Jitsi Meet vs Zoom Workplace
Jitsi Meet and Zoom Workplace are both video conferencing software. Jitsi Meet is open source under Apache-2.0, with 30k GitHub stars. Zoom Workplace is a commercial product from Zoom Communications.
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 Zoom Workplace when
- Meeting quality and external guests matter most, or you want meetings, phone and webinars from one 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.
Zoom's suite of video meetings, team chat, cloud phone, webinars, whiteboard and contact centre.
Self-hosting large meetings needs the full Jitsi stack (Prosody, Jicofo, videobridges) and proper bandwidth; meet.jit.si now requires a login.
Overlaps with Teams or Google Meet you may already pay for, and the add-ons are priced separately.
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 Zoom Communications
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
3.4k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 13 years ago, latest release stable/jitsi-meet_11248.
Not known
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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.