Jitsi Meet vs Microsoft Teams
Jitsi Meet and Microsoft Teams are both video conferencing software. Jitsi Meet is open source under Apache-2.0, with 30k GitHub stars. Microsoft Teams is a commercial product from Microsoft.
Which to pick
- Pick Jitsi Meet when
- You want a mature open-source Zoom alternative you can host yourself or embed in your own product.
- Pick Microsoft Teams when
- Your business already pays for Microsoft 365 and wants chat and video meetings without another vendor.
Side by side
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.
Chat, meetings, calls and file collaboration built on Microsoft 365, with SharePoint behind team files and optional phone system.
Self-hosting large meetings needs the full Jitsi stack (Prosody, Jicofo, videobridges) and proper bandwidth; meet.jit.si now requires a login.
The client is heavy and the chat experience is clumsier than Slack; in the EU it is now sold separately from some Microsoft 365 plans.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server, cloud service, mobile app and desktop app
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
TypeScript, React, React Native, Lua and Prosody
Not published
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Microsoft
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
30k GitHub stars
20k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 13 years ago, latest release stable/jitsi-meet_11248.
Not known
Other comparisons
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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.