Zoom Webinars Pricing, Plans & Alternatives (2026)

Overview

Zoom Webinars is the broadcast-format product of Zoom, the video company whose meetings client became a default tool for remote work. Webinars run on the same client and infrastructure as Zoom Meetings, so attendees who already have the application installed can join without a separate download, and hosts manage events from the same web portal they use for meetings. Zoom now sells the product in three tiers. The base Webinars plan covers the standard webinar platform with chat, reactions, polls, Q&A, custom backgrounds, AI-generated chapters for recordings and downloadable performance reports. Webinars Plus adds pre-recorded content presented as live, a private backstage for speakers and moderators, pro layouts and scenes, AI-generated event pages and AI tools for turning recordings into text and video.^[1]

The top tier, Zoom Events, moves the product toward virtual conference software: multiple simultaneous stages, ticket types, a virtual lobby, sponsor connections, attendee networking and hybrid event support. Zoom states that the products support up to 100,000 attendees, and that capacity is set by the licence purchased; a 500-attendee licence admits 500 people even when registration is unlimited.^[1] A documented limitation is that the pricing page shows no free trial for webinars, and the pay-per-attendee option for the higher tiers is sold without a published price.

Zoom Webinars features

Webinars from 500 attendees, scaling to 100,000
Polls, Q&A, chat and reactions
Simulive (pre-recorded as live) on Webinars Plus
Backstage for speakers and moderators
Multi-stage events, ticketing and lobby on Events
AI-generated recording chapters

Zoom Webinars pricing

Prices in US dollars per month for the base capacity: Webinars US$89.00 monthly or US$66.67 a month billed annually; Webinars Plus US$99.00 monthly or US$82.50 annually; Events US$149.00 monthly or US$124.17 annually. A one-month Webinars plan and a pay-per-attendee option (Plus and Events, price not published) are also offered. No free trial is listed.