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Jitsi Meet vs Zoom Workplace

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 7 November 2026.

Compared on
Jitsi Meet

Open source

Zoom Workplace

Free plan · from $14.16/user/mo

What it isFree open-source video meetings with no account needed, which you can also host yourselfVideo meetings with team chat, mail, calendar, docs and an AI companion in one app
Free planFree with no account; meetings on meet.jit.si limited to 95 minutes from 9 October 2026Meetings up to 40 minutes; up to 100 participants per meeting; 3 editable whiteboards; 5 two-minute clips; local recording only; 3 meeting summaries a month
Cheapest paid planNot publishedJitsi Meet pricing$14.16/user/mo billed annually (Pro)Zoom Workplace pricing
What it coversNot statedPro is $16.99 per user a month billed monthly, or $14.16 per user a month billed annually; USD list prices on zoom.us/pricing.
Free trialNone statedNone stated
PlatformsWeb, iOS, Android, Self-hosted server (Ubuntu, Debian)Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android
Integrations (vendor's figure)Not statedNot stated
Open sourceYes, self-hostableNo
Good for
  • People who want a free meeting link with no sign-up
  • Organisations that want to run video on their own server
  • Privacy-minded teams that prefer open-source software
  • Teams that want meetings and team chat in one app
  • Short free calls with up to 100 people (40-minute cap)
  • Companies that need SSO and admin controls on a business plan
Watch out for
  • Meetings on meet.jit.si are limited to 95 minutes from 9 October 2026
  • Self-hosting means you run and update the server yourself
  • The project site lists no participant cap, recording or transcription plans
  • Free Basic plan caps meetings at 40 minutes
  • Free plan records locally only; cloud recording needs a paid plan
  • Participant caps per plan are shown inconsistently on Zoom's pricing page
Made byJitsi (trademark of 8x8, Inc.)Zoom Communications

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

Every tool in video conferencing apps is on its category page, with the written head-to-heads on Compare.