Airmeet vs Sessions

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.

Sessions is a browser-based platform for meetings, webinars and online events that tries to cover the full lifecycle of a session: planning, running and following up. Participants join from a link without downloading software, and hosts prepare structured agendas with the materials, tools and timings for each part of the meeting.

During a session, hosts can bring embedded apps such as presentations, whiteboards, documents and videos into the meeting room instead of juggling screen shares, and run polls and Q&A. An AI copilot helps draft agendas, produce summaries and transcripts, and create follow-up content from recordings. Recordings, custom branding and registration pages for webinars round out the feature set. A free plan supports small meetings, with paid plans adding longer sessions, more participants, branding and more AI capacity.

Sessions fits consultants, coaches, educators, small businesses and creators who run client meetings, workshops and small webinars and want everything in one tool. It comes from a smaller vendor than the big video platforms, offers fewer integrations, and has capacity limits for large audiences. Zoom and Google Meet are the standard for everyday meetings, Livestorm and Zoom Webinars handle larger marketing webinars with richer registration and analytics, and Riverside or StreamYard suit recorded and livestreamed shows.