Pigeonhole Live

Pigeonhole Live is the third major player in live audience engagement after Slido and Mentimeter, leaning more enterprise-conference and offering a per-event pricing model that's useful for podcasters running occasional big live shows. The free tier lets you try the platform but caps features tightly.

Subscription tiers in 2026 start at $8/mo for Pro (unlimited Q&A, polls, quizzes, surveys), $25/mo for higher meeting tiers, and $100/mo for Business (advanced moderation, branded events). The differentiator is the per-event option — Engage at $338 per event, Captivate at $928 per event with full interactive features including reactions — which means a podcast running a once-a-quarter big live show can pay for just that event instead of committing to an annual plan.

The Q&A moderation tools are genuinely sophisticated: real-time question posting with theme identification, prioritization workflows for moderators, and detailed dashboards across Q&A, polls, and surveys. For podcast use cases, the best fit is shows running structured live events (conferences, summits, themed live recordings) where the moderation layer matters and per-event pricing fits irregular usage. Downsides: brand recognition is lower than Slido, the free tier is too limited for real events, and per-event plans get expensive past 2-3 events per year — at that point an annual subscription wins on math.