Every European video conferencing tool reviewed
Paris, France
Founded 2016
Free plan / from about €79/month (Pro)
Free plan
Best for: Marketing, sales and training teams running webinars and virtual events
Livestorm is a webinar platform rather than a meeting tool, and the distinction runs through the whole product. What Livestorm sells is the machinery around the event: registration pages, reminder sequences, attendance data, marketing and sales automation, CRM integrations, analytics and custom branding. The video is the easy part; converting registrations into attendance and attendance into pipeline is the product. Livestorm covers webinars, meetings and on-demand events in one platform.
Livestorm SAS is based in Paris with European data centres, giving intra-EEA processing. Like Whereby it is entirely browser-based: attendees join by clicking a link with no download, plugin or account, which Livestorm credits with materially improving show-up rates — the metric a marketing team is actually buying.
There is nothing for IT to deploy and nothing for a security team to vet, and events behave consistently across Windows, macOS, Linux and Chromebooks. The free plan allows unlimited events with 30 attendees and 20 minutes; Pro is about €79 per month for 100 attendees and four-hour events. Custom domains and SSO sit on higher tiers.
What Livestorm does well
- Registration, reminders, automation and CRM integration around the event
- Fully browser-based, which measurably improves attendance
- Webinars, meetings and on-demand events in one platform
- French company with EU data centres, intra-EEA processing
- Free plan with unlimited events for testing
Where Livestorm falls short
- Not designed for casual everyday team calls
- Pro at about €79/month is steep for occasional use
- Costs escalate quickly with large audiences
- Custom domains and SSO require higher-tier plans
Standout feature. Attendance as the product: Livestorm is the only tool here where the registration, reminder and follow-up machinery is the thing you are buying and the video is the delivery mechanism.
Oslo, Norway
Founded 2013
Free (1 room, 45 min) / from €6.99/month per host
Free tier
Best for: Teams wanting frictionless meetings without installing anything
Whereby removes the first four minutes of every meeting. Guests join by clicking a link — no app, no account, no installation prompt — with the call running entirely in the browser over WebRTC.
The feature that compounds it is the permanent room URL: instead of generating a fresh link for every call, a host gets whereby.com/your-company/meeting-room and keeps it indefinitely, brandable and memorable. For recurring meetings, client calls and public office hours, that turns the meeting link into an address rather than a disposable token.
Whereby AS is based in Oslo, which places it in the EEA with the GDPR applying in full.
Alongside the meeting product, Whereby Embedded lets developers put video calling inside their own applications — HIPAA compliant as well as GDPR compliant, which is why telehealth platforms and companies including Deel and Livestorm build on it, priced by participant minute.
The meeting product's free tier gives one room for up to 100 participants capped at 45 minutes; Pro is €6.99 per month per host with three rooms, no time limit, recording and breakout rooms, and Business €9.99. Browser-based delivery means quality tracks the participant's device, and older hardware struggles in larger calls.
What Whereby does well
- Permanent, brandable room URLs that never change
- No downloads or accounts for guests — click and join
- Embedded API is HIPAA and GDPR compliant, priced per participant minute
- Norwegian company, EEA jurisdiction, GDPR in full
- Free tier covers 100 participants for 45 minutes
Where Whereby falls short
- Quality depends on the participant's browser and hardware
- Designed for meetings up to about 200 participants, not large webinars
- SSO and detailed analytics only on higher tiers
- Smaller integration ecosystem than Zoom or Teams
Standout feature. The permanent room URL: Whereby is the only tool here where your meeting link is a stable address you can print on a business card rather than a token regenerated every time.
Graz, Austria
Founded 2014
Usage-based API pricing by participant minute
Free developer trial
Best for: Developers embedding video, and teams on weak connections or old hardware
eyeson solved a problem the rest of the category works around. Conventional video conferencing sends one stream per participant, so every device decodes as many streams as there are people — which is why a ten-person call flattens an older laptop. eyeson composites every feed into a single stream on the server, so each device receives exactly one stream whether the meeting has two participants or a hundred.
Bandwidth stays constant, and calls work on mobile data, poor connections and hardware several years old.
eyeson GmbH is based in Graz with EU data centres and intra-EEA processing.
Because composition happens server-side it is also programmable: a well-documented REST API creates and manages rooms, adds participants, controls layouts, overlays graphics and triggers recordings, which is what makes eyeson suitable for telehealth, virtual classrooms, support tools, live shopping and interactive broadcasting rather than only meetings.
Pricing is usage-based by participant minute rather than per seat, with a free developer trial. The trade-offs are explicit: eyeson targets developers, so the direct meeting interface is functional rather than polished, organisations without development resources will underuse it, and all video processing happens on eyeson's servers.
What eyeson does well
- Patented single-stream technology keeps bandwidth constant at any size
- Works on weak connections and older devices where others fail
- Well-documented REST API with programmable layouts and overlays
- Austrian company, EU data centres, intra-EEA processing
- Usage-based pricing by participant minute, not per seat
Where eyeson falls short
- Aimed at developers, not at teams wanting a Zoom replacement
- Direct meeting interface less polished than consumer products
- Needs development resources to use properly
- All video is processed on eyeson's servers by design
Standout feature. Server-side single-stream composition: eyeson is the only tool in this category where adding the fiftieth participant costs each device nothing.
Frankfurt, Germany
Founded 2021
Free tier / from about €10/month
Free tier
Best for: European businesses that need GDPR-compliant scheduling and calls together
meetergo starts from the observation that the hard part of a meeting is agreeing when it happens. Booking pages, calendar integration and team scheduling sit at the centre, with video calls attached — so a European business books and holds the call in one product instead of pairing an American scheduler with an American video tool and signing two data processing agreements for one conversation.
meetergo GmbH is based in Frankfurt with data hosted in Germany, which gives intra-EEA processing under one of Europe's strictest data protection regimes.
That matters more here than it might elsewhere: a scheduling tool holds calendar contents, contact details and meeting subjects — a detailed map of who a company talks to and about what.
Booking pages are customisable, team scheduling handles round-robin and shared availability, and integrations cover the usual calendar and productivity stack. A free tier is available with paid plans from about €10 per month. The video is competent rather than a Zoom replacement, and the integration ecosystem is smaller than Calendly's.
What meetergo does well
- Scheduling and video in one product, with one DPA instead of two
- German company, Frankfurt hosting, intra-EEA processing
- Booking pages, team scheduling and calendar integration
- Free tier with paid plans from about €10/month
- Replaces Calendly, Doodle and a video tool together
Where meetergo falls short
- Video is adequate rather than a full Zoom replacement
- Smaller integration ecosystem than Calendly
- Younger company with a shorter track record
- Best suited to German and European markets
Standout feature. Scheduling plus video under one German DPA: meetergo is the only tool here that keeps the calendar data — who you meet and about what — in the same European jurisdiction as the call itself.
Self-hosted
Free and open source
Free
Best for: Schools and universities that need self-hosted teaching sessions
BigBlueButton is built for teaching rather than for meetings, and that distinction runs through the whole product. A multi-user whiteboard sits at the centre instead of a screen share, breakout rooms are a first-class feature rather than an afterthought, polling checks whether anyone followed the last ten minutes, and shared notes and a moderated chat handle the rest of a classroom's dynamics.
LMS integration is what makes it viable institutionally. It plugs into Moodle, Canvas and the other learning platforms a university already runs, so a session is launched from inside the course rather than pasted as a link into an email — which is the difference between a tool the institution adopts and one individual lecturers use.
It is open source and self-hosted, which for a school or university is frequently the deciding property rather than a preference: recordings of minors, tutorials, examinations and pastoral conversations stay on infrastructure the institution controls, with no vendor holding them and no data protection assessment to negotiate.
It is free at any number of students. The costs are real — you provide and operate the servers, and video conferencing is genuinely demanding to host at scale — and the interface is functional rather than polished next to a commercial product.
What BigBlueButton does well
- Built for teaching: whiteboard, breakout rooms, polling
- Integrates with Moodle, Canvas and other LMS platforms
- Self-hosted — recordings of minors stay on your own servers
- Free and open source at any scale
- You remain the sole data controller
Where BigBlueButton falls short
- You provide and operate the servers
- Video conferencing is demanding to host at scale
- Interface functional rather than polished
- Aimed at education rather than business meetings
Standout feature. A multi-user whiteboard rather than a screen share — the one difference that makes it a classroom instead of a meeting.
Montpellier, France
Paid plans and on-premise licensing
Free trial
Best for: Defence, government and industry where a meeting is genuinely confidential
Tixeo is the only video conferencing product in this category certified by ANSSI, the French national cybersecurity agency, and it has held that CSPN certification for more than seven consecutive years. That is an audited technical assessment rather than a compliance badge, and it is what makes Tixeo usable by organisations where a leaked meeting is a national-security problem rather than an embarrassment.
The technical basis is end-to-end encryption by default across multi-participant calls — which is harder than it sounds, because most platforms decrypt at the server to mix streams and quietly drop end-to-end encryption once a third person joins. Tixeo does not, so the server carries traffic it cannot read no matter how many people are in the room.
The other claim it makes is jurisdictional and unusually direct: the software is designed and developed entirely in Europe, in-house, and the company states that its proprietary technology is not subject to foreign legislation.
For a defence contractor or a ministry, that is the sentence procurement is looking for, and on-premise deployment removes even the hosting question. The trade-offs are real: it is a security product first, so the interface and the casual-meeting experience are behind Whereby or Jitsi, it is paid rather than free, and for a team that just needs a video call it is a great deal more rigour than the situation calls for.
What Tixeo does well
- ANSSI CSPN certified for more than seven consecutive years
- End-to-end encryption maintained across multi-party calls
- Developed entirely in Europe, not subject to foreign legislation
- On-premise deployment available
- French company under EU jurisdiction
Where Tixeo falls short
- Interface behind Whereby and Jitsi for casual use
- Paid rather than free
- More rigour than an ordinary team meeting needs
- Not open source
Standout feature. End-to-end encryption that survives a third participant — where most platforms quietly stop.
Karlsruhe, Germany
Free (up to 50 participants) / One €1, Professional €3.90, Premium €9.90 per room per month excl. VAT (yearly €12 / €39 / €99); any number of users per room
Free plan; 30-day "Free 500 Special" trial, once per organisation
Best for: Organisations that want every participant on German hardware, billed per room rather than per seat
alfaview prices the room, not the person. A One room is €1 per month excluding VAT, Professional €3.90 and Premium €9.90, or €12, €39 and €99 a year, and the number of people who meet in that room does not change the bill.
A free plan covers up to 50 participants. For an organisation that runs a handful of standing meetings with large and fluctuating attendance — a works council, a training provider, a member association — that is a different arithmetic from every per-user product in this guide, and the one that makes alfaview cheap at scale.
alfaview gmbh sits at Kriegsstraße 100 in Karlsruhe, registered at the Amtsgericht Mannheim under HRB 730903, and belongs to the alfa group alongside alfatraining Bildungszentrum GmbH, which appears in its own subprocessor list for infrastructure and support.
That list, in the March 2026 version of the DPA and technical measures document, is the reason alfaview is here: SysEleven, noris network, Hetzner, OVH GmbH in Cologne, IONOS Cloud and the Open Telekom Cloud. Six operators, all of them German, and not one American cloud among them. The information security management system is certified to ISO/IEC 27001.
What alfaview does not offer is end-to-end encryption: the IT security page describes encryption in transit and at rest, which means the server can see the media in a way Tixeo's and Proton Meet's cannot. The code is not published. The per-room model cuts the other way as soon as you need many simultaneous meetings, because each concurrent room is a separate subscription, and the 30-day "Free 500 Special" trial can be claimed only once per organisation.
What alfaview does well
- Priced per room, with any number of users in that room
- All hosting in Germany: SysEleven, noris network, Hetzner, OVH GmbH, IONOS Cloud, Open Telekom Cloud
- ISO/IEC 27001 certified information security management
- Full price list published, from €1 per room per month excl. VAT
- Free plan for up to 50 participants
Where alfaview falls short
- Encryption in transit and at rest, not end-to-end
- Not open source
- Each concurrent meeting needs its own paid room
- The 30-day trial can be claimed only once per organisation
- alfaview publishes no founding year
Standout feature. A room that costs €3.90 a month however many people are in it — alfaview is the only tool here that does not bill by the head.
Berlin, Germany
Starter free (5 participants, 30-minute calls) / Standard €7.50 per user/month or €75/year / Premium €12.50 per user/month or €125/year, excl. VAT / on-premises on request
Free Starter plan
Best for: Public bodies and teams that want readable source code and a German or on-premises deployment
OpenTalk GmbH is at Schwedter Straße 9a in Berlin, registered at the Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg under HRB 225352 B with Peer Heinlein as managing director.
It comes out of Heinlein Support, the same Berlin group behind mailbox.org, and the lineage shows in how the product is published: the code is licensed under the EUPL and hosted on OpenCoDE, the German public sector's own code platform, at gitlab.opencode.de/opentalk. Anyone who has to justify a video tool to a data protection officer can hand over the source rather than a brochure.
OpenTalk also carries the BSI IT security label, the German federal security agency's consumer-facing mark, and says it was the first video conferencing product to do so. The cloud runs in Germany in an ISO 27001-certified data centre, and there is an on-premises option for organisations that would rather run it themselves. Prices are published: Starter is free with five participants and 30-minute calls, Standard €7.50 per user per month or €75 a year, Premium €12.50 or €125 a year.
Two gaps are worth naming. OpenTalk says its data centre is in Germany and certified to ISO 27001 but does not name the operator anywhere, including on the data protection page — so you know the country and the certificate, not the company, which is exactly the detail alfaview publishes. And the pricing page contradicts itself on tax: each tier is marked "Price excl. VAT" while the footnote says prices include VAT depending on the country. Ask before you budget.
What OpenTalk does well
- Open source under the EUPL, published on OpenCoDE
- Carries the BSI IT security label, the first video conferencing tool to do so
- German cloud in an ISO 27001-certified data centre, or on-premises on request
- Built by Heinlein Support, the Berlin group behind mailbox.org
- Prices published: €7.50 and €12.50 per user per month, or €75 and €125 a year
Where OpenTalk falls short
- The data centre operator is never named, only the country and the certificate
- The pricing page says prices exclude VAT in one place and include it in another
- The free Starter plan stops at five participants and 30-minute calls
- Priced per user, so large teams cost more than under a per-room model
- No founding year published
Standout feature. Source code on OpenCoDE under the EUPL — OpenTalk is published on the platform German public bodies use for their own software, not just described on a marketing page.
Geneva, Switzerland
Free (1-hour calls, up to 50 participants) / Meet Professional €9.99 per user/month, or €7.99 per user/month billed yearly (24-hour calls, up to 100 participants)
Free plan; no account needed for calls with up to three others
Best for: Calls that must be end-to-end encrypted, including with people who have no account
Proton Meet is end-to-end encrypted with MLS, so the meeting is unreadable to the servers that carry it — Proton states plainly that it cannot see the call. Every Proton Meet app is open source.
The free tier gives one-hour calls for up to 50 participants, and calls with up to three other people need no account at all, which is the rarest combination in this category: strong cryptography and nothing to sign up for. Meet Professional is €9.99 per user per month, or €7.99 billed yearly, which lifts calls to 24 hours and 100 participants.
Proton AG is at Route de la Galaise 32 in Plan-les-Ouates outside Geneva, the same company behind Proton Mail, Drive, VPN and Pass. That is Switzerland, not the EU and not the EEA: processing rests on an adequacy decision rather than on EU establishment, which is fine for most buyers and disqualifying for the procurement rules that require a supplier inside the Union.
The infrastructure detail is thinner than the cryptography. Proton says its API and database servers sit in its European data centres and names no country for Meet, so unlike alfaview you cannot point at an operator or a city.
No ISO 27001 or comparable certification is published for Meet, and Proton gives no launch year for the product on its own pages. For a buyer whose test is end-to-end encryption, none of that matters much; for one whose test is an auditor's certificate, it matters a great deal.
What Proton Meet does well
- End-to-end encrypted with MLS — Proton cannot read the meeting
- Calls with up to three other people need no account at all
- Free plan with one-hour calls for up to 50 participants
- Every Proton Meet app is open source
- Prices published: €9.99 per user per month, or €7.99 billed yearly
Where Proton Meet falls short
- Swiss rather than EU or EEA — it rests on an adequacy decision
- Proton names European data centres but no country or operator for Meet
- No ISO 27001 or comparable certification published for Meet
- No launch year published for the product
Standout feature. End-to-end encryption with nothing to sign up for: up to three other people can join a Proton Meet call without a Proton account.
Oslo, Norway
On request (contact sales); no public price list
Best for: Meeting-room estates that must reach Teams and Webex, and deployments that have to run air-gapped
Pexip AS is at Lilleakerveien 2A in Oslo, organisation number 819 850 232, and is listed on the Oslo exchange under the ticker PEXIP; contracting runs through subsidiaries including Pexip Inc in Delaware and Pexip Belgium, but the parent is Norwegian.
The job it does that nobody else in this category does is interoperability at the hardware level: joining existing meeting-room systems to Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, and running the whole platform on-premises, in a private cloud, or air-gapped with no internet connection at all. It is certified to ISO/IEC 27001 with the ISO 27017 and 27018 controls, and to ISO/IEC 27701 for privacy management.
The catch is in Pexip's own subprocessor list, and it is a large one for this site.
The hosted Pexip Service runs on Google Cloud, with points of presence in the EU and EEA but also in the UK, the US, Canada, Brazil, Singapore, Japan and Australia, and uses Microsoft Azure for Teams interoperability.
A Norwegian company on American cloud is not the same thing as a Norwegian company on Norwegian hardware, and only the self-hosted deployment avoids it. If European infrastructure is the reason you are reading this guide, the hosted service is not the product you want.
Pexip publishes no price list — every plan routes to a sales conversation — and documents no trial. The software is not open source, and Norway is in the EEA rather than the EU, which the GDPR does not care about but some public procurement rules do.
What Pexip does well
- ISO/IEC 27001 with 27017 and 27018 controls, plus ISO/IEC 27701
- Runs on-premises, in a private cloud, or fully air-gapped
- Joins meeting-room hardware to Microsoft Teams and Google Meet
- Norwegian parent company, listed on the Oslo exchange
Where Pexip falls short
- The hosted service runs on Google Cloud, with Microsoft Azure for Teams interop
- Hosted points of presence include the US, Canada, Brazil, Singapore, Japan and Australia
- No public price list — sales contact only
- No trial documented on the site
- Not open source
Standout feature. Air-gapped video conferencing: Pexip is the one product here that a network with no connection to the internet can still run.
Barcelona, Spain
Founded 2003
Free plan / Embedded API from €0.0026 per participation minute, first 10,000 minutes per month free
Free plan; 10,000 free participation minutes per month on Embedded
Best for: Developers embedding video in a product that has to stay on European hosting
Digital Samba, S.L. has been at Travessera de Gràcia 98 bis in Barcelona since 2003, which makes it one of the oldest companies in this guide, and it sells two things: a video conferencing product with a free plan, and an embeddable API charged from €0.0026 per participation minute with the first 10,000 minutes each month free.
That is the same shape as eyeson's pricing and the opposite of a per-seat licence — a product that embeds video can ship, get real users and still pay nothing in a quiet month.
The subprocessor annex to the Embedded DPA is unusually specific, and every entry in it is European: Leaseweb Deutschland in Frankfurt, Leaseweb Netherlands in Amsterdam, Scaleway in France, Exoscale in Switzerland, and GreenPT in Utrecht for speech to text. Transcription is where most video platforms quietly reach for an American AI service, so it is worth noting that this one does not.
The honest exception is HubSpot in the United States, which Digital Samba uses as an optional component for support tickets and feedback forms; the DPA states that business customers can exclude it and keep processing entirely European, but it is a switch you have to throw rather than the default.
Digital Samba publishes no ISO 27001 or comparable independent certification, the code is not open, the legal information page gives no company registration number, and the pricing page does not say whether the per-minute rate includes VAT.
What Digital Samba does well
- Embeddable video API from €0.0026 per participation minute
- First 10,000 participation minutes every month are free
- Subprocessors all European: Leaseweb Frankfurt and Amsterdam, Scaleway in France, Exoscale in Switzerland
- Speech to text runs on GreenPT in Utrecht
- Spanish company trading since 2003, EU jurisdiction
Where Digital Samba falls short
- Support tickets and feedback forms run through HubSpot in the US unless a business customer excludes it
- No ISO 27001 or comparable independent certification published
- Not open source
- The legal information page gives no company registration number
- The pricing page does not say whether VAT is included
Standout feature. Ten thousand free participation minutes a month: Digital Samba lets a product embed video and reach real users before it pays anything.
Originally Strasbourg, France
Founded 2003
Free and open source
Free, no account needed
Best for: Privacy-conscious users and organisations wanting full control of meetings
Jitsi Meet asks nothing of anyone, which in this category is a rarer property than any feature.
No account for the host, no account for participants, no download, no app: you visit a URL, create a room, share the link, and people click it. Nothing personal is collected to join a call. For meetings with external guests — clients, candidates, patients — that removes the entire onboarding problem, and password protection plus a lobby that requires host approval keep it secure without reintroducing registration.
Jitsi Meet is open source under Apache 2.0, originally developed in Strasbourg and now stewarded by 8x8, and covers screen sharing, recording, end-to-end encryption, breakout rooms and effectively unlimited participants.
The important distinction is deployment: the public meet.jit.si service means trusting 8x8's servers, and Jitsi's own guidance is to self-host for highly sensitive meetings. Self-hosted, Jitsi is the only configuration in this category where no third party sees the meeting at all. That requires technical expertise, careful server sizing above roughly 100 participants, and extra work for SSO and analytics that SaaS products include.
What Jitsi Meet does well
- No account required for hosts or participants
- Free and open source under Apache 2.0
- Self-hostable, so no third party need ever see the meeting
- E2E encryption, breakout rooms, recording and screen sharing included
- Password protection and a lobby without requiring registration
Where Jitsi Meet falls short
- Public meet.jit.si means trusting 8x8's servers
- Self-hosting requires real technical expertise
- Meetings above ~100 participants need careful server configuration
- SSO and detailed analytics need extra configuration or third-party tools
Standout feature. No account for anyone: Jitsi Meet is the only tool in this category where joining a call collects no personal data at all, from the host or from the guest.
