BigMarker vs Digital Samba (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Digital Samba grades higher than BigMarker: 2.4 against 1.8 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
BigMarker grades higher on ease of use. Digital Samba grades higher on value for money and the free plan. They get the same grade on features and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Digital Samba
Embeddable video rooms and webinars, hosted in Europe
Which one is for you
Pick BigMarker if
- Fits if your B2B marketing team runs on webinar leads and CRM data
- Works for running webinars and bigger hybrid events on one platform
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want to see a price before talking to sales, as none is published
- Not for you if you're a small business that wants to sign up and start today
- Pricey if you sell tickets, since BigMarker takes 5% of each sale
- Tight if you're on Basic: 1 host, and no simulive, evergreen, ticketing or breakout rooms until Enterprise
- Watch out: plans renew yearly with storage for 100 on-demand webinars; extra hosts, channels and storage are add-ons
Pick Digital Samba if
- Fits if you are a developer who wants video inside your own product
- Makes sense if you want EU hosting for the call data
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want a ready-made webinar tool, as it needs API or SDK work
- Pricey if you outgrow Start, because paid plans run on 12-month auto-renewing contracts
- Watch out: cloud recording at about €0.013 a minute, storage and transcription are billed on top
- Watch out: prices are in euros, and extra minutes cost €0.003 to €0.004 each
How we grade them
| 1.8GPABigMarkerWeak | 2.4GPADigital SambaFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CNo prices are published: Basic, Enterprise and Enterprise+ are all sold by quote, so there's nothing to set against GoTo Webinar or Zoom Webinars for a monthly 100-person webinar. No published price is a C by our rule. Ticket sales carry a 5% fee. | BStart is €0 with 10,000 minutes. The first paid plan, Create, is €99 a month, about the $100 dearer-quarter line for webinar tools. |
| Free plan and trial | FNothing free: no free plan, and trials or proofs of concept are arranged through sales. | BA free plan with 10,000 minutes, 100 participants and unlimited rooms. Recordings are capped at 15 minutes and deleted after a month. |
| Features | CLive, recurring, simulive, evergreen and on-demand webinars, landing pages, pop-up offers, CRM sync, social streaming and up to 64 webcams. The gaps: simulive, evergreen, ticketing and breakout rooms start at Enterprise, and Basic has 1 host. | CEmbedding, white-label, recording and restreaming. Encryption disables Q&A, polls and notes, and recording and transcription are billed per minute. |
| Ease of use | CNo App Store rating on record. It starts with a sales call, then landing pages, emails, integrations and formats to set up. | DNo store rating on record. Past an iframe embed it needs API or SDK work. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app listed, but native Salesforce, Pardot, HubSpot, Eloqua, Marketo, ActiveCampaign and Constant Contact integrations, plus Zapier and an API. | BA browser app plus an API and SDK, with YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn, OBS and others. No native desktop app. |
| Best for | B2B marketing webinars and big events | embedding video rooms and webinars in your own app |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: BigMarker and Digital Samba. How we grade
Where they differ
- Digital Samba is end-to-end encrypted, according to its own site.
- BigMarker also covers ticketing and multistreaming.
- Digital Samba also covers whiteboard and video calls.
At a glance
| BigMarker | Digital Samba | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Free plan |
| Starts at | Not published | €99 per month on a 12-month contract |
| Free plan | None | Start plan at €0: 10,000 participation minutes a month, up to 100 participants per session, 60 minutes of cloud recording a month. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | BigMarker | Digital Samba, S.L. |
| Price read from | Not confirmed | digitalsamba.com |
| Checked | Oct 18, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
Worth knowing
BigMarker
- No prices are published: Basic, Enterprise and Enterprise+ are all sold by quote, and trials or proofs of concept are arranged through sales.
- Basic covers 1,000 live attendees and 1 host; simulive, evergreen webinars, ticketing and breakout rooms start at Enterprise.
- BigMarker takes a 5% transaction fee on ticket sales for paid events.
- Plans renew yearly and include storage for 100 on-demand webinars; extra hosts, channels and storage are add-ons.
Digital Samba
- Embedded is aimed at developers: anything beyond a basic iframe embed needs API or SDK work.
- All prices are in euros. Plans above Start run on 12-month contracts that renew automatically unless cancelled before the notice period.
- Cloud recording (about €0.0130 a minute on the Create plan), storage, transcription and restreaming are billed per minute on top of the plan fee.
- End-to-end encryption disables Q&A, polling, shared notes and saved whiteboards. The site lists a browser app only, with no native desktop app.
Key features
BigMarker
- Many webinar formats
- Unlimited live, recurring, simulive, evergreen, 24/7 and on-demand webinars, run from BigMarker's browser studio or streamed in over RTMP.
- Landing pages and emails
- Registration landing pages from 15 or more templates, embeddable registration, custom fields and UTM codes, and customizable invite and reminder emails.
- Audience engagement
- Chat, polls, Q&A, handouts, pop-up offers and post-session surveys, with up to 9 webcams on Basic and 64 on Enterprise, plus breakout rooms.
- CRM and marketing integrations
- Native integrations with Salesforce, Pardot, HubSpot, Eloqua, Marketo, ActiveCampaign and Constant Contact push registrant and engagement data back.
- Social live streaming
- Webinars can be streamed to Facebook Live, LinkedIn Live and YouTube Live with slides, videos, webcams and custom layouts.
- Ticketing and certificates
- Enterprise plans sell tickets through Stripe or Authorize.net and issue certificates of completion, with API access and a Zapier integration.
Digital Samba
- Embed through API and SDK
- Rooms are created and managed through an API, SDK and webhooks, and can be dropped into a site with an iframe. Session data such as attendance and duration is available through the API.
- White-label branding
- The webinar page describes your own colors, logo and a CNAME domain so attendees do not see Digital Samba.
- Audience engagement
- Q&A with upvoting, polls, quizzes, breakout rooms, chat, reactions and a shared whiteboard, with moderation controls for large audiences.
- Recording and restreaming
- Sessions can be recorded to the cloud and restreamed to YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn, Cloudflare or a custom RTMP address. Both are billed per minute on paid plans.
- Studio feeds over WHIP
- Feeds from OBS, vMix or FFmpeg can be sent into a session using WHIP URLs, for produced keynotes.
- EU hosting and privacy
- The vendor states that it hosts in Europe with European sub-processors and offers optional end-to-end encryption, which switches off Q&A, polling and shared notes.
Plans
BigMarker
Pricing could not be confirmed. See bigmarker.com.
Digital Samba
Start€0
per month, 1-month term
10,000 participation minutes, 100 participants per session, unlimited rooms. Recordings capped at 15 minutes and deleted after a month.
Create€99
per month, 12-month contract
25,000 participation minutes, 5 concurrent sessions, 100 participants per session. Extra minutes cost €0.0040 each.
Launch€372
per month, 12-month contract
100,000 participation minutes, 10 concurrent sessions, 200 participants per session. Extra minutes cost €0.0037 each.
Grow€1,700
per month, 12-month contract
500,000 participation minutes, 25 concurrent sessions, 500 participants per session. Extra minutes cost €0.0034 each.
Scale€3,000
per month, 12-month contract
1,000,000 participation minutes, 100 concurrent sessions, 2,000 participants per session. Extra minutes cost €0.0030 each.
Thrive€14,000
per month, 12-month contract
5,000,000 participation minutes, unlimited concurrent sessions, 2,000 per session. A larger Expand tier is €26,000 a month.
Ways to pay less
BigMarker
- Nonprofit
Education and nonprofit pricing on request
BigMarker's pricing FAQ says it prepares proposals with special pricing for nonprofits, NGOs and educational institutions that email its sales team.
Digital Samba
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, BigMarker or Digital Samba?
As of Nov 12, 2026, BigMarker has no price we could confirm, and Digital Samba starts at €99 per month on a 12-month contract.
Which has a free plan, BigMarker or Digital Samba?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only Digital Samba has a free plan. BigMarker does not.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.