Digital Samba

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 free meeting product itself needs no account, no download and no credit card: a single click generates a link and starts the call, with end-to-end encryption available as an option in the room. That instant-access design is the same reason people compare it to Whereby rather than to Zoom or Teams, which both expect an installed client or a signed-in account before a call starts.

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. A Data Processing Agreement is available on request, alongside a published Security White Paper covering hosting locations and incident management.

The embeddable API and SDK is aimed at developers who need white-label video inside their own product rather than a branded meeting room, and the vendor's named customers for it include a certified telemedicine platform for Germany and the Netherlands (Consularia), an online education platform in Romania (Meditatii), and virtual meetings for European law offices (RA-MICRO) — public-sector-adjacent, healthcare and education buyers for whom keeping the video layer under their own branding and inside European infrastructure is usually the deciding factor.

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

• No account, no download and no credit card to start a call
• 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
• DPA available on request, with a published Security White Paper
• 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.