A Zoom Webinars alternative, in your own brand
Zoom is built for meetings, and webinars are a paid add-on. Kolcast is built for webinars: free to start, nothing for your audience to install, and your brand everywhere.
| Kolcast | Zoom Webinars | |
|---|---|---|
| A free plan for webinars | Yes: one webinar, up to 50 viewers and 60 minutes | No free webinar plan on Zoom’s pricing page |
| Price | $39 for one webinar, or $79 a month for 4 webinars | Zoom Webinars from $89 a month, or $66.67 a month billed yearly |
| Joining from a phone | In the phone’s browser, nothing to install | Computer browsers can join; on a phone, the Zoom app |
| Your brand | Your logo, colour and own address on every screen and email; no logo of ours on paid plans | Logo and colours on the registration page; branded emails and studio on Webinars Plus |
| Automated webinars | On Basic and Unlimited | On Webinars Plus (simulive) |
| Registration, Q&A, polls, recording, reports | Yes, on every plan | Yes |
Zoom’s plans and prices as shown on zoom.us, checked 22 October 2026. Prices change; check their site before deciding.
When Kolcast fits better
When you broadcast to your own audience, want it to look like your organisation and not like Zoom, and want people to join from a phone in one tap. And when you would rather start free than buy an add-on.
Where Zoom is stronger
- Everyone already knows Zoom.
- Very large audiences, in the thousands.
- Many integrations and an admin layer for large companies.
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