Livestorm
Marketing and sales teams that need professional webinar hosting with built-in registration, analytics, and engagement tools
Jitsi Meet
Privacy-conscious users, open source advocates, and organizations with self-hosting capability that want free, secure video conferencing
Score Comparison
Pricing & Features
Making Your Decision
When to Choose Livestorm
Marketing and sales teams that need professional webinar hosting with built-in registration, analytics, and engagement tools
Livestorm is a webinar-first platform that does one thing very well: professional virtual events with registration, engagement tracking, and on-demand replays. It's not designed to compete with Zoom or Teams for daily meetings. If you run webinars regularly, it's excellent. For general meetings, look elsewhere.
Strengths
- Purpose-built for webinars and virtual events with registration pages, landing pages, and email workflows
- AI-powered summaries and engagement analytics for every session
- Browser-based — no downloads needed for hosts or attendees
- Up to 3,000 attendees on paid plans, with on-demand replay built in
Limitations
- Expensive at $79/mo — primarily a webinar tool, not a daily meeting platform
- Free tier is extremely limited: 10 attendees, 20-minute sessions
- Overkill for standard internal team meetings
When to Choose Jitsi Meet
Privacy-conscious users, open source advocates, and organizations with self-hosting capability that want free, secure video conferencing
Jitsi Meet is the best free video conferencing platform, period. Open source, no account required, E2EE available, and self-hostable for complete control. The trade-off is the absence of AI features and the lack of commercial support. For organizations that can self-host and don't need AI, Jitsi is hard to beat at the price (free).
Strengths
- 100% free and open source — no paid plans, no feature restrictions, no user limits
- Self-hosted option for complete data sovereignty and privacy
- End-to-end encryption support for security-conscious organizations
- No account needed — create or join a meeting instantly via browser
Limitations
- No AI features — no transcription, summaries, or intelligent automation
- Quality can degrade with more than 35-50 participants on the free hosted version
- No commercial support — relies on community for troubleshooting
