Zoom Webinars
Zoom Webinars is a paid platform for one-to-many broadcasts, where hosts control who can speak or share and attendees mainly watch and engage.
What Zoom Webinars is
Zoom Webinars is a paid platform for one-to-many broadcasts, where hosts control who can speak or share and attendees mainly watch and engage. It supports live, automated, and on-demand webinars, with recording, registration pages, polls, Q&A, chat, emoji reactions, quizzes, live transcription, and language interpreter support. Zoom lists capacity up to 500 attendees for the Webinars, Webinars Plus, and Events plans; its broader webinar products can support up to 100,000, depending on the purchased plan. Webinars is listed with 720p video, basic event analytics, and no breakout rooms. Reports cover registration, attendance, Q&A, polls, reactions, and surveys, and can be exported as CSV files. Attendees can join without a Zoom account. The product supports Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows, as well as API and extension platforms.
Good
- Supports live, automated, and on-demand webinars
- Includes recording, registration, polls, and Q&A
- Attendees can join without a Zoom account
- Exports event reports as CSV files
Watch out
- No free plan
- Webinars plan lists 720p video
- Webinars plan has no breakout rooms
Who it suits
Zoom Webinars suits hosts running presentations, training, demonstrations, or other events where attendees primarily view and use interactive tools. Consider the listed 500-attendee plan capacity and 720p video limit when choosing it.
Verdict
Zoom Webinars brings broadcast formats and audience engagement tools together, with reports available for review. Check its plan-specific capacity and video limits against your event needs.
Plans and prices
From Zoom Webinars's own pricing page, checked 20 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Webinars | — | 500 attendees |
| Webinars | Priced on request | 500 attendees |
| Webinars | Priced on request | One-month webinar plan |
| Webinars Plus | — | 500 attendees |
| Webinars Plus | Priced on request | 500 attendees |
| Webinars Plus | Priced on request | Pay-per-attendee licensing |
| Events | Priced on request | 500 attendees |
| Events | — | 500 attendees |
| Events | Priced on request | Pay-per-attendee licensing |
| Webinars (annual) | $66.67 a year | up to 500 attendees · 30-hour event duration · up to 1,000 video panelists · billed annually |
| Webinars Plus (annual) | $82.50 a year | up to 500 attendees · 30-hour event duration · up to 1,000 video panelists · billed annually |
| Webinars (monthly) | $89 a month | up to 500 attendees · 30-hour event duration · up to 1,000 video panelists · billed monthly |
| Webinars Plus (monthly) | $99 a month | up to 500 attendees · 30-hour event duration · up to 1,000 video panelists · billed monthly |
| Events (annual) | $124.17 a year | up to 500 attendees · 30-hour event duration · up to 1,000 video panelists · billed annually |
| Events (monthly) | $149 a month | up to 500 attendees · 30-hour event duration · up to 1,000 video panelists · billed monthly |
The facts
Each one read from Zoom Webinars's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Accessibility
- Zoom says its webinars offer AI-powered captions in more than 20 languages.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Analytics
- Webinars provides registration, attendance, Q&A, polling, reactions, and survey reports that can be exported as CSV files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Attendee access
- Attendees do not need a Zoom account to join a webinar or event.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Attendee limit
- 500checked 20 Sep 2026
- Audience
- Zoom describes webinar use cases including marketing webinars, product demonstrations, training, town halls, virtual events, educational seminars, internal announcements, lead generation, customer onboarding, and thought leadership.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Automated webinars
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Engagement
- Webinars includes chat, Q&A, emoji reactions, polls, quizzes, live transcription, and language interpreter support.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The pricing comparison lists Eloqua, HubSpot, Marketo, Pardot, Salesforce, and Open API for Webinars, and says the Apps Marketplace has 300+ integrations for webinars and events.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Live streaming
- Zoom says events can be broadcast simultaneously to YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook via RTMP while production remains controlled in Zoom.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Notable limits
- Webinars is listed with a 720p video resolution, basic event analytics, and no breakout rooms; Webinars Plus and Events list 1080p video.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Polls and Q&A
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Production
- Webinars Plus adds Simulive pre-recorded presentations, private backstage coordination, and multiple production layouts and scenes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Zoom Webinars is designed for one-to-many broadcasts where hosts control who can speak or share and attendees primarily view and engage through interactive tools.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Registration pages
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Scale
- Zoom says its webinar products can support up to 100,000 attendees, with capacity determined by the purchased plan.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security and compliance
- The plan comparison lists SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR under Security and Privacy for Webinars, Webinars Plus, and Events.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Session recording
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Support
- The pricing comparison lists Standard support for all three plans and professional event services as an add-on.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Webinar modes
- live automated and on-demandchecked 20 Sep 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2011checked 4 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- San Jose, California, United Stateschecked 4 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
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