# LiveWebinar — Video Conferencing

LiveWebinar by LiveWebinar 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: LiveWebinar (https://www.livewebinar.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/livewebinar
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/livewebinar/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/livewebinar/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: LiveWebinar
- 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

LiveWebinar is a cloud-based video conferencing and webinar product. The strongest verdict comes on integrations, scoring 5 to 6 with five of six judges at 6, for a documented API covering room lifecycle, OAuth2 and server-to-server JWT, JavaScript embedding, a WordPress plugin and Zapier calendar sync. The meeting itself scores a uniform 4: screen sharing down to mobile devices and a host-controlled waiting room are evidenced, while we found no public information on breakout rooms, mute-all moderation, or behaviour on a constrained connection. Judges genuinely split on encryption and access (4 to 6) and reach and accessibility (4 to 6): documented admission controls such as a unique session token per participant earn credit, the one-sentence end-to-end AES-256 claim with no key handling loses it, and browser and phone-bridge reach scores high where the undocumented accessibility posture holds scores down. Weakest are recording governance (2 to 3) and sovereignty (0 to 1): the only infrastructure statement is "42+ data centers" described as global, and we found no published price on any tier.

**Speaks for it:**
- Integrations score 5 to 6 on a documented API with OAuth2 and server-to-server JWT, room lifecycle operations, JavaScript embedding, custom room domains, a WordPress plugin and Zapier calendar sync
- Admission control is documented: a host-controlled waiting room, a unique session token per participant, single sign-on and role-based access
- Reach is broad — browser joining without an install, an iOS app, Smart TVs and mobile devices, plus a phone bridge for calling in from a cell phone
- Recordings can be automatically uploaded to the customer's own Amazon S3 or FTP storage, with FPS from 12 to 30, dimensions and bitrate configurable depending on the package
- Screen sharing is documented in a dedicated FAQ down to mobile devices

**Held against it:**
- Sovereignty scores 0 to 1: the only infrastructure statement is "42+ data centers Cloud-based, global infrastructure", and we found no public information on the contracting entity, data residency, ownership or any subprocessor
- Recording governance scores 2 to 3: we found no public information on who may record, participant notification or consent, retention rules, storage region or access logging, while engagement analytics and tracking are advertised with no stated off-switch
- The "double encryption" end-to-end AES-256 claim is a single sentence with no key handling, no named trade-offs and no statement of what the vendor can technically see
- We found no public information on breakout rooms, mute-all or comparable moderation, or documented behaviour on a constrained connection beyond a pre-call connection test
- We found no public information on an accessibility statement, a conformance report, or keyboard and screen-reader support behind the closed-captioning FAQ page

**Best for:**
- You need to embed meeting rooms under your own domain and drive the full room lifecycle through a documented API with OAuth2 or server-to-server JWT credentials
- You want finished recordings uploaded automatically to your own Amazon S3 or FTP storage rather than held by the vendor
- You host large webinars — the vendor states 1000+ participants — with screen sharing down to mobile devices and host-controlled waiting-room admission
- Your audience reaches the room from browsers without an install, from Smart TVs or mobile devices, or by cell phone through the phone bridge (a paid add-on or Custom-plan feature)

**Avoid if:**
- Your procurement requires a stated data-residency region, a contracting-entity jurisdiction or a named subprocessor — the only infrastructure statement is "42+ data centers" described as global, and one judge called that silence disqualifying for European procurement at this stage
- Your works council or compliance team must see who may record, how participants are notified and consent, and the retention and access-logging rules — we found no public information on any of these
- Your security sign-off requires documented key handling behind an end-to-end encryption claim — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it
- You run sessions that depend on breakout rooms or mute-all moderation, or on predictable behaviour for participants on a weak connection — only a pre-meeting connection test is documented

## 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 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Encryption & meeting access | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 |
| Reach & accessibility | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Recordings, retention & admin control | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 |
| Integrations & deployment | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 |
| European sovereignty | 0/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **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**
- Firewall port 443: 443 · no [S4]
- Rbac regulated industries: financial institutions · healthcare companies [S4]
- Security white paper: yes [S4]
- Ssl tls certificate: yes [S4]
- Tls encryption: yes · all content encoded with Transport Layer Security [S4]

**Hosting**
- Data centers: 42 · 99 · 24/7 [S1]

**Integrations**
- Advanced API: yes [S11]
- API base URL: https://api.archiebot.com · /api/me [S10]
- API scope: API allows performing all operations possible in the web client/account panel or mobile app [S10]
- App credentials URL: https://app.livewebinar.com/api-apps [S10]
- Auth methods: yes · yes [S10]
- Custom integration: yes [S1]
- Custom room domain: Rooms can be served from a custom URL instead of livewebinar.com [S10]
- Docs URL: https://docs.archiebot.com [S10]
- Embed javascript: JavaScript embed code for webinar/meeting rooms on your website [S10]
- External storage: yes · yes [S9]
- Google calendar sync: Zapier · yes [S11]
- Hubspot pabbly: yes · yes [S10]
- Personal urls: API generates direct room URLs with participant details (name, email, role) via personal_token/personal_url [S10]
- Recording storage: Amazon S3 · FTP · yes [S8]
- Role tokens: _role_token option differentiates participants by role (host/presenter auto-assignment) [S10]
- Room lifecycle: POST /api/widgets · DELETE /api/widgets/:widget_id · PUT · yes [S10]
- Room URL params: yes · yes [S10]
- Wordpress plugin: yes [S10]
- Zapier documentation: yes [S11]
- Zapier other calendars: Zapier · yes [S11]

**Legal**
- Copyright: 2026 · LiveWebinar [S5]
- Copyright holder: 2026 · LiveWebinar [S3]
- Made by: RTCLab [S10]
- Made by rtclab: RTCLab [S4]
- Made by rtclab: Made by RTCLab [S9]

**Pricing**
- Call in invitations: USD · 49 · 0.08 [S7]
- Free account: yes [S1]
- Signup no credit card: no [S1]

**Product**
- Aes 256 end to end encryption: yes · yes [S4]
- API integration: advanced API integration [S1]
- Attendee portal: yes [S1]
- Branding tool: yes [S1]
- Browser access: browser access without install [S1]
- Cloud based: cloud-based with screen sharing, streaming, recording, branding, analytics [S1]
- Cross platform: cross-platform webinar software [S1]
- Customization: unlimited customization [S1]
- Data storage protected: user management · conference recordings · chat transcripts · voicemail recordings [S4]
- Device support: PCs, Smart TVs, mobile devices [S1]
- Domain embedding: everything under your domain [S1]
- Evergreen webinars: yes [S1]
- External storage use cases: backup · expand account storage [S9]
- Formats: webinars, meetings, trainings, sales presentations [S1]
- Ftp provider fields: Hostname · Port · Username · Password · Path [S9]
- Hd quality: HD quality [S1]
- Hd recorder: yes [S1]
- Ios app: yes [S1]
- Live streaming: yes [S1]
- Marketing automation: yes [S1]
- Paid webinars: paid webinars / monetized events [S1]
- Participant capacity: 1000 [S1]
- Predefined roles third party: assignable predefined roles [S4]
- Presenter webcam with slides: FAQ page addresses keeping Presenter's webcam visible while Slides are showing [S2]
- Provider verification: yes [S9]
- Rbac: yes [S4]
- Reach: 98 [S1]
- Recorder settings location: profile icon top right > Recorder Settings > Custom Settings page [S8]
- Recording auto upload: S3 · FTP · yes [S9]
- Recording custom settings: FPS · dimensions · video bitrate [S8]
- Recording fps range: 30 · 12 · yes [S8]
- Recording interface language: yes [S8]
- Recording manual download: yes [S9]
- Recording quality: HD/FHD recording [S1]
- Related features: evergreen webinars, branding tool, tests & surveys, HD/FHD recording, whiteboard, online meeting software [S10]
- S3 provider fields: Access Key ID · Secret Access Key · Bucket · Region · ACL · Path [S9]
- Screen sharing: yes · How to enable screen sharing · Presenters and Screen Sharing · Recommended web browsers for Screen Sharing · Screen Sharing on mobile devices [S2]
- Screen sharing mobile: mobile_screen_sharing · yes [S2]
- Session token authentication: yes [S4]
- SSO authentication: yes [S4]
- Statistics reports: yes [S1]
- Storage provider setup path: Profile Menu > Recorder Settings > Storage Providers [S9]
- Storage vs recording storage: yes · MB · hours [S9]
- Tests surveys: yes [S1]
- Waiting room activation: yes [S5]
- Waiting room agenda presenter bio: Agenda and presenter bio can be added [S5]
- Waiting room attendee entry: Host can let attendees in from the waiting room [S5]
- Waiting room colors layout: yes [S5]
- Waiting room event info: yes [S5]
- Waiting room knock knock sound: yes [S5]
- Whiteboard: yes [S1]

**Support**
- Self service resources: FAQ, manuals, tutorials, connection test [S1]

## Questions

### Is LiveWebinar European?

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

### Where does LiveWebinar store data?

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

### Does LiveWebinar have a free plan?

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

### What are the best alternatives to LiveWebinar?

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: [LiveWebinar alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/livewebinar/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 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.
- 1 integrations 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.
- 1 legal 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.
- 1 pricing 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.
- 1 support 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.livewebinar.com (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] The meeting itself — found from sitemap: https://www.livewebinar.com/faq/screen-sharing (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] The meeting itself — found from sitemap: https://www.livewebinar.com/features/audience-engagement/screen-sharing (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Encryption & meeting access — found from sitemap: https://www.livewebinar.com/security (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Encryption & meeting access — found from sitemap: https://www.livewebinar.com/faq/waiting-rooms (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Reach & accessibility — found from sitemap: https://www.livewebinar.com/faq/closed-captioning (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] Reach & accessibility — found from sitemap: https://www.livewebinar.com/faq/audio-video/phone-bridge (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S8] Recordings, retention & admin control — found from sitemap: https://www.livewebinar.com/faq/recording/where-can-i-change-the-recording-settings (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S9] Recordings, retention & admin control — found from sitemap: https://www.livewebinar.com/faq/recording/external-storage-ftp (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S10] Integrations & deployment — found from sitemap: https://www.livewebinar.com/faq/integrations/how-to-use-livewebinar-api (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S11] Integrations & deployment — found from sitemap: https://www.livewebinar.com/faq/integrations/can-i-sync-meetings-with-google-calendar (checked 2026-10-13)

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

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