# ClickMeeting — Video Conferencing

ClickMeeting by ClickMeeting holds a panel rating of 2/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: ClickMeeting (https://www.clickmeeting.com)
- Category: [Video Conferencing](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): provenance unknown
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/clickmeeting
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/clickmeeting/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/clickmeeting/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-21 · evaluated 2026-10-15 · oldest source captured 2026-10-13

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: ClickMeeting
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

ClickMeeting is a browser-based webinar and meeting platform whose strength is entry: joining needs no install from a desktop browser, mobile app or mobile browser, with real-time live transcription, screen-reader support on web and mobile, and adjustable chat font sizes; reach and accessibility scores run 5 to 6, the highest here. The meeting core scores 4 to 5 — up to 40 people per meeting, host mic control, breakout rooms for up to 800 attendees across 20 rooms — while the large-events claim of thousands carries no published figure. The weak flank is governance: encryption and access scores sit at 2 to 3, with admission control real but no public information on what is encrypted, and sovereignty scores run 1 to 2: beyond a statement of European servers and transcription kept on the vendor's infrastructure, we found no public information on the contracting entity, ownership or subprocessors. Recording governance scores 3 to 4, with viewer tracking documented and no public information on consent or retention. Criterion scores span at most one point; no public prices appear.

**Speaks for it:**
- Attendees join from a desktop browser, mobile app or mobile browser with nothing to install
- Live audio transcription renders participants' speech as real-time text, alongside screen-reader support and adjustable chat font sizes
- Meetings hold up to 40 people with host mic control, and breakout rooms distribute up to 800 attendees across 20 rooms
- Integrations scores sit at a flat 4, covering Zapier to 1,500 applications, Google Calendar, iCal, Slack, a Moodle plugin, Stripe and PayPal
- Recording space is published — 30 minutes on the free trial, 6 hours on Live plans, 10 hours on Automated plans — with mp4 download, trimming and manual deletion

**Held against it:**
- We found no public information on what is encrypted in transit or at rest, on key handling, or on any end-to-end option
- The European evidence is a statement of data on European servers, with no public information on contracting entity, ownership or subprocessors
- We found no public information on participant notification, consent or retention for recordings, while viewer tracking behind an email gate is documented
- We found no public information on single sign-on, provisioning, room-system support or any self-hosted option
- We found no public information on telephone dial-in, keyboard operation, or behaviour on constrained connections

**Best for:**
- You run webinars or online classes where attendees must join from any browser or phone without installing software and follow along with real-time transcription
- You teach or train and want an Edu mode, a Moodle plugin, breakout rooms for up to 800 attendees across 20 rooms, and a waiting room enabled by default
- You monetize events or run marketing-led webinars — Stripe ticketing in over 135 currencies, PayPal, and exports to HubSpot, GetResponse, MailerLite, Keap and Pipedrive are documented

**Avoid if:**
- Your security sign-off requires documented encryption, key handling or an end-to-end option — the public pages describe admission control (password, one-time token, waiting room enabled by default), and we found no public information on the cryptography
- You must evidence a European setup for a works council or public procurement — beyond a statement of data on European servers, we found no public information on the contracting entity, ownership or subprocessors
- Your recordings hold employee personal data and need consent prompts, retention rules or organisation-wide admin policy — we found no public information on these, while viewer tracking of shared recordings behind an email gate is documented
- You must keep attendee data away from advertising platforms — Google Analytics 4 and Meta Pixel tracking are documented on ClickMeeting pages and available for all pricing plans, with TikTok Pixel and LinkedIn Insight also offered

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The IT Administrator | The Security Officer | The Works Council Advocate | The Educator | The Accessibility Advocate | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The meeting itself | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Encryption & meeting access | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 |
| Reach & accessibility | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Recordings, retention & admin control | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Integrations & deployment | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| European sovereignty | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2/5** | **1/5** | **1.5/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **1.5/5** |

### The judges

- **The IT Administrator** (v1.0): Gets the call when the board meeting will not start. Wants capacity published rather than promised, room systems that work, SSO, and diagnostics after a bad call. Judges a product by its worst meeting, not its demo.
- **The Security Officer** (v1.0): Wants to know what the vendor can see, and reads "encrypted" as a question rather than an answer. Asks which meetings get end-to-end encryption, what stops working when they do, who holds the keys, and who can walk into a meeting with a link.
- **The Works Council Advocate** (v1.0): A recorded meeting is personal data about everyone in it. Wants to know who may record, who is told, how long it is kept, and whether attention tracking or attendance analytics can be switched off outright. Reads engagement scoring as surveillance with a chart.
- **The Educator** (v1.0): Teaches thirty people who join from whatever they have, half of them on a phone in a dead spot. Cares that the browser works without an install, that guests need no account, that breakout rooms are usable, and that nobody is excluded by bandwidth or by a missing caption.
- **The Accessibility Advocate** (v1.0): Judges the product by whether a deaf colleague and a screen-reader user can run the meeting, not merely attend it. Wants live captions, keyboard operation, a published conformance report, and dial-in for people with no usable connection. Treats an accessibility page with no report as a marketing page.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has read many pages claiming end-to-end encryption and wants the sentence that says which meetings, on which plan, with what turned off. Also reads for the participant cap, the dial-in minutes, and where recording storage stops being free.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- GDPR: GDPR page listed in footer [S1]
- GDPR consent inheritance: yes [S8]
- GDPR consent optional or required: optional · required [S8]
- GDPR consent timestamp: support@clickmeeting.com · yes [S8]
- ISO 27001: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 [S1]
- Recaptcha: Google · yes [S4]
- Recording GDPR clause: yes [S8]

**Hosting**
- EU servers: yes [S2]

**Integrations**
- Cookie script: Cookie Script · manage cookies on ClickMeeting pages [S9]
- Cookie script: Cookie Script integration adds cookie management to event landing pages [S10]
- Dropbox: Dropbox · automatic upload of recordings and file import [S9]
- Dropbox export: yes · yes [S8]
- Getresponse: GetResponse · automatic upload of webinar and attendee data, contacts and email marketing [S9]
- Getresponse: Automatically export webinar attendee data into GetResponse for email marketing [S10]
- Google analytics: Google Analytics · tracking code on all ClickMeeting pages [S9]
- Google analytics: Google Analytics 4 tracking on profile page, registration form, login page, waiting room, thank-you page [S10]
- Google analytics plans: Google Analytics integration available for all pricing plans [S10]
- Google calendar: Google Calendar · attendees automatically save event information [S9]
- Hubspot: HubSpot · automatic export of webinar and attendee data [S9]
- Hubspot: Automatically export attendee and registrant data to HubSpot as lists (Attended, Registered not attended) [S10]
- Ical: iCal · attendees automatically save event information [S9]
- Keap: Keap · contacts and automatic export of webinar and user data [S9]
- Keap: Automatically export attendee and webinar data into Keap [S10]
- Linkedin insight: Track attendees using LinkedIn Insight integration [S10]
- Linkedin insight tag: LinkedIn Insight Tag · remarketing ads on LinkedIn [S9]
- Mailerlite: MailerLite · two-way participant/contact data sync [S9]
- Mailerlite: Export contacts of registered users and attendees to MailerLite, import contacts from a MailerLite group; paid events transfer all registered contacts without distinguishing paid/unpaid [S10]
- Meta pixel: Meta Pixel · Facebook/Instagram advertising [S9]
- Meta pixel: Meta Pixel tracking on all ClickMeeting pages for remarketing [S10]
- Meta pixel plans: Meta Pixel integration available for all pricing plans [S10]
- Moodle: Moodle · dedicated plugin · host online events in e-learning platform [S9]
- Moodle: Moodle plugin to schedule and conduct webinars directly from Moodle LMS [S10]
- Paypal: PayPal · host paid events and collect fees from participants [S9]
- Paypal rest: Sell event tickets and accept donations via PayPal; requires PayPal business account [S10]
- Pipedrive: Pipedrive · sales funnel, automatic export of webinar, attendee, survey and test data [S9]
- Pipedrive: Automatically export attendee and webinar data to Pipedrive as Deals; poll/survey results exported too [S10]
- Resources: Dev Zone (API/developers) and public status page listed in footer [S1]
- Slack: Slack · create spontaneous and scheduled events from Slack [S9]
- Social share: LinkedIn · Twitter · Facebook [S8]
- Stripe: Stripe · sell event tickets and donations during webinars [S9]
- Stripe activation time: Stripe account activation may take up to 24 hours [S10]
- Stripe connect: Create and configure a Stripe account without leaving ClickMeeting for paid webinars [S10]
- Stripe currencies: 135 [S9]
- Stripe tax: Optional Stripe Tax helps handle VAT settlements [S10]
- Tiktok pixel: TikTok Pixel · remarketing ads on TikTok [S9]
- Tiktok pixel: TikTok Pixel integration for TikTok remarketing ads [S10]
- Youtube: YouTube · post webinar recordings to YouTube channel [S9]
- Youtube: Play YouTube videos during events and export recorded webinars to YouTube channel (private by default) [S10]
- Zapier: Zapier · 5000 [S9]
- Zapier: Integrate ClickMeeting with 1,500 possible applications via Zapier [S10]

**Pricing**
- Card authorization fee: yes · 1 [S1]
- Paypal fees: PayPal may charge fees for paid webinars feature [S1]
- Recording addon: yes [S8]
- Transcription quota: 3 [S8]
- Trial: free trial · 14 · no [S1]

**Product**
- AI shorts durations: 90 · 30 · 60 · 120 [S8]
- AI social shorts: paid add-on, credit-based (minutes) [S8]
- AI summary: transcript · notes · yes [S8]
- AI summary contents: topics/theses/decisions · key information for attendees · conclusions · recommendations [S8]
- AI transcription: text file with timestamps · yes [S8]
- Archive storage: yes [S8]
- Automation marketing: Automation of communication and promotional activities [S1]
- Branding customization: yes [S2]
- Breakout rooms capacity: 20 · 800 [S3]
- Browser based: yes [S2]
- Browser chat font size: browser version of the webinar platform · yes [S6]
- Browser chat font size: browser version of webinar platform · yes [S7]
- Chat transcript download: chat transcription · event recording · text transcription · yes [S7]
- Chat transcription download: yes · chat transcription · event recording · text transcription [S6]
- Demo booking: demo booking option [S1]
- Desktop chat font size: desktop application · yes [S6]
- Desktop chat font size: desktop application · yes [S7]
- Duration control: Host can set duration, receive end notification, and add more time [S3]
- Embedded video youtube transcription: yes [S7]
- Free account: yes [S9]
- Hd availability: yes [S8]
- Hd time impact: no [S8]
- Integration access: Integrations configured in Account settings → Integrations [S10]
- Large events: Large events for thousands of people [S1]
- Live audio transcription: browser version of the webinar platform · yes [S6]
- Live audio transcription: yes [S7]
- Manual or random assignment: yes · yes [S3]
- Meet now: yes [S2]
- Meeting capacity: 40 [S2]
- Mic control: yes [S3]
- Mobile chat font size: mobile application · yes [S6]
- Mobile chat font size: mobile app · yes [S7]
- Mobile screen reader: mobile application · yes [S6]
- Mobile screen reader support: mobile app · yes [S7]
- Mobile support: yes · yes [S3]
- Monetization: yes [S2]
- Mp4 export: mp4 [S8]
- No installation: yes [S3]
- No public urls: no [S3]
- On demand monetization: Monetize event recordings in on-demand format [S1]
- Paid webinars: Ticketing system and secure payments for paid webinars [S1]
- Permanent room: yes [S2]
- Recording editing: trim beginning · trim end [S8]
- Recording interface language: Account advanced settings country [S8]
- Recording layouts: 3 · no [S8]
- Recording lead capture: yes [S8]
- Recording overrun: yes [S8]
- Recording publishing: copy URL · toggle ON to publish [S8]
- Recording quality setting: Automation tab → Recording quality [S8]
- Recording resolutions: SD · HD [S8]
- Recording space: 6 · 30 · 10 [S8]
- Recording start: yes [S8]
- Recording viewer tracking: yes [S8]
- Room security: yes [S2]
- Screen sharing: yes [S3]
- Teaching features: Edu mode and breakout rooms [S1]
- Ticketed events limit: 40 [S2]
- Top features: On-demand webinars · Automation · Live webinars · Paid webinars · Online meetings · Breakout rooms · Screen sharing · Webinar recording [S1]
- Transcription data residency: no [S8]
- Transcription language choice: yes [S8]
- Trial recording limit: 30 [S8]
- Video youtube transcription: embedded videos on ClickMeeting website · yes [S6]
- Waiting room: virtual foyer where attendees wait for the event to start, configured in the Waiting room tab while scheduling an event [S5]
- Waiting room content: agenda · presenter description [S5]
- Waiting room default: yes [S5]
- Waiting room disable: attendees enter directly and first joiner starts the event · yes [S5]
- Waiting room download module: yes · yes [S5]
- Waiting room fields: additional elements added via drag and drop from Fields panel [S5]
- Waiting room youtube: yes [S5]
- Website screen reader: screen reader readable · font enlargement · contrast change · yes [S6]

**Support**
- Review rating: 11,000+ · 4.6 [S1]

## Questions

### Is ClickMeeting European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where ClickMeeting is based.

### Where does ClickMeeting store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### Does ClickMeeting have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to ClickMeeting?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates [alfaview (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/alfaview), [Tixeo (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/tixeo) and [Nextcloud Talk (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/nextcloud-talk) highest among the other 27 Video Conferencing products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [alfaview](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/alfaview) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [ClickMeeting alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/clickmeeting/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 10 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 10 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 9 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 data fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor page: https://www.clickmeeting.com (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] The meeting itself — found from sitemap: https://clickmeeting.com/tools/online-meeting (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] The meeting itself — found from sitemap: https://clickmeeting.com/tools/breakout-rooms/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Encryption & meeting access — found from sitemap: https://knowledge.clickmeeting.com/privacy-security/security-policy/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Encryption & meeting access — found from sitemap: https://knowledge.clickmeeting.com/knowledge-base/tools/waiting-room/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Reach & accessibility — found from sitemap: https://knowledge.clickmeeting.com/knowledge-base/tools/accessibility/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] Reach & accessibility — found from sitemap: https://knowledge.clickmeeting.com/de/knowledge-base/funktionen/informationen-zur-barrierefreiheit-von-clickmeeting/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S8] Recordings, retention & admin control — found from sitemap: https://knowledge.clickmeeting.com/knowledge-base/tools/recordings/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S9] Integrations & deployment — found from sitemap: https://clickmeeting.com/integrations/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S10] Integrations & deployment — found from sitemap: https://knowledge.clickmeeting.com/knowledge-base/tools/integrations/ (checked 2026-10-13)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "ClickMeeting — Video Conferencing", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-10-21. https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/clickmeeting

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