Airmeet vs Kommunity

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.

Kommunity is an all-in-one community and event platform built in Istanbul. It was founded by Emir Karşıyakalı and Güven Atbakan, who first built the software in 2015 and relaunched it as an active service in 2019, positioning it as a Meetup alternative for tech groups. It hosts groups from Turkish developer communities to international ones. Its core job is to give organizers one place to run a community, announce events, collect RSVPs or sell tickets, and keep members engaged between events.

Organizers create public, private or secret communities with a discussion feed, member segments and email announcements. Events support free RSVPs or ticket types with discounts, waitlists, screening questions, QR check-in and live streaming, plus call for papers for conferences. Monetization covers paid subscriptions, tickets, sponsorships, ads, job posts and donations. Creating communities and events is free; Kommunity takes 5% of earnings on top of Stripe's processing fee, with custom terms for high-volume organizers.

Kommunity fits meetup groups, university clubs, developer communities and coaching or customer communities that mix events with ongoing discussion. It is less polished than Circle for course-style communities, its integration list is short, and its brand is smaller outside Turkey. Luma is sleeker for single events, Circle and Mighty Networks are stronger for paid membership sites, and Eventbrite has wider event discovery.

A practical tip: Meetup organizers can import their groups and members, and Zapier connects form responses and member data to over 6,000 tools.