Jitsi Meet
Self-hostable open-source video conferencing alternative to Teams meetings
Overview
Jitsi Meet is a secure, fully open-source video conferencing platform supporting browser-based meetings with no account required, screen sharing, recording, and live streaming. It can be self-hosted for complete control over meeting data. Widely used as an open replacement for Teams/Zoom-style meetings and integrated by many other open-source tools.
Key features
- Browser-based video meetings with no account required
- Screen sharing
- Meeting recording
- Live streaming
- Fully self-hostable for control over meeting data
- Embeddable into other applications
Our take
Jitsi Meet is the default answer for open-source video conferencing, and for good reason: meetings run in the browser with no account, screen sharing and recording work, and the whole stack is genuinely self-hostable under Apache-2.0, which is why so many other open-source tools embed it. The honest caveat is that running it well is real infrastructure work, reflected in the 4/5 difficulty: the multi-component stack including the JVB media bridge is sensitive to networking and firewall configuration, and call quality at larger meeting sizes depends heavily on giving the bridge adequate bandwidth and CPU. A small instance for a handful of participants is approachable, but scaling to large rooms is where self-hosters earn their keep. If you need full control over meeting data, nothing else in this space matches its openness.
Ideal for: Organizations that need a fully open, self-hosted video conferencing platform and want meeting data to stay on their own infrastructure.
Where it falls short of Microsoft Teams
- Primarily video meetings; it is not a persistent team-chat workspace with channels
- Self-hosting the full stack (Jicofo, JVB, Prosody, TURN) for scale is non-trivial
- Large meetings require careful videobridge tuning and bandwidth provisioning
- Lacks the broader collaboration suite (files, tabs, apps) of Microsoft Teams
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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