The credits question is what kills a virtual conference quietly. Four hundred people joined the stream, the chat was busy, and afterwards nobody can prove who actually attended a session.
Airmeet was built for a different problem. Its own pricing page speaks to go-to-market teams and measures success in pipeline generated and deals closed, which is a fine thing to be, and exactly why organizers running virtual or hybrid conferences with sessions, speakers, and continuing education credits end up shopping elsewhere.
This comparison is for them, and every price below comes from the vendor’s own published pages, current as of 2026.
The short list
- Conference Tracker for virtual and hybrid conferences that certify attendance, from $990 per event.
- Livestorm for recurring marketing webinars, priced by attendee credits from $3.00 per attendee.
- Zoom Events for teams already on Zoom, webinar plans from $83.33 per month billed annually.
- vFairs for virtual expos and career fairs built around booths, priced by quote.
- Accelevents for annual event portfolios, plans from $7,500 per year with virtual as a paid add-on.
How we compared
We compared published pricing, whether the platform can verify that a remote attendee actually watched a session rather than just joined it, and whether it can be bought for a single event. Conference Tracker is our product, so we kept the method fair: each vendor’s own published numbers, no third-party review scores, and a plain section on who should stay with Airmeet.
Published pricing at a glance
| Platform | Best for | Published pricing | Pricing model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Airmeet | webinar-led marketing programs | Premium Webinars from $167 per month billed yearly ($199 monthly) | subscription from 100 attendees per webinar; Events and Managed Events tiers by quote; extra attendees billed pay as you go |
| Conference Tracker | virtual and hybrid conferences with credits | from $990 (300-attendee event) | flat per event, no subscription, no per-attendee fees |
| Livestorm | recurring marketing webinars | $3.00 per attendee at the 400-credit selection | attendee credits, one per unique participant per session, valid 12 months |
| Zoom Events | webinars to multi-session events | Webinars $83.33, Webinars Plus $290.83, Events $415.83 per month billed annually | subscription per license, attendee capacity selected per plan |
| vFairs | virtual expos and career fairs | not published | quote request only |
| Accelevents | annual mixed-event portfolios | plans at $7,500 and $13,500 | annual, unlimited events, virtual as paid add-on |
What Airmeet costs, and who it fits
Airmeet publishes one number and quotes the rest. Premium Webinars starts at $167 per month billed yearly, or $199 billed monthly, from 100 attendees per webinar and scalable to 10,000, while the Events and Managed Events tiers are personalized quotes. Attendees beyond a plan’s limit are billed pay as you go on the card once the event ends.
Around the pricing sit the signals of who this product is for. The page sells unified go-to-market teams and counts its proof in pipeline dollars and closed-won deals, so for a demand-generation team running webinars all year it is the right product speaking its buyer’s language. For an association or university certifying attendance at a virtual conference, it is a sign to keep reading.
Conference Tracker
Check people in fast. Prove they were there.
Conference Tracker scans attendees with the phones your staff already carry, tracks time in every session, and issues certificates and CEU transcripts on its own. One conference ran 2,623 attendees across 186 sessions on it.
30+ years building attendance tracking for events and education
Conference Tracker: verified virtual attendance, from $990 per event
Conference Tracker prices the other way around, from $990 for a 300-attendee event, flat per event with no subscription and nothing metered per attendee. The plan and attendee limit are bought through a checkout inside the account, so one conference does not need a procurement cycle to get started.
The virtual side is built around proof rather than presence. Attendance at online sessions is recorded automatically with nobody scanning anyone, and the platform checks that people are actually watching, because an are-you-still-watching prompt appears after a set number of minutes and removes viewers who do not confirm.
A streaming access window bounds how early and how late a session can be viewed. The sessions themselves run on built-in streaming, a linked Zoom meeting, OBS, or a pre-recorded video that still starts on schedule, and accepted proposals become scheduled sessions with their presenter accounts created in one save.
Credit then follows the evidence. Each session carries its own presence rule, set as a share of session time or as minutes attended, and credit can be withheld until the attendee passes a quiz or completes the session’s evaluation.
When the event ends, attendees generate their own attendance certificates and CEU transcripts from the conference home page, and because every log carries one of five statuses, a gap in the data is labeled rather than quietly wrong.
Registration payments land directly in your own PayPal, Stripe, or Authorize.net account, and the virtual and hybrid conference side of the product covers all of this end to end.
If your virtual event has to prove who attended, request a Conference Tracker demo and price your conference as one event rather than a subscription.
Two honest limits apply. Online and mixed sessions require the Virtual Package, a separately purchased add-on, and there is no marketing automation suite or CRM pipeline reporting, so a team whose webinars exist to feed a sales funnel is buying a different category of product.
Livestorm: webinar-first, pay for actual attendees
Livestorm prices by what it calls attendee credits, one credit per unique participant per session, valid across 12 months, with team members not counted. Its pricing page shows the Pro plan at $3.00 per attendee at the 400-credit selection, and Enterprise goes through sales.
The model rewards recurring webinars with variable turnout, since unused credits carry across events. It is webinar tooling first, though, so a multi-track conference agenda with per-session credit rules is not what it was built to run.
Zoom Events: from webinars to session-based events
If the question is whether to just use Zoom, the answer has real numbers. The Zoom Events pricing page lists three annual-billed plans: Webinars at $83.33 per month, Webinars Plus at $290.83 with production tools and on-demand video, and Events at $415.83, which adds multi-session virtual events, networking, and hybrid features. Attendee capacity is selected per plan, with support stated up to 100,000.
Attendees need no Zoom account to join, so for teams already carrying Zoom licenses it is the shortest switch available. The trade is that you get attendance reporting rather than credit certification.
vFairs: virtual expos built around booths
vFairs publishes no pricing, and its quote form scopes the price by product bundle and event type. The product’s core is the exhibit-hall format of 3D lobbies and virtual booths, which fits career fairs and expos, where the floor is the point.
If your event is built around booths rather than sessions, our vFairs comparison covers that end of the market in the same published-pricing format as this one.
Accelevents: annual portfolios with virtual as an add-on
Accelevents publishes plans at $7,500 and $13,500 per year with unlimited events and unlimited admin seats, and virtual events are a paid add-on rather than the core.
It is the closest thing here to Airmeet’s subscription model, aimed at a calendar of mixed in-person and online events, at a floor priced for teams that will actually fill the year.
Where Airmeet stays the right call
Keep Airmeet when the webinar funnel is the point: a marketing team running recurring pipeline webinars that wants registration-to-CRM handoff and engagement analytics on one subscription, with attendee tiers that scale from 100 to 10,000.
Its published webinar price is competitive for that cadence, and a quote-tier structure suits a team that knows its annual volume. Switching earns its cost when the event is a conference, with sessions that carry individual presence rules, credits that must survive an audit, and a budget that belongs to one event rather than a year.
Which alternative fits which event
Choose by what the event has to prove. If it has to produce credits and verified virtual attendance, Conference Tracker does that for $990 per event. If it is a series of recurring marketing webinars, Livestorm’s attendee credits fit that rhythm, and a team already on Zoom licenses has the shortest switch in Zoom Events. An expo floor with booths points to vFairs, and a year of mixed events on one contract to Accelevents.
If your shortlist is really about attendee engagement features rather than the virtual format, our Whova comparison runs that end of the decision, and every number above is the vendor’s own, current as of 2026.
