Zoom Workplace vs Jitsi Meet

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	Zoom Workplace Free plan · from $14.16/user/mo Visit Remove	Jitsi Meet Open source Visit Remove
What it is	Video meetings with team chat, mail, calendar, docs and an AI companion in one app	Free open-source video meetings with no account needed, which you can also host yourself
Free plan	Meetings 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	Free with no account; meetings on meet.jit.si limited to 95 minutes from 9 October 2026
Cheapest paid plan	$14.16/user/mo billed annually (Pro)Zoom Workplace pricing	Not publishedJitsi Meet pricing
What it covers	Pro 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.	Not stated
Free trial	None stated	None stated
Platforms	Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android	Web, iOS, Android, Self-hosted server (Ubuntu, Debian)
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Not stated
Open source	No	Yes, self-hostable
Good for	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	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
Watch out for	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	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
Made by	Zoom Communications	Jitsi (trademark of 8x8, Inc.)

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.

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