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Zoom pricing
Zoom publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $14.99/month
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Zoom plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
| Pro | $14.99/month | 5 | +$14.99/month, 4 more features |
| Business | $19.99/month | 5 | +$4.999999999999998/month, 5 more features |
| Enterprise | $25/month | 5 | +$5.010000000000002/month, 5 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Basic
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 100 participants, 40-minute group meetings, unlimited 1-on-1 meetings, screen sharing, virtual backgrounds.
Pro
$14.99/monthOver Basic, this tier adds:
- 30-hour group meetings
- Cloud recording (5GB)
- Polls & reporting
- User management
Business
$19.99/monthOver Pro, this tier adds:
- 300 participants
- Single sign-on
- Recording transcripts
- Company branding
- Managed domains
Enterprise
$25/monthOver Business, this tier adds:
- 500 participants
- Advanced admin features
- Executive business review
- Webinar 500
- Cloud storage (Unlimited)
Where Zoom stops being free
Basic, Free
- 100 participants
- 40-minute group meetings
- Unlimited 1-on-1 meetings
- Screen sharing
- Virtual backgrounds
Pro, $14.99/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 30-hour group meetings
- Cloud recording (5GB)
- Polls & reporting
- User management
What the product covers
The full Zoom feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- HD video & audio
- Screen sharing
- Recording & transcripts
- Virtual backgrounds
- Breakout rooms
- Polling & Q&A
- Chat
- Whiteboard
Integrations
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Google Calendar
- Outlook
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
- Dropbox
- Box
Security
- End-to-end encryption
- SOC2
- HIPAA
- FedRAMP
- Password protection
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
- On-premise deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Windows support
- Macos support
- Linux support
- Ios support
- Android support
Localization
- Multiple languages available language support
People bring Zoom in for team meetings, webinars, virtual events, online training, telehealth. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Zoom are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Zoom
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between Free and $25/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Zoom runs on web, ios, android, windows, macos, and is published by Zoom Video Communications Inc of San Jose, CA. The full record is on the Zoom review.
Zoom pricing questions
- How much does Zoom cost?
- Zoom publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Basic up to $25/month for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Zoom have a free plan?
- Yes. The Basic tier costs nothing and covers 100 participants, 40-minute group meetings, unlimited 1-on-1 meetings. Paying starts at $14.99/month for Pro.
- What is the difference between Basic and Pro on Zoom?
- Pro costs $14.99/month against Free, and adds 30-hour group meetings, cloud recording (5gb), polls & reporting, user management.
- Is the Enterprise plan on Zoom worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 500 participants, advanced admin features, executive business review, webinar 500. It costs $25/month against $14.99/month for Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with Zoom?
- The record lists 30 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for team meetings, webinars, virtual events.
- Does Zoom charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Zoom prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Zoom against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Zoom to make a useful price comparison.