Zoom pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Zoom (zoom.com) is a video meeting tool. Per-user monthly subscription (Pro $16.99, Business $21.99 per user per month), with lower per-user rates on annual billing.. Free plan: Basic: no price shown on the vendor page (PricingSaaS lists it as free); 100 participants, 40-minute group meetings..
What Zoom costs
- 1 host: $16.99/mo (Workplace Pro at $16.99 per user per month billed monthly (zoom.us/pricing). Basic fails the 90-minute rule (40-minute group meetings). Pro allows 100 participants, 30-hour meetings, no meeting cap and free guest joins.)
- 10 hosts: $169.90/mo (10 hosts on Pro: 10 x $16.99 = $169.90 per month. The pricing page states no minimum or seat cap for Pro; Business ($21.99) would cost $219.90.)
Plan compared: Workplace Pro plan, monthly billing, one host (cheapest plan meeting the scenario).. 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 Zoom does
Core: Group video meetings, Large meeting capacity, Free group meetings (partly).
Important: Join from browser (partly), Cloud recording, Live captions and transcripts, AI meeting assistant, Live session polls and Q&A, Live webinar hosting, Team chat and phone, Calendar integration, Phone dial-in and room systems, Desktop and mobile apps, Encryption and compliance.
Also has: Built-in whiteboard, Remote control and pairing, Virtual office (partly), Embeddable video SDK, Open source and self-hosting (partly).
Zoom price hikes
No price hikes on record for Zoom.
Cheaper alternatives to Zoom
At 1 host, Zoom costs $16.99/mo. 2 video meeting tools cost less:
- Google Meet: $8.40/mo (Google Workspace Starter, month-to-month billing, one user), covers 76% of Zoom; missing or partial: AI meeting assistant (partly), Live webinar hosting (partly), Desktop and mobile apps (partly), Encryption and compliance (partly), Built-in whiteboard (partly)
- Webex: $14.50/mo (Webex Meet, month-to-month billing, per host), covers 90% of Zoom; missing or partial: Live webinar hosting (partly), Encryption and compliance (partly), Virtual office, Embeddable video SDK (partly)
Zoom alternatives: 2 video meeting tools compared, at every size.
Sources
Pricing page: zoom.us/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Pro prices were read on zoom.us/pricing in two separate fetches ($16.99 per user per month billed monthly, $14.16 billed annually); the Basic card shows no price, Enterprise is sales-only, and no minimum seat count is stated. PricingSaaS's 20 newest entries (Mar to Sep 2026) show no change to the Pro list price, but its 28 older entries were not reviewed, so earlier hikes may be missing.