What's the best webinar software in 2026?

WebinarGeek is a Dutch vendor, and it's the cheapest euro option once your audience grows. Premium follows a viewer slider on the annual plan: €59 a month for 75, €79 for 125, €119 for 250, €179 for 500 and €239 for 1,000, with 8-hour sessions and up to 100 presenters. You pick your tier once for the year, so the price doesn't move from one webinar to the next.

Run our scenario: €948 a year for 100 people (125 tier), €2,148 for 500 (500 tier). On Livestorm, the same program at 500 people runs €15,000. That's the difference between paying for a tier and paying per head.

Above that, Enterprise starts at €349 a month on an annual contract and goes up to €849 for 5,000 viewers, with 12-hour sessions. The 14-day trial unlocks every Premium feature, which is enough to run a real webinar with registration, reminders and replay before you pay.

The catch: the listed price is the annual one (monthly, Premium starts at €99), and we read prices in euros; US visitors may be shown dollars. For two or three one-off webinars, a yearly plan is heavy. On data, the vendor mentions GDPR and a data processing agreement, but the pricing page doesn't say where videos are hosted. Ask in writing if that matters to you.

Tip: use the trial for your first real webinar, not a dummy one. You'll see your audience's actual show-up rate, and whether Premium is enough.

Demio is built for marketers. Attendees join from the browser, the room looks clean, and registrants flow into your CRM. If you judge a webinar by how many qualified leads it adds to the funnel, this is the one we'd point you to.

Entry is cheap: $45 a month on the annual plan for 1 host, 50 attendees, 3-hour sessions and 4 people on stage. But 50 attendees runs out fast. For our 100-person scenario you need Growth, at $117 a month per host on the annual plan, or $1,404 a year. Growth covers 150 to 3,000 attendees, 8-hour sessions and 6 people on stage, and the price climbs as you move the attendee slider.

Premium, at $196 a month annual, stretches sessions to 10 hours and the stage to 10 people. Annual billing saves 30% on every plan.

The catch: pricing is per host. If three people on your team each run their own webinars, the bill triples. A few reviews mention mics or cameras not being detected, mostly on Safari. And the trial is tight (20 attendees, 1 hour): enough to check the tool, not to run a real event.

Tip: ask your speakers to join on Chrome with a wired headset. Most reported audio issues come down to the browser or Bluetooth.

Zoom Webinars has one edge nobody disputes: everyone knows Zoom. Your attendees already know how to join, mute and raise a hand. For a big event, that's real peace of mind.

Webinars starts at $66.67 a month on the annual plan ($89 monthly), so $800 a year at the entry tier. Webinars Plus goes to $82.50 annual, Events to $124.17. A single event can run up to 30 hours, by far the highest ceiling here, with cloud or local recording and AI-generated chapters.

The catch: price depends on attendee capacity, and tiers above entry go through sales. For our 500-person scenario, you'll need a quote. Zoom also mentions a one-month option and pay-per-attendee pricing without listing the amounts. Public reviews are harsh on support, which is heavily automated, and on renewals charged after cancellation.

Tip: if you run one or two big events a year, ask for the one-month option instead of an annual plan. And put the renewal date in your calendar the day you sign up.

Contrast has the most useful free plan for a real webinar: 30 unique registrants a month, unlimited 30-minute webinars, and on-demand videos. That covers a monthly product demo or customer workshop. Note that on-demand videos on the free plan get deleted after 15 days.

Pro costs $99 a month on the annual plan (20% off) at the 100 registrants-a-month tier, with tiers at 250 and 500. It unlocks 2-hour sessions and unlimited hosts, which makes it a good deal when several people on your team present. In our 100-person scenario, plan on $1,188 a year at the first tier.

The catch: Contrast bills per registrant, replays included, not per attendee who shows up. Since a big share of registrants never attend live, getting 100 people in the room can take two or three times as many sign-ups, and a higher tier. Overage is billed on the next cycle. The stage caps at 9 speakers, and Pro caps sessions at 2 hours.

Tip: on the free plan, download your recordings before day 15. And count your unique registrants for the month before you launch a big invite campaign.

WebinarJam is for people who sell on their webinars. Its best feature hides in the Basic plan: EverWebinar, its evergreen tool (a recorded webinar that replays on a schedule or on demand, as if it were live), comes included. Elsewhere, that's usually a separate subscription.

Prices are low. Starter is $39 a month on the annual plan for 100 attendees, or $468 a year. Basic is $79 annual for 500 attendees and 2 hosts, so $948 a year in our 500-person scenario: the cheapest dollar option in the ranking. Professional (2,000 attendees) is $229, Enterprise (5,000) $379. The 14-day trial costs $1, and a 30-day money-back guarantee applies.

The catch, and it's a big one: session length. Starter cuts off at 1 hour, Basic at 2, and even Enterprise at 4. Users describe hitting the limit mid-broadcast. Public reviews also mention dropouts with large audiences, slow support and charges after account deletion.

Tip: if your sales webinar runs 90 minutes with Q&A, go straight to Basic. Once you've recorded your best live session, switch it to evergreen: that's where the tool pays for itself.

Livestorm is a French vendor, and it changed its model. There's no monthly subscription anymore: you buy an annual pack of credits at €2.50 each. One credit is one unique person attending a session, live, on replay or on demand. Your team members and no-shows don't use any credits. Livestorm only lists euro prices, even on its English page.

That model works great for small groups. A monthly internal training for 20 people costs €600 a year. It gets very expensive for a big, changing audience: our 100-person scenario uses 1,200 credits, or €3,000 a year; at 500 people, 6,000 credits, or €15,000 a year.

In return, Pro is generous: up to 3,000 live attendees per event, 4-hour sessions (12 on Enterprise), unlimited events, recordings and team members. Livestorm displays GDPR compliance and ISO 27001, and sells a paid option to pick the video hosting region, EU or US.

The catch: the bill is hard to forecast, because it tracks your success. The better your webinar does, the more it costs. Customers also report disputed annual renewals and steep price increases at renewal. There's no permanent free plan anymore.

Tip: size your pack on last year's attendees, not registrants. And if your audience is recurring (the same customers every month), Livestorm becomes competitive again.