Zoom Webinars review

Zoom Webinars is the default choice for many teams because registrants and speakers rarely need help joining. The base Webinars plan covers up to 500 attendees with chat, reactions, polls and Q&A, custom backgrounds, AI generated smart chapters on recordings and performance reports that feed marketing tools. Webinars Plus is where the marketing features sit: you can pre-record content and run it as if it were live, prepare speakers in a private backstage, choose from production layouts and scenes, build event pages with AI generated text and images, and turn recordings into text and video content. The Events tier adds multiple stages, ticket types, a lobby, sponsor features, networking and hybrid support. Zoom says it hosted more than 9 million webinars in 2025. The page we fetched only showed local currency, so we list the USD price as pending. Expect to pay per host, and expect the most useful follow-up features to sit on Webinars Plus rather than the entry tier.

Who it is for

Marketing teams that want a familiar webinar room for up to 500 attendees and a clear path to on-demand content and events.

Price

See vendor pricing (USD check pending).

US price check pending. See the vendor pricing page.

Key features

• Webinars plan for up to 500 attendees with chat, reactions, polls and Q&A
• AI generated smart chapters on recordings
• Performance reports that connect to marketing tools
• Webinars Plus adds pre-recorded sessions run as live and a private backstage
• Events tier adds multiple stages, ticket types, networking and hybrid features

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Most attendees already know the Zoom interface
• Strength: Three tiers make it easy to grow from webinars to full events
• Strength: Webinars Plus covers on-demand video and AI content repurposing
• Weakness: USD price could not be confirmed from our location, so check the US page
• Weakness: Backstage and simulated live sessions need Webinars Plus
• Weakness: Pricing is per user, so each host adds cost

Key facts

• Attendee cap: Up to 500 on the plans shown on the product page
• Plans: Webinars, Webinars Plus, Events
• Scale: 9M+ webinars hosted annually, per Zoom's 2025 internal data

Where it ranks

Zoom Webinars is No. 1 in our Best Webinar Software verdict.