Libraries for web-conferencing

Feature

Jitsi

OpenVidu

Galene

Mediasoup

Janus

Editions

Free for personal and non-commercial use;

Community Edition is free;

Pro Edition and Enterprise Edition are paid

Free and open-source

https://galene.org/

Free and open-source

https://mediasoup.org/

Free and open-source

https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/

Commercial Use?

licensed under Apache License 2.0 and it is permissive license that allows commercial use

OpenVidu CE is free and open source

MIT License that Galene is licensed under allows for commercial use, modification, and distribution

licensed under Apache License 2.0 and it is permissive license that allows commercial use

Yes
but cannot resale

Community version?

Yes
(github)

Yes
OpenVidu CE (github)

Yes
Github

Yes
Github

Yes
Github

On - premise/ self hosted?

Yes
(Guide)

Yes
(All CE, PRO, Enterprise can be hosted on premises)

Yes

Yes
(Guide)

Yes
https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/docs/deploy.html

Available as a service?

Yes
(Jaas)

no
But openVidu can be hosted in aws.

no

no

no

Repository maturity

Matured

First created: 2013
Contributors: 416
Active: Yes

Matured

First created : 2015
Contributors : 29
Active: Yes

Semi-Matured

First Created: 2016
Contributors: 12
Active: Yes

Semi-Matured

First Created: 2016
Contributors: 43
Active: Yes

Matured
First Created: 2014
Contributors: 277
Active: Yes

Forum / Community

Yes
https://community.jitsi.org

Yes
https://openvidu.discourse.group

no

Yes
https://mediasoup.discourse.group

Yes

https://groups.google.com/g/meetecho-janus

Audio & Video calls

Yes
(up to 100 participants)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Chat

Yes
(can send text msg, files and images)

Yes
(text message - using openVidu Rest API or Javascript SDK)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Screen sharing

Yes
(can share desktop or specific application)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Recording

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Documentation, more info

Excellent

https://jitsi.org/user-faq/

Excellent

https://docs.openvidu.io/en/stable/advanced-features/recording/

https://openvidu.io/openvidu-call https://docs.openvidu.io/en/stable/deployment/

Poor

https://galene.org/faq.htm

Poor

https://mediasoup.org/documentation/

Comprehensive but hard to navigate

https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/docs/index.html

Scalability

Scalable for both small and large groups

Up to ## Unit of Measure

Scalable for large groups
https://docs.openvidu.io/en/stable/openvidu-pro/scalability/

Scalable
(But hardware dependent)

Active installations / users

Security

Encrypted traffic

https://jitsi.org/security/

Encrypted traffic
https://docs.openvidu.io/en/stable/application-server/

While traffic is encrypted and authenticated from sender to server and again from server to receiver, Galène does not perform end-to-end encryption: anyone who controls the server might, in principle, be able to access the data being exchanged.

Encrypted traffic

Encrypted traffic

https://janus.conf.meetecho.com/e2etest.html

Licensing

Apache 2.0

OpenVidu CE: Apache 2.0
OpenVidu Pro / Enterprise: Commercial

MIT Licence

MIT Licence

GNU General Public License Version 3

Demo

https://meet.jit.si/

OpenVidu Demos

Demo

mediasoup demo

Janus WebRTC Server (multistream): Video Call Demo (meetecho.com)

Platform

• Webapp

• IOS app

• Android app

Web application sample: (java, nodejs, python, .net, ruby, php)

https://docs.openvidu.io/en/2.27.0/ready-to-use-component/
android: https://docs.openvidu.io/en/stable/tutorials/openvidu-android/
ios: https://docs.openvidu.io/en/stable/tutorials/openvidu-ios

Webapp (Javascript)

Native Android
Third Party client: Pyrite

Nodejs server side
javascript / C++ libraries client side

https://mediasoup.org/documentation/v3/mediasoup/design/

Javascript

Pricing

Jitsi as a Service

https://openvidu.io/pricing

N/A

N/A

N/A

Further consideration

Discard - some features are reserved for the enterprise version.

Type

Permissive

Permissive

Copyleft

Permissive

Copyleft/Permissive

Author

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Apache Software Foundation (ASF)

Free Software Foundation (FSF)

University of California, Berkeley (UCB)

Eclipse Foundation

Linking

Yes

Yes

no

Yes

Yes

Modification

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Distribution

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Patent Grant

no

Yes

Yes

no

no

Trademark Use

no

Yes

no

no

no

Private Use

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Sub-Licensing

Permissive

Permissive

Copyleft

Permissive

Copyleft