RingCentral Events (the platform formerly sold as Hopin), Airmeet, Zoom Events and Webex Events (formerly Socio) all run multi-track virtual and hybrid conferences — but they bill for four different things: organizer seats, attendee capacity, attendees who actually show up, and enterprise credits. That billing unit, more than any feature list, decides what your event costs.
Per organizer, billed annually ($119/mo monthly). Formerly Hopin. Events, registrations and attendees are unlimited on paid plans.
The conference-format Events plan has no published price. Only the webinar plan is priced publicly, from $167/mo billed annually.
Entry tier, billed annually ($149/mo monthly). Price rises with the attendee capacity you buy — see the capacity table below.
Formerly Socio. Sold inside Webex Suite enterprise agreements and metered in credits — there is no public rate card.
| RingCentral Events | Airmeet | Zoom Events | Webex Events | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Teams running events often who want a flat, forecastable bill | Communities and summits where attendee networking is the point | Organizations already standardized on Zoom | Enterprises standardized on Cisco / Webex |
| What you pay for | Organizer seats — events, registrations and attendees unlimited | Webinar plan is a flat subscription; the Events tier is quoted, described by the vendor as based on attendees who attend | Attendee capacity you reserve, or a pay-per-attendee pool of people who actually attend | Credits inside a Webex Suite enterprise agreement (attendees, streaming hours, branded app, lead retrieval) |
| Published price | Pro $99/organizer/mo billed annually; Pro+ $199; Enterprise $299 (monthly billing $119 / $239 / $359) | Conference Events tier: not published. Premium Webinars (a webinar product) is $167/mo billed annually, $199 monthly | From $124.17/mo billed annually ($149 monthly) for the entry capacity; 500 attendees $4,990/yr; 1,000 attendees $9,490/yr | Not published — quote via Cisco / Webex Suite enterprise agreement only |
| Free option | No free plan — 30-day free trial | Free trial available. Sources checked in November 2026 disagreed on whether a small free plan still exists — confirm on the pricing page | No free plan for Events (free Zoom Meetings is a different product) | No free plan or public trial for Events |
| Event format | Virtual, hybrid and onsite; stages, sessions, expo, networking | Virtual and hybrid; multi-track on the Events tier, social lounge throughout | Virtual and hybrid; multi-day, up to 15 simultaneous tracks per Zoom's FAQ, expo floor and lobby | Virtual, in-person and hybrid; multi-track agendas with a mobile event app |
| Paid tickets | Supported via integrated payments. Current platform ticket-fee rate was not published in our November 2026 check — confirm before you sell; payment processing fees apply on top | Supported. Commission terms were not published in the pricing information we could check — confirm before you sell; processing fees apply | Supported with a Stripe or PayPal Business account. No separate Zoom ticket percentage was published in our check — payouts follow your payment provider's fees | Registration and ticketing included in the platform; fee terms are part of the enterprise quote, not published |
| Trade-off to know | You pay for organizer seats all year, even in months with no event | The product you actually want for a conference cannot be priced without a sales call | Two billing models to choose between, and a paid Zoom license is also required for event hub owners | No way to budget from public information; procurement runs through enterprise sales |
Prices are USD, before tax, as published in November 2026. Searching for "Hopin pricing" still surfaces the old Hopin model (per-registrant charges and a ticket commission) — that pricing belonged to the pre-acquisition product and is not RingCentral Events' current model, which is per-organizer with unlimited registrations. Webex Webinars is a different, separately priced Cisco product ($2,700 per license per year for up to 1,000 attendees in sources checked in autumn 2026); do not mistake its price for Webex Events pricing. Plans change — always confirm the current price and what's included on the vendor's site before you buy.
Event platforms love to quote the unit that makes their number look smallest. The honest comparison is a full year at your registration and attendance numbers — and the key distinction is registrations vs. attendees. A registration is a form submission; an attendee is a person who actually joins. For free online events, a share of registrants typically never shows up, so a platform that bills per registration charges you for people who never attended, a platform that bills per attendee does not, and a per-organizer platform does not care either way.
| Scenario | RingCentral Events Pro | Zoom Events (capacity) | Zoom Events (pay-per-attendee) |
|---|---|---|---|
| One organizer, 4 events a year, 500 registrations and 300 actual attendees each (60% show rate is an assumption for this example, not a measured figure) | $99 × 12 = $1,188/year, unchanged however many register or attend | You must buy capacity for the 300 who join: the published 500-attendee tier is $415.83/mo billed annually = $4,990/year. Registrations themselves are unlimited for free events — the cap is on people joining | You consume pool slots only for the roughly 1,200 unique people who actually attend across the year; no-shows consume nothing. Pool pricing itself is not published as a public rate card, and overage beyond your pool is $2.50 per attendee per Zoom's support documentation |
| A single one-off conference | Monthly billing exists: one month at $119 (Pro) can cover a single event window | Capacity tiers are sold as subscriptions, which fits a year of events better than a one-off | Structurally the one-off option: you buy attendee slots for a 12-month window and spend them on the events you run |
Airmeet's Events tier and Webex Events are excluded from this worked example for one simple reason: neither publishes the unit price you would need to calculate with, so any total we printed would be invented. Ticket revenue is a separate layer on every platform: if you sell paid tickets, your payment provider's processing fee comes out of each sale, and any platform ticket fee is on top of the subscription — confirm the current ticket terms with the vendor before pricing your tickets, because the effective cost of a $50 ticket depends on both.
If you are searching for a "Hopin alternative," start with the fact that Hopin itself no longer exists as a standalone product: RingCentral acquired Hopin's events platform in 2023 and sells it as RingCentral Events. The important change is the pricing model. The old Hopin charged around registrations; the current product charges per organizer — Pro $99/organizer/month billed annually ($119 monthly), Pro+ $199 ($239 monthly), Enterprise $299 ($359 monthly) — with unlimited events, unlimited registrations and unlimited attendees on paid plans. The venue covers stages, concurrent sessions, an expo area with sponsor booths, networking, registration pages and ticketing, and Pro+ and above add hybrid/onsite tooling and integrations.
Airmeet's design center is attendee-to-attendee interaction: a social lounge with virtual tables people can move between, speed networking, and sponsor areas, wrapped around multi-track sessions on its Events tier. Events scale from 100 to 10,000 attendees per event. The pricing, however, splits in two. Premium Webinars — a webinar product, not the conference platform — is the only publicly priced tier at $199/month, or $167/month billed annually. The Events and Managed Events tiers that a conference organizer actually needs are quoted individually; Airmeet's own pricing writing describes the enterprise model as charging for attendees who attend rather than for the number of events hosted, but publishes no unit price to calculate from.
Zoom Events is the multi-session tier above Zoom Webinars: multi-day events with simultaneous tracks (up to 15, per Zoom's FAQ), a lobby, an expo floor for sponsors, attendee networking, advanced ticket types, and hybrid features such as badge printing and check-in. The entry price on Zoom's pricing page is $149/month billed monthly or $124.17/month billed annually, and it rises with attendee capacity — published annual totals run from $1,490 (100 attendees) through $4,990 (500) to $9,490 (1,000). Alternatively, the pay-per-attendee plan sells a pool of attendee slots to spend across all your events in 12 months, metered by unique attendee (identified by email address), with a $2.50 per-attendee overage charge. Paid ticketing runs through your own Stripe or PayPal Business account. Note that event hub owners also need a paid Zoom Meetings license.
Webex Events began as Socio, an event-app company Cisco acquired in 2021, and it still shows in the product's center of gravity: a branded mobile event app, registration, multi-track agendas with personal schedules, attendee networking, sponsor and exhibitor profiles, and onsite tooling — check-in, badge printing and lead retrieval for exhibitors. There is no public price and no self-serve signup: Webex Events is included with select Webex Suite Enterprise Agreements, and usage is metered in credits covering attendees, streaming hours, branded apps and lead retrieval licenses. That makes it a natural shortlist entry for organizations already under a Cisco agreement, and a difficult one to evaluate for anyone else.
Write down your real numbers first: events per year, registrations per event, and how many people actually joined last time. Then match them to the billing unit — organizer seats (RingCentral), capacity or actual attendees (Zoom), attendees (Airmeet, quoted), credits (Webex). The cheapest headline price is rarely the cheapest total.
A year-round program amortizes an annual seat or capacity license. A single annual conference should look hard at monthly billing (RingCentral) or attendee-pool billing (Zoom's pay-per-attendee) before signing anything annual.
If tickets are paid, model the subscription and the per-ticket costs as two lines: payment processing on every sale, plus any platform ticket fee in the vendor's current terms. Do not rely on ticket-fee figures from old reviews — at least one platform here has completely changed its model since those were written.
Zoom Events assumes a paid Zoom account; Webex Events may already sit inside your company's Cisco agreement. The platform you partially own is often the rational default — verify entitlements before comparing sticker prices.
RingCentral acquired Hopin's events platform in 2023 and rebranded it RingCentral Events; the standalone Hopin events product was retired. The platform lineage — stages, expo, networking, registration — continues, but the pricing model changed from the old registration-based scheme to per-organizer pricing with unlimited registrations. Any "Hopin pricing" page quoting per-registrant charges or a ticket commission is describing the old model.
A registrant is someone who submitted the registration form; an attendee is someone who actually joined the event. Per-registrant billing charges for both groups, including everyone who never showed up. Per-attendee billing (such as Zoom's pay-per-attendee plan, metered by unique email address) charges only for people who attend. Per-organizer billing (RingCentral Events) charges for neither — the seat price is fixed. Which is cheapest depends on your show rate and event frequency, which is why the worked example above uses explicit assumptions.
Because they do not publish them. Airmeet prices only its webinar tier publicly and quotes its conference Events tier individually; Webex Events is sold through Webex Suite enterprise agreements with credit-based metering and no public rate card. Rather than print estimates from third-party rumor, we mark both as "not published" — getting a written quote is part of evaluating them.
Two layers: the platform subscription, and the per-sale costs. Every platform here routes paid tickets through a payment provider (Stripe or PayPal), whose processing fee comes out of each sale. A platform's own ticket fee, where one applies, is on top — and current platform ticket-fee rates were not published in the vendor material we checked in November 2026, so confirm them in the quote or terms before you set ticket prices. Old reviews quoting a fixed percentage for the former Hopin should not be relied on.
For a single-session broadcast, yes — and it will usually cost less; that is the webinar category, not this one. You give up the conference layer: multiple simultaneous tracks, a persistent lobby and expo floor, structured networking and sponsor tooling. If your "event" is one stage and a Q&A, you are shopping in the wrong category on this page.
Because this guide is compiled from publicly available vendor information, not hands-on testing: we did not run conferences on these platforms to produce it, and we will not pretend otherwise. Where a judgment appears — for example, that capacity billing makes you pay for the audience you hope for — it is arithmetic on the published pricing model, shown next to it so you can judge for yourself.