8 best Goldcast alternatives and competitors in 2026

Goldcast is a B2B event and video content platform for webinars, virtual summits and in-person field events. Its Content Lab uses AI to turn each session into clips, blogs and social posts. Plans are quote-based and built around a yearly event allowance, and Goldcast has been part of Cvent since December 2025.

Whether your Goldcast renewal is coming up or you're building a shortlist, this guide compares 8 alternatives on how they charge, what they do with your event video, how they sync to your CRM and how users rate them. Livestorm is our product, so it ranks first, but each tool below has real strengths, and we point out where another one is the better fit.

Quick answer: the best Goldcast alternatives and competitors in 2026 are Livestorm for marketing webinars with published pricing, BigMarker for large virtual summits, TwentyThree for video marketing teams, Riverside for studio-quality recording and podcasts, Zoom for teams already on Zoom, Webex for regulated enterprises, GoTo Webinar for teams on the GoTo suite and WebinarGeek for evergreen webinars.

Why teams look for a Goldcast alternative

Goldcast is well rated: it averages 4.7/5 on G2 and Capterra (200+ reviews), and reviewers often praise its ease of use and responsive support. Content Lab and native HubSpot and Salesforce sync come with every plan. Teams usually start looking elsewhere for reasons of budget, format or fit:

• Quote-only pricing: Goldcast publishes no list price. Plans go through sales and are sized by a yearly event allowance: 12 events on Starter, 25 on Pro and 35 on Premium, with unlimited attendees (as of September 2026). You pay for the allowance, whoever shows up.

• Format limits on lower tiers: Starter and Pro limit events to 90 minutes and to the webinar format. Multi-track, multi-day events with booths sit on higher tiers.

• A learning curve: reviewers often mention a learning curve and settings scattered across the platform.

• Fewer ways to connect other tools: Goldcast doesn't list Zapier among its integrations, and webhooks and API access start on the Pro plan.

• Ownership change: Cvent acquired Goldcast in December 2025, then closed its acquisition of ON24 on April 1, 2026, so it now sells three webinar products: Cvent Webinar, Goldcast and ON24. Goldcast's founders said it continues as its own product, with Cvent investing in its roadmap and support.

1. Livestorm

Livestorm is a browser-based webinar platform for B2B marketing and demand-gen teams that want branded, CRM-connected webinars without an annual event contract. Where Goldcast sells quote-based tiers built around a number of events, Livestorm publishes its prices and charges only for the attendees who join. Hosts and attendees join from the browser with nothing to install, and on average 47.7% of registrants show up live (Livestorm 2026 Webinar Benchmark Report, 33,786 webinars). It's EU-hosted, ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant.

Key features:

• Live, on-demand and automated webinars, with branded registration pages and event rooms for up to 3,000 live attendees per event

• Polls, Q&A with question upvotes, emoji reactions and live CTAs, plus automated reminder and follow-up emails

• AI Studio turns replays into short clips (paid add-on), and a verified Claude connector (MCP) lets AI assistants work with your webinar data

• Native HubSpot sync on Pro (Livestorm is a HubSpot Leading Technology Partner), Salesforce, Marketo, Pardot and Microsoft Dynamics on Enterprise, and Zapier or Make for 3,000+ apps

Pricing: Livestorm has a free plan (limited, good for testing). Pro runs on attendee credits, from $3.00 per attendee on the 400-credit annual pack, and hosts, moderators and no-shows don't use credits (as of September 2026). Enterprise is custom, and AI Studio is a paid add-on. See Livestorm pricing.

See the full Livestorm vs Goldcast comparison.

2. BigMarker

BigMarker is a webinar and virtual event suite for large, sales-led enterprise deployments, from always-on webinar series to monetized conferences. Like Goldcast, it's quote-based and covers both webinars and larger virtual events, but its focus is audience size: it hosts up to 500,000 live attendees on Enterprise+, with built-in ticketing on Enterprise.

Key features:

• Up to 1,000 live attendees on Basic, 10,000 on Enterprise and 500,000 on Enterprise+

• Simulive, evergreen and 24/7 webinars for always-on programs

• Polls, quizzes, Q&A, offers and breakout rooms, with ticketing and certificates on Enterprise

• Native Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Eloqua and Pardot integrations, plus Zapier, webhooks and an API from Enterprise

Pricing: BigMarker doesn't publish prices, and all 3 plans are quote-based: Basic (1 host license, up to 1,000 live attendees), Enterprise (4 licenses, 10,000 attendees) and Enterprise+ (6 licenses, 500,000 attendees), as of September 2026.

Related comparisons: Livestorm vs BigMarker

3. TwentyThree

TwentyThree is a Copenhagen-based video marketing platform that brings webinars, video hosting, a video library and personal video together. It's the closest match to Goldcast's content angle: recordings become highlight clips and AI draft content. The difference is in how you buy it: TwentyThree publishes monthly prices, and it's EU-hosted, with an annual ISAE 3000 Type 2 audit by PwC.

Key features:

• Webinars of up to 50,000 participants, with chat, questions, polls, reactions, ActionCards and multi-camera production

• Highlight clips and AI draft content, such as articles and social posts, generated from recordings

• Video hosting, a video library and personal video in the same platform

• HubSpot on every plan, with engagement pushed into HubSpot timelines; Marketo, Eloqua and Salesforce as premium integrations on Enterprise

Pricing: TwentyThree sells monthly plans per workspace: Pro at €499 a month (500 registrants per webinar, 5 hosts), Complete at €1,499 (3,000 registrants, 25 hosts) and Enterprise at €2,500 (unlimited registrants), as of September 2026.

Related comparisons: Livestorm vs TwentyThree

4. Riverside

Riverside is a recording and content creation studio that adds webinars and live streaming on top. If turning sessions into content is what you value most in Goldcast, Riverside covers that side well: it records each participant locally in up to 4K video and 48kHz audio, then turns sessions into clips, posts and show notes with Magic Clips and its Co-Creator assistant. Its webinar plans are smaller, though: 100 registrants on Webinar and 10,000 on Business.

Key features:

• Local recording of each participant in up to 4K video and 48kHz audio

• Magic Clips and the Co-Creator assistant turn sessions into clips, posts and show notes

• Webinars with registration forms, reminder emails, chat, Q&A, polls, reactions and live call-ins, plus multistreaming to YouTube, LinkedIn and custom RTMP destinations

• HubSpot sync on the Webinar plan, Salesforce and Marketo on Business, plus webhooks, a registrant API and its own MCP connector

Pricing: Riverside has a free plan and a Pro plan at $24 a month billed annually. Registration, reminders and HubSpot sync come with the Webinar plan, at $79 a month billed annually ($99 monthly) for up to 100 registrants, and Business is custom priced for up to 10,000 registrants (as of September 2026).

Related comparisons: Livestorm vs Riverside

5. Zoom Events and Zoom Webinars

Zoom sells Zoom Webinars and Zoom Events as add-ons to its meetings platform, which makes it a natural option if your company already runs on Zoom. Zoom Events covers part of Goldcast's event ground, with multi-session hubs, a lobby, networking and ticketing. On the content side, its AI Companion is built for meetings rather than webinar marketing, and webinar reports focus on attendance and interaction.

Key features:

• Zoom Webinars capacity tiers from 300 to 50,000 attendees, and single-use events of up to 1 million

• Zoom Events adds multi-session hubs, a lobby, networking and ticketing

• Polls, Q&A, raise hand, chat and reactions; automated webinars and advanced branding need Webinars Plus

• End-to-end encryption option and HIPAA compliance for regulated teams

Pricing: Zoom Webinars starts at $66.67 a month billed annually ($89 monthly), on top of a Zoom Workplace Pro license, and Zoom Events starts at $124.17 a month billed annually (as of September 2026). You pay for the full capacity tier, whoever shows up.

Related comparisons: Livestorm vs Zoom · Zoom alternatives

6. Webex Events and Webex Webinars

Webex is Cisco's collaboration suite, with Webex Webinars for webinar programs and Webex Events for audiences of up to 100,000. It suits large, compliance-heavy organizations, especially those standardized on Cisco. Compared with Goldcast, webinars and events are one part of a meetings-and-calling suite, and native integrations center on Salesforce, Marketo and Eloqua rather than HubSpot.

Key features:

• Branded registration, simulive and on-demand sessions in Webex Webinars, with breakout rooms, practice sessions and closed captions

• Slido-powered polling, chat and Q&A built in

• Native Salesforce, Marketo and Oracle Eloqua integrations; HubSpot users need Zapier or a custom integration

• HIPAA support and FedRAMP options on certain Enterprise plans

Pricing: Webex Webinars is listed at $2,700 per license per year for up to 1,000 attendees (as of September 2026). Larger webinars and Webex Events go through sales, and Real-Time Translation adds $300 per license per year.

Related comparisons: Livestorm vs Webex · Webex alternatives

7. GoTo Webinar

GoTo Webinar is a long-established webinar tool for marketing and training teams, with Reach and Elevate plans you can buy online. It doesn't try to be an event or content platform like Goldcast: it covers the core webinar workflow for up to 3,000 participants, at a published price. It fits if your program is mostly recurring webinars and you'd rather skip a quote-based contract.

Key features:

• Clear tiers: Reach (up to 500 participants), Elevate (1,000) and Complete (3,000)

• Polls, surveys, Q&A and handouts, plus practice mode and, from Elevate, breakout rooms and simulive events

• Recording with transcription and live captions, and AI summaries from Elevate

• Native integrations listed with Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Pardot, Oracle Eloqua and Zoho, plus Zapier and a public API

Pricing: Reach costs $59 a month billed annually (up to 500 participants, 1 organizer) and Elevate $103 a month billed annually (up to 1,000). Complete, for up to 3,000 participants, is quote only (as of September 2026). There's a free trial but no free plan.

Related comparisons: Livestorm vs GoTo Webinar · GoTo Webinar alternatives

8. WebinarGeek

WebinarGeek is a Europe-based, browser-based webinar tool with fixed viewer tiers, built for regular and evergreen programs. Next to Goldcast, it's a lighter option, with published euro prices, long sessions and built-in payments for paid webinars. It hosts up to 1,000 viewers on Premium, or 5,000 on Enterprise.

Key features:

• Chat, polls, quizzes and CTA buttons, with automated webinars from Premium

• Sessions of up to 8 hours on Premium and 12 hours on Enterprise

• Native Stripe and Mollie payments for paid webinars, and restreaming to YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook on Premium

• Zapier for 6,000+ tools, a REST API and webhooks; HubSpot and Salesforce as paid add-ons on Premium, included on Enterprise

Pricing: WebinarGeek bills monthly in euros by viewer tier: Basic costs €65 a month billed annually (50 viewers), Premium runs from €85 (125 viewers) to €249 (1,000) and Enterprise starts at €349 (500 viewers, up to 5,000), as of September 2026. There's a 14-day trial.

Related comparisons: Livestorm vs WebinarGeek

Goldcast alternatives compared

Ratings: average of G2 and Capterra, October 2026. Prices as of September 2026, from each vendor's pricing page.

How to choose a Goldcast alternative

Start from what Goldcast does for you today, then compare these 4 points:

• Webinars or a full event and content suite: if your program is mostly recurring webinars, a focused platform such as Livestorm, GoTo Webinar or WebinarGeek is simpler to run. For large virtual summits, look at BigMarker, Zoom Events or Webex Events.

• Pricing model: Goldcast and BigMarker quote every plan. Livestorm charges for the attendees who join, while Zoom, Webex, GoTo Webinar, TwentyThree, Riverside and WebinarGeek publish entry prices for capacity, license, organizer, registrant or viewer tiers.

• Video content: decide how much repurposing you need built in. TwentyThree and Riverside generate clips and AI content from recordings, while Livestorm's AI Studio turns replays into short clips as a paid add-on.

• CRM sync and data hosting: check which CRMs sync natively, and on which plan. Livestorm syncs with HubSpot on Pro, Webex has no native HubSpot integration, and WebinarGeek sells HubSpot and Salesforce as add-ons on Premium. If your security team requires EU hosting, Livestorm and TwentyThree are both EU-hosted.

Our verdict

For B2B marketing teams whose program runs on recurring webinars, Livestorm is our pick. You can start without a sales call, pay only for the attendees who join, and sync registration, attendance and engagement data to HubSpot on Pro, or to Salesforce, Marketo, Pardot and Microsoft Dynamics on Enterprise. When you want clips from your replays, AI Studio adds them as a paid add-on. Compare plans on the Livestorm pricing page.

Another tool is the better call in some cases. If AI repurposing of every session is the core of your program, Goldcast itself, TwentyThree or Riverside go further than Livestorm. Choose BigMarker, Zoom Events or Webex Events for summits far beyond 3,000 attendees, GoTo Webinar for simple programs at a published monthly price, and WebinarGeek for long or evergreen webinars.