Libraries for web-conferencing

Feature

Jitsi

OpenVidu

Galene

Mediasoup

Janus

Editions

Free for personal and non-commercial use;

Q: What happens if you want to use it for 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/

Community version?

Yes - free

On - premise/ self hosted?

Yes

YES (community version only?)

Yes

Yes

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

Available as a service?

Yes

Yes

N/A

N/A

N/A

Audio & Video calls

Yes

Yes (community?)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Chat

Yes

Yes (community?)

Yes

?

?

Screen sharing

Yes

Yes (community?)

Yes

?

NO

Recording

Yes?

Yes (community?)

Yes

?

Yes

Documentation, more info

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

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/

-

Nodejs server side
javascript / C++ libraries client side

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

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

NA

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)

?

?

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.

obligatory to KEEP the project open source for EVER

obligatory to KEEP ANY FORK open source for EVER