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 "id": "livestorm",
 "name": "Livestorm",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "livestorm.com",
 "category": "Growth & Revenue",
 "task": "Webinars & events",
 "summary": "Browser-based webinars with registration, automated emails, polls and analytics.",
 "best_for": "teams running a predictable programme of webinars to a known audience size, where buying a year of attendance up front is cheaper than a per-seat platform",
 "skip_if": "your webinar schedule is irregular or experimental, because paying a year ahead for attendance you cannot forecast is the wrong shape; a per-month platform is safer while you find out what works",
 "honest_knock": "This is a bet on attendance that you place a year in advance. You buy credits up front — €2.50 each in euros, $3.00 in dollars, set separately rather than converted — and a credit is spent per unique participant per session, so a four-part series to the same 200 people is 800 credits, not 200, which is €2,000. A webinar that does better than expected runs you out, and the page is now clear about what that means: new attendees cannot join until you buy a higher tier. The page publishes the per-attendee rate but never a total. Before you commit, count sessions times expected attendees for the whole year, and plan to use them within the billing year, because Livestorm's help centre (read 22 October 2026) says unused credits do not roll over. There is no pause option either, and cancelling after the renewal date brings no refund.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "see_details",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-09-05 and again 2026-09-30 on their own pricing page) There is still no plan price. Pro is sold as attendee credits, bought as a yearly pack up front, with sessions up to 4 hours and unlimited team members; Enterprise is quote-only with sessions up to 12 hours. The rate depends on the currency you pick on the page, and the two are not conversions of each other: €2.50 per attendee in euros, $3.00 in dollars. Their own definition, worth reading twice because it decides your bill: one credit is spent for each unique participant, per session, over a 12-month period. Someone attending two different sessions costs 2 credits; the same person joining live and later watching the replay of that session counts once. Registrants who never show up cost nothing, and your own team members never consume credits. New since August: the FAQ now says what happens when the pack runs out — you get alerts as you approach the limit, and once you reach it new attendees cannot join a session until you move to a higher yearly tier. The pricing page itself does not say what becomes of credits you have not used at the twelve-month mark. On 30 September 2026 both rates read the same at the calculator's default of 400 credits (€2.50 and $3.00), the feature table capped live attendance at 3,000 per event on both Pro and Enterprise, and the pricing page still left the unused-credit question open. Re-read on 22 October 2026: the 400-credit default still showed €2.50 per attendee, Pro sessions still run up to 4 hours and Enterprise up to 12, and live attendance is still capped at 3,000 per event on both. Livestorm's help article on attendee credits, read the same day, settles the question the pricing page leaves open: unused credits do not roll over to the next billing period.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-22",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": [
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "Pro, displayed 400-credit selection",
    "quote": "€2.50",
    "source_url": "https://livestorm.co/pricing",
    "read_on": "2026-10-22"
   }
  ]
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "Pro is sold as attendee credits, bought as a yearly pack up front, with sessions up to 4 hours and unlimited team members; Enterprise is quote-only with sessions up to 12 hours.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-22",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Zoom Webinars or Demio",
  "why": "the usual alternatives — both price per host per month, so compare that against your credits divided across a year"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/livestorm.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/livestorm-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/livestorm/",
  "vendor_site": "https://livestorm.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://get.livestorm.co/cfc8vpp5fl59",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'see_details': no single public entry price.",
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "quoted",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "livestorm:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "livestorm:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "livestorm:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "livestorm:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}