Digital Samba vs MyOwnConference (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Digital Samba and MyOwnConference share a 2.4 GPA, both have a free plan, and MyOwnConference starts cheaper, at about $24.58 a month against about $110.60 a month.
Checked Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Digital Samba grades higher on the free plan. MyOwnConference grades higher on ease of use. They get the same grade on value for money, 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
MyOwnConference
EU-hosted browser webinars with a free plan and per-audience pricing
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 MyOwnConference if
- Fits if you host small webinars and want data kept on EU servers
- Works for one-off events through the €11 one-day plan
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free: 5 attendees and 20-minute recordings
- Watch out: the audience limit is shared across every webinar running at once on your account
- Watch out: prices show in euros first and the dollar toggle could not be read
- Skip it if you want RTMP streaming on a free plan, as it starts on paid plans
How we grade them
| 2.4GPADigital SambaFair | 2.4GPAMyOwnConferenceFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | B€22 a month for 20 attendees, or €211.20 a year, which is inside the cheaper quarter. A 1,000-attendee room is €275 a month. |
| 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. | CFree Starter plan with no end date: 5 attendees, 2 speakers, 500 MB storage and recordings up to 20 minutes. |
| Features | CEmbedding, white-label, recording and restreaming. Encryption disables Q&A, polls and notes, and recording and transcription are billed per minute. | CLive and automated webinars, engagement tools, branding and an API. RTMP streaming and recording share links are on paid plans. |
| Ease of use | DNo store rating on record. Past an iframe embed it needs API or SDK work. | CNo store rating on record. You set up rooms, registration and branding. |
| Platforms and integrations | BA browser app plus an API and SDK, with YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn, OBS and others. No native desktop app. | BWeb with OBS Studio, Telegram, PayPal and Google Tag Manager links. |
| Best for | embedding video rooms and webinars in your own app | small EU-hosted browser webinars |
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 MyOwnConference. 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. MyOwnConference starts at about $24.58 a month and scores 2.3.
MyOwnConference scores higher and starts $86.02 a month lower. Of the other webinar and live streaming tools on the chart, 26 score higher than Digital Samba for less, and 2 score higher than MyOwnConference 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 video calls.
- MyOwnConference also covers surveys and reports.
At a glance
| Digital Samba | MyOwnConference | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | €99 per month on a 12-month contract | €22 per month for up to 20 attendees (€211.20 billed yearly) |
| 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. | Starter plan, free with no end date: 5 attendees, 2 speakers at once, unlimited webinars, 1 automated webinar a day, 500 MB storage and recordings of up to 20 minutes in 720p. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Digital Samba, S.L. | Akovana, UAB |
| Price read from | digitalsamba.com | myownconference.com |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Nov 13, 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.
MyOwnConference
- Prices are shown in euros by default; the page has a dollar toggle, but its dollar amounts could not be read here.
- The free plan caps recordings at 20 minutes, and RTMP streaming and recording share links start on paid plans.
- The audience limit is shared across all webinars running at the same time on one account.
- Paid webinars are sold through your own PayPal account, which the page says takes no commission from the vendor.
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.
MyOwnConference
- Live and automated webinars
- Unlimited live events on every plan; the free plan allows 1 automated webinar a day and paid plans unlimited.
- Browser-based rooms
- Attendees join from a browser with no download. Hosts can use a webcam, share a screen or broadcast from OBS Studio or any RTMP software on paid plans.
- Engagement tools
- Polls, tests, public chat with pre-moderation, CTAs, a whiteboard and virtual attendees to simulate a bigger audience.
- Registration and branding
- Landing pages, custom registration forms, logo, banner and theme colors, with custom domains on paid plans.
- Invitations
- Email invitations, plus a Telegram bot to schedule webinars and notify attendees.
- Reporting and API
- Attendance logs with location data, CTA analytics, Google Tag Manager support and a public API.
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.
MyOwnConference
Starter€0
5 attendees, 2 speakers, unlimited webinars, 1 automated webinar a day, 500 MB storage and 20-minute 720p recordings.
Business, 20 attendees€22
per month for up to 20 attendees (€211.20 billed yearly)
Unlimited automated webinars, 10-hour recordings, up to 1080p, and paid features such as RTMP streaming and custom domains. Price rises with the audience.
Business, 100 attendees€49.50
per month for up to 100 attendees (€475.20 billed yearly)
The same Business features with a room for 100 attendees.
Business, 1,000 attendees€275
per month for up to 1,000 attendees (€2,640 billed yearly)
The top listed Business step; recording goes up to 2160p from 500 attendees.
One-day plan€11
one-time, for 24 hours and up to 20 attendees
Pay-per-day access with no auto-renewal for a single large event; a day pass for 1,000 attendees costs €165.
EnterpriseCustom
Up to 5,000 attendees, 2160p recording, up to 1 TB storage, a dedicated cluster and top-priority support. Sold through sales.
Ways to pay less
Digital Samba
No public discounts listed.
MyOwnConference
- Annual discount
Yearly billing saves 20%
The pricing page shows a yearly option marked 20% off, for example €264 a year against €27.50 a month at 30 attendees.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Digital Samba or MyOwnConference?
As of Nov 13, 2026, MyOwnConference is cheaper to start with: about $24.58 a month, against about $110.60 a month for Digital Samba. Digital Samba starts at €99 per month on a 12-month contract, and MyOwnConference starts at €22 per month for up to 20 attendees (€211.20 billed yearly).
Which has a free plan, Digital Samba or MyOwnConference?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both Digital Samba and MyOwnConference 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.