eWebinar 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 assessedeWebinar compared with Livestorm
Livestorm does live, on-demand, and automated in one browser-based platform and charges per attendee who shows up, which makes a high-volume evergreen funnel expensive there and free here. eWebinar cannot do live at all. Use Livestorm when you need one platform across formats and your evergreen volume is modest; use eWebinar when a single recording has to serve thousands of viewers and cost per attendee is the metric that matters.
Livestorm compared with eWebinar
eWebinar does one thing, automated evergreen webinars, and does it more thoroughly than anyone, with twenty-five interaction types and just-in-time scheduling, but it cannot run a live session at all. Livestorm does live, on-demand, and automated in one platform with a lighter automation layer. Buy eWebinar as a dedicated evergreen funnel alongside something else; buy Livestorm when you need one tool covering the full range and can accept a simpler evergreen mode.
Choose eWebinar if
Small SaaS companies, agencies, and course businesses whose demo, onboarding walkthrough, or training session is substantially the same every time, who want it available around the clock without anyone presenting, and who would rather pay per active webinar with unlimited attendees than per seat with an attendee cap.
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 | eWebinar | Livestorm |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Webinars | Webinars |
| Starting price | $99 per month (free 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 | Subscription priced by the number of simultaneously active webinars. Attendees, sessions, moderators, and registrations are unlimited on every level. | 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 | A free trial is available; eWebinar does not publish a fixed length on its own site | 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 SaaS companies, agencies, and course businesses whose demo, onboarding walkthrough, or training session is substantially the same every time, who want it available around the clock without anyone presenting, and who would rather pay per active webinar with unlimited attendees than per seat with an attendee cap. | 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 | The vendor claims under twenty minutes to launch a first webinar without instruction, and that is broadly credible if you already have a recording. Scripting interactions properly along the timeline is the part that takes real thought and is worth a couple of hours. | 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. There is no live-presenting skill to acquire because there is no live presenting. The genuine learning is editorial: deciding where the interactions go, what the conditional branches should be, and how the chat rota works. | 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 moderators, desktop and mobile), Embeddable registration widget for your own site | 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, GDPR |
| Founded | 2019 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Distributed; the founding team has operated remotely rather than from a fixed office | Paris, France (fully remote team) |
| Ownership | Bootstrapped, founder-owned | Venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
eWebinar
Strengths
- Unlimited attendees, sessions, registrations, and moderators on every plan, which is unique in a category built on audience metering.
- Just-in-time scheduling collapses the gap between interest and attendance to a few minutes, which is the single biggest driver of evergreen funnel performance.
- The chat and moderation design is the most honest in the category: real-time alerts to Slack, unlimited moderators, auto-responses out of hours, and follow-up emails for anything unanswered.
- More than twenty-five interaction types with conditional logic gives an evergreen session more depth than most live ones have.
Limitations
- No live webinar capability whatsoever. This is by design, but it means most companies need eWebinar plus something else rather than eWebinar alone.
- No streaming or simulcast to YouTube, LinkedIn, or RTMP endpoints; the product plays a file to registrants and does nothing broadcast-shaped.
- Pricing scales on active webinars, so a large and varied library of evergreen sessions is comparatively expensive against attendee-metered rivals.
- The company is very small (roughly 750,000 dollars ARR on a tiny team), so there is real concentration risk and limited capacity for bespoke work.
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
eWebinar
Subscription priced by the number of simultaneously active webinars. Attendees, sessions, moderators, and registrations are unlimited on every level.
- Level 1$99
- Level 2$199
- Level 3$299
For its single intended job, eWebinar has the best economics in the category and it is not close. A business whose entire funnel is one demo pays 99 dollars a month and can put ten thousand people through it without paying a cent more, while a comparable Demio or Livestorm configuration would cost several times that at the same volume. The unlimited moderator policy compounds the advantage because moderation is naturally a rota rather than a seat. The value collapses in exactly one scenario: a large library of distinct one-off sessions, where per-active-webinar pricing works against you and an attendee-metered platform wins. And of course it does nothing live, so if you also need live webinars you are paying for two products. Judged as a dedicated evergreen engine, it is the cheapest capable option available and the interaction depth justifies the price on its own.
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
eWebinar
eWebinar is the best automated webinar product on the market and the only one that treats automation as a design problem rather than a checkbox. Just-in-time scheduling, twenty-five-plus interactions with conditional logic, unlimited attendees on every plan, and a chat model that is honest with the attendee add up to an evergreen session that performs better than most companies' live ones. Buy it if you have one repeated session, a demo, an onboarding walkthrough, a training module, and you want it running around the clock for 99 dollars a month regardless of volume. Do not buy it as your only webinar tool, because it cannot do live, and be clear-eyed that this is a tiny bootstrapped company with no SOC 2 and no enterprise apparatus behind it.
Read the full eWebinar 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 profileeWebinar 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.