Crowdcast alternatives: pick a stream, then cover the room

We build EVOCA, and we should say this before the list: EVOCA does not stream video. We don't host a stage, sell a ticket, or broadcast to YouTube. Crowdcast does. Searching "crowdcast alternatives" and landing on a Q&A tool would be a waste of your afternoon, so the streaming options come first.

Crowdcast, from their own site, is a browser stage for live shows, classes, workshops, and virtual conferences. You brand the set, bring attendees on camera, run chat, poll the people watching, sell tickets through Stripe, hook up Patreon, and multistream to Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch. That is a webinar and community-video product. It is a good one when the audience is remote and the camera is the event.

What an in-person or hybrid talk actually needs

A stream does not collect questions from the people standing in the room. They are not in the chat. They will not install a second app between sessions. They will scan a QR, upvote a question, and send a reaction you can throw on a wall next to the speaker.

Crowdcast already has chat, polls, and on-screen Q&A for the people inside the stream. That layer stops at the laptop watching the video. The hallway, the workshop room, and the hybrid overflow still need their own question list. That's the job we do. EVOCA does not include live polls, and it does not replace the encoder.

Real alternatives, by the job

Prices below for Crowdcast are what crowdcast.io/pricing showed on 21 October 2026. The page has a Monthly / Annual toggle marked "save 30%," and the amounts weren't labeled with which side of the toggle was selected in the text we read, so confirm the billing period before you budget. The other tools are described by what they're for. Their prices move, and we didn't copy a third-party price table into this post.

1. 1

   StreamYard

   Best for: A browser studio you can multistream

   StreamYard is the closest 'just host the show' replacement. Guests join a browser studio, you brand the layout, and you send the live show out to YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitch, and the rest. StreamYard's own blog positions it as a Crowdcast alternative for interviews and webinars. It is a streaming tool. It is not a conference Q&A wall for the people in the room.

2. 2

   Livestorm

   Best for: Marketing webinars with registration and follow-up

   Livestorm is a browser webinar product for marketing, sales, and training teams. Registration pages, automated sessions, and the kind of follow-up a CRM expects. It has its own polls, Q&A, and reactions inside the webinar. Pick it when the event is a lead-gen session, not a track of in-person talks. Check livestorm.co for the current plan, because webinar pricing moves.

3. 3

   Riverside

   Best for: A live session you will cut into clips later

   Riverside started as a remote recording studio and grew a live-streaming side. The point is the recording: separate tracks, high quality, something you can edit after the call. Use it when the YouTube version matters as much as the live hour. The webinar extras (registration, polls) are not why people pick it.

4. 4

   Zoom Webinars

   Best for: A company that already lives in Zoom

   Zoom Webinars is the webinar add-on, not the meeting you already have. Registration, a presenter view, and Q&A live inside Zoom, which is why internal teams default to it. It is a weaker fit for a creator stage with ticketing and a designed set. If your audience already has Zoom open, this is the low-friction stream.

5. 5

   EVOCA

   Best for: The Q&A, reactions, and wall beside the stream

   EVOCA does not stream video. Put the stream in Crowdcast, StreamYard, Livestorm, Riverside, or Zoom, then use EVOCA for the room: upvoted questions, emoji reactions, a projected live wall, and a speaker view. Attendees join from a QR or a link. There is nothing to install, and EVOCA does not include live polls. Free covers 100 attendees and 1 admin. A bigger weekend is €49 for 7 days, with unlimited attendees and unlimited talks.

Crowdcast's own prices, briefly

On that pricing page, Lite was listed at $49 with 100+ live attendees, 10 hours a month, and 2-hour sessions. Pro was $89 with 250+ live attendees, 20 hours, 2 team seats, 4-hour sessions, and 1 multistream. Business was $195 with 1,000+ live attendees, 40 hours, 4 seats, 6-hour sessions, and 3 multistreams. Extra live attendees were 15¢ each. A free trial was described as 60-minute sessions with 10 live attendees, and another line on the page said you can try it with up to 10 people registered. Registrations can exceed the live cap. You pay for who shows up. That's a streaming bill, not a Q&A bill.

Stay on Crowdcast when you want that stage: guests on camera, tickets, Patreon, and the replay on the same URL. Switch the stream when one of the tools above matches the job better. Add EVOCA only when there is a room, or a hybrid audience, that the chat does not cover.

What EVOCA costs for that layer

Free organizer events cover 100 attendees and 1 admin. One-time Event is €49 for a 7-day window, unlimited attendees, unlimited talks. Growth is €29/month, with call for papers and 3 admins. Scale is €89/month billed yearly. A recurring series is €19.99/month. Speaker Pro is €5/month billed yearly. None of those plans turn on a video stream.

If you're comparing live Q&A tools rather than webinar platforms, the closer pages are EVOCA vs Slido and EVOCA vs Mentimeter.