ClickMeeting vs GoTo Webinar
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
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The short answer
Both sides assessedClickMeeting compared with GoTo Webinar
GoTo Webinar starts at 49 dollars for a 250-attendee room with unlimited recording, a real API, SSO, and the deepest Salesforce and Marketo connectors in the category. ClickMeeting starts around 32 dollars for a much smaller room, meters recording in hours, and lacks that CRM depth, but adds breakout rooms, a whiteboard, certificates, paid ticketing, and automated webinars on one plan. Buy GoTo for large conventional webinars and marketing operations; buy ClickMeeting for training with a small-to-mid audience.
GoTo Webinar compared with ClickMeeting
ClickMeeting starts around 32 dollars a month for a live-only plan and around 45 for one that adds automated webinars, with attendee tiers at 50, 100, 200, 500, and 1,000, so a small audience can be bought cheaply. GoTo has no equivalent small room and starts at 49 dollars for 250 seats, but brings unlimited recording, a real API, SSO, and far stronger CRM connectors. Choose ClickMeeting on price and flexibility, GoTo on operations and integration depth.
Choose ClickMeeting if
Training companies, course providers, educators, and small European businesses who need live and automated webinars in one predictable subscription, want breakout rooms and certificates rather than sales funnels, and value explicit GDPR handling and multilingual support.
Choose GoTo Webinar if
Marketing and training teams at established small and mid-size companies who run large, conventional webinars, need audiences above the few hundred that cheaper tools cap at, and value a proven platform with deep marketing-automation connectors and predictable per-organizer billing over a modern interface.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | ClickMeeting | GoTo Webinar |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Webinars | Webinars |
| Starting price | Around $32 per month for the Live plan at the smallest attendee tier; around $45 per month for Automated (14 days trial) | $49 per organizer per month billed annually (Lite, up to 250 attendees); $59 month to month (free trial) |
| Pricing model | Two plan families, Live and Automated, each sold at a chosen attendee tier of 50, 100, 200, 500, or 1,000. The attendee tier is the main price driver; automation is the main feature gate. | Per-organizer subscription across four tiers whose primary difference is the attendee ceiling. Feature differences between tiers are modest, so you are mostly buying room size. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | 14 days with up to 25 attendees and 30 minutes of recording storage, no credit card required | A free trial is offered on the pricing page; length is set by the current promotion rather than published as a fixed term |
| Best for | Training companies, course providers, educators, and small European businesses who need live and automated webinars in one predictable subscription, want breakout rooms and certificates rather than sales funnels, and value explicit GDPR handling and multilingual support. | Marketing and training teams at established small and mid-size companies who run large, conventional webinars, need audiences above the few hundred that cheaper tools cap at, and value a proven platform with deep marketing-automation connectors and predictable per-organizer billing over a modern interface. |
| Setup time | An hour to a first live webinar. Creating the event, branding the registration page, and configuring reminders is straightforward. Setting up paid ticketing through Stripe or PayPal and configuring certificates adds another hour but only needs doing once. | An hour for a first webinar. Scheduling, branding the registration page, and configuring the reminder sequence are straightforward. Wiring a CRM connector properly, especially Marketo or Salesforce field mapping, is a half-day job for someone who knows the target system. |
| Learning curve | Low to moderate. The room is browser-based and the presenter controls are conventional. Breakout rooms and the whiteboard reward a practice run before you use them with a real audience, and the distinction between webinar mode and meeting mode confuses new users at first. | Low for attendees, moderate for organizers. The desktop presenter console carries two decades of accumulated options and the first dry run will surface several settings you did not know existed. Run a practice session before your first real event; the platform supports practice mode specifically for this. |
| Platforms | Browser-based for presenters and attendees with no download, iOS and Android apps, Desktop browser support across major browsers, RTMP simulcast to Facebook and YouTube | Windows and macOS desktop applications for organizers and panelists, Browser-based attendance with no download required, iOS and Android apps for attendees, Web administration and scheduling |
| Compliance | GDPR, ISO 27001 aligned practices, EU-based data processing | SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA-supporting configurations available through GoTo, ISO 27001 within the GoTo platform |
| Founded | 2011 | 2003 |
| Headquarters | Gdansk, Poland | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Ownership | Privately held, independent since separating from GetResponse in 2016 | Private equity owned (Francisco Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital, the private equity affiliate of Elliott Management) |
Strengths and limitations
ClickMeeting
Strengths
- Breakout rooms and a whiteboard in a webinar platform, which makes genuine training and workshop delivery possible rather than approximated.
- Certificates of attendance generated automatically, a differentiator that training providers need and that most marketing-oriented competitors ignore entirely.
- Live and automated webinars plus online meetings in one subscription, so a small business may not need a separate video conferencing tool at all.
- Native paid webinars through PayPal and Stripe from the registration page, without a third-party checkout.
Limitations
- Recording storage is metered at six or ten hours and extra hours cost money, where GoTo Webinar includes unlimited recording even on its cheapest plan.
- Attendee tiers are hard caps with no overage path, so a session that outgrows the plan turns real registrants away at the door.
- Pricing is region-localised and displayed in local currency, which makes it needlessly hard to compare against American competitors on a like-for-like basis.
- CRM integration is broad but shallow; there are no deep native Salesforce or Marketo objects of the kind GoTo Webinar and Livestorm provide.
GoTo Webinar
Strengths
- Unlimited cloud recording storage on every tier, including the cheapest, which is unusual in a category where storage is a standard upsell.
- The deepest marketing automation connector set in the category, with Salesforce, HubSpot, and Marketo integrations that mature marketing operations teams already have processes built around.
- Twenty years of operational reliability at scale; a 2,000-person webinar on GoTo is a boring event, which is exactly what you want it to be.
- GoTo Meeting is bundled with every licence, so the subscription covers everyday video meetings as well as webinars.
Limitations
- The presenter experience is a dated desktop application, and next to Livestorm or Demio the whole product feels like enterprise software from an earlier generation.
- The 250-attendee floor means small teams overbuy; there is no fifty-seat or hundred-seat plan for a business whose webinars draw forty people.
- Per-organizer licensing gets expensive fast for teams with several people who each need to host their own sessions.
- Reminder sequences are email only, with no SMS and no behavioural branching, which leaves show rate on the table compared with tools that text registrants.
Pricing compared
ClickMeeting
Two plan families, Live and Automated, each sold at a chosen attendee tier of 50, 100, 200, 500, or 1,000. The attendee tier is the main price driver; automation is the main feature gate.
- Free trial$0
- LiveFrom about $32
- AutomatedFrom about $45, roughly $99 at 100 attendees and $199 at 500
- EnterpriseCustom
ClickMeeting is priced sensibly for what it is: a complete live-and-automated webinar platform with training features, at roughly the same money as Demio and considerably less than GoTo Webinar at the small end. The Automated plan at around 99 dollars a month for a 100-attendee room including breakout rooms, whiteboard, certificates, paid ticketing, and on-demand webinars is a lot of capability for the price, and the meetings mode means you may not need a separate video tool. Where it loses is on recording storage, which is metered where competitors include it, and on add-ons for parallel events that feel like they should be standard. If you are a training or education business, it is one of the best-value options in this category. If you are a demand generation team who will live in Salesforce reports, GoTo Webinar or Livestorm give you more of what you actually use.
GoTo Webinar
Per-organizer subscription across four tiers whose primary difference is the attendee ceiling. Feature differences between tiers are modest, so you are mostly buying room size.
- Lite$49 (annual) or $59 (monthly)
- Standard$99 (annual) or $129 (monthly)
- Pro$199 (annual) or $249 (monthly)
- Enterprise$399 (annual) or $499 (monthly)
GoTo Webinar is priced for audiences, not for teams. At 99 dollars a month for a 500-seat room with unlimited recording, marketing automation connectors, and a bundled meeting product, it is competitive with anything at that capacity and cheaper than Zoom Webinars once you climb past a few hundred attendees. At 49 dollars for a 250-seat room it is poor value for a small business that draws forty people, because there is no smaller, cheaper room to buy and no discount for using a fraction of it. The per-organizer model compounds this: three presenters who each need to host means three licences. Buy it when your audience is genuinely large and your marketing operations already run on Salesforce or Marketo; look elsewhere when your webinars are intimate or your team is multi-presenter.
Editorial verdict on each
ClickMeeting
ClickMeeting is the webinar platform to buy when you are teaching rather than selling. Breakout rooms, a whiteboard, certificates of attendance, chat translation, paid ticketing, and a meetings mode in the same subscription add up to a genuinely coherent tool for training companies, course providers, and educators, and the Automated plan gives you live and evergreen webinars from one bill at a price Demio and GoTo Webinar do not beat at the small end. The weaknesses are consistent and worth pricing in: recording storage metered in hours where competitors include it, parallel events sold as an add-on, a hard attendee cap that turns registrants away, simulcasting limited to Facebook and YouTube, and CRM integration that is wide rather than deep. European buyers get an added benefit in explicit GDPR handling and EU data processing from a fifteen-year-old independent vendor. American demand generation teams should look at GoTo Webinar or Livestorm first; almost anyone running structured training online should shortlist this.
Read the full ClickMeeting profileGoTo Webinar
GoTo Webinar is the safe, unexciting, operationally excellent choice for large conventional webinars. Unlimited recording on every tier, the deepest marketing automation connectors in the category, a real API, SSO, a bundled meeting product, and twenty years of running thousand-person sessions without incident are all genuine reasons to buy it. The costs are equally clear: a dated presenter console, a 250-attendee floor that forces small teams to overbuy, per-organizer licensing that punishes multi-presenter teams, email-only reminders, and a hard attendee cap that turns real registrants away when you underestimate a session. If your audiences are in the hundreds or thousands and your marketing operations run on Salesforce or Marketo, this is still the right answer. If your webinars draw forty people and you care how the room looks, Demio, Livestorm, or Zoho Webinar will serve you better for less.
Read the full GoTo Webinar profileClickMeeting profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; GoTo Webinar last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.
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Frequently asked questions
6 questionsWhat is the difference between ClickMeeting and GoTo Webinar?
GoTo Webinar starts at 49 dollars for a 250-attendee room with unlimited recording, a real API, SSO, and the deepest Salesforce and Marketo connectors in the category. ClickMeeting starts around 32 dollars for a much smaller room, meters recording in hours, and lacks that CRM depth, but adds breakout rooms, a whiteboard, certificates, paid ticketing, and automated webinars on one plan. Buy GoTo for large conventional webinars and marketing operations; buy ClickMeeting for training with a small-to-mid audience.
Is ClickMeeting or GoTo Webinar cheaper?
ClickMeeting starts at Around $32 per month for the Live plan at the smallest attendee tier; around $45 per month for Automated (14 days trial). GoTo Webinar starts at $49 per organizer per month billed annually (Lite, up to 250 attendees); $59 month to month (free trial). The billing models differ, so the entry price is rarely the whole cost. ClickMeeting pricing model: Two plan families, Live and Automated, each sold at a chosen attendee tier of 50, 100, 200, 500, or 1,000. The attendee tier is the main price driver; automation is the main feature gate. GoTo Webinar pricing model: Per-organizer subscription across four tiers whose primary difference is the attendee ceiling. Feature differences between tiers are modest, so you are mostly buying room size.
Does ClickMeeting or GoTo Webinar have a free plan?
ClickMeeting has no free plan. Trial terms: 14 days with up to 25 attendees and 30 minutes of recording storage, no credit card required. GoTo Webinar has no free plan. Trial terms: A free trial is offered on the pricing page; length is set by the current promotion rather than published as a fixed term.
Who should choose ClickMeeting?
Training companies, course providers, educators, and small European businesses who need live and automated webinars in one predictable subscription, want breakout rooms and certificates rather than sales funnels, and value explicit GDPR handling and multilingual support.
Who should choose GoTo Webinar?
Marketing and training teams at established small and mid-size companies who run large, conventional webinars, need audiences above the few hundred that cheaper tools cap at, and value a proven platform with deep marketing-automation connectors and predictable per-organizer billing over a modern interface.
What are the best alternatives to ClickMeeting and GoTo Webinar?
SaaSTracker profiles 17 products in Webinars & Virtual Events. The Summer 2026 awards in the category went to Livestorm (Category Leader), Zoho Meeting (Best Value), Luma (Momentum). Every profile is compiled from primary sources, so a shortlist can be built from pricing, limitations, and fit rather than from star ratings.
