The best online exam plugins for WordPress in 2026

Tutor LMS is the best place to start if your exams belong to a course. The free core, with more than 100,000 active installs, already covers what most teachers need for a quiz at the end of a lesson: a time limit, a set number of attempts and a passing grade. It supports true or false, single choice, multiple choice, matching and fill-in-the-blank questions, and students see their results on their own dashboard.

Because it is a full learning management system, the quiz sits inside a course with lessons, video and progress tracking, and you can sell the course with Tutor's own checkout. That is more than you need for a single entrance test, but it is the right shape for a school or a training business.

Tutor LMS Pro adds the pieces that turn quizzes into formal assessments. Certificates, a gradebook, quiz export and import, and prerequisites come as add-ons, and Tutor's pricing page also lists five interactive question types: draw on an image, pin a spot on an image, graph, puzzle and scale. Pro costs $199 a year for one site, or $499 once for a lifetime license, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

LearnDash is built for course sites where a quiz decides who gets certified. You get eight question types, including multiple choice, essay, sorting, matching and fill in the blank. Essay answers suit exams where a person has to read and grade the work. Quizzes link to courses, and students who pass can download a certificate.

LearnDash is now sold by Liquid Web, and learndash.com redirects to Liquid Web's store, where you buy it as part of a software package that also includes Give, The Events Calendar and Kadence. The one-site plan is $350 a year, and the price per site drops quickly as you add sites: 10 sites cost $599 a year. That suits agencies and schools running several sites more than a single tutor.

There is no free version. Liquid Web offers a 48-hour trial with no card, which is enough time to build a test quiz and see the grading screens. If you need a free route into the same kind of course-and-exam setup, Tutor LMS or LifterLMS will get you there.

LifterLMS puts most of a certification course in its free core. You get unlimited courses and students, quizzes with question banks and time limits, certificates and achievement badges, and members-only content, all without paying. For a training site that awards a certificate after an end-of-course test, the free plugin may be all you need.

You pay for the finer assessment tools. Manually graded essay and short-answer questions come from the Advanced Quizzes add-on, which is only sold in the top Infinity Bundle. Its regular price is $1,598 a year, so check that you need written answers before you build around them. The smaller Earth plan ($398 a year regular, one site) does not include it.

LifterLMS was running a Black Friday code on November 4, 2026 that cut the first year by 60%, and renewals are at full price. A $1 demo site with every add-on installed lets you try the whole thing for 30 days, and paid plans carry a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Quiz and Survey Master, usually called QSM, is the pick when you need an exam on a page and nothing else. The free plugin, used on more than 40,000 sites, has unlimited quizzes and questions and more than 12 question types, from multiple choice and true or false to fill-in-the-blank, open-ended answers and file uploads. You set points, percentages or your own grading system, set a pass mark, and show a different results page for each score range.

The same builder makes surveys and feedback forms, and it can ask for an email before or after the quiz. That makes QSM handy for a business that runs a staff test one week and a customer survey the next.

Exam features are spread across add-on plans. Basic ($149 a year, one site) adds reporting, export and import, and PayPal and Stripe payments. Plus ($199 a year, three sites) adds save and resume, conditional logic, flashcards and a Quiz Proctor add-on, and Pro ($249 a year, 10 sites) adds advanced timers, advanced assessment and result exports. QSM also shows one-time prices under a lifetime option and offers a 14-day refund.

Quiz Maker by AYS lists the widest choice of question types on this page. Alongside single choice, multiple choice and dropdown questions, you can ask for a typed answer, a number or a date, and use fill-in-the-blank, matching and ranking questions. A quiz timer submits the test when time runs out, which is the feature most online exams need first, and the free version includes it, as it does password-protected quizzes.

The paid tiers are cheap by the standards of this list. Basic costs $49 a year for one site, or $147 once, and adds an advanced timer, leaderboards, save and resume, summary emails, and PayPal and Stripe payments. The Pro feature list also includes certificates, an advanced question bank by category, manual grading, result exports to CSV and a timer per question. Growth ($129 a year, 10 sites) adds chained quizzes, user tracking and WooCommerce.

The plugin has more than 20,000 active installs and a 4.9 out of 5 rating from about 600 reviews on WordPress.org. Its site has free and Pro demos of many exam types, such as an English test and an exam with a certificate, so you can see the result before you build.

WatuPRO comes from the same developer as the free Watu Quiz, and it is the most exam-focused plugin on this list. You set rules for how each answer scores and how many points it earns, and you control which user roles and groups can take each test. The reporting module adds charts, statistics and cross-tabulation, and results can show how a student compares with everyone else who took the exam. It also handles math notation with LaTeX and splits long exams into pages by category.

The pricing is the other reason to choose it. WatuPRO costs $67 once, the version with the Intelligence module is $97, and the full bundle with reporting is $147. The Intelligence module adds fill-in-the-blank, sort, slider and matrix questions, personality results, paid test access and tests a student can take only after finishing another. A license covers all your own sites and includes a year of updates and support, which you can renew at half price or skip. The developer offers a 60-day refund.

Try the free Watu Quiz first. It already has single choice, multiple choice and essay questions, random questions from a pool, grades, scheduled quizzes and CSV export of results.

HD Quiz is for teachers and bloggers who want a clean practice test without learning a big plugin. Everything in the main plugin is free: unlimited quizzes, scored and personality quizzes, a custom pass percentage, timers for the whole quiz or for each question, question pools that draw a set number of questions at random, and weighted answers.

Questions can be multiple choice, select all that apply, image answers or typed text, and you can add an explanation that appears after a student answers. Quizzes pick up your theme's fonts and styling, are built to work with screen readers, and load their scripts only on pages that contain a quiz.

HD Quiz is not built for formal exams. It has no course structure, and certificates are not among its listed features. For a weekly vocabulary check or a revision quiz on a class blog, that is a fair trade for how easy it is to set up. A paid Styler add-on exists for more design control.

Masteriyo puts quizzes, payments and certificates in its free version, so you can sell a course that ends in a test and a certificate without paying for the plugin. Students pay through Stripe, PayPal, Mollie or other built-in gateways, so you do not need WooCommerce.

The free quiz builder has single choice, multiple choice, true or false and matching questions, with time limits, randomized questions, automatic points and your own grading. Students can review where they went wrong. The certificate builder has templates and QR codes that let anyone check a certificate is genuine. It also imports SCORM packages and H5P content, and it can move courses and quizzes over from Tutor LMS, LifterLMS, LearnPress or LearnDash.

Pro adds prerequisites, assignments, advanced quiz types and a gradebook with student reports. Basic costs $99 for the first year (regular $199) for one site, Pro $149 (regular $299), and Elite $399 for 10 sites (regular $799). There is a 14-day money-back guarantee. Masteriyo has a smaller install base than Tutor LMS, with about 6,000 active sites, so expect fewer third-party tutorials.