RingCentral Events alternative: an honest comparison (formerly Hopin)

The short answer. Hopin is now RingCentral Events - their own homepage says so - which is why most people land here. It is a virtual and hybrid event platform: multiple stages, expo booths, breakout rooms, streaming, registration, and a published price of 99 per organiser per month on an annual commitment, with unlimited events and registrations. If you run events all year, that is good value and we cannot match it. All Along is per event and does one job: it tells each attendee who to meet and why, from a list, wherever the event happens.

If you searched for Hopin and ended up here, the first useful fact is that hopin.com now carries a single heading reading that Hopin is now RingCentral Events. The product did not disappear; it changed name and owner. What it is today is a platform for running virtual and hybrid events - stages, sessions, expo booths, chat, streaming - with a networking area inside it. All Along is not a platform and never will be. We take an attendee list, read what people wrote at registration, and send each of them a short list of who to meet with a sentence explaining why. Whether that is a substitute depends entirely on whether you need somewhere to hold the event.

If you are still scoping the category more broadly, it is worth reading the three questions to ask before you buy an event networking platform and why most people leave an event without meeting anyone useful. This page is the head-to-head once RingCentral Events is already on your shortlist.

How RingCentral Events and All Along compare

Every row below says who we think does that job better, including the rows where the answer is RingCentral Events. A comparison written by one of the two companies is only worth reading if it is willing to lose an argument, so here are the ones we lose.

Everything in that table about RingCentral Events was checked against their own website on 19 August 2026, and the pages we used are listed at the bottom of this post. Products move. If you find something out of date here, tell us and we will correct it.

What All Along costs

Both of us publish something, though theirs takes some finding. The figure on their pricing page appears in the frequently-asked questions rather than the plan table: pricing starts at 99 per organiser per month for their base plan, with annual and monthly-on-an-annual-commitment options, up to sixteen per cent off for paying annually, and every plan including unlimited events and registrations. There is a thirty-day trial with limited registrations. Their page prints a dollar sign without naming a currency, so we are not going to guess at one. Ours: events under fifty people are free, with the full matching and the full report, not a trial and not a cut-down version. Above that it is a flat fee for the event, as at August 2026: AU$209 for up to a hundred attendees and AU$419 for up to two hundred and fifty, roughly AU$1.70 to AU$2.10 a person, with a money-back guarantee on every paid plan. The shapes are different on purpose. Theirs rewards volume; ours rewards running one event and deciding afterwards.

Full plans and what is included are on the events pricing and community pricing pages.

What we can see that a bigger platform cannot

Here is what our own events show, and its limits. Everybody who registers writes, in their own words, what they are working on and what they can help someone else with, before they arrive. It is a small body of evidence and we would rather say so than dress it up. What it consistently shows is how little of that survives an automatic pairing: a system that generates one-to-one meetings without publishing what it is pairing on produces a meeting, and a sentence about what the other person is trying to sort out produces a conversation. Those are not the same product, and the difference shows up in the second minute rather than the first.

Choose RingCentral Events if

• Your event is virtual or hybrid and you need somewhere to hold it. Stages, sessions, breakout rooms and streaming are the product and we have none of it.
• Sponsors and exhibitors are part of how the event pays for itself. Expo booths are a real revenue product and we do not sell one.
• You run events all year. A per-organiser subscription with unlimited events and registrations is the cheaper shape, and paying us per event twenty times would be daft.
• You need registration and ticketing, or onsite registration and badge printing for the in-person half of a hybrid event.
• You are a marketing team running webinars for lead generation, which is squarely who the product is sold to.

Choose All Along if

• Your event happens in a physical room and the people in it are not logged into anything.
• You already have a platform and a venue, and the introductions are the part that is not working.
• You want each person told why they were matched, in the words both of them used, rather than paired automatically without a stated reason.
• It is one event, and a twelve-month commitment for one event is the wrong shape.
• The event is under fifty people, in which case we are free and permanently so.

The honest summary: RingCentral Events and All Along are built for different jobs. If getting the right people to actually meet is the outcome you are judged on, see how All Along works, or run the free networking gap calculator to see where your current set-up falls short before you commit to either platform.

Other comparisons

Most people reading this are weighing more than two names. The rest of our head-to-heads, written to the same standard and checked against each company’s own website: Grip, Braindate, Whova, Cvent and Swapcard.