Demio 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
Both sides assessedDemio compared with Livestorm
Both are browser-first webinar platforms with registration, reminders, and CRM sync, and the real difference is billing. Demio charges per host with an attendee cap you choose; Livestorm charges per attendee who actually shows up and never charges for hosts. Take Demio if you want a predictable monthly number and a room size you can plan around. Take Livestorm if your attendance is volatile, your no-show rate is high, or you have a dozen occasional presenters who would each cost a Demio seat.
Livestorm compared with Demio
Demio charges per host with a fixed attendee cap you choose up front, starting at 45 dollars a month for fifty attendees; Livestorm charges per attendee who actually shows up and never charges for hosts. Pick Demio if you want a predictable monthly bill and a room size you can plan around. Pick Livestorm if your attendance is volatile, your no-show rate is high, or you have many occasional hosts who would each cost a seat elsewhere.
Choose Demio if
Small and mid-size marketing, sales enablement, and customer success teams who run a regular cadence of live and automated webinars, want a predictable per-host monthly bill with a room size they can plan around, and value a clean no-download attendee experience over broadcast production control.
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 | Demio | Livestorm |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Webinars | Webinars |
| Starting price | $45 per month billed annually (Starter, one host, fifty attendees) (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 | Per-host subscription with an attendee cap you select. The cap, not usage, is the primary price driver; event admin seats are separate from and cheaper than host licences. | 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, running Growth features but limited to twenty attendees and one-hour sessions | A trial is available on request through the signup flow; Livestorm does not publish a fixed trial length on the pricing page |
| Best for | Small and mid-size marketing, sales enablement, and customer success teams who run a regular cadence of live and automated webinars, want a predictable per-host monthly bill with a room size they can plan around, and value a clean no-download attendee experience over broadcast production control. | 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 | About an hour for a first live event: create the event, upload slides, restyle the registration page, set the reminder schedule, and connect your CRM. An automated event takes longer because you have to script where the polls and featured actions fire against the recording timeline. | 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 for hosts. The room is deliberately simple and most presenters need one dry run. The parts that take real work are timing featured actions against an automated recording and configuring the CRM field mapping so registration data lands usefully. | 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 | Web browser (attendees and presenters, desktop and mobile), Restreaming to external platforms | 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, CCPA | ISO 27001, GDPR |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Bellevue, Washington, United States (Banzai International) | Paris, France (fully remote team) |
| Ownership | Owned by Banzai International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNZI) | Venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
Demio
Strengths
- The best-executed no-download webinar room for small teams, with pre-uploaded slides and video that keep quality independent of the presenter's connection.
- Genuinely transparent pricing with the attendee cap stated plainly, which is rare in a category full of quote-gated vendors.
- Live, automated, on-demand, and series events all in one product, so the same asset works as a live launch and then as an evergreen funnel.
- Featured actions with per-attendee click tracking turn a webinar into a measurable revenue event rather than a brand exercise.
Limitations
- Automation is paywalled above Starter, making the advertised 45-dollar entry price unrepresentative of what most buyers will pay.
- The attendee cap is hard: exceed it and registrants are locked out mid-session, with no overage mechanism.
- Session length caps of three hours on Starter and eight on Growth rule out full-day formats without moving to Premium.
- No production studio features: no scene composition, no custom overlays beyond branding, no multi-camera, no high-bitrate local recording.
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
Demio
Per-host subscription with an attendee cap you select. The cap, not usage, is the primary price driver; event admin seats are separate from and cheaper than host licences.
- Starter$45 (annual) or $63 (monthly)
- GrowthFrom about $75 per host (annual), around $99 monthly, rising with the cap
- Premium$196 per host
Demio at Growth with a 150-attendee cap is the most sensible default purchase in this category for a small marketing team, and roughly 75 dollars per host per month for live plus automated plus on-demand plus real CRM sync is fair. The pricing is transparent, the cap is a number you can plan a budget around, and the room quality is genuinely better than most competitors at any price. Two things dent the value. First, the 45-dollar Starter tier is a lure rather than a plan, because it excludes the automation that most buyers came for. Second, the cap-based model punishes success: a session that draws six hundred people on a 500 cap turns away a hundred registrants who had already given you their email address. Judged on what you get at Growth, Demio is solid value; judged on the advertised entry price, it is misleading.
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
Demio
Demio is the safest default recommendation in this category for a small marketing team, provided you budget for Growth rather than the advertised 45-dollar Starter price. The room is the best-executed no-download experience at this end of the market, the pricing is honest about what a seat and a cap cost, and the marketing-automation connectors are deeper than anything else nearby. Buy it if you run a regular webinar cadence, want live and evergreen in one tool, and need engagement data flowing into HubSpot or Marketo without manual work. Approach with open eyes on two points: the attendee cap is a hard wall that penalizes an unexpectedly successful session, and the parent company is a financially stretched small-cap public business, which is worth weighing before you prepay a multi-year term.
Read the full Demio 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 profileDemio 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.