Jitsi Meet vs Microsoft Teams
Thinking of swapping Microsoft Teams for the open-source Jitsi Meet? Here’s the honest trade-off.
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What you give up vs 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
What you gain
- • Full data ownership — self-host Jitsi Meet on your own infrastructure.
- • No per-seat SaaS bill (Microsoft Teams: Microsoft 365 lock-in).
- • Open-source code you can audit and extend (Apache-2.0).