Kahoot! vs Moodle

Kahoot! 15

Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Pro plans are public, $9 to $79 a presenter a month billed annually, but the API is enterprise-only and priced by quote (10). A free account needs no card and Pro has a seven-day trial, but neither reaches the API (5 of 20). Credentials come from Kahoot! to an enterprise organisation, so a person signs the contract and requests them (0). 0 + 10 + 5 + 0 = 15.

Moodle 60

Read with the self-hosted rule for free software with nothing to buy. No payment protocol (0 of 40). The licence is public and MoodleCloud's plan prices are public too (20). Free to download and run, with a 28-day MoodleCloud trial that needs no card (20). An owner installs it and issues their own tokens, so no vendor sign-up stands in the way (20). 0 + 20 + 20 + 20 = 60.

Kahoot! 45

Read with the hosted lines. status.kahoot.com is an Atlassian Statuspage with component history (20). One incident since 5 August 2026, YouTube video disruptions on 22 September, minor, about six hours (20). No rate limits in the OpenAPI file, and the support guide that might hold them answered our reader with a Cloudflare check (0). No 429 or retry guidance (0). No SLA found; the Master Service Agreement on the trust centre wasn't read (0). The spec is version 0.1.0 with no stability statement, though the enterprise page sells the API as a feature (5 of 10). 20 + 20 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 5 = 45.

Moodle 80

Read with the local-software lines, since the owner runs Moodle and calls their own site. Official packages from moodle.org and GitHub with supported PHP and database versions stated per release, PostgreSQL 17 and MariaDB 11.4 and up for 5.3 (20). A public test suite (PHPUnit and Behat) and CI; whether the default branch was passing on 3 November was not read, since the repository's workflow pages weren't fetched (12 of 25). Bugs go to the Moodle Tracker, where security issues are triaged into dated advisories and point releases every two months carry fixes; the open bug count was not read (18 of 25). Versioned releases with release notes, upgrade notes and a written deprecation policy (15). Stable since 1.0 in 2002, now 5.3 (15). 20 + 12 + 18 + 15 + 15 = 80.

Kahoot! 58

Read for a closed service. iOS 6.8.0 on 27 October 2026 (30). Three App Store releases in the 90 days, 12, 22 and 27 October (20). A status page, a help centre and sales contact, but no public changelog for the API and the help centre is behind a bot check for us (8 of 15). No SDK or registry entry (0). No package to judge (0). 30 + 20 + 8 + 0 + 0 = 58.

Moodle 81

Moodle 5.3.0 on 5 October 2026 and commits on main through 30 October (30). Point releases on 10 August, 14 September and 5 October 2026 across five branches (20). The Tracker, forums on moodle.org and developer chat answer issues; security issues were fixed and published with CVEs on 9 September, 22 September and 15 October 2026 (20 of 25). No official SDK or MCP server; sample clients only (5 of 15). PHPUnit and Behat suites, GitHub Actions, and minimum PHP and database versions raised per release, read from the release notes rather than a passing run (6 of 10). 30 + 20 + 20 + 5 + 6 = 81.

Kahoot! 66

Eleven compact GET endpoints returning typed JSON (20 of 25). Cursor pagination with limit up to 100 on users, versions and games, and startedSince on games; no field selection (16 of 20). Only 401 and 403 are documented, with no body schema or codes to branch on (6 of 20). Read-only, so every call is safe to retry (16 of 20). One or two path parameters per call and sensible paging defaults, but no official SDK in any language (8 of 15). 20 + 16 + 6 + 16 + 8 = 66.

Moodle 49

About 800 to 900 functions, but a service can expose only the functions an agent needs and each call names one function, so the working set is small (20 of 25). Paging and filtering vary by function; course and user lookups take criteria and some take limits, read only in the catalogue (10 of 20). The REST protocol returns an exception, errorcode and message object on failure, and the 5.3 API returns OAuth2 access_denied with a hint naming the missing scope; the classic shape was not read first-hand on this pass (8 of 20). No idempotency keys; many functions are creates and updates (5 of 20). Required parameters vary by function; no official SDK, only sample clients and community libraries (6 of 15). 20 + 10 + 8 + 5 + 6 = 49.