MiroTalk vs Zoom Workplace
MiroTalk and Zoom Workplace are both video conferencing software. MiroTalk is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 4.8k GitHub stars. Zoom Workplace is a commercial product from Zoom Communications.
Which to pick
- Pick MiroTalk when
- You want quick private video rooms for small groups on your own server with minimal infrastructure.
- 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 self-hosted peer-to-peer WebRTC meeting app with browser rooms, screen sharing, chat, whiteboard and recording, and no time limits.
Zoom's suite of video meetings, team chat, cloud phone, webinars, whiteboard and contact centre.
Peer-to-peer meshes degrade beyond a handful of participants, and it is mainly one developer's project under AGPL.
Overlaps with Teams or Google Meet you may already pay for, and the add-ons are priced separately.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
JavaScript, Node.js, Express and Socket.IO
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Zoom Communications
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
4.8k GitHub stars
3.4k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 5 years ago, no tagged release yet.
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.