The best webinar software of 2026

If your colleagues, customers and speakers already have the Zoom app, Zoom Webinars removes the biggest source of webinar trouble, which is people failing to join. You run the webinar from the same app you use for meetings, and attendees join the same way they join a call.

The Webinars plan costs $89 a month for each host, or $66.67 a month billed yearly, and covers up to 500 attendees. It gives you chat, reactions, polls and Q&A, branded registration pages, custom backgrounds, performance reports and AI chapters added to your recordings. Webinars Plus, at $99 a month or $82.50 billed yearly, adds a private backstage for speakers and moderators, production layouts and scenes, AI help with event pages and the option to pre-record a session and run it as if it were live. Events, at $149 a month or $124.17 billed yearly, adds multi-session events with ticket types, a lobby, networking and sponsor booths.

Zoom prices by attendee capacity, and its plans go up to 100,000 attendees, but the pricing page only shows the 500-attendee prices. You'll need a quote for anything bigger. You can also stream a webinar to YouTube, LinkedIn or Facebook, although Zoom doesn't say which plan includes that.

Zoom's feature list leans toward presenting and production, which suits company updates, training and product demos. If you sell from the webinar and want a buy button to appear at the moment you pitch, WebinarJam is built for that. Zoom's pricing page doesn't offer a free trial.

Livestorm runs in the browser, so neither you nor your audience installs anything, and it charges for the people who attend rather than for seats. You buy a yearly pack of attendee credits. One credit covers one person at one session, whether they watch live, catch the replay or watch on demand. People who register and never show up cost nothing, and your own team members never use credits.

Pro starts at $1,000 a year for 400 credits, which works out to $2.50 an attendee. Bigger packs cost $2,400 for 1,000 credits, $3,450 for 1,500, $5,375 for 2,500 and $8,000 for 4,000. Pro includes unlimited events, recordings and team members, sessions of up to four hours and up to 3,000 live attendees per event, with HubSpot and Zapier among the integrations. Enterprise, priced on request, raises sessions to 12 hours and adds Salesforce, Marketo and Pardot connections, custom analytics and a dedicated success contact.

Each webinar gets a registration page you can customize, unlimited reminder and follow-up emails, polls, a Q&A tab and emoji reactions. You can also run on-demand and automated webinars, restream to other platforms and export a contact record after each event.

The credit model is cheap for teams that run a handful of well-attended webinars a year. If you run a weekly webinar to a steady audience, the credits go fast, so price it against Zoom or Demio. The free trial needs no card.

Demio is built around the marketing side of a webinar: getting people to register, keeping them watching and seeing who did what. The Starter plan costs $63 a month, or $45 a month billed yearly, for one host, rooms of 50 attendees and sessions of up to three hours. Growth costs $117 a month per host on yearly billing, with rooms of 150, 500, 1,000 or 3,000 and eight-hour sessions. Premium costs $196 a month per host on yearly billing, with unlimited hosts and ten-hour sessions. Yearly billing saves 30%.

You can add your own fields to the registration form, brand the registration page with your logo and colors, and send registrants to a page of your choice after they sign up. Demio sends branded email notifications before and after the session. In the room you have polls, handouts, featured actions that put a button in front of attendees, a chat with emoji and @ mentions, and a Q&A where you tag questions to answer later. You can also bring an attendee on stage.

Afterwards Demio shows who downloaded a handout, answered a poll or clicked a featured action, which helps your sales team follow up with the most interested people. It connects to HubSpot, Salesforce, Mailchimp and Zapier, and can run automated and on-demand webinars from a recording.

The 14-day trial gives you Growth features with a 20-attendee limit and one-hour sessions. Demio is part of Banzai.

WebinarJam is made for people who sell from a webinar, such as course creators, coaches and info-product businesses. It gives you more attendees per dollar than most tools here, and on most plans you also get EverWebinar for automated replays at no extra cost.

Starter costs $49 a month, or $39 billed yearly, for 100 attendees, one host and one-hour sessions. Basic, the plan most people pick, costs $99 a month or $79 billed yearly, with 500 attendees, two hosts, two-hour sessions and EverWebinar included. Professional, at $299 a month or $229 yearly, takes you to 2,000 attendees, four hosts and three-hour sessions. Enterprise costs $499 a month or $379 yearly for 5,000 attendees, six hosts and four-hour sessions.

Attendees join from a browser or phone without a download. You can show timed offers during the presentation, so a buy button appears at the moment you pitch, and keep those offers running in the automated replay afterwards. It connects to ActiveCampaign directly and to other apps through Zapier.

The short session limits are the catch. One hour on Starter is tight for a teaching session followed by a pitch, so most sellers need Basic. The trial costs $1 for 14 days with Basic's features, and WebinarJam offers a 30-day money-back guarantee on purchases.

EverWebinar plays a recorded webinar to new registrants on a schedule, so a presentation that converts well can keep selling without you being there. It comes from the same company as WebinarJam, and you can import a full WebinarJam session, chat included, with its Replica Replay feature. You can also upload any MP4 file.

You choose set times, or just-in-time sessions that start 5 to 15 minutes after someone registers. EverWebinar adds chat messages at the timestamps you choose, shows an attendee count that changes over time, triggers polls during the presentation and shows timed offers when you reach the pitch. If you want a person in the room, hybrid mode lets you staff the chat live. Registration pages and email reminders are included.

On its own, EverWebinar costs $199 a month, $99 a month billed yearly ($1,188) or $79 a month on a two-year plan ($1,896). The trial costs $1 for 14 days, then moves to $199 a month unless you cancel, and there is a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you also want live webinars, WebinarJam Basic at $79 a month billed yearly includes EverWebinar and costs less than EverWebinar alone.

Simulated chat and changing attendee counts make a recording look live. Some audiences dislike that once they notice, so tell people it's a recording if trust matters more to you than urgency. eWebinar handles the same job with a more open approach.

eWebinar turns a recorded video into an interactive session that runs on a schedule, on demand or both. It suits onboarding, demos and training that you would otherwise repeat live every week.

You can set recurring weekday slots such as 11:00 and 2:00, one-off dates, or on-demand viewing only. Sessions can follow each viewer's own time zone, and just-in-time sessions start on the next quarter hour. Viewers can also choose to watch now or watch a replay. Chat stays open the whole time, and you answer in real time or later by email, so an attendee who asks a question at 3 a.m. still gets an answer from a person. You can add interactions at points in the video to keep people watching and collect the answers you need, and registration is optional.

Level 1 costs $99 a month, or $1,010 billed yearly, for one active eWebinar and 1,000 registrants a month, with unlimited sessions and team members. Level 2 costs $199 a month ($2,030 yearly) for five eWebinars and 3,000 registrants, and Level 3 costs $299 a month ($3,050 yearly) for 15 eWebinars and 5,000 registrants. Enterprise adds single sign-on and is priced on request.

eWebinar doesn't run live webinars, so most teams pair it with Zoom or another live tool. The 14-day trial lets you build and publish a session first.

Zoho Webinar has the most useful free plan we found. You can run unlimited webinars for up to 100 attendees, each lasting up to 60 minutes, which covers a monthly customer briefing, a class or a small product launch.

Paid plans are priced by attendee count and are cheap at the low end. Standard costs $9 a month for 25 attendees, or $8 a month billed yearly, and goes up to 1,000 attendees. Professional costs $19 a month for 25 attendees, or $16 billed yearly, and goes up to 3,000. Enterprise starts at $79 a month for 500 attendees, or $66 billed yearly, and goes up to 5,000. Yearly billing saves more than 15%, and the 14-day trial needs no card.

It fits best if you already use other Zoho apps, such as Zoho CRM, because your registrants and follow-ups stay in one company's tools. If you don't, check that its registration pages and reports cover what your marketing team needs before you commit, since Demio and Livestorm do more for lead follow-up.

The one-hour cap on the free plan is the limit you will hit first. A 45-minute talk plus 15 minutes of questions fits, and anything longer doesn't.

StreamYard is a live studio in the browser. Most people use it to stream an interview or a show to YouTube, LinkedIn and other platforms at once, with guests joining from a link. If your audience already follows you on those platforms, streaming there can reach more people than a webinar behind a registration form.

The free plan lets you stream with the StreamYard logo on screen and record two hours locally a month, with six people on screen. Essential costs $18.99 a month, or $14.99 billed yearly, and streams to two destinations. Core costs $44.99 a month, or $35.99 yearly, with 10 people on screen and three destinations. Advanced costs $88.99 a month, or $68.99 yearly, and is the only plan with On-Air webinars, where up to 100 viewers watch on a StreamYard page instead of a social platform. Advanced also allows 15 people backstage and eight streaming destinations. Paid plans have a 7-day free trial, and StreamYard bills in US dollars or Indian rupees only.

The 100-viewer cap makes On-Air webinars a side feature. For lead generation with registration, reminders and follow-up, a webinar tool such as Demio or Livestorm does more. StreamYard is the better buy when your aim is a polished live show on the platforms where your audience already watches.