Hopin Alternatives

Airmeet is a virtual and hybrid event platform built around the same idea Hopin popularized: a venue in the browser rather than a single video stream. Attendees watch sessions on a stage with instant replays, then move to a social lounge where they sit at virtual tables, or to speed networking, which pairs them one to one at random. On the Events plan, they also land in an interactive reception, and exhibitors get 3D booths with custom layouts, sponsor tiers and booth lead magnets; Premium Webinars has neither. That is the closest match to what Hopin users miss, and three of the eight comparison guides we read give Airmeet its own section.

How the price reads against Hopin: Premium Webinars, the entry plan, starts at $167 a month billed yearly ($2,004 a year), or $199 month to month, for 2 team members per organization and webinars starting from 100 attendees, scalable up to 10,000. RingCentral Events Pro costs $99 per organizer per month billed yearly, so two organizers on RingCentral cost $2,376 a year against $2,004 on Airmeet. The Events plan, which adds multi-track events, hybrid formats and 5 team members, is quoted, and Managed Events, where Airmeet's team runs the event for you, starts at $4,999.

Tip: read the usage limits before you sign. Premium Webinars allows up to 150 events a year and Events 250, live session time is capped at 12 hours per event on Premium Webinars and 75 hours on Events, and Premium Webinars streams and records in 720p, with 1080p sold as an add-on on Events. A two-day summit with four tracks can exceed 12 hours of live sessions, which pushes you to the Events plan. To send Airmeet registrants to your CRM automatically, our Airmeet integration for Make shows the scenario.

Zoom Events is Zoom's event layer on top of the meetings and webinars your audience already knows. The Events plan includes everything in Webinars Plus (a backstage for speakers, pre-recorded sessions played as if live, AI-built event pages) and adds what Hopin users look for: multiple stages with simultaneous live sessions, ticket types from early bird to VIP, a lobby, sponsor connections, real-time networking between attendees and hybrid features. Zoom lists events of up to 30 hours, up to 100,000 attendees and up to 1,000 video panelists.

How the price reads against Hopin: Zoom sells by audience size, not by organizer. At the 500 attendee tier, Webinars costs $83.33 a month, Webinars Plus $290.83 and Events $415.83, all billed annually as a single upfront charge ($4,990 a year for Events). RingCentral Events Pro costs $1,188 a year for one organizer with unlimited registrations, so Zoom only makes sense if you need its reach, or if your organizers already live in Zoom. Each extra Hub Host costs $65 a month.

Pitfall: every Zoom Webinars and Events plan says "Zoom Workplace Pro Required", so budget a Workplace license on top if your host does not already have one. Monthly rates on the page are the annual total divided by 12: you are not charged monthly. If your audience grows past the tier you bought, check the attendee tier before the event, not on the day.

Whova is an all-in-one event platform whose core is an attendee app: personalized agendas, real-time updates and networking features that attendees use before, during and after the event. Around it, Whova adds registration and ticketing, an event website builder, name badges, check-in, surveys, certificates, abstract management for calls for speakers, exhibitor and sponsor management with lead retrieval, and hybrid and virtual events with live streams. Whova states it has helped 50,000+ events across 170+ countries. It is the tool the guides we read cite most often as a Hopin alternative, mainly for organizers whose events moved back to a venue.

How the price reads against Hopin: Whova does not publish a platform price. Its pricing page is a quote form that asks the format (in person, hybrid or virtual), the event length, the expected attendees in eight bands from fewer than 500 to more than 60,000, and how many events you run per year. What Whova does publish is its ticketing fee: 3.0% plus $0.99 per paid ticket, which is $15.99 on a $500 ticket, and no fee on free tickets. RingCentral Events charges per organizer, so Whova's cost tracks your events while RingCentral's tracks your team.

Tip: ask for the quote with your real event count. The form prices one event and several events per year differently, and MicroEvents, Whova's tool for small events, is sold as an add-on to existing customers. Support answers within 30 minutes on business days.

Accelevents is an event management platform that covers registration, ticketing, onsite check-in, badge printing, lead capture for exhibitors, and a virtual event hub with a native streaming and broadcast studio. It shows up in four of the eight guides we read, mostly for hybrid and in-person events. Its registration side is strong: unlimited ticket types and custom fields, conditional logic, reserved seating, group booking, waitlists and payment processing through 10 processors and gateways, including Stripe, Square and Adyen. To send registrations to the rest of your stack, our Accelevents Zapier integration guide shows the setup.

How the price reads against Hopin: Professional starts from $7,500 for a single event, and Business starts from $13,500 for unlimited events, with cross-event reporting. Enterprise and White Label are quoted. Every plan includes unlimited admin seats, so unlike RingCentral Events, a team of ten organizers costs the same as a team of one. One RingCentral Pro seat costs $1,188 a year; you need about seven organizers on RingCentral before Accelevents Professional becomes the cheaper route for one large event.

Pitfall: on the pricing page, Virtual Events is listed as a paid add-on. The streaming studio, session recordings and on-demand viewing are not in the base price, so a former Hopin user who wants a virtual track must ask for that line in the quote. Upside: there are no transaction fees on tickets, and 24/7 support is included with all plans.

Livestorm is a browser-based webinar and video engagement platform: attendees join without installing anything, and hosts get registration pages, email reminders, polls, Q&A, live, on-demand and automated webinars, and restreaming to LinkedIn, YouTube and X as an add-on. Many teams that bought Hopin during the remote years used it for webinars and product demos rather than for full conferences with expo halls. For them, Livestorm is the lighter replacement. Our Livestorm review scores it 3.3 out of 5, and that score stays the same here.

How the price reads against Hopin: Livestorm sells attendee credits in a yearly pack. On Pro, the default pack of 400 credits costs $3.00 per attendee, so $1,200 for the year, close to one RingCentral Events Pro organizer at $1,188. One credit is used for each unique participant, per session, over a 12-month period, and team members are not counted. Pro includes unlimited events, unlimited team members, sessions up to 4 hours and up to 3,000 live attendees per event. Enterprise is quoted and raises sessions to 12 hours.

Pitfall: the native HubSpot, Salesforce, Marketo, Pardot and Microsoft Dynamics integrations are marked Enterprise plan only. And because a credit counts per session, a person who attends three sessions of your summit uses three credits. When the quota runs out, new attendees cannot join until you move to a higher yearly tier. To connect Livestorm to other apps through Zapier, see our Livestorm Zapier integration guide. See Livestorm pricing for the full grid, and our Livestorm alternatives if it falls short.