Why Livestorm is the best Microsoft Teams alternative

Livstorm can be used right in the browser of any device. Microsoft Teams is accessible through a browser or a downloadable application.

Between the two solutions, Livestorm offers the most comprehensive features to promote your webinars, such as customizable landing pages, personalized emails, and a shareable company page. Microsoft Teams provides landing pages that, despite being customizable, have strong Microsoft branding.

Livestorm webinars are known for being highly engaging, with features like virtual backgrounds, CTA buttons, polls, chat, Q&A, and emoji reactions to name a few. In comparison, Microsoft Teams has a simplistic chat, and attendees can send emoji reactions, much like they can with Livestorm. They notably don't have CTAs.

Livestorm's built-in dashboard is easy to share with teammates and gives a complete overview of attendee engagement. Microsoft Teams is missing a private chat for webinar organizers, SAML SSO, and automation that makes scaling webinars a breeze.

Livestorm's native integrations are free for any customer and include solutions like HubSpot and Slack. You can add integrations to Microsoft Teams such as productivity tools like Trello and CMS platforms like Salesforce for an additional fee.

Livestorm's API is an excellent way for developers to connect their favorite apps and build better workflows. Microsoft Teams also has a Teams API, which developers can use to automate team life cycles, manage multiple channels, and deploy apps to teams.

You can browse through all of Livestorm integrations in the App Marketplace, and find API documentation in a developers hub. Likewise, Microsoft Teams has a marketplace for app integrations and dedicated hubs for their API and SDK.

Both Microsoft Team and Livestorm have free versions of their plans. Livestorm lets you test webinar, meeting, and event use cases with all of the same features of the paid app. Microsoft Teams has limited access to meeting functionalities.

If you are looking for a robust webinar solution, Livestorm Pro is $99 a month, including any integrations, on-demand webinars and engaging features. Microsoft Teams' first tier of pricing is Business Basic which does not fit a webinar use case.

Livestorm's Pro plan lets you have unlimited moderators, events, and registrants. Microsoft Teams' Business Standard plan includes webinars and similar promotion and organizational features as Livestrorm.

If you seek a comprehensive enterprise package, Livestorm is a reliable option with a customizable offer. Livestorm's enterprise plan includes SAML SSO, priority support, 3,000 attendee add on, and SLA. Microsoft Teams has a plan called Office 365 E3 that can most closely match enterprise needs