Zoom Webinar Cost 2026: Price by Capacity, an Alternative

Zoom Webinars costs $89 a month billed monthly, or $66.67 a month billed annually, for the base attendee capacity, read on 25 October 2026 on Zoom's events pricing page. Webinars Plus is $99 a month or $82.50 annually, and Zoom Events is $149 or $124.17. Bigger rooms cost more, because every tier is priced by attendee capacity, and the page does not list the capacity steps.

For the steps you have to lean on secondary sources, so treat these as about, not as Zoom's price: about $79 to $140 a month for a 500 attendee room, and about $340 a month, around $3,400 a year, per license for 1,000 attendees. The same sources say a paid Zoom license is needed underneath. Before you compare that with a live webinar platform that prices by the account, get the exact figure for your capacity from Zoom.

On the pricing page the visible difference is ticketing: Basic on Webinars, Advanced on Events. Q&A and polls are on all three products, confirmation and reminder emails are listed as Basic on Webinars, and analytics is a basic export to CSV. The limits are shared: 30 hours per webinar, 100,000 attendees across the products.

So the choice is about ticketing. If your sessions are free, or you sell the ticket somewhere else, Webinars at $89 is the one to price. If you sell tickets, Events at $149 is the tier, and the capacity price sits on top in both cases.

The gaps are the second bill. The Zoom page lists Q&A, polls, basic reminder emails, basic ticketing and a CSV export. It does not list a registration page builder that carries your offer, a checkout inside the room, a contact record for each registrant, follow-up that depends on who watched, or WhatsApp.

In Webinly those parts are the plan. Every plan, Starter included, builds the registration page from blocks or a template, sends the confirmation and reminders at 24 hours, 3 hours, 1 hour, 30 minutes and 5 minutes before, runs the replay page, turns every registrant into a contact record, and opens a checkout inside the room on Stripe or Tap. The offer card carries a countdown when you give it a deadline, and buyers pay without leaving the broadcast.

The honest limits. Starter at $39 is automated only, and live broadcasting starts on Pro at $159. Webinly sends no SMS: reminders go by email, and by WhatsApp once a WhatsApp Business number is connected through Meta's sign-up window. List broadcasts are an add-on from $29 for 10,000 emails; the webinar's own emails are included.

The Zoom column is only what its pricing page lists; the Webinly column is Pro, the first plan with a live room, at $159 a month.

Nothing to install: you broadcast from the browser, co-hosts join from a private link, and attendees watch from the link in their emails.

Hosts with a room Webinly does not hold: Zoom lists up to 100,000 attendees across its products, while Webinly's largest included room is 1,000 on Scale and one room tops out at 2,900 people. Hosts whose sessions run many hours: Zoom's ceiling is 30 hours per webinar, and Webinly meters a month of live time, 12,000 attendee-minutes on Pro and 36,000 on Scale, where a 60 minute webinar with 100 people watching all the way through is 6,000. Teams whose webinars are internal and sell nothing. And anyone who needs a meeting rather than a webinar: Webinly is not a meeting tool, and there is no round table where everyone is on camera.

Partly, and the integrations page draws the line. It lists Stripe, Tap and Tabby, GoHighLevel, Teachable, Google Calendar, ad pixels and signed webhooks; it does not list Zoom, and there is no Zapier app. So a Webinly registration page can collect your registrants, send the confirmation and reminders and turn each one into a contact, and the New registration webhook can carry each signup to a tool of yours.

What breaks is the half that makes webinar follow-up worth having. Webinly records what happens inside Webinly: attendance, watch milestones, reaching the pitch, opening the checkout. A room on Zoom sends none of that back, so the attended and no-show split, the scores and the automations that fire on behaviour have nothing to read.

Up to 100 people: Zoom Webinars at $89 a month for the base capacity, plus the paid Zoom license secondary sources say sits underneath. Webinly Pro at $159, with the room of 300, the checkout, the CRM and the follow-up in the one price.

500 people: secondary sources put Zoom at about $79 to $140 a month. In Webinly a 500 person hour is 30,000 attendee-minutes, above Pro's 12,000, so that size belongs on Scale at $349, with rooms of 1,000 and 36,000 attendee-minutes a month; a live room of 500 is where Zoom's sticker is lower.

1,000 people: secondary sources put Zoom at about $340 a month, about $3,400 a year, per license. Webinly Scale is $349 a month or $3,490 a year, with rooms of 1,000, 10 co-hosts and multi-day events. Every plan and add-on is on the pricing page, per account, co-hosts included.