Digital Samba review (2026): is the free plan enough?
Embeddable video rooms and webinars, hosted in Europe
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Digital Samba report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for embedding video rooms and webinars in your own app
Digital Samba's Embedded product puts video rooms and webinars inside your own website or app through an API and SDK, with a free Start plan of 10,000 minutes. Anything past a basic embed needs developer work, and the paid plans run on 12-month contracts in euros.
Who Digital Samba is for
- Fits if you are a developer who wants video inside your own product
- Makes sense if you want EU hosting for the call data
Who Digital Samba is not for
- 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
Why Digital Samba gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- BValue for moneyStart is €0 with 10,000 minutes. The first paid plan, Create, is €99 a month, about the $100 dearer-quarter line for webinar tools.
- BFree plan and trialA free plan with 10,000 minutes, 100 participants and unlimited rooms. Recordings are capped at 15 minutes and deleted after a month.
- CFeaturesEmbedding, white-label, recording and restreaming. Encryption disables Q&A, polls and notes, and recording and transcription are billed per minute.
- DEase of useNo store rating on record. Past an iframe embed it needs API or SDK work.
- BPlatforms and integrationsA browser app plus an API and SDK, with YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn, OBS and others. No native desktop app.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Digital Samba's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Digital Samba's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 24 of the 34 other webinar and live streaming tools we grade, and level with 7.
It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 32 of 34) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0).
Its paid plans start at about $110.60 a month, against a middle price of $50 for the category: 23 of the 28 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 18 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 35 webinar and live streaming tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Digital Samba’s own letter is outlined.
- BValue for moneyAbove 25 of 34, level with 6
- BFree plan and trialAbove 32 of 34, level with 1
- CFeaturesAbove 2 of 34, level with 27
- DEase of useAbove 0 of 34, level with 2
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 10 of 34, level with 20
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 30 webinar and live streaming tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
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
Keep Digital Samba, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Digital Samba you would be making live video to hundreds of people at once. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 24 of the 34 other webinar and live streaming tools we grade. It costs $1,327.23 a year.
What you could not
- Live video to hundreds of people at once.
- Video calls.
- An endless canvas that stays smooth with hundreds of things on it.
- It plugs into other products, YouTube, Vimeo and LinkedIn among them, and has an API.
- End-to-end encryption done properly.
- Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations.
What this rests on. Digital Samba’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Digital Samba?
Digital Samba is a browser-based video conferencing platform from Barcelona that is sold two ways: a free video calling tool, and Digital Samba Embedded, an API and SDK for putting video rooms and webinars inside your own website or app. Embedded is billed by monthly participation minutes, and the vendor says webinars can reach 2,000 attendees.
Worth knowing
- 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
- 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.
Digital Samba pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Digital Samba has a free plan, and paid plans start at €99 per month on a 12-month contract.
- Starts at
- €99 per month on a 12-month contract
- 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 trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Start | €0per 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 | €99per month, 12-month contract | 25,000 participation minutes, 5 concurrent sessions, 100 participants per session. Extra minutes cost €0.0040 each. |
| Launch | €372per month, 12-month contract | 100,000 participation minutes, 10 concurrent sessions, 200 participants per session. Extra minutes cost €0.0037 each. |
| Grow | €1,700per month, 12-month contract | 500,000 participation minutes, 25 concurrent sessions, 500 participants per session. Extra minutes cost €0.0034 each. |
| Scale | €3,000per month, 12-month contract | 1,000,000 participation minutes, 100 concurrent sessions, 2,000 participants per session. Extra minutes cost €0.0030 each. |
| Thrive | €14,000per 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. |
Read from digitalsamba.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Digital Samba before you buy.
Works with
- YouTube
- Vimeo
- Cloudflare
- OBS
- vMix
- FFmpeg
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Common questions
Does Digital Samba have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Digital Samba is listed for Web.
Does Digital Samba have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Digital Samba is listed for Web.
Is Digital Samba open source?
Digital Samba is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Is Digital Samba end-to-end encrypted?
Digital Samba describes itself as end-to-end encrypted on its own site. Nobody here has audited that.
Does Digital Samba have an API?
Yes. Digital Samba offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.