Webinar1 vs eWebinar.
eWebinar is one of the most polished automated-only webinar tools on the market, from about $99/mo for a single webinar. Webinar1 covers the same evergreen funnel — just-in-time scheduling, a live-feel room, automated emails — as a one-time license you self-host, brand, and own.
Renting a funnel adds up.
$99/mo — priced per webinar
eWebinar's entry plan starts around $99/month for a single webinar, and more webinars mean a higher tier. Three years in you've paid roughly $3,500 for one funnel and still own nothing.
Your registrants live on their servers
Every registration, watch metric, and email event sits in eWebinar's database. You can export some of it, but the list, the analytics, and the deliverability reputation are effectively theirs, not yours.
The interactions are the product — and not yours to change
eWebinar's timed polls, questions, and tips are excellent inside eWebinar. You can't take the room, the sequence, or the data model with you, and a feature your launch needs waits on their roadmap.
Own the platform you launch on.
Run it from your phone
Add the admin to your home screen on iPhone or Android and you get a notification the moment someone asks a question — no laptop, no browser tab left open. Reply there and then, or days later; if they've moved on, your answer reaches them by email. An evergreen webinar runs while you're asleep, so the questions have to find you rather than pile up unanswered.
You own the code, not a seat
Webinar1 is the full source of an evergreen webinar platform you clone, deploy, and brand as your own. Every file — registration, the no-scrub room, the email sequences, the admin — is yours to read and extend.
One payment, then pay infra at cost
After the one-time license your only costs are the providers your deployment actually uses — hosting, video, and email — paid directly at their published rates, with no platform markup. Most setups run a few dollars a month.
Your brand, domain, and data — all the way down
Registrants land on your domain, emails send from your address, and every record lives in your own database. Nothing routes through us. Your audience never sees the word “Webinar1.”
Feature comparison.
| Feature | Webinar1 | eWebinar |
|---|---|---|
| One-time license — own it forever | Yes | No |
| No monthly subscription | Yes | No |
| Unlimited webinars and registrants | Yes | Per-webinar pricing |
| Just-in-time evergreen scheduling | Yes | Yes |
| Pre-timed, live-feel chat | Yes | Yes |
| No-scrub, live-feel player | Yes | Yes |
| Automated reminders + replay emails | Yes | Yes |
| Timed in-video polls, tips, and handouts | Chat + Q&A | Yes |
| Mobile app for hosts — add to your phone's home screen | Yes | Not advertised |
| Answer attendee questions after the session ends | Yes | Yes |
| White-label: your brand + your domain | Yes | By plan |
| You hold the registrant data, never us | Yes | No |
| Full source code you can extend | Yes | No |
| Self-host on your own infrastructure | Yes | No |
Based on public plan details, verified June 2026. Plans and tiers vary.
One payment vs every month, forever.
- One-time license — yours forever
- Pay hosting / video / email directly, at cost
- Typically a few dollars/month to run
- 3-year total: about $495
- From ~$99/mo for a single webinar
- More webinars, higher tiers
- Data + deliverability on their servers
- 3-year total: about $3,500 — no ownership
Break-even versus eWebinar typically lands inside the first few months. Every month after is straight savings — and the platform is yours.
Where eWebinar still has the edge.
- Interaction editor — polls, questions, tips, and handouts timed to the video, the most complete in the category. Webinar1 ships pre-timed chat and Q&A.
- Hosted convenience — live in minutes with no deploy step. Webinar1's clone-and-configure flow takes about 30 minutes the first time.
- Page designer — a mature registration and thank-you page builder with a template library.
- Integrations and support history — native CRM and Zapier connections and years of onboarding content.
The honest summary: eWebinar is the more polished automated webinar product out of the box, and the right call if you never want a deploy step and rich in-video interactions drive your conversions. Webinar1 is the right call if you want to own what you launch on — and stop paying per webinar, per month.
Common questions.
Is Webinar1 an eWebinar replacement?+
For the core evergreen funnel — registration, just-in-time scheduling, a live-feel no-scrub room, pre-timed chat, automated reminders and replays, and per-webinar analytics — yes. eWebinar's timed polls and tips are richer than Webinar1's chat and Q&A today, so if those interactions drive your conversions, weigh that first.
Do I need to be a developer to run it?+
No. Setup is creating accounts at a few standard providers (hosting, video, and email) and pasting keys into a config file. The repo ships a guided onboarding file written for non-developers, and most buyers finish setup with an AI coding assistant in well under an hour. Day-to-day use is entirely in the browser.
Who owns my registrant data?+
You do. Registrations, watch metrics, and email events live in your own database, under your billing and access control. There's no Webinar1-controlled database in the loop, and you can export everything at any time.
What's the real running cost?+
After the one-time license, expect a few dollars a month for most deployments — hosting, video, and email all have generous free tiers, and you pay them directly at cost. Compare that to roughly $99/month per webinar, forever, with eWebinar.
Can I migrate from eWebinar?+
Yes — upload your recording to your video host, import your contacts by CSV, and rebuild your sequence from the six included email templates. Most creators move new launches to Webinar1 first and let eWebinar lapse at renewal.
Own your evergreen funnel.
One payment for the evergreen funnel eWebinar rents you per webinar, per month — your brand, your domain, your data.