BigBlueButton vs MiroTalk
BigBlueButton and MiroTalk are both video conferencing software. BigBlueButton is open source under LGPL-3.0, with 9.3k GitHub stars. MiroTalk is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 4.8k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick BigBlueButton when
- A school, university or training provider needs online classes integrated with Moodle, Canvas or another LMS on its own servers.
- Pick MiroTalk when
- You want quick private video rooms for small groups on your own server with minimal infrastructure.
Side by side
A virtual classroom server with audio, video, slides with whiteboard annotation, polls, shared notes, breakout rooms, recordings and learning analytics.
A self-hosted peer-to-peer WebRTC meeting app with browser rooms, screen sharing, chat, whiteboard and recording, and no time limits.
Installation expects a dedicated Ubuntu server with specific versions and plenty of CPU and bandwidth; upgrades between major versions are significant work.
Peer-to-peer meshes degrade beyond a handful of participants, and it is mainly one developer's project under AGPL.
Production-ready
Usable
Self-hosted server (both)
TypeScript, Scala, FreeSWITCH, mediasoup, Redis and MongoDB
JavaScript, Node.js, Express and Socket.IO
Open source, LGPL-3.0 (weak copyleft)
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
You can use it inside a product you sell; changes you make to its own files must be shared.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
9.3k GitHub stars
4.8k GitHub stars
Established: started 16 years ago, latest release v4.0.1.
Established: started 5 years ago, no tagged release yet.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.