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Jitsi Meet vs Zoom
Zoom is a proprietary SaaS service with paid plans, while Jitsi is self-hosted and free.
Which to pick
Pick Jitsi Meet if you want…
- Self-hosted video conferencing
- A free, open-source tool
Pick Zoom if you want…
- All-in-one UCaaS with AI features
- Hosted video meetings
Side by side
- What it is
- Jitsi Meet:Jitsi Meet is a free open-source video-conferencing platform for web and mobile that you can self-host or embed in apps.
- Zoom:Zoom provides video meetings, chat, phone, webinars and AI tools on a unified collaboration platform.
- Best for
- Jitsi Meet:Self-hosted video conferencing
- Zoom:All-in-one UCaaS with AI features
- Who it’s for
- Jitsi Meet:Developers and teams needing secure, customizable video meetings without vendor lock-in.
- Zoom:Businesses and teams needing unified communications and remote collaboration.
- Pricing
- Jitsi Meet:Free
- Zoom:Freemium
- Plans
- Jitsi Meet:—
- Zoom:Basic Free · Pro $14.16 per user per month billed annu · Business $18.33 per user per month billed annu
- Open source
- Jitsi Meet:Yes, 30,053 GitHub stars
- Zoom:—
- Works with
- Jitsi Meet:—
- Zoom:Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Hubspot
Jitsi Meet features
- Free open-source platform. Provides fully free video conferencing software you can run on your own servers.
- Web and mobile support. Runs in browsers and native apps on iOS and Android.
- Document Picture-in-Picture. Allows interactive document PiP during browser meetings.
- Distributed tracing. Enables tracing of calls across Jitsi backend components.
- Transcription architecture. Offers a speech-to-text pipeline built on Jigasi for meeting transcription.
- JaaS hosting option. The Jitsi team can host meetings for you as a service.
Zoom features
- Meetings. Host video meetings with up to 100 participants (free) and larger capacities on paid plans.
- AI Note-taking. My Notes captures AI-generated meeting summaries and notes, with unlimited use on Pro and higher plans.
- Phone & VoIP. Integrated cloud phone service with HD calling and optional outbound calling.
- Chat & Collaboration. Persistent group chat, direct messaging, file sharing and searchable history.
- Webinars & Events. Host webinars for up to 500 attendees on Enterprise and add-on plans.
- Whiteboard & Clips. Editable whiteboards and short video clips for quick visual collaboration.
Jitsi Meet vs Zoom FAQ
Is Jitsi Meet or Zoom free?+
Jitsi Meet is free. Zoom has a free plan (Basic) and paid plans.
Is Jitsi Meet or Zoom open source?+
Jitsi Meet is open source (jitsi/jitsi-meet on GitHub, Apache-2.0 license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Zoom.
On DevHunt
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