Zoom is a global video conferencing platform founded in San Jose, California in 2011, supporting up to 1,000 video participants per meeting and peaking above 300 million daily participants during the 2020 pandemic. Its free plan includes 40-minute group meetings.
Google Meet is Google's enterprise-grade video conferencing service, launched in 2017 and deeply integrated with Workspace. The free plan supports 100 participants, paid plans scale to 500-1000 plus 100,000-viewer live streaming, with AI live captions and noise cancellation as key differentiators.
Whereby, founded in Oslo, Norway in 2015, is a browser-native video conferencing platform with no downloads, serving more than 10 million users and offering an embedded video API and permanent room links.
Skype is a VoIP pioneer founded in Luxembourg in 2003 and acquired by Microsoft for USD 8.5 billion in 2011, offering free audio/video calls and low-cost international calling, now being replaced by Microsoft Teams.
GoTo Meeting is a veteran online meeting platform launched by Citrix in 2004 and now part of the GoTo group, headquartered in Boston, USA. It supports up to 250 participants per meeting and 3,000 in GoTo Webinar, with AI transcription and summaries for enterprise remote collaboration.
Brosix is a peer-to-peer encrypted instant messaging platform founded in Bulgaria in 2006, using AES-256 encryption and a private-network architecture to deliver chat, voice/video, screen sharing and remote control for teams.
AnyDesk is a German remote desktop software founded in 2014, built on the proprietary DeskRT low-latency codec with a roughly 5 MB installer, supporting 10+ platforms for individual and enterprise users across 190+ countries.
Flock is an enterprise team messaging and collaboration platform launched in 2014 that combines group chat, HD video conferencing, task management and 150+ app integrations. The free plan supports 20 people; Standard is $4.50/user/month.