Livestorm vs. Zoom Webinars: 2026 Comparison

Finding the best webinar platform for your brand can be hard, especially when there are so many options to choose from.

If you’ve been looking at the different tools available to host your webinars, you’ve probably encountered tools such as Livestorm and Zoom Webinars.

Both platforms offer a basic coverage of the features you need to run webinars, no matter what your objective is. But how do they compare to one another in terms of offering, value, and pricing?

In this article we'll take a look at the key features and overall offer of each platform. Let's jump right in.

How we sourced this data

To make sure we provide you with the best and most unbiased comparison possible, we look at 20+ websites.

These websites include user-review websites, specifically those specialized in SaaS, and the websites of the mentioned tools of course.

Information from these different sources were prioritized in the following order:

Third party websites (no sponsored posts/content)
User reviews (G2, Gartner, marketplaces)
Websites of the tools themselves

Some examples of those relevant sources:

Livestorm overview

Livestorm homepage

Cost

Livestorm offers monthly and yearly (20% off) pricing plans. They are centered around active contacts: unique people who register or join (one or several) Livestorm events.

<100 active contacts: $99/month
<200 active contacts: $198/month
<500 active contacts: $495/month
Pricing plans for 500+ active contacts are unavailable

Free plan: Livestorm has a free plan that's good for testing out the platform internally, but won't be enough for most companies to run a "real" webinar. The plan includes:

30 active contacts/month
20 minutes/session
Base integrations + features
Email support only

Free trial: No. But freemium plan available.

Reviews

Gartner reviews : 4.4/5

Ease of use : 9.1/10

Support: 8.8/10

Support options: Email and live chat (depending on plan).

Platform availability: Online, no download, all devices (mobile and desktop).

Zoom Webinar overview

Zoom Webinars homepage

Cost

All Zoom Webinar plans require a Zoom One licence ($149.90/year/license) on top of the cost listed below

The cheapest plan for Zoom Webinars is basically a large Zoom call. No custom branding, production tools, event hubs, backstage, or any of the features you're going to want to make your webinar stand out. This is the only plan that you can pay for monthly. They start at:

$79 /month/licence for <500 attendees
$340 /month/licence for <1000 attendees
$990 /month/licence for <3000 attendees
$2490 /month/licence for <5000 attendees
$6490 /month/licence for <10000 attendees

Free plan: Zoom Webinars does not offer a free plan.

Free trial: Zoom Webinars does not offer a free trial.

Reviews

Gartner reviews : 4.5/5 (347 ratings)

Ease of use : 9.1/10

Support: 8.6/10

Support options: Email and live chat (+ phone for Business/Enterprise)

Platform availability: Online, no download, all devices (mobile and desktop).

Livestorm vs. Zoom Webinars Comparison

1. Live experience

As a host, the tool you choose is going to have a big impact on your capacity to put on a good show for your audience.

Most webinar tools offer a webinar studio to help you run more interactive webinars. Livestorm has just that: an admin interface where you can create, edit, start polls, manage microphone and camera access, share screen, see live attendees and more.

Livestorm host experience

Zoom has it's own version of that: an admin interface where you can create, edit, start polls, manage microphone and camera access, share screen, see live attendees and more.

Winner: Livestorm

2. Pre- and post-webinar experience

Both tools allow you to build your own landing pages with 3rd party tools and send registrants to your webinars via automation tools.

Winner: Livestorm

3. Viewer experience

Both platforms let you stream in 720p (or 1080p for more expensive Zoom plans), but Livestorm is going to provide a higher quality experience on all plans.

Winner: Livestorm

4. Integrations

Both Livestorm and Zoom Webinars have Zapier integrations, allowing you to connect them to 3000+ tools. They both offer actions around the participant registering, attending a live and to register people to webinars.

Winner: Livestorm

5. Support

Both tools offer very similar support options: email and live chat. Livestorm has a better help center than Zoom Webinars, making self-onboarding onto the tool easier and solving recurring problems or questions you might run into.

Winner: Livestorm

Which is better — Livestorm or Zoom Webinars?

Livestorm won on all 5 categories, however it is quite a bit more expensive than Zoom Webinars depending on your volume and needs.

If your only goal is to run webinars while investing the least amount of resources possible or on a low budget, Zoom Webinars can be a good choice to get started. However, it won't be the best choice for your audience and will require extra work to integrate with your CRM or other tools of your marketing stack.

If you're looking to put on a more modern and professional webinar experience, Livestorm is the best option even if it will be a bit more costly. The unlimited team member policy will allow you to scale webinar efforts into other teams more easily.