Livestorm: pricing, pros and cons
Livestorm is a webinar platform rather than a meeting tool: registration pages, reminder emails and attendance analytics are the product, and attendees never download anything.
- Price
- $99/seat/moestimate
- At 50 people
- $59,400/yr
- Free tier
- Yes
- Website
- livestorm.co
Specification
What Livestorm supports
The dimensions every meeting tool in our catalogue is compared on.
- Max participants
- 3,000 people
- Webinars and events
- Yes
- Recording
- Yes
- Automatic transcripts
- Yes
- Phone dial-in
- No
- Guests join without installing
- Yes
- SAML single sign-on
- Yes
- SOC 2
- Yes
- EU data residency
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- No
- Open source
- No
- Public API
- Yes
- Native mobile apps
- No
The honest assessment
Livestorm: pros and cons
Priced for webinars, not for daily internal standups.
What it does well
- Registration pages, reminder emails and attendance reporting included
- No download for attendees, which lifts show-up rates
- CRM and marketing-automation integrations that actually close the loop
What it costs you
- Expensive if you only need ordinary team meetings
- Active-contact pricing surprises teams with large lists
- Overkill for internal-only use
Fit
Who Livestorm suits
Choose it if
- Marketing teams running demand-generation webinars on a schedule
- Companies who need attendance data flowing into a CRM
Look elsewhere if
- Teams looking for a daily standup tool — it is priced for events
- Internal-only use, where the registration machinery is wasted
Head to head
Livestorm compared
Direct comparisons against every other meeting tool we cover.
4 alternatives
Other meeting tools worth a look
Everything else we cover in video conferencing, cheapest first.
Questions
Livestorm, answered
What is Livestorm best for?
Marketing teams running demand-generation webinars on a schedule. Companies who need attendance data flowing into a CRM. In short: browser-based webinar platform with registration and attendee analytics built in.
What are the downsides of Livestorm?
Expensive if you only need ordinary team meetings. Active-contact pricing surprises teams with large lists. Overkill for internal-only use. The trade-off in one line: Priced for webinars, not for daily internal standups.
How much does Livestorm cost?
About $99/seat/mo on its common paid tier — roughly $59,400 a year for 50 people. There is a free tier. That figure is our unverified estimate; confirm it with the vendor before budgeting.
What are the best Livestorm alternatives?
In video conferencing the credible alternatives are Google Meet, Jitsi Meet, Whereby, Zoom. Which fits depends on your team size, budget and non-negotiables — our questionnaire ranks all of them against your answers in about three minutes.
Is Livestorm worth switching away from?
Only if one of its real drawbacks is costing you something concrete. Priced for webinars, not for daily internal standups. If none of the downsides above describe your situation, staying is almost always cheaper than moving — a migration costs weeks, and a tool that merely annoys you is not worth them.
Prices are unverified estimates — useful for comparing orders of magnitude, not for budgeting. Confirm the current figure with the vendor before you commit to anything.
Is Livestorm still the right call for your team?
Answer about a dozen questions and we will rank Livestorm against every alternative in video conferencing — with the reasoning shown, and the cost of switching at your actual seat count.