Buy Zoom Pro in Nepal — Unlimited Meeting Time, 100 to 500 Participants | Cheapmandu

Genuine Zoom on your own account. Unlimited meeting duration up to 30 hours, AI Companion, 10 GB cloud recording, live streaming to YouTube and Facebook. Capacity from 100 to 500 participants, by the month or by the year. Pay with eSewa, Khalti, ConnectIPS, or bank transfer.

The forty-minute cutoff is the reason most people upgrade. It arrives in the middle of an explanation, a negotiation, or a question from a student, and everyone spends the next three minutes rejoining.

Zoom Pro removes it. Meetings run up to thirty hours, recordings go to the cloud with AI summaries attached, and you can stream to Facebook or YouTube for an audience larger than the meeting itself.

And when you need to put 300 or 500 people in a room — a convocation, an AGM, a company all-hands — you can buy that capacity for the month you need it, rather than committing to a year.

Cheapmandu has supplied business software to Nepali organisations since 2024. Private accounts on your own email, local payment, WhatsApp support in Nepali.

Plans

The annual 100-user plan saves Rs. 7,400 against twelve monthly payments — a little over three months free.

The annual 500-participant plan is currently out of stock. Message us and we’ll tell you when it returns.

The monthly Large Meeting plans are the interesting ones

Zoom sells large-meeting capacity as an annual add-on. Buying 500-participant capability direct means Zoom Pro plus the Large Meeting add-on — roughly $770 a year, about Rs. 103,000 — committed for twelve months.

Most organisations don’t need 500 seats for twelve months. They need them for one convocation in Baisakh, or one AGM in Mangsir.

Rs. 10,500 buys that month. For a single event, that’s the difference between Rs. 10,500 and a Rs. 103,000 annual commitment — and you’re not paying for eleven months of capacity nobody uses.

Same logic at 300: Rs. 4,200 for the month you’re running the training programme, not the year around it.

If you genuinely need large capacity all year, the annual plans are better value and worth waiting for. If you need it for an event, monthly is the right shape.

How the 100-user plans compare to buying direct

Zoom Pro costs $14.16 per user per month on annual billing — roughly $170 a year, about Rs. 22,800. On monthly billing it’s $16.99, around Rs. 27,300 a year.

So Rs. 19,000 is about 17% below Zoom’s annual rate and 30% below monthly billing. A real saving, but a modest one — most of what you’re buying at this tier is the ability to pay in rupees without a card that works internationally.

We’d rather give you that figure than an inflated one you’d check.

If you’re a school or college, check Zoom’s education pricing before buying anything. Zoom sells School and Campus plans at around $10 per user per month on annual billing with a twenty-licence minimum. For an institution buying for staff, that’s likely cheaper per seat than anything we can offer.

Which Capacity Do You Need?

100 participants — Rs. 2,200/month or Rs. 19,000/year

Tuition classes, school sections, small teams, client meetings, freelance consultations. Note that free Zoom also allows 100 participants — what you’re buying at this tier is unlimited meeting time, not headcount.

300 participants — Rs. 4,200/month

A college department running all sections together. Mid-size webinars and training. NGO workshops and community programmes. The point where free Zoom genuinely stops working.

500 participants — Rs. 10,500/month

AGMs, convocations, multi-college conferences, corporate all-hands, large donor events. Everyone can still speak and share screen — this is a meeting, not a broadcast.

More than 500, or one-way broadcast? That’s Zoom Webinar, a separate product. Message us for a quote.

A word of advice on sizing: buy for your realistic attendance, not your invite list. Attendance at large online events typically runs well below registrations, and a 300-seat plan that fits is better value than a 500 that’s half empty. If you’re unsure, message us with your expected numbers.

What Pro Actually Changes

Unlimited meeting duration

Up to thirty hours in a single session, against forty minutes on free.

For teachers, that’s a two-hour lecture without restarting the link and losing the room halfway through. For businesses, a negotiation that doesn’t get interrupted at its most delicate point. For community and religious organisations, a programme that runs as long as it runs.

AI Companion

Included at no extra cost on every paid plan.

• Catch Me Up — join late and get a summary of what you missed
• Meeting summaries — key decisions, action items, and next steps, generated automatically
• Smart recording — cloud recordings get AI chapters, highlights, and section summaries
• In-meeting Q&A — ask the AI what was said without interrupting the speaker
• Agentic workflows — AI Companion 3.0 drafts documents and follow-ups based on what was discussed, not just summaries
• 30+ languages for transcription and translation

Accuracy is highest in English. Nepali support exists and is improving, but don’t plan a Nepali-language meeting around automatic transcription yet.

10 GB cloud recording per licence

Recordings go to Zoom’s cloud rather than your hard drive — one link to share with the whole class or team, access from any device, AI chapters layered on top.

Ten gigabytes runs to roughly twenty to thirty hours of recorded meeting. Enough for most people; see the recording strategy section if you record everything.

Live streaming

Stream to Facebook Live, YouTube Live, or custom RTMP. 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 reach. Run the meeting at the capacity you bought, 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 pull everyone back
• Waiting room — approve people individually
• Polls and Q&A — structured participation rather than a chat free-for-all
• Usage reports — who joined, when they left, how long they stayed
• End-to-end encryption — available for sensitive sessions

Zoom Free vs Pro

Running a Class on Zoom

The largest group buying Zoom in Nepal is teachers, and most of the difficulty isn’t the software.

Use a recurring meeting link. One link for the whole term, in the class group, never changes. Generating a new link each session guarantees somebody misses class.

Turn on the waiting room and a passcode. Both, always. This is what stops uninvited people joining a class link that’s been forwarded around.

Mute participants on entry. Settings → In Meeting → Mute all participants when they join. Thirty unmuted students in Kathmandu traffic is not a learning environment.

Make a co-host. A student or colleague who admits latecomers and watches the chat while you teach. Teaching and moderating at once is harder than it sounds.

Record to the cloud, share the link. Students who missed class, or whose connection dropped, catch up without you doing anything. AI chapters make a two-hour recording navigable.

Use breakout rooms for actual work. Four to five students per room, a specific task, a fixed time. Broadcast a message before pulling them back. This is what most distinguishes a Zoom class from a video of a lecture.

Polls for attendance and comprehension. Faster than a roll call, and it tells you whether anything landed.

Set video expectations on day one. Video on is better for attention, but not every student has the bandwidth or a private space. Say what you expect and allow exceptions without argument.

Check the usage report afterwards. Join and leave times tell you who actually attended versus who opened the link and left.

Hosting a Large Event or AGM

If you’re buying a 300 or 500 plan, this section is why.

Rehearse in the actual room. A day before, with the real host account, the real slides, and everyone presenting. Most failures are discovered here.

Assign roles. A host who runs proceedings, a co-host who admits and mutes, someone watching Q&A. One person cannot do all three while also chairing.

Mute everyone on entry and lock it down. For an AGM, restrict unmuting and screen sharing to hosts only, then unmute individuals as needed.

Use Q&A rather than chat for questions. Chat becomes unreadable above about fifty people; Q&A lets you upvote, answer in text, and mark things resolved.

Stream it. If attendance might exceed your capacity, stream to Facebook or YouTube and share that link for overflow. Viewers can’t interact but they can watch — for an AGM that’s usually most of the audience anyway.

Record. Minutes, absent members, and anyone disputing later what was said.

Have a fallback. A second host account on a different connection, and a phone number people can call if things fail. Power and internet aren’t guaranteed here, and the meeting shouldn’t die with your router.

Start thirty minutes early. Let people join, test audio, and sort their problems before proceedings begin.

Buy the plan before the week of the event. Activation for large-capacity plans takes longer than the standard ones, and you want time to rehearse on the actual account.

Bandwidth and Data — What You Actually Need

Data use runs roughly 0.5 to 1.5 GB per hour of group video, depending on quality and how many cameras are on. An hour-long class on mobile data is about a gigabyte.

For shaky connections:

• Turn off your video — the single most effective fix, for both bandwidth and data
• Dial down HD in Settings → Video
• Close everything else, especially other video 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 backup if you’re 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 can’t stay connected with video on.

Keeping Meetings Secure

Always require a passcode. On by default now, but check it wasn’t 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. 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’s in. Security → Lock Meeting.

Know where the Security button is before you need it. It removes a participant, suspends all activity, and stops screen sharing from one place.

Don’t post meeting links publicly. For an open event, use registration or stream it rather than publishing a join link.

For sensitive meetings, enable end-to-end encryption — noting it disables cloud recording, which is the trade-off.

Recording Strategy

Ten gigabytes is generous but finite — roughly twenty to thirty hours.

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

Local recording saves to your computer with no Zoom-side limit beyond your disk. Use it for archives and anything you’ll edit.

A workable routine for teachers: record to the cloud so students get an immediate link, then download the month’s recordings to your own storage and clear the cloud. You keep everything, never hit the cap, and students always have current sessions.

For long-term archive, Google One in Nepal handles it — a full academic year of lecture recordings will exceed 10 GB comfortably.

Zoom vs Google Meet vs Microsoft Teams

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

Microsoft Teams makes sense if you already run Microsoft 365 — a collaboration platform with meetings attached, rather than a meetings tool. Heavier, more to learn, better value if you use the rest.

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

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

Who Should Buy This

Teachers and tuition centres — the clearest case. Long sessions, recordings for absent students, breakout rooms, attendance from usage reports. The 100-user plan fits almost every case.

Colleges and universities — 300 for department-wide sessions, 500 for convocations and institution-wide events. Check Zoom’s education pricing first if you’re buying for twenty or more staff.

Businesses — 100 for daily work, 500 for all-hands and AGMs. Buy the large plan for the month you need it.

NGOs and INGOs — board meetings with encryption, multi-country coordination, donor presentations and workshops.

Religious and community organisations — multi-hour programmes, community AGMs, and streaming to Facebook so diaspora family can watch.

Event organisers — conferences and seminars at 300 or 500, priced by the month rather than the year.

Before You Buy

A new email address is required. These plans activate on a fresh account rather than upgrading an existing one. If you’ve built up recurring links, contacts, and settings on a current Zoom account, those stay where they are — tell us before buying and we’ll 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 screen. Webinar mode — one-way broadcast with Q&A — is a separate Zoom product needing separate licensing.

The annual 500 plan is out of stock. Monthly 300 and 500 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. Healthcare, financial, and government requirements are their own conversation — message us before buying if you’re subject to specific rules.

How to Buy

1. Pick your capacity and duration.
2. Prepare a new email address not previously used with Zoom.
3. Pay via eSewa, Khalti, ConnectIPS, QR, or bank transfer.
4. Activation confirmation by email or WhatsApp — usually 10–30 minutes for 100-user plans, longer for 300 and 500 while 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’ll want time to rehearse.

Businesses needing VAT-compliant invoices should message support before paying.

If Something Goes Wrong

Nobody can hear you. Check Zoom’s own microphone selection rather than system settings — Zoom often picks the wrong device. Audio Settings → Microphone.

Echo. Almost always two devices in the same room with speakers on. Mute one.

Video freezing. Turn your camera off first, then ask others to. Bandwidth is nearly always the cause.

Can’t share screen. On 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. Usually the waiting room with nobody admitting, or a passcode they weren’t sent.

More people turned up than your plan allows. Start the stream and post that link in the chat and your event group. Nobody gets locked out.

Hit your 10 GB. Download old recordings, delete from the cloud, space returns.

FAQ

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

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

Is this the same as a Webinar licence? No. Large Meeting means everyone can participate. Webinar is one-way broadcast with Q&A, 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? 10 GB per licence, roughly 20–30 hours. Local recording is limited only by your disk.

Can I stream to Facebook and YouTube? Yes, plus custom RTMP.

Does AI Companion work in Nepali? It supports 30+ languages, with English 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, 5–10 Mbps if 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 — activation needs a fresh email. Message us if that matters and we’ll discuss options.

Can I move up a capacity tier later? Yes. Message support and we’ll 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? 10–30 minutes for 100-user plans. Longer for 300 and 500 — buy ahead of an event.

Payment methods? eSewa, Khalti, ConnectIPS, QR, mobile banking, bank transfer.

Pair It With

Google One in Nepal — long-term archive for recordings once 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 — agendas before the meeting, minutes after it.

ChatGPT Plus in Nepal — preparation and follow-up drafting beyond what AI Companion covers in-meeting.

Why Cheapmandu

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

100 users: Rs. 2,200/month or Rs. 19,000/year · 300 users: Rs. 4,200/month · 500 users: Rs. 10,500/month

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