LiveWebinar vs Zoom Webinars (2026): which should you pick?

Pick LiveWebinar if

• Fits if you host small webinars for 25 people or fewer
• Works for teachers who need a free room to try first

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you stay free: 5 attendees and 30 minutes a session
• Watch out: the entry price is for 25 attendees only and climbs up to 1,000
• Pricey if you want landing pages, certificates or captions, often add-ons on lower plans
• Watch out: the page showed prices with 23% VAT, so what you pay depends on where you are
• Skip it if you want paid webinars, which start on Premium

Pick Zoom Webinars if

• Fits if your company already runs on Zoom and wants webinars in the same account
• Works for events where the audience runs into the thousands

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you only need 100 seats, since the smallest license covers 500 at $1,000 a year
• Skip it if you want to try before paying, as there's no free plan or trial for webinars
• Not for you if you want pre-recorded sessions run as live without Webinars Plus at $3,490 a year
• Watch out: 1,000 attendees costs $3,400 a year, and tickets, lobbies and networking need Events at $4,990
• Watch out: the iOS app only joins webinars as a view-only attendee or a panelist

LiveWebinar

• The Free plan stops at 5 attendees and 30-minute sessions.
• Landing pages, certificates, closed captions and recurring webinars are often add-ons on lower plans.
• Price depends on attendee count; the 25-attendee price is the entry step only.
• The page showed prices with 23% VAT; the amounts here are the pre-VAT figures in its price data.

Zoom Webinars

• Each license is priced by audience size; the 500-attendee tier is the entry point and 1,000 attendees costs $3,400 a year ($340 billed monthly).
• Pre-recorded simulive sessions, the backstage and production layouts need Webinars Plus; tickets, lobbies and networking need Events.
• There is no free plan or free trial on the webinar page; the free Zoom Workplace plan covers meetings only.
• The iOS app joins webinars as a view-only attendee or a panelist.

LiveWebinar

Attendee-based plans

Paid plans scale from 25 to 1,000 attendees, with the price rising at each step.

Paid and evergreen webinars

Paid Webinars and evergreen webinars are listed, on Premium or as add-ons depending on the plan.

Social live streaming

Broadcasting to Facebook, YouTube and Vimeo at once is an add-on priced at $18 per month on lower plans.

Engagement tools

Polls, tests, Q&A, whiteboard, breakout rooms and screen sharing are listed.

Recording

Recording hours and storage rise by plan, from 50MB on Free to 10GB on Premium, with extra hours as add-ons.

Branding and API

Registration forms, landing pages, sub-accounts, REST webhooks and API apps are listed in the plan table.

Zoom Webinars

Large audiences

Webinars scale from the 500-attendee entry license to 100,000 attendees, with one-time, recurring and multi-session formats on the same platform.

Audience engagement

Branded registration pages and emails, polls, Q&A, chat, reactions, breakout rooms, and AI captions in more than 20 languages.

Simulive and backstage

On Webinars Plus and Events, a pre-recorded webinar can run as if live with a host joining for Q&A, while speakers wait in a private backstage.

Production Studio

Custom layouts, scenes and pre-loaded videos, plus separate audio and video tracks for each participant to edit in Premiere, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve.

Streaming to social platforms

A webinar can be broadcast at the same time to YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook over RTMP while it is run from Zoom.

On-demand hubs and analytics

Recordings go into branded video hubs with AI chapters and highlights, with engagement dashboards and CRM connections to track who attended.

LiveWebinar

• Free$0

  Up to 5 attendees, 30-minute sessions, 1 camera in webinars.

• Basic$20.80

  per month for 25 attendees, billed annually ($26.02 monthly)

  Sessions up to 6 hours and 10 cameras; price rises with attendees up to 1,000. Excludes VAT.

• Plus$27.30

  per month for 25 attendees, billed annually ($34.15 monthly)

  12-hour sessions, 5 concurrent sessions, 1GB storage; many features remain add-ons. Excludes VAT.

• Premium$40.38

  per month for 25 attendees, billed annually ($50.41 monthly)

  Paid webinars, 10 concurrent sessions, 10GB storage and 20 sub-accounts. Excludes VAT.

• EnterpriseCustom

  White-label solution with custom limits.

Zoom Webinars

• Webinars$83.33

  per user / month for 500 attendees, billed annually ($129 monthly)

  $1,000 a year. Rises with audience: $3,400 a year for 1,000 attendees. Chat, reactions, polls, Q&A, custom backgrounds, AI chapters and reports.

• Webinars Plus$290.83

  per user / month for 500 attendees, billed annually ($349 monthly)

  $3,490 a year. Adds pre-recorded sessions run as live, a private backstage, pro layouts and scenes, AI event pages and richer analytics.

• Events$415.83

  per user / month for 500 attendees, billed annually ($499 monthly)

  $4,990 a year. Adds multi-session virtual events with several stages, ticket types, a lobby, sponsor booths, networking and hybrid features.

LiveWebinar

• Annual discount

  20% off with annual billing

  The pricing page labels its Annually toggle '20% off' relative to monthly billing.

Zoom Webinars

• Annual discount

  Lower price with annual billing

  Webinars is $1,000 a year against $129 billed monthly; Webinars Plus $3,490 a year against $349 monthly; Events $4,990 a year against $499 monthly.