# Zoom vs Zulip

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Zulip

| Attribute | Zoom | Zulip |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 60.5 (54% (medium)) | 70.8 (73% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Cloud-based suite that integrates video conferencing, instant messaging, phone services, email, and collaboration tools into one platform. Supports meetings up to 500+ participants with recording, transcription, and AI-assisted features. | Zulip is an open-source team chat platform featuring topic-based threading to organize conversations. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous workflows and offers flexible deployment options including cloud hosting or self-hosted infrastructure. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"cloud","sso_scim":true,"free_tier":true,"messaging":true,"api_access":true,"whiteboard":true,"screen_sharing":true,"video_meetings":true,"app_marketplace":true,"max_participants":"300-500+","compliance_controls":true,"guest_external_access":true,"recording_transcription":"recording_ai_notes"}` | `{"hosting":"both","sso_scim":true,"free_tier":true,"messaging":true,"api_access":true,"e2e_encryption":true,"screen_sharing":false,"video_meetings":true,"app_marketplace":true,"compliance_controls":true,"guest_external_access":true}` |
| integrations.count | 3 | 130 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Skype for Business (Lync)"},{"name":"Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)"},{"name":"Third-party applications via App Marketplace"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Discord"},{"name":"Mattermost"},{"name":"Rocket.Chat"},{"name":"Matrix"},{"name":"IRC"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Bitbucket"},{"name":"Asana"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"Trello"},{"name":"Basecamp"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"CircleCI"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"Travis CI"},{"name":"TeamCity"},{"name":"Heroku"},{"name":"Netlify"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Ansible Tower"},{"name":"Puppet"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Nagios"},{"name":"New Relic"},{"name":"Sentry"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"Splunk"},{"name":"Freshdesk"},{"name":"Zendesk"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Dropbox"},{"name":"Google Calendar"},{"name":"Nextcloud"},{"name":"Notion"},{"name":"Zapier"},{"name":"IFTTT"},{"name":"n8n"},{"name":"BigBlueButton"},{"name":"Jitsi Meet"},{"name":"Webex"},{"name":"Zoom"},{"name":"Tenor"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","CA"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"ios":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"android":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"ios":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"android":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"School and Campus","features":["Meetings up to 300 participants for 30 hours","Team Chat with direct, channel, and group messaging","Unlimited whiteboards","Screen sharing with co-annotation","Breakout rooms and polling","Automated captions and recording transcripts","Personal Meeting ID and waiting room","Virtual backgrounds and filters","Zoom Mail and Calendar","Tasks and file attachments","Streaming and reporting","Admin portal and user management","SSO and custom mail domain","REST API access"],"description":"Basic tier for schools with core meeting and chat features","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"participants":"300","meeting_duration_hours":"30","cloud_storage_gb_per_user":"5"}},{"free":false,"name":"School and Campus Plus","features":["All School and Campus features plus:","Zoom Phone with unlimited internal calling","Metered outbound calling within US & Canada","10GB cloud storage per user","LTI integration","Custom branding","Managed domains","Multi-region storage and media control","Device management","Language interpretations"],"description":"Mid-tier with phone service and administrative features","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"participants":"300","cloud_storage_gb_per_user":"10"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["Meetings up to 500+ participants","Webinars up to 500 attendees","Unlimited cloud storage","Zoom Phone with unlimited calling","Conference Room Connector","Information barriers and compliance policies","Archival and data loss prevention APIs","Advanced reporting and user management"],"description":"Full-featured tier for large organizations with advanced controls","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"participants":"500+","webinar_attendees":"500","cloud_storage_gb_per_user":"None"}}],"freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://zoom.us/pricing/education","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T15:24:25.644Z"}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Zulip Cloud Free","summary":"Free","features":["10,000 messages search history","5GB total file storage","Complete team chat solution","Hundreds of integrations","Advanced roles and permissions","Guest accounts"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"5GB total","message_search_history":"10,000 messages"}},{"free":false,"name":"Zulip Cloud Standard","summary":"$6.67/user/month billed annually or $8/month","features":["Unlimited search history","5GB per user storage","Custom permission groups","Message retention policies","Custom branding","Priority support","Public access option"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":6.67,"period":"year","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":8,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"5GB per user","message_search_history":"unlimited"}},{"free":false,"name":"Zulip Cloud Plus","summary":"$10/user/month billed annually or $12/month (minimum 10 users)","features":["All Standard features","25GB per user storage","SAML SSO (Okta, OneLogIn)","SCIM sync","Custom domain","Guest list visibility controls"],"minSeats":10,"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":10,"period":"year","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":12,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"25GB per user"}},{"free":true,"name":"Self-hosted Free","summary":"Free","features":["All Zulip features","Mobile notifications (limited)","100% open-source"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Self-hosted Basic","summary":"$3.50/user/month, $20/month off first year","features":["All features","Unlimited mobile notifications","Supports open-source development"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":3.5,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":-20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Self-hosted Business","summary":"$6.67/user/month billed annually or $8/month (minimum 25 users), $20/month off first year","features":["All features","Email and chat support","SSO (SAML, Entra ID)","AD/LDAP sync","Configurable guest access","Compliance controls","Data exports"],"minSeats":25,"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":6.67,"period":"year","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":8,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Self-hosted Enterprise","summary":"Contact sales","features":["All features","Phone, email and chat support","OpenID Connect SSO","SCIM sync","Implementation consulting","Custom development","Advanced deployment options"],"contactSales":true}],"summary":"From free to $12/user/month (Cloud Plus). Self-hosted from $3.50/user/month.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://zulip.com/plans/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T22:40:25.808Z","startingPrice":{"amount":-20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.99 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |

## Capabilities (Collaboration Software)

| Capability | Zoom | Zulip |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Modality** |  |  |
| Messaging | ✓ | ✓ |
| Video meetings | ✓ | ✓ |
| Whiteboard | ✓ | - |
| **Meetings** |  |  |
| Screen sharing | ✓ | ✗ |
| Recording / transcription | Recording + AI notes | - |
| **Security** |  |  |
| End-to-end encryption | - | ✓ |
| SSO / SCIM | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Access** |  |  |
| Guest / external access | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Compliance** |  |  |
| Compliance controls | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Max participants | 300-500+ | - |
| **Ecosystem** |  |  |
| App marketplace | ✓ | ✓ |
| Public API / bot framework | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Commercial** |  |  |
| Free tier | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:03:00.315Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*