GoToWebinar vs Polycom RealPresence Clariti comparison

GoTo and Poly are both solutions in the Virtual Meetings category. GoTo is ranked #24, while Poly is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.5. GoTo holds a 2.0% mindshare in VM, compared to Poly’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of GoTo users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Poly users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

GoToWebinar and Polycom RealPresence Clariti compete in the webinar and video conferencing solutions category. GoToWebinar has the advantage in affordability and ease of online interaction, while Polycom RealPresence Clariti excels in advanced video conferencing features and scalability, justifying its higher price.

Features: GoToWebinar provides user-friendly hosting, engagement tools like polls and Q&A, and platform integration capabilities. Polycom RealPresence Clariti offers robust video conferencing, high-quality video and audio, and system interoperability.

Room for Improvement: GoToWebinar could enhance its video and audio quality, increase scalability for larger audiences, and provide more comprehensive interoperability options. Polycom RealPresence Clariti can improve ease of initial setup, reduce pricing for small-medium businesses, and streamline the user interface to enhance accessibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: GoToWebinar is praised for its simple cloud-based deployment and responsive customer service. Polycom RealPresence Clariti, requiring more comprehensive setup, offers on-premises and hybrid deployment options with extensive support for complex installations.

Pricing and ROI: GoToWebinar appeals to cost-conscious organizations with its lower setup cost and good ROI for small to medium webinars. Polycom RealPresence Clariti, while costlier initially, promises significant long-term ROI for enterprises needing reliable, high-quality video conferencing, providing value through its advanced technology and scalability.

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Categories and Ranking

GoToWebinar

Ranking in Virtual Meetings

24th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Polycom RealPresence Clariti

Ranking in Virtual Meetings

12th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Virtual Meetings category, the mindshare of GoToWebinar is 2.0%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Polycom RealPresence Clariti is 1.5%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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RITA Conroy-Martin

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.

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Sreejith Thulasidas

Senior Engineer - UC - Service and Solutions Deployment at FVC

Provides video calling facilities with good video and audio clarity

Polycom RealPresence Clariti is very bad when moving towards the cloud. I think that Microsoft Teams and Zoom have already taken over the market. Polycom is currently looking into more end devices than server components and infrastructure. A cloud version would have been better, but that will not be feasible for Polycom now. It would have been helpful to have a cloud version during the migration stages, but now the time has gone. As a company, it's better for Polycom to look into the video conferencing devices rather than the infrastructure. Earlier, one of the advantages was that the infrastructure was very much open, and it was easy to integrate the tool with other platforms like Cisco. That is not the scenario now, and Polycom should concentrate on the endpoint hardware devices.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"All of their features are good. They are more or less equivalent to the competition. There's less disturbance, less jitter, the voice is always good even at a low bandwidth."

"We were able to build our own customer portal and integrate into GoToWebinar with a seamless interface."

"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."

"The interface is browser-based and simple, which is an advantage over other solutions."

"The most valuable feature is its integration with solutions like Zoom and Teams for endpoints. The picture quality is high, and the conference sessions are stable."

"I find the ability to follow the calls, the call flow, the ability to look at the history, and more on the fault-finding tools to be valuable."

"It's on-prem, which is great."

"Some proprietary Polycom features include speaker tracking, acoustic fencing, noise cancellation, active noise cancellation, and noise cancellation AI."

"It does a good job of integrating with other software."

Cons

"The sharing of cameras is limited to meeting organizers."

"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."

"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 most valuable feature is its integration with solutions like Zoom and Teams for endpoints. The picture quality is high, and the conference sessions are stable."

"Could have a wider range of use cases."

"The only issue we have is with some of the bridging stuff, particularly with respect to DTMF and outgoing calls."

"Polycom RealPresence Clariti is very bad when moving towards the cloud."

"The customer needs this platform to be a little bit more customized."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a monthly subscription and the price is quite expensive if you're not paying annually."

"This is a free solution."

"Polycom RealPresence Clariti is definitely more expensive than others in the market because of its high quality."

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What needs improvement with Polycom RealPresence Clariti?

They are discontinuing the product and they are moving over to Pexip. The only issue we have is with some of the bridging stuff, particularly with respect to DTMF and outgoing calls. That's our big...

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What is your primary use case for Polycom RealPresence Clariti?

We use it both nationally and internationally with our partners, however, it's used in a closed environment.

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What advice do you have for others considering Polycom RealPresence Clariti?

I would recommend it, however, it depends on the environment. We have a lot of users but not a lot of usage, so the price model is really good for that environment. Overall, I would give it a nine ...

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Overview

Web conferencing SaaS for larger webinars

GoTo

RealPresence Clariti is simple, powerful, cloud-ready collaboration infrastructure software for businesses of all sizes that connects people with HD voice, video, content and web collaboration.

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Sample Customers

Avigilon Corporation, Bitdefender, British Library's Business & IP Centre, Business Wire, Clarity, Colt, Conversion Rate Experts, Cornerstone Home Lending Inc., DemandGen, DPR Construction

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