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.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
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 |
| 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. |
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
- Does Zoom have a free plan or free trial?
- Zoom has a free plan. No free trial is offered.
- 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
Nobody here has used Zoom. This profile is desk research: prices read from the pages cited below, on the dates shown , from one primary source , with 2 captures taken by us . How we research a profile.
Where Zoom appears on this site
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Provenance and freshness
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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