Microsoft Teams vs Zoom Workplace
Microsoft Teams and Zoom Workplace are both video conferencing software. Microsoft Teams is a commercial product from Microsoft. Zoom Workplace is a commercial product from Zoom Communications.
Which to pick
- Pick Microsoft Teams when
- Your business already pays for Microsoft 365 and wants chat and video meetings without another vendor.
- Pick Zoom Workplace when
- Meeting quality and external guests matter most, or you want meetings, phone and webinars from one vendor.
Side by side
Chat, meetings, calls and file collaboration built on Microsoft 365, with SharePoint behind team files and optional phone system.
Zoom's suite of video meetings, team chat, cloud phone, webinars, whiteboard and contact centre.
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.
Overlaps with Teams or Google Meet you may already pay for, and the add-ons are priced separately.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app (both)
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Microsoft
Closed source, sold by Zoom Communications
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
20k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
3.4k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Other comparisons
More video conferencing software
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.