Airmeet vs GoTo Webinar

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.

GoTo Webinar is one of the longest-running webinar platforms, sold by GoTo, the Boston-based company formerly called LogMeIn, which renamed itself in 2022. It began at Citrix as GoToWebinar and became part of LogMeIn in 2017. The product covers registration, live and pre-recorded webinars, audience engagement and reporting, and is widely used by B2B marketing teams, trainers and associations.

Core features include branded registration pages, automated reminder and follow-up emails, polls, handouts, live Q&A, closed captions, VoIP and phone audio, and detailed attendee reports. Higher tiers add cloud recordings, AI summaries and transcripts, breakout rooms, custom URLs, simulive events that run recordings as if live, source tracking, certificates, paid registrations and live streaming. Webcast mode and the GoTo Stage video hub handle larger one-to-many broadcasts. Plans were renamed to Reach, Elevate and Complete and are priced per organizer, with Complete sold through sales.

It fits companies running regular lead-generation or training webinars that need reliable registration data flowing into a CRM or marketing automation tool. Zoom Events is the natural choice for teams already on Zoom, Livestorm is browser-only with a more modern interface, and Demio is simpler for marketers running automated webinars.

Buying tip: the published prices are per organizer per month on annual billing, and Reach caps you at 500 participants, so price Elevate if you expect larger audiences or need cloud recordings. A free trial is available from the pricing page.