Airmeet vs Luma

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.

Luma (lu.ma) is an event management platform known for beautiful, minimal event pages. Tech communities, startups, venture firms and creators use it to host meetups, product launches, demo days, workshops and conferences, both in person and online. Its core job is to make creating an event, collecting registrations and keeping attendees informed effortless.

Organizers create an event page in minutes, then manage RSVPs with approval-based registration, waitlists, custom registration questions and capacity limits. Ticketing runs through Stripe with free, paid and pay-what-you-want options. Email and SMS blasts, automatic reminders and calendar invites keep attendees engaged, and a check-in app scans QR codes at the door. Community calendars let people subscribe to everything an organization hosts, which builds a recurring audience over time. Luma is free for free events and charges a platform fee on paid tickets, which Luma Plus removes along with adding more admins and advanced features for an annual subscription.

Luma fits communities and startups that run frequent events and care about how they look and feel. It is not built for large multi-track conferences with complex agendas, exhibitor management or enterprise integrations; Eventbrite reaches a broader consumer audience, Meetup offers built-in group discovery, Partiful suits casual social events, and platforms such as Cvent or Bizzabo serve large corporate conferences.