# Digital Samba review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Embeddable video rooms and webinars, hosted in Europe

Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

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.

- **Category:** Webinars & Live Streaming
- **Made by:** Digital Samba, S.L. (since 2003)
- **Website:** https://www.digitalsamba.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a ready-made webinar tool, as it needs API or SDK work.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## 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.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **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 | €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. |

Read from https://www.digitalsamba.com/pricing-digital-samba-embedded on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Digital Samba before buying.

## 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.

## Good for

- Software teams adding webinars or video rooms to their own product
- European organizations that want data kept in the EU
- Anyone who needs a free browser video call tool with no sign-up

## 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.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. 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.

- **Value for money: B.** Start 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: B.** A free plan with 10,000 minutes, 100 participants and unlimited rooms. Recordings are capped at 15 minutes and deleted after a month.
- **Features: C.** Embedding, white-label, recording and restreaming. Encryption disables Q&A, polls and notes, and recording and transcription are billed per minute.
- **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. Past an iframe embed it needs API or SDK work.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** A browser app plus an API and SDK, with YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn, OBS and others. No native desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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.

## Where it stands among webinar and live streaming tools

- 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.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/webinars

## Keep it, 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.

- You could not: Live video to hundreds of people at once.
- You could not: Video calls.
- You could not: An endless canvas that stays smooth with hundreds of things on it.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, YouTube, Vimeo and LinkedIn among them, and has an API.
- You could not: End-to-end encryption done properly.
- You could not: Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

YouTube, Vimeo, LinkedIn, Cloudflare, OBS, vMix, FFmpeg

**Tags:** Webinars, Video calls, Public API, End-to-end encrypted, Whiteboard

## Alternatives

- [Livestorm](https://toolgpa.com/tools/livestorm): Browser-based webinars, live or on demand, priced per attendee. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/digital-samba-vs-livestorm)
- [BigMarker](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bigmarker): Marketing webinars and virtual, hybrid and in-person events. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bigmarker-vs-digital-samba)
- [ClickMeeting](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clickmeeting): Webinars and online meetings with paid events and automation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clickmeeting-vs-digital-samba)
- [Airmeet](https://toolgpa.com/tools/airmeet): Webinars and virtual events with networking features. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/airmeet-vs-digital-samba)
- [Zoom Webinars](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoom-webinars): Zoom's own webinar product, licensed per host by audience size. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/digital-samba-vs-zoom-webinars)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026:

- https://www.digitalsamba.com/pricing-digital-samba-embedded
- https://www.digitalsamba.com/pricing
- https://www.digitalsamba.com
- https://www.digitalsamba.com/webinars
- https://www.digitalsamba.com/digital-samba-embedded
- https://www.digitalsamba.com/tech-specs
- https://www.digitalsamba.com/about-us

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