Webex pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Webex (webex.com) is a video meeting tool. Priced per licensed host per month (participants join free), across Free, Meet and Suite tiers plus a sales-quoted Enterprise plan.. Free plan: Webex Free: up to 100 attendees, 40-minute group meetings, unlimited meetings, no card needed..
What Webex costs
- 1 host: $14.50/mo (Webex Meet at $14.50/user/mo month-to-month (CostBench); $12 if billed annually. Free fails the 90-minute rule (40-minute group limit). Guests join free per Cisco's FAQ. Meet's monthly meeting cap and business-use terms were not found in any source.)
- 10 hosts: $145/mo (Webex Meet $14.50/user/mo x 10 hosts = $145/mo month-to-month ($120 if billed annually). No seat minimum found.)
Plan compared: Webex Meet, month-to-month billing, per host. Monthly price on monthly billing of the cheapest plan (free plans count) that lets a host run unlimited group meetings of up to 25 participants lasting up to 90 minutes, with guests joining free; annual-only plans are divided by 12.
What Webex does
Core: Group video meetings, Team chat and phone, Phone dial-in and room systems.
Important: Large meeting capacity, Join from browser (partly), Cloud recording, Live captions and transcripts, AI meeting assistant, Live session polls and Q&A, Live webinar hosting (partly), Calendar integration, Desktop and mobile apps, Encryption and compliance (partly).
Also has: Free group meetings (partly), Built-in whiteboard, Remote control and pairing, Embeddable video SDK (partly), Open source and self-hosting (partly).
Webex price hikes
No price hikes on record for Webex.
Cheaper alternatives to Webex
At 1 host, Webex costs $14.50/mo. 1 video meeting tool costs less:
- Google Meet: $8.40/mo (Google Workspace Starter, month-to-month billing, one user), covers 84% of Webex; missing or partial: AI meeting assistant (partly), Desktop and mobile apps (partly), Built-in whiteboard (partly), Remote control and pairing, Embeddable video SDK
Webex alternatives: 2 video meeting tools compared, at every size.
Sources
Pricing page: pricing.webex.com/us/en. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Cisco's pricing page, as fetched, lists only Free and Enterprise, so the Meet and Suite prices and Meet's 200-attendee and 24-hour limits come from PricingSaaS, CostBench and a search summary. The $14.50 monthly price rests on CostBench alone, which contradicts itself elsewhere, while the $12 annual price matches PricingSaaS and the search summary.