A Demio alternative for charging, not funneling

Demio is built around free registration - the webinar captures leads and the money shows up later in your sales process, so there is no native way to charge at the door. Q&A With Me sells the ticket at its own checkout, takes a flat 10% plus a $0.50 buyer service fee, and pays your share to your connected account about a week after the session ends.

Honestly, no - and depending on your goal you may not want it to be. If your webinar exists to feed a CRM and an automated email sequence, Demio is built for exactly that and we will not pretend otherwise. Q&A With Me is the right tool when the session is something people pay to attend and the audience questions are the show.

Yes, and that is the honest split. Demio is webinar marketing software: automated reminder and follow-up sequences, registration funnels, polls, and CRM integrations are its core strengths, especially for a marketing team. Q&A With Me does the basics - registration confirmations, reminders, and syncing your audience into tools like Kit or Mailchimp - but it is not a marketing-automation platform. It is built so you can charge for the live session and get paid.

Since the Banzai acquisition Demio has moved upmarket toward marketing-team plans, with the heavier integrations and support gated on pricier tiers. If you are a coach or solopreneur who just wants to charge for a live session, Q&A With Me is free to host paid events - there is no monthly fee to run a paid Q&A; the platform earns only when you do (10% + $0.50 per ticket). Free workshops have an optional subscription if you need higher attendee caps.

Demio is a monthly subscription with no free tier - just a 14-day trial capped at 20 attendees. As of June 2026 its plans run roughly: Starter around $45/mo billed annually for 50 attendees and one host, Growth from about $69/mo annually for 150 attendees (scaling up to 3,000), and Premium from about $196/mo for unlimited hosts, larger rooms, and a dedicated success manager. You pay that every month whether or not the webinar makes you money. Q&A With Me is free to host paid events - no monthly fee. The platform takes a flat 10% plus a $0.50 buyer service fee per ticket and pays your share out about a week after the session ends, so it only earns when you do. Free workshops have an optional subscription if you need higher attendee caps.

It makes the questions the format. Viewers submit text or video questions, a smart queue surfaces the most relevant ones, and the one you pick appears on screen for everyone - their question and your answer, together. Demio has a Q&A tab, polls, and chat running alongside the talk, but on Q&A With Me the questions are the show rather than a side panel.

Yes. Tap any viewer to invite them up and they join you on screen for a real back-and-forth in front of the audience - useful when a question is better answered as a conversation than a monologue.

Every session records automatically and becomes a replay you control (24 hours to 30 days of access). Viewers who could not attend can still submit questions; if you answer one, they catch it in the replay. Each answered question is also cut into a standalone vertical clip for short-form, instead of leaving you to download and edit the recording yourself.