How we compare

Where the numbers come from

Every price, attendee cap, session limit and trial length on this site is read from an official vendor source: its pricing page first, then, where that page is silent or out of date, its help centre, release notes, blog, terms of service or trial checkout, cited with their date. Feature changes and product retirements are read from the vendor’s help centre or release notes, and dated the same way. We do not take figures from third-party roundups, review aggregators or press coverage, because those go stale silently, and we do not take them from the material affiliate programmes send us either. When a programme’s marketing and the vendor’s pricing page disagree, the pricing page wins. For example, Genesis Digital tells affiliates that every WebinarJam plan includes EverWebinar, while webinarjam.com/pricing lists it on the Basic, Professional and Enterprise plans only, not on Starter, so that is what this site says.

Each page carries the date its figures were checked. If a vendor does not publish a number, the table says “Not stated” — never an estimate, never a range we invented. BigMarker, for example, publishes no price at any tier, and we say so rather than guessing.

Prices are quoted in the currency of the vendor’s own page. We do not convert, because a conversion needs a rate and a date that would be out of step with the price itself.

What decides the ranking

Platforms are ordered by how well they solve the specific problem named at the top of each page. On a page about leaving a platform that bills per attendee, flat pricing weighs heavily; on a page about a platform that caps sessions at one hour, session length does.

Across all pages, four criteria carry the most weight, in this order:

1. Total cost for the job you came for. Including what evergreen or automation costs on top of the advertised entry price, which is where most published comparisons stop.
2. Published limits. Attendee caps and session lengths, as stated by the vendor.
3. Billing terms. Annual discount, currency, and whether an EU entity invoices European buyers.
4. Fit to the stated use case. A platform that is wrong for evergreen can still be right for a large one-off event, and we say so on the page.

What we do not do

We do not publish ratings we did not collect. You will not find a star score or a review count in our structured data, because we do not host reviews. Where a vendor’s rating on an external site is relevant, we name the site and the date.

We do not present partners as customers. No logo on this site is there to imply a client relationship that does not exist.

We do not rank by commission. Commission does not set the order; the criteria above do. You should still know the pattern. On every comparison page published so far, our overall pick is Welya, which pays us a recurring commission. In the first year, Genesis Digital pays us the higher rate (40%, against 20% at Welya), so a Genesis Digital customer pays us more than a Welya customer does, on comparable plans; Welya pays for longer, for as long as the subscription runs. Welya comes first despite that lower first-year rate, for its flat pricing in euros excluding tax, 500 attendees and two-hour sessions from €79/mo excl. tax, billed yearly, according to its pricing grid (read 25 September 2026). Welya says it runs both live and evergreen webinars, and its pricing grid lists the same features on all three plans: only the caps change. Platforms that pay us nothing are listed on the same pages, rank above some of those that do, and come out ahead on individual criteria, such as a lower entry price or an EU entity that invoices European buyers. If a platform that pays us nothing becomes the better answer to a page’s question, it becomes the pick.

Affiliate relationships

Some links on this site are affiliate links: if you subscribe through them, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. We currently hold two affiliate agreements. The first is with Welya, which pays a recurring commission. The second is with Genesis Digital, through PartnerStack: a single programme that covers WebinarJam, EverWebinar and Kartra, and pays for up to 12 months on a monthly subscription, or once on a yearly one. WebinarJam and EverWebinar are compared on several pages of this site, and criticised on price on some of them, so read those pages knowing that we can earn from both. Both agreements are set out on the disclosure page.

Where a platform runs no affiliate programme, or we have not joined it, its link is a plain untracked link. Our affiliate links go through /go/: /go/welya/, /go/webinarjam/ and /go/everwebinar/. Every link to WebinarJam or EverWebinar on this site goes through one of the last two, so it is an affiliate link from the Genesis Digital programme. Kartra is the exception within that programme: Genesis Digital gives us no Kartra link, so Kartra is linked with a plain, untracked link to its public pricing page. An affiliate link always lands on the product named on the button: if a programme gives us no link for that product, we use a plain link instead. A plain link earns us nothing by itself, but if you clicked one of our tracked links to the same site earlier, the vendor may still credit us with the sale. We do not ask vendors to credit us for sales made through plain links. Every outbound link to a vendor — tracked or not — carries rel="sponsored nofollow".

How often this is rechecked

Every page is reviewed at least once every three months. Most pages share one cycle, so their footer shows the same date: the next review is due on 5 December 2026. The Kartra webinars page has its own dates, shown in its footer: 1 November 2026, the day Kartra retires its webinar module (Kartra’s help centre, checked 24 September 2026), then 14 December 2026. Each comparison page also shows the date its own figures were checked. A page is rechecked before that date when a vendor changes a price or retires a feature the page relies on. Software prices move without notice; the date on the page is how you judge whether to trust the number.

Found a figure that has changed? The fastest fix is to tell us which page and which line.