Airmeet vs Cvent

Airmeet is a platform for webinars and virtual, hybrid and in-person events, founded in August 2019 and led by CEO Lalit Mangal, with its engineering roots in Bengaluru. It grew during the 2020 shift to online events, raised a $35M Series B after its Series A, and says more than 4,000 organizations have used it. Its core job is running branded events where attendees do more than watch a stage: they network, visit booths and talk at tables.

The event toolkit covers registration pages, ticketing, a backstage for speakers, multi-track sessions, polls and Q&A, plus Social Lounge tables, Speed Networking, Fluid Space and exhibitor booths. Airstudio handles streaming and recording, and AI tools (Airgenie for summaries and content, Airshots for clips) repurpose sessions afterwards. Pricing is attendee-based: Premium Webinars is self-serve, while Events, Managed Events and the Agency plan are quoted.

Airmeet fits marketing teams, associations and agencies that run recurring webinars plus a few larger community events per year. It is less suited to simple one-off meetings, and Premium Webinars streams at 720p with 1080p as a paid add-on. Livestorm is simpler for browser-only webinars, Zoom Events wins where Zoom is already standard, and Hopin's event product now lives inside RingCentral Events.

Buying tip: plans are billed on actual attendees, not registrations. If attendance exceeds your bundle, extra people are still admitted and billed after the event on a pay-as-you-go basis, so model your show-up rate and pre-buy attendee bundles before a big launch.

Cvent is an event management and hospitality technology company founded in 1999 by Reggie Aggarwal and headquartered in Tysons, Virginia. Blackstone acquired it in 2023 for about $4.6 billion. Its core job: run an organisation's whole event program, from venue sourcing and registration to the onsite badge printer and post-event reporting.

The platform is a suite of modules: registration and event marketing, the Cvent Supplier Network for venue sourcing, Passkey for hotel room blocks, abstract and speaker management, mobile event apps, Attendee Hub for virtual and hybrid engagement, OnArrival check-in and badging, lead capture for exhibitors, webinars, surveys and event video. Prices are by quote: a Professional license covers only the modules you pick, Enterprise bundles registration, Attendee Hub and OnArrival with SSO and API access, and in some countries a pay-as-you-go option lets you build an event free and pay per registration.

Cvent fits enterprises, associations and agencies running many events a year that need Salesforce or Marketo sync, approvals and budgets in one system. It is expensive, implementation takes weeks, and smaller teams find it heavy. Eventbrite is far simpler for ticketed public events, Airmeet and Livestorm cover virtual events and webinars for less, and Zoom Events suits teams already standardised on Zoom.

Cvent closed its roughly $400 million all-cash acquisition of webinar platform ON24 on April 1, 2026, after buying AI video platform Goldcast in late 2025, so webinars now weigh more in the suite.