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Zoom

One platform to connect

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Also known as
zoom

Available worldwide · Popular in: US, GB

What is Zoom?

Zoom Workplace is a collaboration platform combining video meetings, messaging, phone, email, and calendar with AI-first capabilities.

Independently observed

Zoom pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
SubscriptionFree tier

Free Basic plan with 40-minute meeting limit. Pro, Business, and Enterprise paid plans available.

Basic

Free
Free

Free plan with meeting duration limit

participants
100
meeting_duration_minutes
40
  • 40 minutes per meeting
  • 100 participants per meeting
  • Limited AI Companion in-meeting use
  • Team Chat instant messaging
  • 1 personal booking page
  • 3 editable whiteboards
  • 5 two-minute clips
  • Screen sharing
  • Breakout rooms
  • Virtual background
  • Personal Meeting ID
  • Automated Captions
  • Polling
  • 3 AI note-taking
  • 3 meeting summaries
  • 3 AI chat in meetings
  • 20 AI queries in side panel

Pro

-

Best for personal use or small teams

participants
100
meeting_duration_hours
30
cloud_storage_gb_per_user
10
group_video_unique_viewers
25
  • 30 hours meeting duration
  • 100 participants per meeting
  • Unlimited AI Companion in-meeting use
  • Zoom Mail
  • Zoom Calendar
  • Unlimited cloud storage clips
  • Unlimited file attachments
  • Custom avatars
  • 10 GB cloud storage per user
  • Live Chat Support
  • Polling
  • Co-host & alternate host
  • REST API
  • Skype for Business interoperability
  • Streaming
  • Reporting
  • User management
  • Language interpretations
  • Recording transcripts
  • Unlimited AI note-taking
  • Unlimited meeting summaries
  • Unlimited AI chat in meetings
  • Unlimited AI queries in side panel

Business

-

Best for larger teams

participants
300
webinar_attendees
500
  • 300 participants
  • Unlimited booking pages
  • Unlimited whiteboards
  • SSO
  • Managed domains
  • Multi-region storage and media control
  • Device management
  • Information barriers and policies
  • Archival and data loss prevention
  • APIs
  • Admin portal
  • LTI integration
  • Branding
  • Custom Mail Domain
  • 500 webinar attendees

Enterprise

Contact sales
Contact sales

For large organizations

webinar_attendees
500
meeting_participants
1000
  • 1000 participants
  • Full-featured PBX
  • 500 webinar attendees
  • Workspace Reservation
  • Visitor Management
  • Translated captions
  • REST API
  • Admin portal
  • LTI integration
  • Branding
  • Managed domains
  • Custom Mail Domain

Add-ons

  • Customer managed key
  • Hybrid cloud
  • Contact management network

What Zoom does

The capabilities that matter for collaboration software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

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 + self-hosted
Scale
Max participants
100 (Basic/Pro), 300 (Business), 1000 (Enterprise), 500 (Webinars)
Ecosystem
App marketplace
✓
Public API / bot framework
✓
Commercial
Free tier
✓
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • iOS
  • Web
  • Android
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Hybrid

Integrations (5)

Independently observed
  • Gmail
  • Outlook
  • Google Calendar
  • Microsoft Calendar
  • Skype for Business

Zoom alternatives

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Zoom, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 65 / 100
medium · 52%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Capabilities1000.1918.7✓
Price Level800.064.6✓
Pricing Transparency450.094.2✓
Reliability500.073.5✓
Integrations220.102.3✓
Security Posture100.070.0-

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All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"hosting":"both","sso_scim":true,"free_tier":true,"messaging":true,"api_access":true,"whiteboard":true,"screen_sharing":true,"video_meetings":true,"app_marketplace":true,"max_participants":"100 (Basic/Pro), 300 (Business), 1000 (Enterprise), 500 (Webinars)","compliance_controls":true,"guest_external_access":true,"recording_transcription":"recording_ai_notes"}mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count5mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
Availability{"primaryMarkets":["US","GB"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 70%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
Starting gbp11.66mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60%
TransparentNomediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
GdprYeshighsource · 2026-08-05 · 75%