Airmeet vs Livestorm

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.

Livestorm is a browser-based video engagement platform founded in 2016 in Paris, France, used by marketing, sales, customer success and HR teams to run webinars, virtual events and recurring online meetings. Everything happens in the browser for both hosts and attendees, removing the download step that hurts attendance on traditional webinar software.

The platform covers the full event lifecycle. Registration pages with custom fields, automated invitation and reminder emails, and calendar integrations bring people in; during the session hosts can share screens and media, run polls and Q&A, use chat and emoji reactions, and show calls to action; afterwards recordings become on-demand replays, and automated webinars play pre-recorded content on a schedule. Engagement data per attendee syncs to HubSpot, Salesforce, Marketo and other tools through native integrations and Zapier. Pricing uses yearly packs of attendee credits, one per unique attendee per session, with team members free: Pro starts at 400 credits for $1,000 a year and Enterprise is quoted.

Livestorm fits B2B companies running recurring programs: product demos, onboarding sessions, customer training and internal all-hands. Credit-based pricing can climb for large one-off events, and production features are lighter than broadcast-focused studios. Demio is a simpler, conversion-focused alternative for marketing webinars, Zoom Webinars handles very large audiences on familiar infrastructure, and StreamYard is stronger for multistreaming to social platforms.