# Webinar and virtual event platforms: what AI models recommend, September 2026

Gane Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "webinar and virtual event platform" and as "platform for hosting webinars and virtual events", six framings each, to twelve models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/marketing/webinar-virtual-events/2026-09

This is the permanent record of the September 2026 Edition, published September 15, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/marketing/webinar-virtual-events/index.md

**Standing:** Livestorm leads with 23% of first choices; verdict contested. 44 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Livestorm](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/livestorm/index.md) | 23% | 9% | 47 |
| 2 | [Demio](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/demio/index.md) | 20% | 13% | 47 |
| 3 | [Goldcast](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/goldcast/index.md) | 14% | 5% | 20 |
| 4 | [Zoho Webinar](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/zoho-webinar/index.md) | 11% | 0% | 11 |
| 5 | [Zoom Webinars](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/zoom-webinars/index.md) | 7% | 26% | 68 |
| 6 | [GoTo Webinar](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/goto-webinar/index.md) | 7% | 23% | 35 |
| 7 | [BigMarker](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/bigmarker/index.md) | 2% | 5% | 21 |
| 8 | [ON24](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/on24/index.md) | 2% | 30% | 37 |
| 9 | [Bizzabo](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/bizzabo/index.md) | 2% | 17% | 12 |
| 10 | [ClickMeeting](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/clickmeeting/index.md) | 2% | 15% | 13 |
| 15 | [Airmeet](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/airmeet/index.md) | 0% | 0% | 14 |
| 16 | [Webex Webinars](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/webex-webinars/index.md) | 0% | 18% | 22 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 66 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: BigMarker; alternatives Demio, GoTo Webinar, Goldcast, Livestorm
- GPT-5.4 mini: Demio; alternatives ON24
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Goldcast; alternatives Airmeet, Demio, Livestorm
- Perplexity Sonar: Goldcast; alternatives Bizzabo, GoTo Webinar, Livestorm
- Grok 4.20: Demio; alternatives GoTo Webinar, Goldcast, Livestorm, ON24
- Mistral Small: Goldcast; alternatives Demio, Livestorm, Zoom Webinars
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Livestorm; alternatives Demio, Goldcast
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Goldcast; alternatives Livestorm, ON24, Zoom Webinars
- Kimi K2: Demio, Livestorm; alternatives BigMarker, Goldcast
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: GoTo Webinar; alternatives Airmeet, ClickMeeting, Cvent Event Marketing & Management, Demio
- MiniMax M2.5: Demio; alternatives Bizzabo, Goldcast, Livestorm

## Sources the answers cite

20 of 72 answers came back with a source list, from 4 of 12 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- easywebinar.com: 14 answers, 27 citations
- webinarninja.com: 12 answers, 19 citations
- ventureharbour.com: 9 answers, 9 citations
- whova.com: 8 answers, 8 citations
- livestorm.co: 7 answers, 8 citations
- on24.com: 7 answers, 8 citations
- zoom.com: 6 answers, 7 citations
- goldcast.io: 6 answers, 6 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://ventureharbour.com/webinar-software-10-best-webinar-platforms-compared (9 answers)
- https://whova.com/blog/best-webinar-platforms (7 answers)
- https://easywebinar.com/blog/webinar-platform-reviews (6 answers)
- https://webinarninja.com/blog/best-webinar-platforms (6 answers)
- https://bizzabo.com/blog/best-webinar-platforms (5 answers)
- https://easywebinar.com/blog/webinar-software-comparison-feature-guide (5 answers)
- https://goldcast.io/blog-post/6-webinar-tools-worth (5 answers)
- https://webinarninja.com/blog/free-webinar-software (5 answers)
- https://kinsta.com/blog/best-webinar-platforms (4 answers)
- https://livestorm.co/blog/webinar-platform-for-marketing (4 answers)

## Warned against

- Zoom Webinars: 18 of 68 labels negative. "Zoom Webinars: Basic features, requires separate Zoom subscription" (Kimi K2, direct prompt)
- ON24: 11 of 37 labels negative. "What to avoid for this use case- ON24 and Goldcast are powerful, but they're sales-quoted, enterprise-priced" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, paraphrase prompt)
- GoTo Webinar: 8 of 35 labels negative. "Reviewers cite reliability and audio-lag issues... Widely considered overpriced" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt)
- WebinarJam: 7 of 21 labels negative. "avoid WebinarJam, EverWebinar, and WebinarKit based on consistent patterns of failure and poor support" (Kimi K2, negative prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, September 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/gtm.