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Pear Deck pricing
Pear Deck publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Pear Deck plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Premium | $149.99/month | 4 | +$149.99/month, 4 more features |
| School/District | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 5 question types, real-time responses, student-paced mode.
Premium
$149.99/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- All question types
- Audio responses
- Flashcard factory
- Takeaways
School/District
On requestOver Premium, this tier adds:
- All Premium
- Admin dashboard
- Rostering
- PD resources
Where Pear Deck stops being free
Free, Free
- 5 question types
- Real-time responses
- Student-paced mode
Premium, $149.99/month
The first thing you pay for:
- All question types
- Audio responses
- Flashcard factory
- Takeaways
What the product covers
The full Pear Deck feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Interactive slides
- Real-time responses
- Formative assessment
- Student-paced mode
- Dashboard
- Audio responses
- Drawing
- Vocabulary
Integrations
- Google Slides
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Google Classroom
- Canvas
- Schoology
Platform
- Web support
- Chrome Extension support
People bring Pear Deck in for turning slide decks into interactive lessons with student responses, running formative checks for understanding during class, student paced review activities and assessments. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Pear Deck are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Learning Management
Too few learning management tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pear Deck (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| Docebo | On request | subscription | - | vs Pear Deck |
| Cornerstone OnDemand | On request | quote | - | vs Pear Deck |
| Canvas | $5/student-year | - | - | vs Pear Deck |
| Cornerstone Learning | On request | subscription | - | vs Pear Deck |
| Coursera | Free, then $59/month | - | - | vs Pear Deck |
| Absorb LMS | On request | subscription | - | vs Pear Deck |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Pear Deck badges page.
Before you pay for Pear Deck
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Pear Deck runs on web, chrome extension, and is published by Pear Deck (GoGuardian) of Iowa City, Iowa. The full record is on the Pear Deck review, and the rest of the category is under best learning management tools.
Pear Deck pricing questions
- How much does Pear Deck cost?
- Pear Deck publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for School/District. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Pear Deck have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 5 question types, real-time responses, student-paced mode. Paying starts at $149.99/month for Premium.
- What is the difference between Free and Premium on Pear Deck?
- Premium costs $149.99/month against Free, and adds all question types, audio responses, flashcard factory, takeaways.
- Is the School/District plan on Pear Deck worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is all premium, admin dashboard, rostering, pd resources. It costs On request against $149.99/month for Premium. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which learning management tools can I use without paying?
- 2 of the 8 learning management tools listed alongside Pear Deck have a free tier: Coursera, ClassDojo.
- What am I actually paying for with Pear Deck?
- The record lists 15 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for turning slide decks into interactive lessons with student responses, running formative checks for understanding during class, student paced review activities and assessments.
- Does Pear Deck charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Pear Deck prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Pear Deck against before paying?
- The closest learning management tools in this directory are Docebo, Cornerstone OnDemand, Canvas, Cornerstone Learning. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Pear Deck covering price, platforms and features.