Meetings, webinars, and town halls feature comparison

APPLIES TO: ✔️Meetings ✔️Webinars ✔️Town halls

The following table shows which features are available in meetings, webinars, and town halls.

Feature Meetings Webinars Town halls
Announce when callers join or leave ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Anonymous attendees ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Attendance report ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Attendee mic and camera ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
Breakout rooms ✔️ ✖️2 ✖️
CART Captions ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
Channel meeting scheduling ✔️ ✖️ ✖️
Choose co-organizers ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Content sharing ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Copilot ✔️ ✔️ For organizers, co-organizers, and presenters only.
Custom backgrounds Premium Premium Premium
eCDN ✔️ ✖️ ✔️
End-to-end encryption Premium ✖️ ✖️
External participants can give or request control ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
Green room ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Hide attendee names Premium Premium ✖️
Interactive participants 1,000 1,000 ✖️
Language interpretation ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
Limit presenter role permissions ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Live captions ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Live transcriptions ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Lobby ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
Manage what attendees see Premium Premium ✔️
Meeting chat ✔️ ✔️ For organizers, co-organizers, and presenters only.
Meeting themes Premium ✖️ ✖️
Organizers and co-organizers can use video effects ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Outlook add-in ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Participants can give or request control ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
PowerPoint Live ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
Q&A ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Reactions ✔️ ✔️ ✖️
Recording ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Record automatically ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Recordings automatically expire ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Registration Optional ✔️ ✖️
RTMP-in Premium Premium ✔️
Shared notes ✔️ ✔️ Only for organizers and co-organizers.
Speaker coach ✔️ ✔️ For organizers and co-organizers.
View-only experience 10,0001 ✖️ ✖️
VOD ✖️ ✔️ ✔️
Voice isolation ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
Watermarks Premium ✖️ ✖️
Whiteboard ✔️ ✔️ ✖️

1 The usual 10,000 is increased to 20,000 through June 30, 2024.

2 Breakout rooms can be used if a webinar has fewer than 300 participants. However, if the number of participants increases to above 300, breakout rooms aren't supported.

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