Compare Zoom and Google Meet on features, integrations and pricing. Every claim is checked against each vendor's website, pricing and help pages, plus G2 and Capterra reviews.
Where each platform is strong, and where it falls short.
Zoom
Teams already on Zoom
Dedicated webinar add-on with registration and panelists
Polls, Q&A, reactions and raise hand in meetings and webinars
App Marketplace connects calendars, CRMs and collaboration tools
Webinars require a Zoom Workplace license first
Browser join is more limited than the desktop app
Webinar costs rise with each attendee tier
Google Meet
Google Workspace teams
Browser-based, guests join from a calendar link
Included in every Google Workspace plan
Tight links to Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Drive
No native webinar product or registration pages
Polls, Q&A and breakouts need Business Standard or higher
Attendance reports need Business Plus or higher
General information
Customer Rating
Average of G2 and Capterra ratings out of 5, with the number of reviews in brackets (rounded).
Last update: October 2026
4.6/5 (6,000+)
4.6/5 (60,000+)
Browser based
Webinar platforms that work directly in the browser, there's no need to download any software.
App recommended
Device versatility
Host events from a desktop, tablet or mobile.
On-demand webinars
Create or access pre-recorded on-demand webinars, available any time.
Automated webinars
Automate entire webinars or key actions like CTAs, start and stop times or page redirects.
Webinars Plus
Free plan
A free plan you can use without time limits, not just a trial.
Last update: October 2026
Meetings only
Meetings only
Multi-session events
Run events with several sessions or tracks under one registration.
Higher tiers
Promotion Features
Customizable registration pages
Add a banner, logo, social channels or speaker information to the event registration page without any coding skills.
Customizable emails
Customize emails with ease by adding an event banner, social sharing buttons, or a signature.
Customized email sequence
Customize your own email sequence and schedule them to be sent automatically.
Embed forms
Embed a registration form on your own website to capture more registrants.
Company page
Publish events to a public company page that gathers all upcoming and past events.
Plus / Events
Built-in social sharing
Share event registration pages on your company's social channels directly from your webinar platform.
Custom registration forms
Customize the fields of your registration form to capture insights on your audience.
Registration filter
Apply a filter to accept event registrations only from work email addresses.
Activation Features
Chat
Send chat messages through a tab built right into your webinar room.
Emoji reactions
Enable emoji reactions during live events to allow attendees to react in real-time.
Q&A
Audiences can ask questions in a dedicated space.
Question upvotes
Audiences can vote on questions that they most want to see answered. Organizers can sort them by date or most upvotes.
Live answer notification
Display a notification that shows the question you are answering live during the webinar.
Polls
Create drafts of polls in advance and publish them during your event. Or, create them live during your event to further activate your audience.
Call-to-action button
Direct your attendees to a promotional offer via a CTA displayed in the event room.
Virtual backgrounds
Change your background to personalize your webinar or look more professional.
Digital whiteboards
Collaborate with digital whiteboards within the platform or through a native integration.
Custom room branding
Add your logo, colors and backgrounds to the live event room.
Higher tiers
Limited
Organization Features
Private chat
Chat privately with event organizers and moderators during the event.
Registrants moderation
Control which registrants can and cannot access the event.
One-click integrations
Integrate the software with any app to capture other valuable insights.
Maximum number of attendees
The maximum number of attendees supported.
10000
100000
Unique contact list
Find all your event contacts in one place and get a 360 view of their activity within different events.
SAML SSO
Secure your team's access to the platform with SAML SSO.
Dial-in to webinars
Attendees can opt to dial-in to the webinar from a phone number.
Reporting Features
Analytics reports
Track and analyze all of your data with our powerful analytics tool built into the dashboard.
Webinar recordings
Record webinars automatically and send them to attendees at the end of each session.
Engagement scoring
A score per attendee based on how they interacted during the event.
Higher tiers
AI Features
AI summaries & transcripts
Automatic transcripts and AI summaries of each session.
Last update: October 2026
Automatic video clipping
AI turns recordings into short clips ready to share.
Last update: October 2026
Higher tiers
AI content generation
AI drafts posts, emails or articles from your webinar content.
Last update: October 2026
Higher tiers
Integrations
HubSpot (native)
Syncs registrants and attendance with HubSpot without a third-party tool.
Salesforce (native)
Syncs registrants and attendance with Salesforce without a third-party tool.
Zapier / Make
Connects to thousands of apps through Zapier or Make.
Native AI connector (MCP)
Official connector that lets AI assistants like Claude work with your webinar data.
Last update: October 2026
Meetings only
Security & Compliance
EU data hosting
Your data can be stored on servers in the European Union.
ISO 27001
Certified to the ISO 27001 information security standard.
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The short answer: Zoom offers a dedicated webinar product for external audiences, while Google Meet is a Workspace meeting tool that uses live streams for larger, view-only audiences.
Why it matters: If attendees must register and interact at scale, Zoom has the dedicated tool; for internal meetings, Google Meet already covers the job. Neither is built primarily as a marketing-webinar engine, so check each CRM connector before committing.
The short answer: Zoom charges per user for meetings plus a separate webinar add-on, while Google Meet is included in Google Workspace per-user plans.
Which is cheaper for you: If you already pay for Google Workspace, Meet adds no cost for internal meetings.
Prices as of September 2026. Livestorm is shown as an alternative that charges only for the attendees who join (see Livestorm pricing).
| Pricing | Zoom | Google Meet | Livestorm |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you pay for | Audience capacity, plus a Zoom Workplace Pro license | Google Workspace user licenses | Attendees who actually join |
| Entry price | Zoom Webinars: $66.67/month billed annually ($89 monthly) | Business Starter: $7 per user/month on an annual plan; free version: 100 participants, 60-minute group calls | $3.00 per attendee (400-credit annual pack) |
| Larger audiences | Capacity tiers from 300 to 50,000 attendees; Zoom Events from $124.17/month billed annually | Business Standard ($14) and Business Plus ($22) per user/month; 100 to 1,000 participants depending on plan | Lower price per attendee on bigger packs, up to 3,000 live attendees per event, custom Enterprise plan |
| No-shows and team members | You pay for the full capacity tier, whoever shows up | Attendees are free; you pay for each Workspace user | Not counted |
Zoom is a video platform with a separate webinar product, Zoom Webinars, built for registered external audiences. Google Meet is the meeting tool inside Google Workspace, included in every plan and strongest for internal meetings in the browser.
As of September 2026, Zoom Workplace Pro costs about $14.16 per user per month billed annually, and Zoom Webinars is an extra attendee-tier add-on. Google Meet is included in Google Workspace, from $7 per user per month for Business Starter on an annual plan.
Free Zoom Basic meetings end after 40 minutes and free Google Meet group calls after 60 minutes, both with up to 100 participants. Paid plans on both extend meetings to many hours.
Partly. Google Meet has no registration pages, but Enterprise plans can live stream a meeting to up to 100,000 in-domain viewers or to YouTube.
Livestorm is browser-based, hosts up to 3,000 live attendees and costs $3.00 per attendee on its entry pack (as of September 2026), with native HubSpot sync on Pro and Salesforce on Enterprise.
Plan, promote, host and analyze your webinars in one place. Build branded registration pages, send automated reminder and follow-up emails, and engage attendees with polls, Q&A and live CTAs, with no extra tools.
After the event, attendance and engagement data flow to your CRM, and AI Studio turns replays into short clips for your social channels.
Livestorm runs straight from the browser on any desktop or mobile device, so your audience can join from anywhere without downloading or installing anything.
Removing that extra step helps attendance: on Livestorm, 47.7% of registrants show up live on average (2026 Webinar Benchmark Report, 33,786 webinars analyzed).
Connect Livestorm to Claude with its verified connector, or to any AI agent that supports MCP, to create events, register attendees and analyze engagement in plain language.
Add-ons take it further: AI Studio turns every replay into short clips, and live translations show real-time AI subtitles in your attendees' language.
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