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ON24 vs WebEngage

ON24 logo

ON24

Webinars

The digital engagement platform

From
$2000/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
WebEngage logo

WebEngage

Marketing

Customer engagement and retention automation for consumer businesses in India and Southeast Asia

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: ON24 the Internet Archive's capture of ON24's homepage on 1 January 2021 named five distinct platform tiers, Webcast Elite, Engagement Hub, Target, Intelligence, and Connect, but pointed visitors to a 'Find your pricing fit' quiz rather than publishing figures.; WebEngage nothing about pricing is published, and since the entire commercial argument for WebEngage is that it undercuts Braze and CleverTap, you cannot evaluate the one thing that makes it interesting without entering a sales process.
  • They diverge on capability: ON24 covers Live webinars, WebEngage covers Journey designer.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which ON24 and WebEngage actually diverge.

Attributes where ON24 and WebEngage differ
AttributeON24WebEngage
Starting price$2000/monthOn request
Pricing modelsubscriptionquote
PlatformsWeb, Ios, AndroidWeb, iOS SDK, Android SDK, React Native, Flutter, API
CategoryWebinarsMarketing
Founded1998Unknown

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in ON24

  • Live webinars
  • Virtual events
  • Engagement hub
  • AI-powered analytics
  • Content hubs
  • Salesforce
  • Marketo
  • Eloqua

Only in WebEngage

  • Journey designer
  • Behavioural segmentation
  • Push and in-app
  • WhatsApp
  • Analytics
  • Personalisation
  • On-site surveys
  • Customer data platform

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

ON24

  • Event planningnot WebEngage
  • Ticket salesnot WebEngage
  • Attendee managementnot WebEngage
  • Virtual eventsnot WebEngage
  • Event marketingnot WebEngage

WebEngage

  • A consumer app in India or Southeast Asia with several million monthly users needs Braze-class journey automation at a price its marketing budget can absorb.not ON24
  • A fintech or edtech business needs WhatsApp as a primary retention channel rather than a secondary one, in a market where email open rates are low and WhatsApp is universal.not ON24
  • A media or ecommerce company wants behavioural segmentation and lifecycle journeys without building a customer data platform separately first.not ON24
  • A team wants funnels, cohorts and retention analysis in the same tool that sends the messages, so the analyst and the campaign manager are not reconciling two systems.not ON24

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

ON24

  • The Internet Archive's capture of ON24's homepage on 1 January 2021 named five distinct platform tiers, Webcast Elite, Engagement Hub, Target, Intelligence, and Connect, but pointed visitors to a 'Find your pricing fit' quiz rather than publishing figures.

WebEngage

  • Nothing about pricing is published, and since the entire commercial argument for WebEngage is that it undercuts Braze and CleverTap, you cannot evaluate the one thing that makes it interesting without entering a sales process.
  • Message volumes across email, SMS and WhatsApp are metered separately from the platform fee, so a campaign that succeeds increases the bill in ways the monthly tracked user figure does not capture.
  • It requires genuine engineering investment to instrument events and user attributes correctly, and a poorly instrumented deployment produces segments that are wrong rather than merely incomplete, which is expensive to discover after launch.
  • Enterprise assurance is lighter than the American incumbents: procurement teams expecting extensive compliance documentation, regional data residency guarantees and 24 hour follow-the-sun support may find gaps.
  • Its centre of gravity is India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, so partner availability, agency expertise and support hours all favour those regions and a European or North American buyer is a peripheral customer.

Pricing, plan by plan

ON24

$2000/month
  • Core$2000/month
    • Webinars
    • Engagement tools
    • Basic analytics
  • Professional$4000/month
    • Virtual events
    • Advanced analytics
    • Integrations
  • Enterprise$8000/month
    • Full platform
    • AI insights
    • Dedicated success manager

WebEngage

On request
  • WebEngage$undefined/year
    • Priced by monthly tracked users and channels enabled
    • Journeys, segmentation and analytics included
    • Email, SMS and WhatsApp volumes charged separately

Which should you pick?

Choose ON24 if

  • You need live webinars.
  • You work on Web, Ios, Android.
  • You also want virtual events.
ON24 review

Choose WebEngage if

  • You need journey designer.
  • You work on Web, iOS SDK, Android SDK, React Native, Flutter, API.
  • You also want behavioural segmentation.
WebEngage review

Questions people ask

Is ON24 or WebEngage better?
Neither clearly leads. ON24 starts at $2000/month and WebEngage at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, ON24 or WebEngage?
ON24 starts at $2000/month and WebEngage at On request.
Does ON24 or WebEngage run on more platforms?
ON24 runs on Web, Ios, Android. WebEngage runs on Web, iOS SDK, Android SDK, React Native, Flutter, API.
What is ON24 best used for?
ON24 is most often used for event planning, ticket sales, attendee management, virtual events. Of those, event planning and ticket sales are not what WebEngage is typically brought in for.
What can ON24 do that WebEngage cannot?
ON24 covers Live webinars, Virtual events, Engagement hub, AI-powered analytics. WebEngage covers Journey designer, Behavioural segmentation, Push and in-app, WhatsApp.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

WebEngage: How much does WebEngage cost?

It does not publish pricing. It is quoted by monthly tracked users with message volumes charged separately, and it typically comes in below Braze and CleverTap for equivalent volumes.

WebEngage: Is it a CDP or a marketing automation tool?

Both, in practice. It assembles unified user profiles from event streams and then acts on them, though it is lighter than a dedicated CDP on data warehousing and identity resolution.

WebEngage: Is WebEngage owned by anyone else?

No. It remains an independent Mumbai-based company.

WebEngage: Which channels does it support?

Mobile push, in-app, web push, email, SMS and WhatsApp, with WhatsApp treated as a first-class channel rather than an add-on.

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