ClickMeeting vs Digital Samba (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, we pick ClickMeeting: it is first in our ranking of webinar and live streaming tools, and it grades higher too, 2.6 against 2.4.
Checked Nov 9, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 9, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
ClickMeeting grades higher on features, ease of use and platforms. Digital Samba grades higher on value for money and the free plan.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
ClickMeeting
Webinars and online meetings with paid events and automation
Digital Samba
Embeddable video rooms and webinars, hosted in Europe
Which one is for you
Pick ClickMeeting if
- Fits if you teach classes online and want attendees hidden from each other
- Works for running both meetings and webinars in one account
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you run two events at once, which needs the Parallel events add-on
- Too light for events over 1,000 people, which need Enterprise
- Tight if you want automated webinars, as they start on Standard at $79 a month billed yearly
- Watch out: each plan only comes in two room sizes, Essential keeps 2 hours of recordings, and extra presenter seats are an add-on
- Watch out: the whiteboard works for up to 40 people, and Stripe or PayPal take their own fees on tickets
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
| 2.6GPAClickMeetingGood | 2.4GPADigital SambaFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CEssential is $39 a month billed yearly for a 50-person room, or $49 monthly, and $65 for 100 people. That $65 sits between this category's $49 middle and its $79 dearer quarter. Automated webinars, transcription and the API need Standard at $79 for 100. | 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 | CNo free plan, but a 14-day free trial for webinars of 25 people and meetings of 5, with 30 minutes of recording and no credit card. | BA free plan with 10,000 minutes, 100 participants and unlimited rooms. Recordings are capped at 15 minutes and deleted after a month. |
| Features | BThe whole webinar job: live and automated webinars, meetings, paid events, polls, a whiteboard, breakout rooms, edu mode, live transcription, certificates, phone dial-in and broadcasts to YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn. Automation starts on Standard. | 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. Attendees need no install, but there's a lot to set up: rooms, registration, automation timelines and payments. | DNo store rating on record. Past an iframe embed it needs API or SDK work. |
| Platforms and integrations | AWeb, Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android, plus Stripe, PayPal, Zapier and broadcasts to YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn. Attendees can also dial in by phone. | BA browser app plus an API and SDK, with YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn, OBS and others. No native desktop app. |
| Best for | training, classes and paid webinars | 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: ClickMeeting and Digital Samba. How we grade
Price against what you get
ClickMeeting starts at $39 a month and scores 3.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Digital Samba starts at about $110.60 a month and scores 2.0.
ClickMeeting scores higher and starts $71.60 a month lower. Of the other webinar and live streaming tools on the chart, none scores higher than ClickMeeting for less, and 18 score higher than Digital Samba for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Digital Samba is end-to-end encrypted, according to its own site.
- ClickMeeting also covers transcription, ticketing and multistreaming.
- Digital Samba also covers video calls.
At a glance
| ClickMeeting | Digital Samba | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | $39 per month for up to 50 attendees, billed annually ($49 billed monthly) | €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 | 14-day free trial for webinars of 25 attendees and meetings of 5, with 30 minutes of recording, no credit card | None listed |
| Web | ||
| macOS | ||
| Windows | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Made by | ClickMeeting | Digital Samba, S.L. |
| Price read from | clickmeeting.com | digitalsamba.com |
| Checked | Nov 9, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
Worth knowing
ClickMeeting
- Each plan comes in two room sizes (50 or 100, 100 or 300, 500 or 1,000 attendees); events above 1,000 are a paid extension or need Enterprise.
- Hosting two events at the same time needs the Parallel events add-on, and extra presenter seats are another add-on.
- The collaborative whiteboard works in events of up to 40 people.
- Ticket and donation payments run through Stripe or PayPal, which charge their own fees.
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
ClickMeeting
- Live webinars and meetings
- One account runs both small meetings and webinars, with screen sharing, chat, Q&A, polls, surveys and up to 8 cameras and microphones on at once.
- Automated webinars
- Build a timeline of recordings, videos, surveys and call-to-action buttons and let the platform run the event on a schedule or on demand.
- Paid webinars
- Sell tickets with discount codes, take donations or put recordings behind a paywall, with payments collected through Stripe or PayPal.
- Training tools
- Edu mode hides attendees from each other, breakout rooms allow up to 20 rooms of 40 people, and attendance certificates can be sent automatically.
- Captions and AI transcription
- Live transcription adds captions during the event and a downloadable transcript afterwards, with AI transcription among the automation tools.
- Social broadcasting
- Webinars can be broadcast on YouTube, Facebook or LinkedIn, and attendees can join by phone through toll and toll-free dial-in numbers.
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
ClickMeeting
Essential$39
per month for up to 50 attendees, billed annually ($49 billed monthly)
2 presenters, 5 breakout rooms, paid webinars with tickets and donations, tests and quizzes, 2 hours of recordings. $65 a month for 100 attendees, billed yearly.
Standard$79
per month for 100 attendees, billed annually ($99 billed monthly)
Adds automated and on-demand webinars, follow-ups, certificates, live transcription, 3 presenters, 6 hours of recordings and the REST API. $155 a month for 300.
Pro$199
per month for 500 attendees, billed annually ($249 billed monthly)
Everything in Standard, plus unlimited whiteboards, 4 presenters, 20 breakout rooms, 10 hours of recordings and 5 AI summaries a month. $325 a month for 1,000.
EnterpriseCustom
Events for up to 10,000 attendees, SSO, a dedicated account manager, a guaranteed SLA, debranding and a white-label option.
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
ClickMeeting
- Annual discount
About 20% off with annual billing
The pricing page offers up to 2 months free on yearly billing: Essential is $39 a month billed annually against $49 monthly, and Standard $79 against $99.
- Nonprofit
Discounts for nonprofit organizations
The pricing FAQ says nonprofit organizations get a discount after contacting ClickMeeting's billing department.
Digital Samba
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, ClickMeeting or Digital Samba?
As of Nov 12, 2026, ClickMeeting is cheaper to start with: $39 a month, against about $110.60 a month for Digital Samba. ClickMeeting starts at $39 per month for up to 50 attendees, billed annually ($49 billed monthly), and Digital Samba starts at €99 per month on a 12-month contract.
Which has a free plan, ClickMeeting or Digital Samba?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only Digital Samba has a free plan. ClickMeeting does not, though it has a free trial.
Which platforms do ClickMeeting and Digital Samba run on?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only ClickMeeting lists macOS, Windows, iOS and Android apps. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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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.