# Zoom Webinars

> Zoom's own webinar product, licensed per host by audience size

Zoom Webinars is Zoom's webinar product, sold separately from the Zoom Workplace meeting plans. A host license covers webinars for a set audience size, from 500 attendees up, with registration pages, polls, Q&A, chat, reactions and breakout rooms. Webinars Plus adds pre-recorded sessions run as live, a backstage and production layouts, and Events adds multi-session virtual and hybrid events with tickets and networking.

- **Category:** Webinars & Live Streaming
- **Made by:** Zoom Communications, Inc. (since 2011)
- **Website:** https://www.zoom.com/en/products/webinars/
- **Runs on:** Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Zoom Webinars is a paid product, starting at $83.33 per user / month, billed annually ($129 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Paid
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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. |

Read from https://www.zoom.com/en/products/webinars/ on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Zoom Webinars before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Lower price with annual billing** (Annual discount): 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. Source: https://www.zoom.com/en/products/webinars/

## Key features

- **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.

## Good for

- Companies already on Zoom that need larger, more controlled events
- Marketing teams running webinars for hundreds to thousands of people
- Training sessions that issue certificates to people who complete them
- Hybrid and multi-session events on the Events plan

## Worth knowing

- 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.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Zoom Webinars is Zoom's webinar product, sold as a license on top of a Zoom account. It handles registration, polls, Q&A and breakout rooms, scales to huge audiences, and everyone already knows how to join. But the smallest license is for 500 people at $1,000 a year, there's no free trial, and pre-recorded sessions need Webinars Plus.

- **Value for money: C.** The entry license is $83.33 a month billed annually ($1,000 a year, or $129 by the month), and it's for 500 attendees, so a 100-person webinar still pays for 500. That's dearer than GoTo Webinar's entry plan and about double WebinarJam's Starter, though not out of line for this category.
- **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free. There's no free plan or free trial on the webinar page, and the free Zoom Workplace plan covers meetings only.
- **Features: C.** A deep live product: branded registration, polls, Q&A, breakout rooms, AI captions in more than 20 languages, streaming to YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook, and audiences up to 100,000. The gap: simulive sessions and the backstage need Webinars Plus at $290.83.
- **Ease of use: B.** No rating of its own on record. It's a license added to a Zoom account, so hosts work in an app many already run and attendees join the way they join any Zoom call. Registration and polls are set up inside Zoom.
- **Platforms and integrations: A.** Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Android, plus Salesforce, streaming to YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook, and separate tracks for Premiere, Final Cut and DaVinci. On iOS you join as an attendee or panelist only.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Zoom's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among webinar and live streaming tools

- Zoom Webinars's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 5 of the 14 other webinar and live streaming tools we grade, and level with 4.
- It stands best on platforms and integrations (A, above 12 of 14) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $83.33 a month for each person, against a middle price of $47 for the category: 11 of the 13 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.0 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

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

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Zoom Webinars 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 costs $999.96 a year.

- You could not: Live video to hundreds of people at once.
- You could not: One live stream sent to several platforms at once.
- You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other.
- You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

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, LinkedIn, Facebook, Salesforce, Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve

**Tags:** Webinars, Multistreaming, AI features

## Alternatives

- [GoTo Webinar](https://toolgpa.com/tools/goto-webinar): Long-running webinar platform for trainings, town halls and marketing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/goto-webinar-vs-zoom-webinars)
- [Livestorm](https://toolgpa.com/tools/livestorm): Browser-based webinars, live or on demand, priced per attendee. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/livestorm-vs-zoom-webinars)
- [BigMarker](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bigmarker): Marketing webinars and virtual, hybrid and in-person events. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bigmarker-vs-zoom-webinars)
- [WebinarJam](https://toolgpa.com/tools/webinarjam): Live sales webinars with offers, reminders and replays. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/webinarjam-vs-zoom-webinars)
- [Zoom](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoom): Video meetings bundled with team chat, phone and AI notes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/zoom-vs-zoom-webinars)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://www.zoom.com/en/products/webinars/
- https://zoom.us/pricing/planprice.json
- https://zoom.us/pricing/events
- https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0060748
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zoom-workplace/id546505307
- https://www.zoom.com/en/about/

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