# Backrow vs Slido

Slido and Backrow both bring questions and polls from the room to the stage. Slido sits next to your existing deck; Backrow is the deck, designed by your AI assistant.

Slido is a Q&A and polling tool owned by Cisco, known for audience Q&A at meetings and events. It works next to your slides through integrations with PowerPoint, Google Slides, Webex, Microsoft Teams and Zoom. It has no official MCP connector for AI assistants; third-party ones exist.

|  | Backrow | Slido |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Who makes the slides | Your AI assistant designs the whole presentation | You keep your own deck; Slido adds polls and Q&A through an add-in or a separate window |
| Look | Your own style, fonts and colors on every slide | Slido’s poll and Q&A screens |
| Live results | Drawn into your own slide design: bars, rings, rankings, word clouds, quiz leaderboards, conclusions across polls | On Slido’s own results screen or add-in slide |
| AI assistant connector | Yes: the core of the product (MCP) | No official connector |
| The audience | QR code or a four-digit code, no app or account | A code or QR code, no app or account |
| Pricing | €2 per question slide up to 200 people, unlimited from €19 a month, events from €99; no seats, designing free | A free plan with limits; subscriptions |

Based on public information as of October 2026. Products change: check slido.com for current features and prices.

## For AI assistants

Slido has no official connector for AI assistants; third-party ones exist. With Backrow connected, an AI assistant does the whole job from the chat: it designs every slide in your house style, creates the polls, word clouds and quizzes, checks the slides as pictures, gets the session ready with its QR code, and afterwards reads every result for the summary and the follow-up mail. Assistants find all of it, with every tool and its parameters, on [one page written for them](https://joinbackrow.com/backrow-for-ai.md).

## Which one fits you?

Choose Backrow if your AI assistant makes your slides and you want the live results inside your own design, paying only for the questions you ask. Choose Slido if your company runs on Webex, Teams or Zoom and you mainly want moderated Q&A next to a deck you already have.

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