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GoToWebinar vs Microsoft Teams comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

GoToWebinar
Ranking in Virtual Meetings
18th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Teams
Ranking in Virtual Meetings
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
178
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Social Software (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Virtual Meetings category, the mindshare of GoToWebinar is 2.2%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Teams is 3.1%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Virtual Meetings Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Teams3.1%
GoToWebinar2.2%
Other94.7%
Virtual Meetings
 

Featured Reviews

RITA Conroy-Martin - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Marketing at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
Video library is a great tool and it enables good customization; feels a little antiquated and rusty
I like that recordings are available immediately, it's a great feature. I also appreciate being able to use the video library as a tool, and the integration of an API with other systems we have. We were able to build our own customer portal and then integrate into GoToWebinar with a seamless interface. People thought they were on our platform, but they were using GoToWebinar. Those are unique features that seemed to be very easy for our development team to integrate. I like that aspect of it. It also provides good visibility if somebody had seen a webinar that was useful. It's very easy to push them out. Registration is an easy process as is customization on the back end. We very rarely had technical issues running the webinars so it's a pretty robust platform overall.
Anna Virtsan - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at UkrSibbank
Have streamlined daily workflow and task management but still face inconvenience from recent interface changes and limited integration options
There are challenges and issues in Microsoft Teams, such as after recent updates where group chats were combined with Teams, chats, and groups into one. Users have to work with settings to make it normal again so Teams are separated from chats, and that was a really inconvenient update. Many users ask me to help make it back again to separate Teams and groups from one-to-one chats. That's probably the worst update they've made recently. Additionally, there are some minor features, such as when I work with messages, I don't have an actual forward or quote option when replying to someone's message. I need to be careful not to miss the quote sign. For a lot of people, they are confused about where the quotes option is. I've received a couple of hundred support tickets just regarding this issue. The function to share email to Teams chat doesn't work sometimes due to our compliance policies, and sometimes it would be nice to be able to forward an email to the group chat and have further discussions. Microsoft Teams could improve by being less glitchy because it glitches a lot, leading to undelivered emails and undelivered messages. It would be beneficial if the MS application Shifts, which adds functionality to groups, could be integrated into the groups calendar. Currently, many teams don't use the app because it is not integrated with the general calendar or the Outlook calendar, making it basically a useless application. The platform needs less Copilot and more people. The general Copilot integration into the platform is less glitchy, but Microsoft Teams is quite heavy and glitchy sometimes. Stability depends a lot on compliance restrictions, policies, and quality of internet. Sometimes, when updates are enrolling, the platform glitches, breaks, or shuts down.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We use GoToWebinar to do live pitch webinars and sales webinars, we use it to create all of our courses as well, we do training courses and our business pretty much revolves around using this tool for most of what we do."
"The interface is browser-based and simple, which is an advantage over other solutions."
"I can extract the activity and the attendance reports, along with every single question that was asked during the webinar, which is a feature that we highly value."
"This solution is very reliable. It is easy to switch between audio and microphone when using headphones."
"Scalability is good as you can host webinars with hundreds of participants without any lagging."
"Overall, this is a good product that is simple to use but I would rather use Webex for video conferencing."
"We were able to build our own customer portal and integrate into GoToWebinar with a seamless interface."
"GoToWebinar polls help me quickly gauge, upfront, the audience’s interest in topics and their current level of knowledge."
"It is easy to share and collaborate, including built-in, edit-in-place, autosave features, without having to download, edit, save, or upload."
"The solution helps with collaborative communication. You can use it to chat and book calls. You can even set the status as away. It also has a transcript feature integrated."
"I think communication is the best feature overall. We use Microsoft Teams for chat, video, and audio communications, so communication is the most valuable feature. Video communication has improved our productivity. We often need to review the code of some developers, which means we need to see their shared screen. So, I think the screen-sharing feature is the best one for us."
"Arranging online meetings is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Teams."
"It is software that many people are familiar with, and if you have someone who needs to communicate with Teams, they will have the necessary software."
"The tool's integration capabilities are seamless."
"Microsoft Teams is a friendly and easy-to-install solution."
"The solution has a lot of capabilities in one application, whereas in the past we had to use multiple applications, and that, I would say, would be the biggest benefit that we've experienced, in that we have only one application that we can use to collaborate and speak with each other."
 

Cons

"The chat window and using polls is easier in Zoom than compared to GoToWebinar. Make it simpler and easier to publish polls on the fly would improve the solution."
"GoToWebinar would be improved with the inclusion of support for video endpoints."
"The chat window and using polls is easier in Zoom compared to GoToWebinar. Making it simpler and easier to publish polls on the fly would improve the solution."
"GoToWebinar would be improved with the inclusion of support for video endpoints."
"The sharing of cameras is limited to meeting organizers."
"In comparison, I don't feel that GoToWebinar has the range of customization and it feels quite antiquated in comparison to Teams."
"Some of my friends also use GoToWebinar to collect clients for affiliate marketing. In those cases, they found some features were missing with respect to some of the competition. And the worst part is the price."
"The platform feels old and a little rusty, more could be invested into the look and feel of it."
"I had to type the team members versus being able to set up a team's group of names as you can do with Outlook."
"The solution's stability can be better."
"The solution needs to improve the APIs."
"I don't like it very much, but I have to use it because it's the standard in the organization for communication."
"One area that could be improved is the authentication process, especially related to Windows sign-on authentication."
"I don't like the online version of Word and Excel. It skews the layout. It is no longer representative of the layout that you actually have in a document. You always have to open it in the desktop application to get an accurate representation of how the document will look."
"There are a couple of faulty areas that need improvement."
"To Do tasks’ ease of use should be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is a free solution."
"It is a monthly subscription and the price is quite expensive if you're not paying annually."
"If you have content that requires more security and you want to use it in a more secure manner, with more protection, then it will come at a higher cost."
"The solution is expensive and I would rate it a nine out of ten."
"The solution is priced high."
"Pricing is free to a threshold and then after that you have to license per user."
"I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten. Its pricing is fixed."
"It is moderately expensive than other Microsoft products."
"We get the solution on a corporate plan, where everything is included."
"I would rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
19%
Construction Company
9%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business66
Midsize Enterprise45
Large Enterprise72
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Teams?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Microsoft Teams is good and fine.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams already comes with rich qualities, and the impact on the IT professional is very large with great features in terms of collaboration, team activity engagements, and friendly emojis ...
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Teams?
My main use case for Microsoft Teams is team communications and collaborations, and sharing updates. For any task, we use Microsoft Teams. We share the specific builds for the distributions, and if...
 

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Sample Customers

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