TriviaHub Live books a professional host and charges a flat fee for that event. Quizado is the software instead of the booking, so the same night can run every week for one monthly plan.
TriviaHub Live sells you a trivia event with a host attached; Quizado sells you the console that runs the event, so a team that wants trivia twice a month pays once and hosts as often as it likes.
TriviaHub prices a hosted event as a one-off fee, so two nights a month is two of those fees. Check their site for current pricing.
One Quizado plan covers every game you run in the month. The fourth night of the month costs the same as the first, which is zero.
A hosted event has to be arranged, confirmed and paid for in advance. Deciding on a Tuesday to run trivia on Thursday does not fit that shape.
Open the app, pick a built-in pack, put the QR code on the screen. Nothing needs to be booked, so a last-minute night is a normal night.
A professional host is good at hosting and knows nothing about your team, your in-jokes or the thing that happened at last summer offsite.
Your own host reads the questions and can drop in a round about the department, the office move or the product launch. The app keeps score while they talk.
A hosted event is quoted for the group you invite, so a headcount that grows means asking them for a new quote.
Paid Quizado plans lift the player cap and the price stays where it is. Fifteen people or a hundred and fifteen, the plan is the plan.
A hosted event is arranged and paid for in advance, and their cancellation terms apply once the date is set. A late reschedule is awkward.
There is no date to cancel. If half the office is stuck in a client meeting you move the game to next week and nobody is out of pocket.
When a hosted event ends, the event ends. The rounds, the scores and the running order belong to the company you booked.
Every round you build stays in your account and can be run again. After a year you have a library, not a stack of invoices.
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You see the question, the answer, the timer and the scores. The room sees the display window on the TV. Nobody has to email anyone to start a game.
Players scan the code on screen and answer in the phone browser. There is no app to install and no account to create before the first question.
Send the question, the countdown and the live leaderboard to a projector, a second monitor or a TV, while the host device keeps the answers private.
Type a topic and get a bar trivia round back, then edit anything that is wrong. Monthly AI credits start on Trivia Pro.
Group several nights into a season and keep a running table, so the January game still matters in March. Leagues and seasons are on Trivia Pro and up.
TriviaHub publishes three ways to buy. A DIY tier lets you host your own event with their software and content, with a paid upgrade for more quizzes. A Virtual Host event puts one of their professionals on a video call with your group. An In-Person Host event brings a professional to your office or venue. Each is quoted per event, with packages for buying several at once. Prices move, so check their site for current pricing before you build a budget.
Now do the arithmetic that people-ops teams actually do. A company that wants a trivia session once a quarter is looking at four bookings a year. A company that wants one every month is looking at twelve. The hosted price is excellent value for the first one, because somebody else writes the questions, runs the timing and carries the energy of the room. It gets harder to defend on the twelfth, because by then somebody internally could have learned the job.
Quizado is priced the other way round. Start free with the built-in packs, phone buzzers and the big screen display, for up to sixteen players. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro, which also adds media rounds, monthly AI credits, leagues and a custom logo. Family Feud, Jeopardy and Music Bingo are on Hospitality Group. Whatever plan you land on, the monthly figure does not change when you run four games instead of one. See the pricing page for the current numbers.
These are two different products that happen to produce a similar evening. A booked event is a service: you pick a date, they arrive, the night happens, everyone goes home. Software is a tool: it sits in your account waiting, and it only produces an evening when somebody opens it and presses start. If nobody on your side will ever press start, the service is worth every penny and the tool is worth nothing.
The honest test is whether you have a volunteer. Most teams do. It is usually the person who already organizes the leaving cards, or the bar manager who has run the Tuesday quiz off a clipboard for two years. That person does not need to be funny on a stage. They need to read questions clearly and press space bar at the right moment, because the timer, the scoring and the leaderboard are all handled by the app.
The other difference is what accumulates. After three hosted events you have three good memories and three invoices. After three Quizado nights you have three saved rounds, a team list that carries over, a season table and a host who is now quick with the controls. The fourth night takes about ten minutes to prepare because you are reusing the shape of the third.
A lot of TriviaHub demand is remote teams looking for something to do on a call. Their Virtual Host option is built for exactly that, and a live human on Zoom keeps a distributed group awake in a way a shared screen struggles to.
Quizado handles the remote case differently. Your host shares the display window on the call, everyone opens the join link on a phone or a second tab, and answers come in from wherever people are sitting. Nobody installs anything, which matters when half the guest list is on a locked-down laptop.
Where a hosted call still wins is energy. A professional will read the room, fill the silences and keep a group of forty moving. If your internal volunteer is nervous, start them on a short six-question round rather than a full night, and let the display window carry the visual side while they get comfortable.
A hosted event is the right answer more often than software companies like to admit.
The teams that move to software all say a version of the same four things.
Create a free account and run one short round from the built-in packs with your own team at the end of a Friday call. Sixteen players fit on the free plan, which is most departments.
Copy the running order you liked from your last hosted event: a warm-up round, a picture or music round, a buzzer round, then a wager finish. Save it as a template you reuse.
Set a repeating date, start a season table so scores carry across weeks on Trivia Pro, and keep the hosted booking in your back pocket for the big end-of-year one.
TriviaHub supplies people. A professional host, virtual or in your room, is something no software can replace, and their lineup includes party formats we do not build. If what you actually need is somebody else to own the evening end to end, book them. Quizado only helps once someone on your side is willing to run it.
New to running a night in-house? Start with the bar trivia software overview, then look at the trivia host app if you would rather run everything from a phone or laptop behind the bar.
Start free with the built-in packs, put the QR code on the TV and see how the room reacts. Writing your own question sets starts on Trivia Pro.
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