Zoom Pricing
- Productivity pricing
- $14.16/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
Zoom pricing starts at $14.16 a month, which is $169.92 over twelve months. There is a free plan. Every figure below was read from the vendor's pricing page on 9 August 2026.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
Zoom ranking and coverage
- In Productivity
- #24 of 28
- Overall
- #97 of 122 tied
- Terms score
- 4.7 /10
- Referenced here
- 1 page
Cost position 2.1 · Portability 5 · Subscription flexibility 7 - Ranked on published terms only: entry price against category peers, portability and subscription flexibility, equally weighted. This is not a quality score.How the rank is calculated.
Zoom pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free tier available; Pro from $14.16 per user/month, billed annually |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $14.16 a month, or $169.92 a year |
| How that is reached | Pro at $14.16 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | No trial offered |
| How it charges | freemium |
| Priced plans published | 4 rows on the vendor's page |
| Affiliate programme | No |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 9 August 2026 |
Every Zoom plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 9 August 2026. Charged as freemium. No free trial is offered.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $0 | per month | 40-minute limit on group meetings, up to 100 participants |
| Pro | $14.16 | per month | per user, 1 to 99 licences - Billed annually upfront. 30-hour meetings, 10 GB cloud storage per user |
| Business | $18.33 | per month | per user, 1 to 250 licences - Billed annually upfront. Adds branding and managed domains |
| Enterprise | Custom | Negotiated | Over 250 licences, unlimited cloud storage |
What Zoom actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proper user, 1 to 99 licences | per month | $14.16 | $169.92 |
| Businessper user, 1 to 250 licences | per month | $18.33 | $219.96 |
Zoom pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against Zoom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Teams | $4 a month | Yes | −$10.16 a month (−72%) |
| Zoom | $14.16 a month | Yes | This product |
Which Zoom plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You host short meetings occasionally | Basic, free | The 40-minute limit on group calls is the constraint, and it is deliberate. |
| You run meetings longer than 40 minutes | Pro | Removing that limit is the single reason most people pay for Zoom. |
| You need larger meetings and admin controls | Business | Higher participant caps plus managed domains and SSO. |
| You already pay for Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace | Try Teams or Meet first | Both are included in licences you hold. Zoom is better at raw meeting reliability, but it is a second bill. |
| You run webinars or large events | Budget the add-ons | Webinars and Events are priced separately from meeting plans. |
Verdict by who you are
Business running frequent external meetingsYes
Still the most reliable video product, especially on poor connections and with participants outside your organisation.
Trainer, coach or consultantYes
The 40-minute free limit makes Pro effectively mandatory, and reliability matters most here.
Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace customerCompare first
You already have a video tool. Justify Zoom on reliability and guest experience alone.
Team running internal calls onlyNo
Teams or Meet will do, and you are already paying for one of them.
Should you buy Zoom?
Buy Zoom if…
- Meetings with clients, candidates and other external guests
- Webinars and large virtual events
- Organisations wanting call quality on poor connections
Do not buy Zoom if…
- Teams wanting persistent chat as their primary workspace
- Organisations already paying for Teams and needing nothing more
- Buyers who need genuine monthly billing
What leaving Zoom would cost
moderate lock-in
Zoom scores on public API. Portability 5/10 ; lock-in is the inverse. How this is calculated.
Read the billing footnote
Zoom’s pricing page shows monthly figures, but the small print is explicit: all published plans are billed annually as a single upfront charge, and the monthly rate is the annual total divided by twelve, shown for comparison only. Pro at $14.16 per user per month is therefore roughly $170 per user paid at once. Budget accordingly, and do not assume you can cancel mid-year.
Licence bands are a real constraint
Pro is limited to 99 licences and Business to 250. Crossing either threshold means an Enterprise conversation with unpublished pricing, so if you are approaching the boundary, raise it before renewal rather than after.
Where Zoom is still clearly better
External meetings. A candidate, client or supplier can click a link and be in the call in seconds with no account and no install. Microsoft Teams has improved but still introduces friction for guests, and that friction is paid by the most important people on the call. If your meetings are mostly internal, this advantage is worth very little.
The consolidation question
The honest framing for most buyers is not “Zoom or Teams” but “do we pay for Zoom in addition to the suite we already own?” Reasonable answers exist: sales teams doing external demos all day, anyone running webinars, and organisations with significant room hardware. For everyone else, the meeting product bundled into their existing licence is usually good enough.
Zoom questions, answered
- Is Zoom worth it?
- Zoom still wins the moment a call includes people who do not work for you.
- How much does Zoom cost?
- Free tier available; Pro from $14.16 per user/month, billed annually. The cheapest paid tier we recorded is Pro, published at $14.16 a month, which works out at $14.16 a month or $169.92 over a year. Verified against the vendor's pricing page.
- Does Zoom have a free plan or free trial?
- Zoom has a free plan. No free trial is offered.
- What is the best Zoom alternative?
- It depends on the job. Microsoft Teams: Free with Microsoft 365, so usually cheaper if you already pay for it. Google Meet: Included with Google Workspace and perfectly adequate for internal calls. Whereby: Simpler browser-only rooms for client calls, with no download at all.
- Can I self-host Zoom?
- No. Zoom is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Every claim below is about our work, not about Zoom. A "no" is recorded rather than omitted, because the difference between a tested review and careful desk research is the reader's to weigh. How we research a profile.
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Prices read from the vendor : yes
Read from Zoom's own pricing page on 9 August 2026
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Plans and terms recorded : yes
4 rows, each with its billing period
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Original screenshots : yes
2 captured by us: pricing page, homepage
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Sources cited and dated : yes
1 primary source, each with the date it was read
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Product used first-hand : no
Not tested. This profile is desk research from primary sources
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Alternatives used first-hand : no
None, so comparisons here rest on published facts rather than use
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Vendor contacted : no
Not contacted for this profile
Where Zoom appears on this site
One other page here references Zoom, and it is listed below.
- Another profile Microsoft Teams names it as a competitor
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Provenance and freshness
When each fact was last checked
- Pricing ·
- Plans ·
- Free trial
- Features
- Platforms
- Integrations
- Affiliate programme
- Company details
What has changed
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August 2026
- Pricing re-verified after the pricing page URL changed
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Zoom Workplace pricing - checked 9 August 2026
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