Livestorm vs Zoho Meeting
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 assessmentZoho Meeting compared with Livestorm
Livestorm is the modern, browser-native B2B tool with strong CRM integration and billing tied to who actually attended. Zoho is cheaper by a very large multiple and integrates natively with Zoho CRM rather than with HubSpot and Salesforce. European buyers and marketing teams who care about the experience should look at Livestorm; small businesses in the Zoho ecosystem should not pay several times more for polish they may not need.
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.
Choose Zoho Meeting if
Small businesses and startups already running Zoho CRM, Zoho Campaigns, or Zoho One who need real webinar capability at the lowest credible price, plus price-sensitive teams anywhere who value attendee capacity and reporting over interface polish.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Livestorm | Zoho Meeting |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Webinars | Webinars |
| Starting price | Pro at approximately 2.50 euros per attendee credit; third-party trackers report an entry block around 105 euros per month (free trial) | $0 (free tier); Zoho Webinar Standard from about $8 per organizer per month billed annually (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | 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. | Per-organizer subscription across Free, Standard, Professional, and Enterprise editions, with an attendee tier selected within each edition. Meetings and webinars are priced separately but share one account. |
| Free plan | No | Zoho Webinar free covers 20 attendees for up to 60 minutes with screen sharing, polls, Q and A, and raise-hand. Zoho Meeting free covers 100 participants for 60 minutes. |
| Free trial | A trial is available on request through the signup flow; Livestorm does not publish a fixed trial length on the pricing page | 14 days with no credit card required |
| Best for | 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. | Small businesses and startups already running Zoho CRM, Zoho Campaigns, or Zoho One who need real webinar capability at the lowest credible price, plus price-sensitive teams anywhere who value attendee capacity and reporting over interface polish. |
| Setup time | 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. | Under an hour if you already have a Zoho account, since the webinar console sits inside the same admin surface. From a cold start, add time for account provisioning and organization setup, which is Zoho-wide rather than webinar-specific. |
| Learning curve | 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. | Low. The console is conventional and the presenter controls are unsurprising. The genuinely confusing part is Zoho's own product structure: understanding what is Zoho Meeting, what is Zoho Webinar, which edition gates which feature, and what you may already own through Zoho One takes longer than learning the software. |
| Platforms | Web browser (attendees and presenters, desktop and mobile), iFrame embed on your own site, RTMP simulcast to YouTube, LinkedIn, X, and custom endpoints | Browser-based for organizers and attendees with no download, iOS and Android apps, Desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux, Phone dial-in with toll-free add-on |
| Compliance | ISO 27001, GDPR | GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA-supporting configurations within the Zoho platform |
| Founded | 2016 | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Paris, France (fully remote team) | Chennai, India, with US headquarters in Austin, Texas |
| Ownership | Venture-backed | Privately held and bootstrapped |
Strengths and limitations
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.
Zoho Meeting
Strengths
- By far the lowest price per attendee seat in the category, with a 5,000-attendee edition at roughly 66 dollars per organizer per month that has no comparable competitor.
- Native Zoho CRM and Zoho Campaigns integration with no connector, so registration and attendance become CRM records automatically for the very large number of small businesses already on Zoho.
- A genuinely permanent free tier for both meetings and webinars, letting a business prove the format at zero cost before spending anything.
- Meetings and webinars in one product and one account, so a small business may not need a separate video conferencing subscription at all.
Limitations
- The room and registration experience are plain and dated next to Demio, Livestorm, or Contrast, which matters if the webinar is a brand moment.
- Integration depth outside Zoho's own products is shallow, so a Salesforce or Marketo shop gets little of the value that justifies the price.
- On-demand webinars are the only evergreen format and they are locked to the Enterprise edition, with no just-in-time scheduling or funnel machinery anywhere.
- Breakout rooms are a meetings feature rather than a webinar feature, so structured training delivery inside a webinar is not supported.
Pricing compared
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.
Zoho Meeting
Per-organizer subscription across Free, Standard, Professional, and Enterprise editions, with an attendee tier selected within each edition. Meetings and webinars are priced separately but share one account.
- Free$0
- StandardFrom about $8 per organizer (annual), around $9 monthly
- ProfessionalFrom about $16 per organizer (annual), around $19 monthly
- EnterpriseUp to about $66 per organizer
On price per attendee seat, nothing in this category is close. A 500-attendee webinar licence on Zoho costs a fraction of GoTo Webinar Standard at 99 dollars or Demio Growth at around 164, and the 5,000-attendee Enterprise edition at roughly 66 dollars per organizer is an order of magnitude cheaper than equivalent capacity anywhere else. That value is real and it is why Zoho keeps winning small-business evaluations on spreadsheet comparisons. What the spreadsheet does not capture is that the room is plainer, the evergreen story is thin and gated to Enterprise, breakouts are not a webinar feature, and the integration advantage evaporates the moment your CRM is not Zoho. If you are in the Zoho ecosystem, this is close to free money. If you are not, treat the price as a discount for a less polished product rather than a free lunch.
Editorial verdict on each
Livestorm
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 profileZoho Meeting
Best ValueZoho Meeting wins webinar evaluations on arithmetic and loses them on feel. A 500-attendee licence for a fraction of what GoTo Webinar or Demio charge, a 5,000-attendee edition at roughly 66 dollars per organizer, meetings included, 24-hour sessions, a permanent free tier, and native Zoho CRM sync with no connector make it the cheapest credible webinar platform a small business can buy. The costs are a plain room, evergreen capability that barely exists and is locked to Enterprise, breakouts that live on the meetings side rather than in webinars, YouTube as the only simulcast destination, and metered recording storage. The real decision is not about webinars at all: if your business already runs on Zoho, this is close to free capability and you should turn it on today. If it does not, you are choosing a less polished product to save money, which is a perfectly rational trade as long as you make it deliberately.
Read the full Zoho Meeting profileLivestorm profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Zoho Meeting last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.