Webinar software costs from nothing to a few hundred dollars a month, and what moves the bill is how each vendor counts your audience: by the size of room you might fill, by each person who attends, or by the hours they watch. Below are 9 vendors people shop between, each priced from its own pricing page as checked September 2026, and one of ours, disclosed. Where a vendor's page did not show a price, we say so rather than guess.
Disclosure: we make Drry, which runs webinars inside a coach's own community and bills the audience by the hours it watches. It is priced last, with the arithmetic shown, including where it is not the cheapest. Choosing on features rather than price? Our best webinar platforms guide covers that side.
Webinar pricing at a glance
The entry point each vendor lists on monthly billing, as checked September 2026. Prices change often; the billing column is the durable part.
| Platform | Audience billed by | Entry point |
|---|---|---|
| Zoom Webinars | Capacity tier, plus a Pro licence | $89 a month plus $16.99 for Pro |
| GoTo Webinar | Capacity tier, per organizer | Not shown when checked |
| WebinarJam | Room size tier | $49 a month for 100 |
| StreamYard | Plan tier | Free, with its logo |
| Riverside | Registrant tier | $99 a month for 100 registrants |
| Restream | Plan tier | Free, with its branding |
| Demio | Attendee tier, per host | $63 a month for 50 |
| Livestorm | Each unique attendee | €2.50 per attendee credit |
| BigMarker | Capacity tier, annual | Quote only |
| Drry (ours) | Hours watched | $99 a month, Growth plan |
What each vendor charges
Zoom Webinars. $89 a month billed monthly, or $66.67 billed annually, for the entry capacity tier, and it needs a Pro licence at $16.99 beside it. Webinars Plus is $99 and Zoom Events $149. Larger audiences move to higher, quote-based tiers. The full breakdown is in our Zoom pricing guide.
GoTo Webinar. Three plans: Reach for up to 500 participants with one organizer, Elevate for up to 1,000, and Complete for up to 3,000, which is quoted by sales. The prices did not display on GoTo's pricing page when we checked, so we quote none; it offers a free trial.
WebinarJam and EverWebinar. WebinarJam is sized by room, billed monthly: Starter $49 for 100 attendees and one host (one-hour sessions), Basic $99 for 500 and two hosts, Professional $299 for 2,000, and Enterprise $499 for 5,000, with lower annual prices ($39, $79, $229, $379) and a $1 fourteen-day trial. EverWebinar, the sister product for automated replays on a schedule, is $199 month to month, or $99 a month paid annually.
StreamYard. A streaming studio rather than a registration platform. Free with its logo and six people on screen; Core $44.99 a month billed monthly ($35.99 yearly); Advanced $88.99 ($68.99 yearly), which adds on-air webinars for up to 100 viewers. Business plans are quoted.
Riverside. The Webinar plan is $99 a month billed monthly, or $79 billed annually, for up to 100 registrants, with lead capture and recurring webinars. The Pro and Grow recording plans are $29 and $39, and Business is custom, up to 10,000 registrants.
Restream. A multistreaming tool: free with Restream branding on two channels, then Standard $19, Professional $49 and Business $239 a month billed monthly, with 20% off for annual billing. It sends a live stream to several platforms at once rather than running registration and replays.
Demio. Starter is $63 a month billed monthly, or $45 billed annually, for 50 attendees and a single host. The larger plans price per host with attendee tiers from 150 to 3,000, and the free trial is fourteen days, capped at 20 attendees and one-hour sessions.
Livestorm. Pro is priced per attendee credit, €2.50 each, where a credit is one unique participant in a session, used within twelve months. Events hold up to 3,000 live attendees and run up to four hours; Enterprise is custom. Cheap for occasional small sessions, and it adds up for frequent large ones.
BigMarker. Quote only, on annual subscriptions: Basic for up to 1,000 live attendees, Enterprise for up to 10,000, and Enterprise+ for up to 500,000. Built for large corporate events; no price is listed.
Where Drry fits, priced honestly
Drry runs webinars inside the same community your members log into, on the Growth plan at $99 a month, with 150 viewer hours included. A viewer hour is one person watching for an hour. Past the allowance nothing bills unless you switch extra usage on and set a cap, up to $300 a month; then it is $0.15 a viewer hour, and it stops at your cap. One broadcast admits up to 10,000 viewers, and at the highest cap a month can carry up to about 2,150 viewer hours. The price also covers the community, courses and email.
The honest reading: for a single webinar with nothing else to run, a dedicated tool or Zoom is often cheaper. Drry earns its price when the webinar feeds a community, a course or a membership you would otherwise pay for separately, because the registration list, the replay and the offer afterwards all land in the same place. See how webinars work on Drry.
Questions coaches ask
How much does a webinar platform cost?
As checked in September 2026, a dedicated webinar platform's entry plan runs from about $49 to $99 a month on monthly billing (WebinarJam from $49 for 100 attendees, Demio from $63 for 50, Zoom Webinars from $89 plus a Pro licence, Riverside's Webinar plan $99), and the price climbs with audience size. Livestorm charges per attendee instead, and GoTo Webinar and BigMarker quote their prices.
What is the cheapest webinar platform?
For broadcasting alone, StreamYard and Restream both have free plans, with their own branding on the stream. For a platform with registration, reminders and replays, the lowest entry price checked for this guide was WebinarJam's Starter at $49 a month billed monthly, for 100 attendees and one host.
How much does StreamYard cost?
StreamYard has a free plan with its logo on the stream and up to six people on screen. Core is $44.99 a month billed monthly ($35.99 billed yearly) and Advanced is $88.99 ($68.99 yearly), which adds on-air webinars for up to 100 viewers, as checked in September 2026.
How much does Riverside cost?
Riverside's Webinar plan is $99 a month billed monthly, or $79 a month billed annually, for webinars with up to 100 registrants. Its Pro and Grow recording plans are $29 and $39 a month, and Business is custom-priced with up to 10,000 webinar registrants, as checked in September 2026.
How much does GoTo Webinar cost?
GoTo Webinar sells three plans, Reach for up to 500 participants, Elevate for up to 1,000 and Complete for up to 3,000, but the prices did not display on its pricing page when we checked in September 2026, and Complete is quoted by sales. Check goto.com for the current figures.
Is there a webinar platform that charges by the hour watched?
Drry (which we make) does: its Growth plan is $99 a month with 150 viewer hours included, and past that $0.15 a viewer hour only if you switch extra usage on and set a cap. Livestorm is the nearest usage-based alternative, charging per unique attendee.