Buy Zoom Pro in Nepal: Unlimited Meeting Time, 100 to 500 Participants

Cheapmandu · Genuine Zoom on your own private account

Get genuine Zoom on an account that belongs to you. Meetings can run for up to 30 hours, so there is no forty-minute cutoff. You also get AI Companion, 10 GB of cloud recording per licence, and live streaming to YouTube and Facebook. Choose a capacity of 100, 300, or 500 participants, and pay by the month or (on the 100-user plan) by the year. You can pay in rupees through eSewa, Khalti, ConnectIPS, QR, mobile banking, or bank transfer, with no international card needed.

Why people upgrade

Most people upgrade for one reason: the forty-minute cutoff. It never arrives at a convenient moment. It arrives halfway through an explanation, in the middle of a negotiation, or just as a student asks the best question of the class. Then everyone spends the next three minutes rejoining a fresh link, and the thread of the conversation is gone.

Zoom Pro removes that limit. Meetings can run for up to thirty hours. Recordings are saved to the cloud with AI-generated summaries attached, so nobody has to rewatch two hours of video to find the part they need. And when your audience is bigger than the meeting itself, you can stream the session live to Facebook or YouTube.

Sometimes the need is larger still. A convocation, an AGM, or a company all-hands might require 300 or even 500 people in one room. With Cheapmandu, you can buy that capacity for the single month you need it, instead of committing to a full year.

Cheapmandu has supplied business software to Nepali organisations since 2024. Every account is private and registered on your own email address. Payment is local, and support comes through WhatsApp in Nepali.

Plans and pricing

The annual 100-user plan costs Rs. 22,000, against Rs. 26,400 for twelve monthly payments of Rs. 2,200. That saves you Rs. 4,400, the equivalent of two months free.

The annual 500-participant plan is currently out of stock. If you need it, message us and we will tell you as soon as it returns. Monthly plans at 300 and 500 participants are available now.

Why the monthly Large Meeting plans matter most

Zoom sells large-meeting capacity as an annual add-on. If you buy 500-participant capability directly from Zoom, you need Zoom Pro plus the Large Meeting add-on. That comes to roughly $770 a year, or about Rs. 103,000, committed for twelve months at a time.

For most organisations, that is the wrong shape of purchase. They do not need 500 seats all year. They need them for one convocation in Baisakh, or one AGM in Mangsir. Paying for the other eleven months means paying for capacity that nobody will use.

Rs. 10,500 buys you the month you actually need. For a single event, that is the gap between Rs. 10,500 and a Rs. 103,000 annual commitment.

The same logic applies at 300 participants. Rs. 4,200 covers the month you are running your training programme, rather than the whole year around it.

There is one exception. If you genuinely need large capacity all year round, an annual plan will be better value, and it is worth waiting for the 500-participant annual plan to return to stock. If your need is tied to an event, monthly is the right shape.

How the 100-user plans compare with buying direct

We would rather show you honest numbers than inflated ones you might check and find wrong.

Direct from Zoom, Zoom Pro costs $14.16 per user per month on annual billing. That works out to roughly $170 a year, or about Rs. 22,800. On monthly billing it is $16.99, which comes to around Rs. 27,300 over a year.

Against those figures, our Rs. 22,000 annual plan is about 4% below Zoom’s annual rate and about 19% below its monthly billing. That is a real saving, but a modest one. At this tier, most of what you are buying is the ability to pay in rupees without needing a card that works internationally, along with a local team that answers on WhatsApp.

If you are a school or college, check Zoom’s education pricing before you buy anything. Zoom sells School and Campus plans at around $10 per user per month on annual billing, with a minimum of twenty licences. For an institution buying seats for its staff, that is likely to be cheaper per seat than anything we can offer, and we would rather tell you so than have you overpay.

Which capacity do you need?

100 participants: Rs. 2,200 per month or Rs. 22,000 per year

This tier suits tuition classes, school sections, small teams, client meetings, and freelance consultations. One thing worth knowing: free Zoom also allows 100 participants. At this tier, what you are buying is unlimited meeting time, not extra headcount.

300 participants: Rs. 4,200 per month

Choose this when a college department wants to run all its sections together, or when you are hosting mid-size webinars and training sessions. It also suits NGO workshops and community programmes. This is the point where free Zoom genuinely stops working for you.

500 participants: Rs. 10,500 per month

This is the plan for AGMs, convocations, multi-college conferences, corporate all-hands, and large donor events. Everyone in the meeting can still speak and share their screen. It is a meeting, not a broadcast.

More than 500, or one-way broadcasting?

That is a different product called Zoom Webinar, which is licensed separately. Message us for a quote.

A note on sizing

Buy for your realistic attendance, not your invite list. At large online events, the number of people who actually attend is typically well below the number who registered. A 300-seat plan that fits your audience is better value than a 500-seat plan that sits half empty. If you are unsure, message us with your expected numbers and we will help you choose.

What Zoom Pro actually changes

Unlimited meeting duration

A single session can run for up to thirty hours, compared with forty minutes on the free plan.

For teachers, that means a two-hour lecture without restarting the link and losing the room halfway through. For businesses, it means a negotiation that is not interrupted at its most delicate moment. For community and religious organisations, it means a programme that runs for exactly as long as it needs to.

AI Companion

AI Companion is included at no extra cost on every paid plan. It offers:

• Catch Me Up: if you join late, you get a summary of what you missed.
• Meeting summaries: key decisions, action items, and next steps are generated automatically.
• Smart recording: cloud recordings receive AI chapters, highlights, and section summaries.
• In-meeting Q&A: you can ask the AI what was said without interrupting the speaker.
• Agentic workflows: AI Companion 3.0 can draft documents and follow-up messages based on what was discussed, going beyond simple summaries.
• 30+ languages for transcription and translation.

A caution on language: accuracy is highest in English. Nepali support exists and is improving, but do not plan a Nepali-language meeting around automatic transcription just yet.

10 GB of cloud recording per licence

Cloud recordings are saved to Zoom’s servers instead of your hard drive. That gives you a single link to share with the whole class or team, access from any device, and AI chapters layered on top of the recording.

Ten gigabytes covers roughly twenty to thirty hours of recorded meetings. That is enough for most people. If you record everything, read the recording strategy section below.

Live streaming

You can stream to Facebook Live, YouTube Live, or any custom RTMP destination. Your participant cap stops mattering for anyone who only needs to watch. A 500-person meeting can have ten thousand viewers.

For a large event, this is the cheapest way to extend your reach. Run the meeting at the capacity you bought, and stream it for everyone else.

Host controls that matter

• Co-hosts: delegate muting, admitting, and breakout management.
• Breakout rooms: split a large session into small groups and bring everyone back together.
• Waiting room: approve each person individually before they enter.
• Polls and Q&A: structured participation instead of a chat free-for-all.
• Usage reports: see who joined, when they left, and how long they stayed.
• End-to-end encryption: available for sensitive sessions.

Zoom Free vs Zoom Pro

Running a class on Zoom

Teachers are the largest group buying Zoom in Nepal, and for them most of the difficulty is not the software. It is the habits around it. These practices make the biggest difference.

1. Use a recurring meeting link. Create one link for the whole term and post it in the class group, where it never changes. Generating a new link for every session practically guarantees that somebody misses class.
2. Turn on the waiting room and a passcode. Use both, every time. This is what stops uninvited people from joining a class link that has been forwarded around.
3. Mute participants on entry. Go to Settings → In Meeting → Mute all participants when they join. Thirty unmuted students on the roads of Kathmandu is not a learning environment.
4. Appoint a co-host. A student or colleague can admit latecomers and watch the chat while you teach. Teaching and moderating at the same time is harder than it sounds.
5. Record to the cloud and share the link. Students who missed class, or whose connection dropped, can catch up without any extra work from you. AI chapters make a two-hour recording easy to navigate.
6. Use breakout rooms for real work. Put four or five students in each room, give them a specific task, and set a fixed time. Broadcast a message before you pull everyone back. This is what most clearly separates a Zoom class from a video of a lecture.
7. Run polls for attendance and comprehension. A poll is faster than a roll call, and it also tells you whether anything actually landed.
8. Set video expectations on day one. Video on is better for attention, but not every student has the bandwidth or a private space at home. Say what you expect, and allow exceptions without argument.
9. Check the usage report afterwards. Join and leave times show you who actually attended and who opened the link and then left.

Hosting a large event or AGM

If you are buying a 300 or 500 plan, this section is the reason. A large event rarely fails because of Zoom itself. It fails because of preparation, so plan for the following.

• Rehearse in the actual room. Do it a day before, with the real host account, the real slides, and everyone who will present. Most failures are discovered here, while there is still time to fix them.
• Assign roles. You need a host who runs the proceedings, a co-host who admits and mutes, and someone watching the Q&A. One person cannot do all three while also chairing the meeting.
• Mute everyone on entry and lock it down. For an AGM, restrict unmuting and screen sharing to hosts only, then unmute individual speakers as needed.
• Use Q&A rather than chat for questions. Chat becomes unreadable above about fifty people. Q&A lets you upvote questions, answer in text, and mark items as resolved.
• Stream it. If attendance might exceed your capacity, stream to Facebook or YouTube and share that link for overflow viewers. They cannot interact, but they can watch, and for an AGM that describes most of the audience anyway.
• Record the session. A recording protects you when you need minutes, a list of absent members, or evidence of what was said if someone disputes it later.
• Have a fallback. Keep a second host account on a different connection, and a phone number people can call if things fail. Power and internet are not guaranteed here, and the meeting should not die with your router.
• Start thirty minutes early. Let people join, test their audio, and sort out their problems before the proceedings begin.
• Buy the plan before the week of the event. Activation for large-capacity plans takes longer than for the standard ones, and you want time to rehearse on the actual account.

Bandwidth and data: what you actually need

Data use runs at roughly 0.5 to 1.5 GB per hour of group video, depending on quality and on how many cameras are switched on. As a rule of thumb, an hour-long class on mobile data costs about a gigabyte.

If your connection is shaky

• Turn off your video. This is the single most effective fix, for both bandwidth and data.
• Dial down HD in Settings → Video.
• Close everything else, especially other video streams and cloud sync.
• Use the app, not the browser. The desktop client handles poor connections far better.
• Get closer to the router, or use a cable if the meeting matters.
• Record locally as a backup if you are hosting something important on an uncertain line.

If a participant keeps dropping, audio-only is a real option. A student who can hear the class is better off than one who cannot stay connected with video on.

Keeping meetings secure

• Always require a passcode. It is on by default now, but check that it was not disabled on an old recurring meeting.
• Use the waiting room for anything where the link may have been shared beyond the intended group.
• Restrict screen sharing to hosts. Go to Security → Allow participants to share screen → off. This one setting prevents the most disruptive form of intrusion, and most people never find it.
• Lock the meeting once everyone is in, using Security → Lock Meeting.
• Know where the Security button is before you need it. From that one place you can remove a participant, suspend all activity, and stop screen sharing.
• Do not post meeting links publicly. For an open event, use registration or a live stream instead of publishing a join link.
• For sensitive meetings, enable end-to-end encryption. Note that this disables cloud recording, which is the trade-off.

Recording strategy

Ten gigabytes is generous but finite, and it covers roughly twenty to thirty hours of meetings. It helps to know which kind of recording suits which job.

Cloud recording gives you a shareable link, AI chapters, and access from anywhere. Use it for anything that other people need to watch.

Local recording saves to your own computer, with no Zoom-side limit beyond the size of your disk. Use it for archives and for anything you plan to edit.

Here is a workable routine for teachers. Record to the cloud so students get an immediate link. At the end of the month, download that month’s recordings to your own storage and clear them from the cloud. You keep everything, you never hit the cap, and students always have access to the current sessions.

For long-term archiving, Google One in Nepal handles it well. A full academic year of lecture recordings will comfortably exceed 10 GB.

Zoom vs Google Meet vs Microsoft Teams

Google Meet is free for up to an hour with a Google account. It integrates with Gmail and Calendar and needs no installation. It is weaker on breakout rooms, polls, and host controls, and recording sits behind Workspace tiers. For a quick internal call, it is often the faster choice.

Microsoft Teams makes sense if you already run Microsoft 365. It is a collaboration platform with meetings attached, rather than a meetings tool. It is heavier and has more to learn, but it is better value if you use the rest of the suite.

Zoom wins on meeting mechanics: breakout rooms, host controls, recording, streaming, and reliability on poor connections. It is also the tool most people in Nepal already know, which matters more than any feature list when you are inviting three hundred people.

The honest summary is this. For short internal meetings, Meet is free and fine. For teaching, events, or anything where the meeting itself is the product, Zoom is built for it.

Who should buy this

• Teachers and tuition centres. This is the clearest case: long sessions, recordings for absent students, breakout rooms, and attendance taken from usage reports. The 100-user plan fits almost every situation.
• Colleges and universities. Choose 300 for department-wide sessions and 500 for convocations and institution-wide events. Check Zoom’s education pricing first if you are buying for twenty or more staff.
• Businesses. Use 100 for daily work and 500 for all-hands meetings and AGMs. Buy the large plan only for the month you need it.
• NGOs and INGOs. Zoom suits board meetings with encryption, multi-country coordination, donor presentations, and workshops.
• Religious and community organisations. It handles multi-hour programmes and community AGMs, and lets you stream to Facebook so family abroad can watch.
• Event organisers. Run conferences and seminars at 300 or 500 participants, priced by the month rather than the year.

Before you buy

• You need a new email address. These plans activate on a fresh account rather than upgrading an existing one. If you have built up recurring links, contacts, and settings on a current Zoom account, those stay where they are. Tell us before buying and we will talk it through.
• Use a dedicated work email, not your most important personal one.
• Large Meeting is not Webinar. In a Large Meeting, everyone can speak and share their screen. Webinar mode, which is a one-way broadcast with Q&A, is a separate Zoom product that needs separate licensing.
• The annual 500 plan is out of stock. Monthly 300 and 500 plans are available.
• Nepali transcription is improving but not there yet. AI summaries work best in English.
• Some features need higher tiers. Single sign-on, for instance, starts above Pro.
• Compliance is its own conversation. If you are subject to healthcare, financial, or government requirements, message us before buying.

How to buy

1. Pick your capacity and duration.
2. Prepare a new email address that has not previously been used with Zoom.
3. Pay via eSewa, Khalti, ConnectIPS, QR, or bank transfer.
4. Wait for confirmation. Activation is confirmed by email or WhatsApp, usually within 10–30 minutes for 100-user plans. It takes longer for 300 and 500 while the capacity is provisioned.
5. Sign in and start hosting.

For an event, buy at least a few days ahead. Large-capacity plans take longer to activate, and you will want time to rehearse. Businesses that need VAT-compliant invoices should message support before paying.

If something goes wrong

• Nobody can hear you. Check Zoom’s own microphone selection rather than your system settings, because Zoom often picks the wrong device. Go to Audio Settings → Microphone.
• Echo. This is almost always caused by two devices in the same room with their speakers on. Mute one of them.
• Video freezing. Turn your camera off first, then ask others to do the same. Bandwidth is nearly always the cause.
• Can’t share your screen. On a Mac, grant Zoom screen recording permission in System Settings → Privacy & Security, then restart Zoom.
• Recording didn’t appear. Cloud recordings take time to process after a long meeting, sometimes hours. Check the Recordings tab on the web portal before assuming it failed.
• Participants can’t join. The usual causes are a waiting room with nobody admitting people, or a passcode they were never sent.
• More people turned up than your plan allows. Start the stream and post that link in the chat and in your event group. Nobody gets locked out.
• You’ve hit your 10 GB. Download your old recordings and delete them from the cloud, and the space returns.

Frequently asked questions

How many participants can I have? You can have 100, 300, or 500, depending on your plan. Free Zoom also allows 100, so at that tier you are buying meeting time rather than headcount.

Can I buy 500 participants for just one month? Yes, for Rs. 10,500. That is the main reason these plans exist. Zoom sells large capacity as an annual add-on, so buying direct for a single AGM means committing to a full year.

Is this the same as a Webinar licence? No. Large Meeting means everyone can participate. Webinar is a one-way broadcast with Q&A, and it is licensed separately. Message us for a quote.

What if more people show up than my plan allows? Stream to YouTube or Facebook and share that link. Overflow viewers can watch without taking a participant seat.

How long can meetings run? Up to 30 hours.

How much cloud recording do I get? You get 10 GB per licence, which is roughly 20–30 hours. Local recording is limited only by your disk.

Can I stream to Facebook and YouTube? Yes, and to custom RTMP destinations as well.

Does AI Companion work in Nepali? It supports 30+ languages, but English is by far the most accurate. Treat Nepali transcription as a rough aid.

What internet speed do I need? Around 3 Mbps for a group HD call, and 5–10 Mbps if you are hosting a large one.

How much data does an hour use? Roughly 0.5–1.5 GB of group video.

Can you upgrade my existing Zoom account? Not at these rates, because activation needs a fresh email. Message us if that matters and we will discuss options.

Can I move up a capacity tier later? Yes. Message support and we will apply credit from your current plan toward the upgrade.

Can I get a VAT invoice? Yes. Message support before paying.

Should my college buy this or Zoom’s education plan? Check Zoom’s education pricing if you need twenty or more licences. It may well be cheaper per seat.

How fast is activation? It takes 10–30 minutes for 100-user plans, and longer for 300 and 500, so buy ahead of an event.

What payment methods do you accept? We accept eSewa, Khalti, ConnectIPS, QR, mobile banking, and bank transfer.

Pair it with

• Google One in Nepal: long-term archive space for your recordings once the 10 GB fills. A year of lectures will exceed it.
• Windows 11 Pro in Nepal: a properly licensed machine to host from.
• Microsoft 365 Personal in Nepal: for agendas before the meeting and minutes after it.
• ChatGPT Plus in Nepal: for preparation and follow-up drafting beyond what AI Companion covers in the meeting itself.

Why Cheapmandu

• Capacity from 100 to 500, monthly or annual, so you buy what your event actually needs.
• Large-meeting capacity by the month, where Zoom sells it by the year.
• A private account on your own email, with full host controls.
• Local payment through eSewa, Khalti, ConnectIPS, or bank transfer, with no international card.
• VAT invoices available for organisational procurement.
• WhatsApp support in Nepali, in minutes rather than days.
• We tell you when Zoom’s education pricing would serve you better.
• Supplying Nepali organisations since 2024.

Pricing at a glance: 100 users at Rs. 2,200/month or Rs. 22,000/year · 300 users at Rs. 4,200/month · 500 users at Rs. 10,500/month

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