Klaxoon and Beekast alternative: what the billing model changes

Three ways to charge for an audience tool

An audience tool is rarely billed on actual use. It is billed on a proxy — something easy to count that is meant to approximate the value you get. The choice of that proxy decides everything else.

• Per participant who edits (Klaxoon): the more people write on the board, the higher the plan you need.
• Per host, with a cap per session (Beekast): what matters is not how many people you train in a year, but how many are in the same room at the same time.
• Per account and per content item (EduTools): your rooms, quizzes and enrolled learners are counted. People who join through a link or a code are counted nowhere.

None of the three models is dishonest. But the same usage does not cost the same depending on the shape of your group, and that is exactly what a pricing page does not tell you.

Klaxoon: the cap is on editing rights

The Free plan gives access to the visual collaboration tools, with no card required, individual access and free templates. It is limited to 5 participants with editing rights.

The Starter plan costs €24.90 per host per month, billed annually, up to 4 Pros. It unlocks unlimited activity creation and sharing, a library of over 200 templates, integrations with Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Wrike and Jira, a developer portal and APIs, chat and email support. The cap rises to 20 participants with editing rights.

The Enterprise plan starts at 5 Pros and is quoted on request. That is the one that lifts the cap — unlimited participants — and brings governance: SAML 2.0 SSO, SCIM APIs and audit log, usage dashboards, hosting options (self-hosting, Airgap) and an adoption programme run by a dedicated CSM.

The takeaway. As long as your participants only watch, the cap does not bother you. As soon as they have to write — which is usually the point — they count. A 25-person workshop where everyone contributes leaves Starter and goes to quotation.

Beekast: the cap is on the session

The Free plan allows 30 participants a month, 3 sessions a month and 5 activities per session, with 9 interactive activity types and PDF reports. Asynchronous sessions are not included.

The Plus plan, at €21 per licence per month (2 licences maximum), removes the monthly participant limit, raises the ceiling to 50 participants per session, and adds unlimited sessions and activities, 17 activity types, asynchronous sessions and PDF and Word reports.

The Pro plan, at €49 per licence for the first two and €44 from the third, raises the ceiling to 100 participants per session and adds detailed analytics, XLS reports, main and breakout sessions, an attendance sheet, team mode and all integrations. Above that, the Enterprise plan customises the limits and adds SSO, an SLA and dedicated support. Displayed prices are billed annually, excluding tax.

The takeaway. Two questions decide your plan: how many people are in the room at once, and how many hosts you have. A centre with six trainers leaves Plus because of the second question, not the first — Plus stops at two licences.

The table, as of 17 October 2026

Checked on 17 October 2026 on klaxoon.com and beekast.com (French pricing pages). Prices exclude tax. These grids change: check them before you decide.

Three situations, and what they change

Grids are abstract. Here is the same arithmetic applied to three real cases — public prices, excluding tax, billed annually.

1. Freelance trainer, groups of 12, two sessions a week. Twelve participants fit everywhere. Klaxoon Starter: €24.90 a month, €298.80 a year. Beekast Plus: €21 a month, €252 a year. EduTools Standard: €4.99 a month, €55 a year — and €95 a year on Premium if you want every ceiling lifted. All three do the job; the gap is what you pay for a ceiling you never reach.

2. Training centre, six trainers, groups of 25. The number of hosts decides. Klaxoon Starter stops at 4 Pros: with six you move to Enterprise, so to a quotation. Beekast Plus stops at 2 licences: you need Pro, two licences at €49 and four at €44, €274 a month — €3,288 a year. On the EduTools side, the Pro plan for training centres opens 20 trainer accounts for €499.99 a year.

3. The company seminar: 60 people, once. Sixty contributing participants means Enterprise at Klaxoon (on quotation) and Pro at Beekast (100 per session). With EduTools the question works differently: you share a link or a QR code, the sixty answer, and none of them is enrolled — so none uses up a seat. What the subscription counts is the learners you enrol in a private room. For companies, plans run from 5 to 50 accounts, €19.99 to €99.99 a month — seats, not per-host licences.

What they do that EduTools does not

A comparison that only flatters its author helps nobody decide. Three clear gaps.

Enterprise governance. Klaxoon offers SAML 2.0 SSO, SCIM APIs, an audit log, self-hosting and an Airgap configuration, with a dedicated CSM. Beekast offers SSO, a custom SLA and dedicated support. EduTools has none of these. If your IT department requires enterprise SSO or hosting on your own servers, the question is settled before you start.

Integrations. Klaxoon connects to Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Wrike and Jira; Beekast advertises its own integrations and XLS reports. EduTools exports to PDF, CSV and JSON, and stops there.

Video conferencing. None of the three replaces it, and EduTools says so plainly: it turns on neither your camera nor your microphone. You keep your video tool; EduTools brings screen sharing and the activities the group does while you talk.

How to decide without getting it wrong

Three measurements are enough, and they are taken before you sign anything.

1. Count the people who have to write, not the ones who watch. That number decides your Klaxoon plan and your Beekast tier.
2. Count your hosts, today and a year from now. That is the variable that moves a training centre from one plan to the next, well before group size does.
3. Ask what you will be able to take with you. A tool you cannot leave is not a tool, it is a commitment. With EduTools, a restorable ZIP archive and a full export of your data are one click away, with nobody to ask.

Then run a test with a real group and a real session. All three have a free plan: that is what it is for.