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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "ahaslides",
 "name": "AhaSlides",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "ahaslides.com",
 "category": "Design & Content",
 "task": "Presentations & slide decks",
 "summary": "Interactive presentation platform — live polls, quizzes, word clouds and audience Q&A, free for up to 50 participants.",
 "best_for": "educators, trainers and event hosts running interactive sessions — polls, quizzes, word clouds and live Q&A — with audiences up to 50 free",
 "skip_if": "you need predictable, uniform pricing across a multi-country team, or your decks live in PowerPoint and a lightweight poll add-on covers it",
 "honest_knock": "AhaSlides runs regional pricing: the number on the pricing page depends on where you browse from — so any review quoting one price (including ours) may not match yours. The advertised savings assume annual commitment, and the free tier's five-quiz-slide cap nudges real quiz use toward paid.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "€7.25",
  "entry_price_terms": "a month billed yearly (NL price - varies by country)",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Free",
    "price": "0",
    "includes": "Up to 50 participants, unlimited events/presentations, 5 Quiz and 3 Unscored slides per deck"
   },
   {
    "name": "Essential",
    "price": "€7.25 per month billed yearly",
    "includes": "Up to 100 participants, unlimited interactive slides, analytics, exports, folder management"
   },
   {
    "name": "Pro AI",
    "price": "€10.65 per month billed yearly",
    "includes": "Up to 2,500 participants, AI features, custom branding, Q&A moderation, priority support"
   },
   {
    "name": "Enterprise",
    "price": "quote-only",
    "includes": "Up to 100,000 participants, SSO and SCIM offered on demand"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-09-06 and again 2026-09-30) AhaSlides prices regionally, so the currency and the amount depend on where you buy from; the figures below are the reading from a Netherlands location on 6 September 2026, and your own country's page may show a different rate for the same tier. Free is 0 for up to 50 participants, with unlimited events and unlimited presentations but only 5 Quiz and 3 Unscored slides per deck. Essential is €7.25 per month billed yearly and lifts the ceiling to 100 participants, adding unlimited interactive slides, analytics and exports, and folder management. Pro AI is €10.65 per month billed yearly, raises the ceiling to 2,500 participants and adds the AI features, custom branding, Q&A moderation and priority support. Enterprise is quote-only, listed at up to 100,000 participants with SSO and SCIM offered on demand. Two discounts sit on top: yearly billing is advertised at up to 67% below monthly, and team licences bought together save up to a further 20%. AhaSlides' own USD listing puts Essential at $95.40 a year, which is the same tier at a different regional price rather than a second plan — so check the page from your own country before you budget. Read again from the same Netherlands location on 30 September 2026, both yearly rates were unchanged, and the monthly toggle showed what the yearly discount is measured against: €22.75 a month for Essential and €46.75 for Pro AI. The team calculator's default of 3 Pro AI licences on yearly billing came to €345.06 a year instead of €383.40, a 10% saving (it takes 2 to 30 licences). Each paid card carries a 100% money-back guarantee line.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-30",
  "source_url": null
 },
 "free_plan": true,
 "free_plan_evidence": "Free is 0 for up to 50 participants, with unlimited events and unlimited presentations but only 5 Quiz and 3 Unscored slides per deck.",
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "annual_lock",
   "label": "Annual commitment",
   "evidence": "The advertised savings assume annual commitment, and the free tier's five-quiz-slide cap nudges real quiz use toward paid.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-30",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Mentimeter",
  "why": "Mentimeter is the category standard with the polished template library; AhaSlides undercuts it with a more generous free tier and regional pricing — check both from your own location"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/ahaslides.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/ahaslides-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/ahaslides/",
  "vendor_site": "https://ahaslides.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://ahaslides.com/?red=aibuil&utm_source=aibuil&utm_medium=revshare&utm_affiliate_network=reditus",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "ahaslides:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "ahaslides:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "ahaslides:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "ahaslides:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}