Best Virtual Event Platforms in 2026

Cvent is an event-management software company based in Tysons Corner, Virginia, founded and led by Reggie Aggarwal. It says it has more than 25 years of event-technology experience, more than 34,000 customers, over 5,500 employees and more than 8.3 million events managed, and that 89% of the Fortune 100 run events on its platform; these are company figures. Its suite covers registration and marketing, venue sourcing and hotel room blocks, budgeting and approvals, event apps, check-in and badging, trade-show lead capture and post-event analytics, alongside a hospitality business that helps hotels win meetings business.

Virtual and hybrid events run through the Cvent Attendee Hub, which provides broadcast-quality video streaming and engagement features including live chat, dynamic Q&A and polling, and Cvent also sells dedicated webinar products. In April 2026 Cvent completed its acquisition of ON24, adding a webinar and digital-engagement platform used by B2B marketing teams.

Cvent's strength is breadth: a single vendor can handle the whole lifecycle of in-person, hybrid and virtual events, with deep integration between registration, attendee data and on-site operations. Its limitations are complexity and price: the platform is designed for professional event teams, pricing is entirely quote-based, and smaller organisations running occasional webinars will find it more than they need.

ON24 is a San Francisco-based digital-engagement platform for B2B sales and marketing teams, best known for webinars. It was listed on the New York Stock Exchange until 1 April 2026, when it was acquired by an affiliate of Cvent for US$8.10 per share in cash under a merger agreement signed on 29 December 2025; it now operates as a wholly owned Cvent subsidiary.

ON24's product set includes Webcast Elite for live and on-demand webinars, Breakouts for networking rooms, Forums for video-to-video interaction between presenters and audiences, Go Live for face-to-face live video events, and Engagement Hub, an always-on multimedia content destination. Its AI engine, ACE, identifies the moments of an event that had the greatest impact and automatically creates short-form clips for nurture campaigns, and customers can benchmark their engagement against others in their industry.

The company's last annual report shows a shrinking business: revenue fell from US$163.7m in 2023 to US$148.1m in 2024 and US$139.3m in 2025, with a 2025 net loss of US$28.9m. ON24's strength is the depth of its engagement data for lead scoring. Its limitations are that pricing is quote-based, that its roadmap now depends on Cvent, and that it is designed for marketing programmes rather than one-off conferences.

Zoom Communications, based in San Jose, California, sells webinar and virtual-event products alongside its meetings, phone and collaboration software. The company reported revenue of US$4.87bn for the fiscal year ended 31 January 2026, but does not report its events products separately.

Zoom offers three tiers. Webinars covers audiences of up to 500 attendees on the standard licence and includes chat, reactions, polls, Q&A, custom backgrounds, AI-generated smart chapters for recordings and reports that connect to marketing tools. Webinars Plus adds simulive (pre-recorded sessions run as live), a private backstage for speakers, pro layouts and scenes, AI-generated event pages and richer analytics. Events adds multiple simultaneous stages, customisable ticket types, a lobby, sponsor features, attendee networking and hybrid capabilities. All three are billed annually or monthly per licence, and Zoom says its Webinars product can support up to 100,000 attendees with larger licences.

Zoom's advantage is familiarity: attendees and presenters usually know the interface, and administration sits within an existing Zoom account. Its limitations are that the published plans are priced for audiences of up to 500, so larger capacity requires a higher licence, that exact prices are shown only in Zoom's interactive pricing pages, and that exhibitor and sponsor functions are less extensive than in dedicated event suites.

Bizzabo sells an event-management platform it calls the Event Experience OS, which covers in-person, virtual and hybrid events in one subscription. All users can access the core features, which include unlimited events and registrations, contact management, ticketing and registration, email campaigns, an event website builder, a mobile app, reporting and analytics, curated onboarding, tiered customer support and 24/7/365 support.

Bizzabo publishes a list price, which is unusual at this level of the market: US$499 per user per month, billed annually, with a three-user minimum and a stated starting price of US$17,999 a year. Virtual production is an add-on: the Virtual Production Suite provides studio-quality live and on-demand video, and other premium add-ons include Bizzabo Advanced Onsite (badge printing, check-in, lead capture) and Sponsor ROI, none of which have published prices. Bizzabo also sells Klik SmartBadge wearables for networking, lead capture, gamification and passive attendee tracking at in-person events; these can be bought without the core subscription.

Its strength is a single platform for a full event programme with a published base price. Its limitations are the annual-only contract (Bizzabo does not sell single-event purchases), the high entry price for small teams, and the fact that virtual production capability costs extra.

Hubilo is a virtual-event and webinar platform that publishes annual prices based on the number of administrators who use it, rather than on attendees or events. It says the price typically scales with team size, event complexity and programme scale.

The entry plan, Pro 1, costs US$15,000 a year and includes unlimited events, one admin seat and one channel, aimed at solo creators running simple, small-scale events. Pro 4 costs US$50,000 a year for four admin seats with an audience cap of 4,000 per event and premium support, aimed at growing teams that run regular events with larger audiences. Pro 10 costs US$125,000 a year for ten admin seats with an audience cap of 10,000 per event. The enterprise tier offers unlimited admin seats, up to three channels and an audience cap of 40,000 per event, for large-scale, multi-channel live experiences.

Unlimited events on every plan make Hubilo predictable for teams that run many sessions. Its limitations are a high entry price compared with per-attendee or monthly webinar tools, audience caps tied to plan level, and the fact that additional admins require moving up a tier. Smaller organisations may find Livestorm or Airmeet cheaper for the same number of webinars.

Airmeet is a virtual and hybrid event platform known for social and networking features. Its pricing page lists speed networking, a "fluid space", networking lounges, exhibition booths, ticketing, instant replays and on-demand content, an AI clip generator and AI video editor, leaderboards and attendee analytics.

Airmeet publishes several offers. Premium Webinars, formerly its Standard plan, is aimed at webinars, community meetups, town halls, training and product demos and starts at US$167 a month billed yearly (a 16% discount) or US$199 a month billed monthly. Events, formerly the Professional plan, covers branded virtual and hybrid events such as conferences, career fairs and expos and is priced by quote, with a free trial and five team members per organisation. Managed Events, in which Airmeet's event experts run the event end to end, start from US$4,999 for a brand conference, quoted per event, from 100 attendees up to 10,000. A new Agency Plan for agencies and production partners has no platform fee and unlimited registrations, charging only for attendees, for up to 250 events a year.

Airmeet's strengths are its engagement features and the range of buying options. Its limitations are that the full Events plan is not priced publicly and that managed services add significant cost for larger events.

Livestorm is a webinar and virtual-event platform that charges by attendee rather than by host licence. On its Pro plan, organisers buy yearly packs of attendee credits at €2.50 per attendee; one credit is used for each unique external participant per session over a 12-month period, and team members do not use credits when they join sessions, run tests or attend internal training.

Pro includes unlimited events and recordings, unlimited team members, sessions of up to four hours, a maximum of 3,000 live attendees per event, 25 simultaneous speakers, standard multilingual support, a Livestorm MCP connection and integrations such as HubSpot and Zapier. The custom-priced Enterprise plan raises the session length to 12 hours, adds enterprise integrations, custom analytics, a dedicated customer-success contact, live event shadowing and VIP multilingual support with an SLA. Add-ons include Livestorm AI Studio, live translations, multiple workspaces, a choice of video hosting region, SAML SSO, restreaming, RTMP input and extra API calls.

The per-attendee model makes Livestorm economical for teams with many small sessions and makes cost directly track usage. Its limitations are the 3,000-attendee cap, the need to buy credits in yearly packs, and the fact that enterprise features such as SSO cost extra.

Goldcast describes itself as a B2B video content platform rather than only an event platform. It sells modules that can be combined: Events for webinars, virtual events and in-person field events with automatic calendar holds, polls, Q&A and overlays, on-demand replays and automatic repurposing; a Recording Studio for HD local recordings with individual tracks and scene changes for podcasts, webinars and interviews; and Content Lab, which repurposes a video library into multi-modal blogs, auto-edited clips and social posts using an AI-trained brand voice and AI-powered search. Customers can also build a custom bundle.

For enterprise customers Goldcast offers team workspaces, SSO, custom reports and permissions and multi-language support, and it promotes a Goldcast MCP connection. Content Lab can be started for free; other modules are sold through demos.

Goldcast is a fit for demand-generation teams that want each webinar to feed a content programme. Its limitations are that event pricing is not published, that its focus on B2B marketing makes it less suitable for large conferences with exhibitors or ticketing, and that the testimonials on its pricing page are selected by the company rather than independent evidence of performance.

BigMarker is a webinar and virtual-event platform whose team has been working with companies on audience engagement since 2010. It sells webinars, virtual, hybrid and in-person event packages, media hubs that act as content destinations, and white-label options.

Its plans are all quote-based but list their contents. Basic, for small and medium-sized businesses starting to host webinars and virtual events, includes up to 1,000 live attendees, one host licence, up to nine shared webcams, live and on-demand webinars, streaming to Facebook and YouTube, chat, polls, Q&A, handouts, recording, pop-up offers, registration, emails, post-session surveys, basic integrations and basic analytics. Enterprise raises capacity to 10,000 live attendees with four host licences and 64 webcams, and adds a CRM or marketing-automation integration, simulive, evergreen and 24-7 webinars, webinar series, ticketing and payments, landing-page templates, breakout rooms, co-browsing, certificates of completion, API and Zapier access, advanced analytics, a customer-success manager and an enterprise SLA. Enterprise+ adds multiple webinar rooms and channels, SSO, MFA, a mobile SDK, negotiable DPA terms, webinar marketing services and live event monitoring.

BigMarker's range of automated webinar formats is a strength for training and marketing teams. Its limitations are the absence of published prices and the low host-licence count on Basic.

vFairs is an event-management platform for virtual, hybrid and in-person events, including virtual fairs and expos with exhibitor booths. Its product range covers event registration and ticketing, event marketing tools and an AI writing assistant, a mobile event app with an AI event assistant, a lead-capture app with AI lead enrichment, event planning and content-management tools, and on-site services. The company highlights higher education, non-profits, associations, event agencies, information technology, financial services, healthcare and food and beverage as industries it serves.

vFairs does not publish prices. Its pricing page says customers pay only for what their events need rather than bloated bundles, and prices are provided on request. Add-ons include additional sessions, extra booths, accessibility features, more attendees and managed services. vFairs states that it does not offer a free plan. The company emphasises hands-on support through all stages of an event, from pre-event planning to post-event reports.

vFairs suits organisers who need virtual booths and exhibitor halls, such as career fairs and association expos, with optional in-person tools. Its limitations are the lack of a free plan or published prices, and an add-on structure that makes comparisons between quotes harder.

Swapcard is an event platform aimed at trade-show and exhibition organisers, associations, B2B conferences, medical congresses, media companies and non-profits. It focuses on networking and exhibitor value, which matters most for hybrid trade shows where much of the commercial value comes from meetings between attendees and exhibitors.

Its features include registration, ticketing and payments; Launchpad, an enterprise-grade registration product; on-site self check-in and badge printing; a branded mobile app; event AI agents that answer support questions and simplify discovery; AI recommendations of relevant contacts, exhibitors and sessions; an interactive floor plan; exhibitor services; widgets to embed Swapcard in an organiser's website; and secure sign-on. Plans run from Starter, which offers a free trial, through Professional to higher tiers with custom integration management and regular business reviews. Prices are provided by quote.

Swapcard's matchmaking and exhibitor tools differentiate it from webinar-focused products. Its limitations are that prices are not published, that its feature set is more than a company running simple webinars needs, and that much of its value depends on attendee adoption of the app for networking.

InEvent is an event-management platform covering webinars and virtual and hybrid ("V&H") events. Its pricing page lists four main plans: Webinars, V&H Pro, V&H Advanced and V&H Full, each with a feature list and a demonstration request, together with an EventHub product. Pricing is available as a single event or an annual subscription and can be quoted in US dollars, euros, pounds, Australian and Canadian dollars and Swiss francs, but specific amounts are not shown in the page text.

InEvent defines enterprise accounts as V&H and EventHub plans starting at 300 registrations a year. It states that it offers errors-and-omissions and cyber insurance on all enterprise plans, and can arrange additional insurance policies for contracts above the V&H Full 10,000-registrations-a-year level. Registration volume is therefore the main driver of plan selection and cost.

InEvent suits organisations that want a single vendor for webinars and hybrid events and that value contractual protections such as insurance. Its limitations are that published prices could not be read, that plan differences require a demonstration to understand fully, and that it has a lower public profile than Cvent or Zoom.