Affiliate disclosure: I am an affiliate of WebinarFuel. If you buy through my links I earn a commission (30% recurring) at no extra cost to you. That does not change my opinions, and I point out the downsides too. I am not an EverWebinar affiliate, so I earn nothing if you choose EverWebinar. Prices were checked on Oct 29, 2026, are in USD, and may change; confirm them on each vendor's site before you buy. [Update this line if you ever join EverWebinar's affiliate program.]
The honest short version - On price, EverWebinar wins if you pay upfront: $1,188 a year (about $99/mo) or $1,896 for two years (about $79/mo), new customers only. Month to month, the two are almost the same: $199 vs $197. - For teams, WebinarFuel wins: its Pro plan lists 10 users with permissions. EverWebinar lists 1 team member account. - For text reminders, they work differently. WebinarFuel has email and SMS built in at several points before a session, paid for with metered credits. EverWebinar sends texts through your own Twilio account, and its help center says only one SMS reminder is available, 15 minutes before the session. - For automated challenges, only WebinarFuel (FuelSuite Pro, $297/mo) bundles one. EverWebinar's pages don't list challenges. - For free video hosting, EverWebinar is more flexible: it accepts YouTube, Vimeo and direct MP4 links. WebinarFuel's linked-video option only accepted a Vimeo Pro link in our test, so you'd upload the file instead. - Free trial: WebinarFuel gives you 14 days free. EverWebinar charges $1 for 14 days, then $199/mo unless you cancel. - WebinarFuel for most course creators; EverWebinar if you're already on the Genesis/WebinarJam stack. We tested WebinarFuel; our EverWebinar comparison uses public documentation, not a hands-on trial.
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| WebinarFuel | EverWebinar | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $197/mo Pro; $297/mo FuelSuite Pro (listed as "normally $394/mo") | $199/mo |
| Annual | Not published on WebinarFuel's site (homepage pricing section, checked Nov 6, 2026) or in our trial's billing screen without clicking "Upgrade your plan" (we didn't). We are not quoting a number. | $1,188/yr charged upfront (about $99/mo), new customers only |
| Two-year | Not offered on the pricing section | $1,896 charged upfront (about $79/mo), new customers only |
| Free trial | 14 days free | $1 for 14 days, then $199/mo unless cancelled before the trial ends |
| Plans | 2 plans (Pro, FuelSuite Pro) | One product; "every feature included" on every billing option |
| Included email / SMS | Pro lists 1,000 email credits and 50 SMS credits. Our FuelSuite Pro trial showed 250 email and 25 SMS credits, with "Buy More" and "Auto Recharge" | Email reminders built in. SMS goes through your own Twilio account, which you need to set up |
| Refunds | Only within 30 days of your first purchase; renewals aren't refunded (WebinarFuel terms) | "30-day money-back guarantee" (pricing page). The Billing Policy says: full refund on an annual charge if you ask within 30 days; on monthly plans only the most recent payment can be refunded. The Terms say trial payments are non-refundable |
| Cancelling | Our trial's billing screen showed no Cancel button (only Upgrade your plan, Buy More, Auto Recharge and Update billing information). WebinarFuel's terms say: "To cancel your subscription, you must email [email protected]." Cancelling is by email, not a button in the app. We tested this ourselves: on Nov 3, 2026 we emailed [email protected] asking to cancel before the trial ended. An automated reply came back within a minute, and a team member confirmed the cancellation about 50 minutes later, saying access continues until the end of the billing period. | Billing Policy: ask at least 10 days before your next billing date, through support |
Sources: WebinarFuel homepage pricing, WebinarFuel terms, EverWebinar pricing, Genesis Digital Billing Policy, Genesis Digital Terms of Service.
Watch-out on EverWebinar's $1 trial: its Billing Policy asks for cancellation requests "at least 10 days prior to the next invoice date". The policy doesn't say how that applies to a 14-day trial, so if you try it, ask support on day one how and when to cancel.
| Feature | WebinarFuel (seen in our trial unless noted) | EverWebinar (from its own site and help center) |
|---|---|---|
| Video source | Two options: Upload Video (file) or Integrated Video. The only integration offered was "Vimeo Direct Link". YouTube and plain .mp4 links were rejected with a request for a valid Vimeo Pro URL (test, Oct 27, 2026). | The help center says the source video must be hosted externally: YouTube, Vimeo direct MP4 links (third-party playback only on some paid Vimeo plans), or any host with a direct MP4 link (e.g. Kartra, Amazon S3). MP4 or MOV, 720p/30fps recommended. YouTube's logo and player controls can't be hidden. WebinarJam users can import a past live session with "Replica Replay". |
| Scheduling | Session types: On (a date), Every (day/week/two weeks/month), Now, Replay, Tomorrow. Schedule Groups each have: Session Display (default 5, 1–20), Encore (off by default), Black Out Dates, Night Schedule (on by default, 11 PM–7 AM), Block Short Term Registration and Late Registration Window. The time zone can be set to "Registrants Time Zone". | Daily, weekly or custom recurring sessions, plus Just-in-Time sessions that start 5–15 minutes after someone registers. Session times show in each registrant's local time zone. Simulated-live replays and on-demand access are also offered. |
| Chat | The room's Live settings switch the Chat and Q&A tabs between Enable, Disable and Private, and can merge live chat into a master chat after each session. Per-webinar Automations rules and Quick Actions. The homepage advertises "Intelligent Chat Automations". Timed or simulated chat messages: not found in our trial (Oct 30), but WebinarFuel's Intelligent Chat Automations page (checked Nov 2, 2026) now advertises "Live Chat Simulation with Filters", AI follow-up chat after a CTA click, name greetings, buyer announcements and keyword triggers. Automations are rule-based (tags, segments, redirects, Expire Replay and similar), and the Messages screen is a filterable log of Live/Master/Replay/Encore chats, DMs and SMS with no way to schedule messages. | Simulated chat: write chat messages once and set them to appear at set timestamps in every session. Hybrid mode lets you or your team answer questions live while the recording plays. Polls, handouts and timed offers too. |
| Registration | Registration widgets in a visual builder. Templates: Default - Floater, Default - Modal, Default - Embed, Vertical - Thank you, Horizontal - Thank you. Multi-step forms; elements such as Date Time, Timer, Quiz, Input and Embed Code. The default form collects email and full name (no phone field). The embed code is script tags (a JavaScript loader plus a widget ID), not an iframe, so it works anywhere you can paste custom HTML. | Built-in registration and thank-you page templates, or "connect your own pages using its registration tools". |
| Reminders: email | Ready-made notifications for each webinar. On registration: push, SMS and email at 0 minutes, then a "One more thing.." email at 2 minutes. Reminders by email and SMS at 2 days, 1 day, 3 h, 2 h, 1 h, 15 min and 5 min before, plus an SMS at 1 minute. Separate tabs for Leads, Invited, Registered, Reminders, Starting now, Attended (Non Buyer), Missed Webinar and Purchased, each with an AI button. | Email through built-in WebinarJam Mail, your own SMTP server or your own autoresponder. Follow-ups can differ by whether someone attended, missed or left early. |
| Reminders: SMS, and how it's billed | Built in. Uses metered credits billed on demand. The Notifications screen nudges you to "turn on auto recharge". Trial balance: 250 email / 25 SMS credits. The price of extra credits isn't visible in our trial without clicking Buy More. There's no SMS opt-in control; you add a phone field and consent checkbox to the widget yourself. | Sent through your own Twilio account (Account SID, Auth Token, phone number); texts need an opt-in box. The help center says only one SMS reminder is available: the last-minute one, 15 minutes before. Voice-call reminders are also possible through Twilio. EverWebinar's pages don't list an SMS fee of their own; Twilio's charges apply. |
| Split testing | The widget builder has versions (V1, +) for A/B-style widget tests. The only other explicit split test we found (Oct 30) is Webby App Settings > Desktop Live "Split Test" (browser vs app playback). The vendor site lists split tests of the video, price point, schedule and offer timing, but we found no offer, video or delivery split-test controls in the trial UI. | "Professional pages, templates, A/B testing" (pricing page). |
| Team seats | 10 users with permissions (Pro, homepage Oct 29, 2026). | 1 team member account (pricing page). |
| Integrations | Seen in the trial (Oct 26): ClickFunnels 1.0, Mailchimp, Ontraport, Klaviyo, AWeber, ActiveCampaign, Infusionsoft, GetResponse, Facebook, Facebook CAPI, Slack, ConvertKit, HTML, Drip, SproutVideo, Wistia, Vimeo, Webhook, Close, Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, HighLevel and HubSpot (23), plus a Zapier app labelled beta. | Direct integrations with ActiveCampaign, Mailchimp and ConvertKit; HubSpot, Salesforce "and dozens more via Zapier" (webinar-marketing page). |
| Analytics / attendees | In our trial, Settings > Attendees showed "pro plan feature, please upgrade", even on the FuelSuite Pro trial, and so did the Attendees tab inside a webinar (Oct 30). Each webinar's dashboard has tiles for Live Now, Revenue, Sales, Saw CTA % and Avg time on webinar; a Webinar Stats funnel (Funnel / FE Funnel / Arrow / Device) from unique visitors to registered, showed up and purchased, with revenue per visitor, per registrant and per attendee and average order value; plus Regs/Leads counts, Offer Stats (clicks), Drop Off Rate and a Reg. Date filter. | "Powerful analytics": the product tour shows a registration-to-attendance funnel, an attendance curve and watch-time stats. |
| Challenges / courses | FuelSuite Pro includes ChallengeFuel (automated challenges). The trial has a Webinars/Challenges switcher, with Courses in both. | Not listed on EverWebinar's pricing or feature pages. |
| Setup time | Our stopwatch (Oct 30): about 2 minutes for a bare-bones setup (a 3-second test video uploaded, one Every Day 8:00 PM session, the default widget). A real build with your own recording, copy, reminders, offers and tracking takes longer; we didn't time one. | EverWebinar's estimate: "one to two hours" for a straightforward webinar if your recording and copy are ready; "under 10 minutes" when importing a WebinarJam session with Replica Replay. |
| Refunds | First purchase only, within 30 days. | Annual: full refund within 30 days. Monthly: most recent payment only. $1 trial payment: non-refundable. |
| Hands-on comparison | WebinarFuel side tested in our trial (setup, settings, analytics and chat screens; see the rows above). We didn't watch a session as an attendee, so we make no playback-quality claim. | Not tested: we skipped the $1 trial. |
Image rules for this page: - EverWebinar images: none are used. The reference copies were deleted on Oct 29, 2026. Genesis Digital's Terms (section 3.2.2) allow copying only of content "expressly provided for that purpose", and say "no commercial uses are allowed ... without the advance written permission of GENESIS DIGITAL". So this page links to EverWebinar's own tour pages instead of showing their images. - WebinarFuel screenshots are from our own trial. They show the account holder's name and email in the sidebar or host list, so blur or crop that before publishing.
EverWebinar (link, don't embed):
- Slot E1, scheduling: link text "See EverWebinar's scheduling screens" → EverWebinar automated webinar tour. Reference files: everwebinar-tour/ew-automated-global-scheduling.png, ew-home-feature-1.png (the "Webinar schedules" series card).
- Slot E2, chat, polls, handouts and timed offers: link text "See EverWebinar's engagement tools" → EverWebinar simulated-live tour. Reference files: ew-simlive-engagement-chat-polls.png, ew-home-feature-3.png (Timed Offers).
- Slot E3, reminders: link text "See EverWebinar's reminder flow" → EverWebinar automated webinar tour. Reference file: ew-automated-reminder-flows.png.
- Slot E4, registration pages and analytics: link text "See EverWebinar's page templates" → EverWebinar webinar-marketing tour. Reference files: ew-marketing-signup-pages.png, ew-automated-session-insights.png.
WebinarFuel (our trial; blur the name first):
- Slot W1, the Vimeo Pro-only error on Integrated Video: trial-screens/test-webinar-oct27/test-06.png
- Slot W2, Schedule Groups (Encore, Black Out Dates, Night Schedule): trial-screens/test-webinar-oct27/test-18.png
- Slot W3, registration widget builder (Default - Floater): trial-screens/test-webinar-oct27/test-19.png
- Slot W4, default reminder schedule with the auto-recharge banner: trial-screens/test-webinar-oct27/test-28.png (Registered tab: test-22.png)
- Slot W5, Webinar Room live chat settings: trial-screens/test-webinar-oct27/test-24.png
- Slot W6, integrations list: trial-screens/integrations.png
- Slot W7, credit balances (250 email / 25 SMS): trial-screens/billing.png
Pick WebinarFuel if: - More than one person on your team needs a login (10 users on Pro vs 1 team member account). - You want SMS at several points before a session, not just one 15-minute text, and you're fine paying for metered credits. - You'll also run automated challenges (FuelSuite Pro). - You'd rather test for 14 days without paying anything.
Pick EverWebinar if: - You're ready to pay a year upfront: about $99/mo effective, roughly half WebinarFuel's monthly price. - Your recording is already on YouTube or Vimeo, or you have a WebinarJam replay to import. - You want timed, simulated chat messages, a feature EverWebinar documents clearly (WebinarFuel now advertises a live chat simulation too, but we couldn't find it in our Oct 30 trial). - One login is enough for you.
Pick neither yet if you don't have an offer that already sells on a live call or webinar. Automating a pitch that doesn't convert just automates the silence.
WebinarFuel for most course creators; EverWebinar if you're already on the Genesis/WebinarJam stack.
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Is EverWebinar cheaper than WebinarFuel? Month to month, no: $199 vs $197 for WebinarFuel Pro. Paid upfront, yes. EverWebinar's annual plan is $1,188 (about $99/mo) and its two-year plan is $1,896 (about $79/mo), both for new customers. WebinarFuel annual pricing is not published on their site (homepage pricing section, checked Nov 6, 2026) or in our trial's billing screen without clicking Upgrade, so we are not quoting a WebinarFuel annual number.
Can I use a YouTube video for my automated webinar? On EverWebinar, yes. Its help center lists YouTube as a source, but the YouTube logo and player controls stay visible. On WebinarFuel, not in our test: its Integrated Video option only accepted a Vimeo Pro link, so upload the file instead.
Do both send text-message reminders? Yes, but differently. WebinarFuel sends them itself, at several points, using SMS credits that are billed on demand. EverWebinar sends one last-minute SMS (15 minutes before) through your own Twilio account.
Can I get a refund? WebinarFuel: only within 30 days of your first purchase; renewals aren't refunded. EverWebinar: a full refund on an annual charge within 30 days, only the most recent payment on monthly plans, and the $1 trial payment isn't refundable. Read each Billing Policy or terms page before you buy.
Which is better for a team? WebinarFuel. Pro lists 10 users with permissions, while EverWebinar's pricing page lists 1 team member account.
Do I have to tell attendees the webinar is recorded? Neither tool forces you to, but we recommend saying so. EverWebinar's own FAQ says, "You do not need to pretend you are presenting live." See our take on automated-webinar ethics.
EverWebinar / Genesis Digital - EverWebinar pricing page: prices, $1 trial, 30-day guarantee, one plan with every feature, 1 team member account, A/B testing, setup-time FAQ, scheduling and integrations FAQ. - EverWebinar homepage: Just-in-Time (5–15 min), chat simulation, hybrid mode, Replica Replay, MP4 upload FAQ. - Automated webinar tour: 1–2 hour setup, email and optional SMS sequences. - Simulated-live webinar tour: scheduled chat messages, hybrid mode. - Webinar marketing tour: ActiveCampaign, Mailchimp, ConvertKit direct; HubSpot, Salesforce via Zapier. - Evergreen webinar software page: just-in-time sessions, chat, handouts, popups, Zapier. - Help: use external video hosting and Help: choose a broadcast source: video sources. - Help: send an SMS reminder and Help: connect Twilio: one SMS, 15 min, Twilio required. - Help: manage notifications: WebinarJam Mail, SMTP, autoresponder. - Genesis Digital Billing Policy (last updated Oct 25, 2022): refunds, 10-day cancellation notice. - Genesis Digital Terms of Service (updated January 2026): trial payments non-refundable; content reuse limits (section 3.2.2).
WebinarFuel - WebinarFuel homepage pricing: $197 / $297 ("normally $394"), 10 users, 1,000 email and 50 SMS credits, 14-day free trial (checked Oct 29, 2026). - WebinarFuel terms: refund rule (checked Oct 15, 2026). - Our own FuelSuite Pro trial: read-only check Oct 26, 2026 (billing credits, integrations, Attendees notice, ChallengeFuel) and an unpublished test webinar Oct 27, 2026 (video options, Schedule Groups, widgets, notifications, room settings, automations). Internal notes: 20-trial-test-webinar-findings.md.
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