Google Meet vs Jitsi Meet
Google Meet and Jitsi Meet are both video conferencing software. Google Meet is a commercial product from Google. Jitsi Meet is open source under Apache-2.0, with 30k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Google Meet when
- You use Google Workspace and want meetings that guests can join from a browser with no install.
- Pick Jitsi Meet when
- You want a mature open-source Zoom alternative you can host yourself or embed in your own product.
Side by side
Browser-based video meetings linked to Google Calendar, with recording, captions and breakout rooms on paid Workspace plans.
A browser-based video conferencing platform with mobile apps and embeddable SDKs, offering screen sharing, chat, polls, breakout rooms and recording; usable free at meet.jit.si or self-hosted.
Free calls are time-limited for groups, and recording and larger meetings need higher Workspace tiers.
Self-hosting large meetings needs the full Jitsi stack (Prosody, Jicofo, videobridges) and proper bandwidth; meet.jit.si now requires a login.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server, cloud service, mobile app and desktop app
Not published
TypeScript, React, React Native, Lua and Prosody
Closed source, sold by Google
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
4k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
30k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 13 years ago, latest release stable/jitsi-meet_11248.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.