Digital Samba vs Livestorm (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Digital Samba grades higher than Livestorm: 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
Digital Samba grades higher on value for money and the free plan. Livestorm grades higher on ease of use. 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
Livestorm
Browser-based webinars, live or on demand, priced per attendee
Which one is for you
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
Pick Livestorm if
- Fits if your audience should join from a browser with nothing to install
- Works for teams that run a few small webinars a year and add many colleagues, since team members are unlimited
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you run a webinar every month for up to 100 people, at $2,900 a year for 1,000 credits
- Watch out: credits don't roll over, and once they run out on Pro new attendees can't join until you move up a tier
- Tight if your audience comes back for several sessions, since each session uses another credit
- Skip it if you need HubSpot, Salesforce, Marketo or Pardot sync without an Enterprise contract
- Watch out: restreaming, RTMP, translations and SSO are add-ons sold through sales, and its pricing page and help center show different figures
How we grade them
| 2.4GPADigital SambaFair | 1.8GPALivestormWeak | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | 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. | FA monthly webinar for up to 100 people can use 1,200 credits a year, more than the 1,000-credit tier at $2,900 a year. That's several times what Zoom Webinars or GoTo Webinar charge for the same job, and unused credits don't roll over. Its pricing page and help centre don't show the same dollar figures, either. |
| Free plan and trial | BA free plan with 10,000 minutes, 100 participants and unlimited rooms. Recordings are capped at 15 minutes and deleted after a month. | CThere's a free plan with no time limit, meant for trying it: 30 attendee credits a year, 30-minute events and 10 events per organization. That's a small test webinar or two, not a monthly habit. |
| Features | CEmbedding, white-label, recording and restreaming. Encryption disables Q&A, polls and notes, and recording and transcription are billed per minute. | CThe whole webinar job is here: registration pages, reminder emails, a browser room with 25 speakers, polls and Q&A, on-demand and automated events, and replays with captions. The gaps: HubSpot and Salesforce sync are Enterprise only, and restreaming is an add-on sold through sales. |
| Ease of use | DNo store rating on record. Past an iframe embed it needs API or SDK work. | CNo App Store rating on record. Attendees just open a browser, which is the easy half. You still build registration pages and email cadences, and watch your credits, since new attendees can't join once they run out on Pro. |
| Platforms and integrations | BA browser app plus an API and SDK, with YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn, OBS and others. No native desktop app. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app listed, but it connects to HubSpot, Salesforce, Marketo, Pardot, Brevo and Zapier, and has an MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT. The big CRM links are Enterprise only. |
| Best for | embedding video rooms and webinars in your own app | browser webinars that charge per attendee |
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: Digital Samba and Livestorm. How we grade
Price against what you get
Digital Samba starts at about $110.60 a month and scores 2.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Livestorm starts at $100 a month when paid by the year and scores 2.3.
Livestorm scores higher and starts $10.60 a month lower. Of the other webinar and live streaming tools on the chart, 18 score higher than Digital Samba for less, and 6 score higher than Livestorm 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.
- Digital Samba also covers whiteboard and video calls.
- Livestorm also covers multistreaming.
At a glance
| Digital Samba | Livestorm | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | €99 per month on a 12-month contract | $1,200 per year for up to 400 attendee credits |
| Free plan | Start plan at €0: 10,000 participation minutes a month, up to 100 participants per session, 60 minutes of cloud recording a month. | Free plan with no time limit: 30 attendee credits a year, events of up to 30 minutes, 10 events per organization and 20 sessions per event. Custom emails and premium features are not included. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Digital Samba, S.L. | Livestorm Inc. |
| Price read from | digitalsamba.com | support.livestorm.co |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 18, 2026 |
Worth knowing
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.
Livestorm
- Credits are a yearly pack that does not roll over; once they run out on Pro, new attendees cannot join until you move to a higher tier.
- One credit is used per person per session, so someone who joins three sessions of an event uses three credits.
- Native HubSpot, Salesforce, Marketo, Pardot and Microsoft Dynamics integrations are Enterprise only.
- Restreaming, RTMP, live translations and SAML SSO are add-ons sold through sales, and need a Pro plan of at least 1,000 credits.
Key features
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.
Livestorm
- Browser event room
- Attendees join from a browser with nothing to install. Up to 25 speakers can be on screen, with chat, polls, Q&A with upvotes, emoji reactions and file, slide and video sharing.
- Registration pages and email cadences
- Brandable registration pages with custom fields, an embeddable sign-up widget, a company page of upcoming and past events, and unlimited reminder and follow-up emails.
- On-demand and automated events
- Events can be set to start, end or play a video on their own, offered on demand for people to watch at any time, or split into several sessions under one link.
- Replays and captions
- Replays are available right after the session with closed captions, and live captions are in beta. AI repurposing turns the transcript into content for other channels.
- Restreaming and RTMP add-ons
- Paid add-ons stream a Livestorm event to LinkedIn, YouTube, X, Facebook, Twitch and other destinations at once, or bring in a feed from studio software over RTMP.
- Attendance data and exports
- Tracks UTM sources, attendance and conversion rates, and exports registrants, chat and questions. A Livestorm MCP server connects it to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI agents.
Plans
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.
Livestorm
Free$0
30 attendee credits a year, 30-minute events, 10 events per organization and 20 sessions per event; meant for trying the platform.
Pro$1,200
per year for up to 400 attendee credits
Price rises with the credits: $2,900 a year for 1,000 and $9,600 for 4,000. 4-hour sessions, 3,000 live attendees per event, unlimited team members.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom credit packages, 12-hour sessions, Enterprise CRM integrations, custom analytics, a dedicated success manager and an SLA.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Digital Samba or Livestorm?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Livestorm is cheaper to start with: $100 a month when paid by the year, against about $110.60 a month for Digital Samba. Digital Samba starts at €99 per month on a 12-month contract, and Livestorm starts at $1,200 per year for up to 400 attendee credits.
Which has a free plan, Digital Samba or Livestorm?
As of Nov 12, 2026, both Digital Samba and Livestorm have a free plan.
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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.