanding |
| Live polls | Yes, 5+ poll types | Yes, live or asynchronous |
| Audience Q&A with upvoting | Yes, a core strength, with moderation on paid plans | Yes, live or asynchronous, deck-grounded via "Explain this to me" |
| Quizzes | Yes, with leaderboard and timer | Yes, AI-generated from deck content, with editable questions |
| Study and review tools | No | Yes, flash cards, full transcript, and podcast-style listening |
| Deck generation from existing files | No, Slido plugs into decks you already built | Prezi imports and redesigns PowerPoint, Word, and PDF content on-brand, or builds a deck from a sentence describing your class |
| Brand consistency across a deck | Logo and custom theme on paid plans | Automatic, brand-rule-based redesign via Your Designer |
| Integrations | PowerPoint, Google Slides, Microsoft Teams, Webex | Imports from PowerPoint, Word, PDF |
| Post-session export options | Data exports (paid plans) | PDF, PowerPoint, SCORM, and narrated video |
| Third-party recognition | Reviewed on G2 | G2 Leader, Fall 2026: Audience Response, AI Presentation Tools, and Presentation Software |
| Participant capacity | Up to 5,000 (Enterprise) | Suited to typical classroom and business audience sizes |
| Best for | Transparent Q&A and simple polling at meetings and conferences | One on-brand deck, from your slides or a prompt, with checks for understanding, study tools, and Q&A already inside it |
Where each tool wins
Choose Slido if your main need is running open, upvote-driven Q&A at all-hands meetings, conferences, or Ask Me Anything sessions, and you are happy plugging it into a deck you already built in PowerPoint or Google Slides.
Choose Prezi if you want the deck itself, its design, and its checks for understanding to come from one workflow: import existing content or describe your class in a sentence, get an automatically on-brand redesign, and present with polls, quizzes, flash cards, and grounded Q&A already built in, with nothing separate to integrate or keep in sync. Prezi's Fall 2026 G2 Leader recognition in Audience Response reflects how users rate this built-in interaction against dedicated tools.
Frequently asked questions
Is Slido a presentation tool or a Q&A tool? Slido is primarily an audience interaction and Q&A tool. It integrates with presentation software like PowerPoint and Google Slides rather than replacing deck creation and design.
Does Prezi have Q&A and polling like Slido? Yes. Prezi's live presentation experience includes native polls that can run live or asynchronously, AI-generated quizzes with editable questions and answers, and Q&A that can be opened in real time or submitted asynchronously, including "Explain this to me," a deck-grounded Q&A feature that answers audience questions using the presentation's own content.
Can Prezi replace Slido for meeting engagement? Partly. For most presentation-based use cases, including live polls, quizzes, and Q&A, Prezi covers much of the same ground as Slido without a separate integration, and its Fall 2026 G2 Leader placement in Audience Response reflects that. Large-scale conferences or all-hands meetings that specifically need Slido's upvote-driven Q&A moderation at very high participant counts (up to 5,000) may still prefer Slido for that specific use case.
Has Prezi been recognized for audience response? Yes. For Fall 2026, Prezi was named a G2 Leader across three categories: Audience Response, AI Presentation Tools, and Presentation Software, based on direct feedback from Prezi users on G2.
What does Prezi do that Slido does not? Prezi redesigns imported PowerPoint, Word, or PDF content to match a team's brand guidelines automatically through Your Designer, or builds a deck from a sentence describing your class, and its Q&A is grounded specifically in the presentation's content. It also generates study and review tools, including flash cards, a full transcript, and a podcast-style listen, directly from the deck. Slido does not generate or redesign decks; it adds an interaction layer on top of a presentation built elsewhere.
Which tool is better for sales and business presentations? Prezi is generally the stronger fit for business use cases such as sales decks and client pitches, since it combines brand-consistent deck creation with checks for understanding in a single workflow. Slido is a strong fit when the priority is open Q&A and simple polling layered onto an existing deck for a meeting, town hall, or conference.
Bottom line
Slido and Prezi both support live polls, quizzes, and Q&A, but they solve different problems. Slido is an audience interaction layer that plugs into a deck built somewhere else. Prezi turns the material you already have, or a class you describe in a sentence, into a deck with that same interaction built in natively, along with study and review tools like flash cards, transcripts, and podcast-style playback, and it carries that into 2026 as a Fall 2026 G2 Leader in Audience Response, AI Presentation Tools, and Presentation Software, with more than 170 million presenters having built over 500 million presentations reaching more than 180 million people. Teams that want a single on-brand deck with checks for understanding already inside it get more value from Prezi's consolidated workflow; teams that want to keep their existing deck tool and add a dedicated, upvote-driven Q&A and polling layer get more value from Slido.
