Jitsi Meet: pricing, pros and cons
Jitsi is open source with no per-seat cost at all, and self-hosting means meeting data never leaves your infrastructure. Call quality is entirely a function of how well you run the servers.
- Price
- Freeestimate
- At 50 people
- Depends on usage
- Free tier
- Yes
- Website
- jitsi.org
Specification
What Jitsi Meet supports
The dimensions every meeting tool in our catalogue is compared on.
- Max participants
- 100 people
- Webinars and events
- No
- Recording
- Yes
- Automatic transcripts
- No
- Phone dial-in
- No
- Guests join without installing
- Yes
- SAML single sign-on
- No
- SOC 2
- No
- EU data residency
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Open source
- Yes
- Public API
- Yes
- Native mobile apps
- No
The honest assessment
Jitsi Meet: pros and cons
Call quality at scale depends entirely on how well you run the servers.
What it does well
- No licence cost at any team size
- Self-hosted, so meeting data never leaves your infrastructure
- Embeds cleanly into your own product
What it costs you
- Requires real infrastructure work to be reliable
- No native transcription or webinar tooling
- Support is community-based unless you buy a commercial distribution
Fit
Who Jitsi Meet suits
Choose it if
- Organisations with infrastructure staff and a hard data-residency rule
- Products embedding video where licence cost per user would not work
Look elsewhere if
- Teams with nobody to operate and scale the media servers
- Anyone who needs transcription or webinar tooling out of the box
Head to head
Jitsi Meet compared
Direct comparisons against every other meeting tool we cover.
4 alternatives
Other meeting tools worth a look
Everything else we cover in video conferencing, cheapest first.
Questions
Jitsi Meet, answered
What is Jitsi Meet best for?
Organisations with infrastructure staff and a hard data-residency rule. Products embedding video where licence cost per user would not work. In short: open-source video you can self-host with no per-seat cost.
What are the downsides of Jitsi Meet?
Requires real infrastructure work to be reliable. No native transcription or webinar tooling. Support is community-based unless you buy a commercial distribution. The trade-off in one line: Call quality at scale depends entirely on how well you run the servers.
How much does Jitsi Meet cost?
Jitsi Meet is not priced per seat — it is free, or bundled with a licence you may already hold, so what you pay depends on volume rather than how many people log in. Model it against your own numbers before comparing vendors.
What are the best Jitsi Meet alternatives?
In video conferencing the credible alternatives are Google Meet, Livestorm, Whereby, Zoom. Which fits depends on your team size, budget and non-negotiables — our questionnaire ranks all of them against your answers in about three minutes.
Is Jitsi Meet worth switching away from?
Only if one of its real drawbacks is costing you something concrete. Call quality at scale depends entirely on how well you run the servers. If none of the downsides above describe your situation, staying is almost always cheaper than moving — a migration costs weeks, and a tool that merely annoys you is not worth them.
Prices are unverified estimates — useful for comparing orders of magnitude, not for budgeting. Confirm the current figure with the vendor before you commit to anything.
Is Jitsi Meet still the right call for your team?
Answer about a dozen questions and we will rank Jitsi Meet against every alternative in video conferencing — with the reasoning shown, and the cost of switching at your actual seat count.