ClickMeeting vs Livestorm
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentClickMeeting compared with Livestorm
Both are European, both are browser-based, and both take GDPR seriously. Livestorm has the better interface, deeper CRM integration, and a billing model based on people who actually attended rather than a capacity tier you prepay for. ClickMeeting is cheaper at the entry point and brings breakout rooms, whiteboard, certificates, and paid ticketing that Livestorm does not match. Pick Livestorm for demand generation, ClickMeeting for teaching.
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 Livestorm if
European and EU-data-conscious marketing teams running a steady program of live webinars, product demos, and customer onboarding sessions, especially those with high registration volume and typical no-show rates, who want attendees to join in a browser with zero friction and would rather pay for people who turned up than for a seat licence.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | ClickMeeting | Livestorm |
|---|---|---|
| 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) | Pro at approximately 2.50 euros per attendee credit; third-party trackers report an entry block around 105 euros per 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. | Attendee-credit consumption model. One credit is consumed per unique participant per session across a rolling twelve-month period. Team members are not counted, and no-shows consume nothing. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | 14 days with up to 25 attendees and 30 minutes of recording storage, no credit card required | A trial is available on request through the signup flow; Livestorm does not publish a fixed trial length on the pricing page |
| 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. | European and EU-data-conscious marketing teams running a steady program of live webinars, product demos, and customer onboarding sessions, especially those with high registration volume and typical no-show rates, who want attendees to join in a browser with zero friction and would rather pay for people who turned up than for a seat licence. |
| 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. | Under an hour for a first event. Create the event, choose the format, restyle the registration page, edit the reminder emails, and connect your CRM. There is no software rollout and nothing for attendees to prepare, so the usual pre-launch IT work simply does not exist. |
| 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 the basic live event. The parts that take practice are the automated event mode, the role and permission model in a larger workspace, and the analytics export, which is powerful but not self-explanatory. |
| 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 | Web browser (attendees and presenters, desktop and mobile), iFrame embed on your own site, RTMP simulcast to YouTube, LinkedIn, X, and custom endpoints |
| Compliance | GDPR, ISO 27001 aligned practices, EU-based data processing | ISO 27001, GDPR |
| Founded | 2011 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Gdansk, Poland | Paris, France (fully remote team) |
| Ownership | Privately held, independent since separating from GetResponse in 2016 | Venture-backed |
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.
Livestorm
Strengths
- Genuinely zero-install for both attendees and presenters, which lifts attendance rates and removes the most common day-of-event support ticket.
- Attendee-credit billing means no-shows are free, which is a real saving in a category where more than half of registrants routinely fail to attend.
- Unlimited team members at no additional cost, so a large marketing organization does not pay per host.
- Live, on-demand, and automated formats are all first-class rather than one of them being a token feature.
Limitations
- The pricing page publishes no flat monthly number and no free plan, so building a budget requires a conversation or a configuration exercise rather than reading a table.
- Running out of attendee credits blocks new joiners mid-session rather than billing you for the overage, which is an unusually harsh failure mode.
- Replay and on-demand views consume credits, which quietly makes evergreen content more expensive than it looks.
- Production control is thin compared with a studio tool: no scene composition, no multi-camera switching, no high-bitrate local recording.
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.
Livestorm
Attendee-credit consumption model. One credit is consumed per unique participant per session across a rolling twelve-month period. Team members are not counted, and no-shows consume nothing.
- ProAbout 2.50 euros per attendee credit
- EnterpriseCustom quote
Livestorm is good value when your no-show rate is high and your attendance is uneven, and poor value when it is neither. Paying only for people who turned up is genuinely fairer than a seat licence with a fixed room cap, and the unlimited team members clause means a twenty-person marketing org pays the same as a solo operator for the same audience. The catch is forecasting. A quote-free per-credit model turns your webinar bill into a variable cost that rises exactly when a campaign works, and the hard block when credits run out during a live session is a worse failure mode than an overage invoice. If you can predict your annual attendee volume within twenty percent, buy the credits and the economics beat Demio or Zoom at similar volume. If you cannot, a capped per-seat platform will be less stressful even if it is nominally more expensive.
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 profileLivestorm
Category LeaderLivestorm is the best browser-first webinar platform for a marketing team that treats webinars as a lead channel rather than a big meeting, and the attendee-credit model is the fairest billing structure in the category for anyone whose no-show rate is typical. Zero-install attendance is not a marketing line; it measurably changes how many registrants become attendees. Buy it if you run a steady program with volatile attendance, have many occasional hosts, and want EU hosting with ISO 27001 behind it. Think twice if you need a fixed, forecastable monthly cost, because credits that run out block joiners mid-session, or if your strategy is really an evergreen funnel, in which case a dedicated automation tool will do more for less.
Read the full Livestorm profileClickMeeting profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Livestorm last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.