Barco ClickShare vs Mersive Solstice: Wireless Presentation Systems Compared (2026)

If you’re standing up meeting rooms in 2026, you’ve almost certainly had Barco ClickShare and Mersive Solstice on the shortlist. Both let people share a screen without hunting for the right HDMI cable, and both have been in the enterprise AV conversation for close to a decade. But they solve the problem with different hardware tiers, different licensing philosophies, and different assumptions about how much you want to manage centrally. This comparison breaks down where each one actually fits, so you’re not buying based on a sales deck.

Quick verdict

Barco ClickShare wins on range: it covers everything from a small huddle room to a large auditorium, and its newer X-Series leans into bring-your-own-meeting (BYOM) workflows that pass a laptop’s own video and audio through to room hardware, rather than pure screen mirroring. Mersive Solstice wins on licensing simplicity: every Solstice Pod ships with a year of subscription included, and the software splits cleanly into a 4-user tier for huddle spaces and an unlimited-user tier for larger rooms, which makes budgeting across many rooms more predictable. If you’re standardizing a large, mixed-room-size portfolio and want one vendor relationship, ClickShare’s tiering gives you more room to grow. If you want a subscription-inclusive model with fewer SKUs to track, Solstice is the simpler purchase order.

Who this is for

• IT and AV managers comparing wireless presentation hardware for a meeting room refresh or new office build-out
• Facilities teams standardizing on one wireless sharing platform across dozens of rooms of different sizes
• Anyone deciding between a one-time hardware purchase and a subscription-inclusive licensing model
• Teams evaluating BYOM (bring-your-own-meeting) workflows against traditional screen-mirroring for hybrid calls
• Readers who’ve already read our best wireless presentation systems roundup and want the ClickShare-vs-Solstice detail specifically

Barco ClickShare: the lineup

ClickShare is less a single product than a family of tiers, each aimed at a different room size and budget. That range is the platform’s biggest structural advantage, you can standardize on ClickShare across a huddle room and an auditorium and still be buying from the same vendor and management console.

Entry and mid-tier models

The CX-20 is the entry point, aimed at small huddle rooms and focus rooms, with pricing that typically starts somewhere around $500-$700 for a basic configuration, check barco.com for current list pricing since regional distributor pricing varies. Step up to the CX-30 for standard-size meeting rooms, generally running in the roughly $1,200-$1,500 range. The CX-50 Gen 2 targets larger, higher-spec rooms and typically starts at $2,000 or more depending on configuration. As always, treat these as approximate starting figures, not quotes, confirm current numbers with Barco or a reseller before budgeting.

Large-venue models

Barco also still sells (and many enterprises still run) older but capable large-room units: the CS-100 supports up to 8 simultaneous connections, the CSE-200 scales to 16 users, and the CSC-1 is built for auditoriums and large presentation spaces with support for up to 64 simultaneous connections. If your portfolio includes town-hall spaces or large training rooms, this is where ClickShare has coverage that Solstice’s more room-focused lineup doesn’t match as directly.

The X-Series and BYOM

Barco’s newer ClickShare X-Series, including the ClickShare X-Display Plus, shifts the model toward bring-your-own-meeting (BYOM) rather than pure wireless mirroring. Instead of just casting a screen to the room display, BYOM is designed to route a laptop’s own camera, microphone, and meeting-platform UI through the room’s hardware, so the meeting still runs natively on the user’s own Teams, Zoom, or Google Meet client while using the room’s screen, camera, and speakers. It’s a meaningfully different workflow from classic ClickShare, and worth evaluating separately if your rooms are primarily used for hybrid video calls rather than local presentations.

Mersive Solstice: the lineup

Solstice takes a narrower, more standardized approach: one hardware form factor (the Solstice Pod), sold with a licensing structure built around user-count tiers rather than a wide spread of hardware SKUs.

Hardware and pricing

The Solstice Pod is the core hardware unit, with pricing that generally lands somewhere in the roughly $1,000-$2,500 range depending on the specific model and configuration you choose. One data point from vendor and reseller research put per-unit pricing around EUR 1,000-1,400 in some markets, which lands in a similar USD ballpark once converted, but exchange rates and regional distributor pricing shift this, so confirm current figures directly at mersive.com or with your reseller before committing to a rollout.

Licensing model: 4-user vs. unlimited

Where Solstice differentiates itself is licensing. The software comes in two editions: a 4-user edition aimed at huddle rooms and small meeting spaces, and an unlimited-user edition for larger rooms, training spaces, and auditoriums where more than four people might need to connect and share simultaneously. That’s a simpler mental model than ClickShare’s multiple hardware tiers, you’re choosing a software edition to match room size rather than a different physical unit for every size bracket.

Subscription is bundled, not optional

Every Solstice Pod purchase includes one full year of the Solstice Subscription. After that year, you renew, either by purchasing extended subscription upfront at time of purchase, or renewing when the initial term expires. In practice this means Solstice is a hardware-plus-subscription model, not a one-time capital purchase. Budget for renewal the same way you’d budget for any SaaS license, and build it into your total cost of ownership calculations, not just your initial capex request.

ClickShare vs Solstice: side-by-side

Total cost of ownership: what to actually model

Sticker price on the hardware is the least useful number here. Model these instead:

• Renewal cost, Solstice’s subscription renewal is a recurring line item you need to forecast annually; ClickShare’s hardware-tier units are closer to a one-time purchase per room, though firmware/support contracts vary by tier, so confirm what’s included with your quote.
• Per-room capacity needs, don’t over-buy unlimited-user licensing or auditorium-class hardware for a 6-person huddle room. Match the tier to actual room occupancy, not aspirational future use.
• Fleet management overhead, if you’re deploying more than a handful of rooms, factor in the time your team spends managing firmware updates, room analytics, and remote configuration across whichever platform’s console.
• BYOM vs mirroring workflow fit, if most of your rooms exist primarily for hybrid video calls rather than local wired presentations, weigh ClickShare’s X-Series BYOM approach against Solstice’s more traditional sharing model before you standardize.

For a broader walkthrough of how wireless presentation fits into a full room build, see our guide on how to design a conference room AV system step by step.

Which one should you actually deploy?

Choose ClickShare if…

You need one vendor to cover everything from a two-person focus room to a 200-seat auditorium, you want the option of a largely one-time hardware purchase rather than a mandatory subscription, or your rooms are shifting toward BYOM-style hybrid meetings where the laptop’s own video client stays in control.

Choose Solstice if…

You want a simpler two-tier licensing model (4-user vs. unlimited) that’s easier to explain to finance and easier to standardize across a large room portfolio, and you’re comfortable treating the bundled subscription as a predictable recurring cost rather than an unwelcome surprise at renewal time.

Either way, budget for the room control layer

Wireless presentation hardware doesn’t operate in isolation, it usually sits alongside a room control system, scheduling panel, and camera/audio setup. If you haven’t finalized how these pieces talk to each other, our AV control systems buyer’s guide covers how to evaluate that layer before you lock in a wireless sharing vendor.

Bottom line

Neither platform is the wrong choice, they’re built around different assumptions about how you want to pay and how wide a room range you need to cover. ClickShare gives you the broadest hardware range in a single family, from budget huddle rooms to large-venue CSC-1 deployments, plus a BYOM path via the X-Series if hybrid video is your primary use case. Solstice gives you a more standardized hardware line with a licensing model that’s arguably easier to forecast, provided you treat the annual subscription renewal as a real, recurring cost rather than an afterthought. Get final quotes from both vendors for your specific room count and sizes before deciding, list pricing on both sides moves often enough that any number here should be treated as a planning estimate, not a quote.

Before you commit to either platform at scale, revisit our full best wireless presentation systems for meeting rooms roundup for how these two stack up against the rest of the market, and make sure the room control and scheduling layer around your chosen hardware is settled using our conference room AV design guide before you place a fleet-wide order.

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