Speaker 1: While Zoom is one of the most popular video conferencing tools on the market, it may not be the best fit for your team. In this video, we're breaking down the best Zoom alternatives, highlighting their top features, pricing structures, ideal use cases, and more. Let's get right to it. First up is RingCentral Video, a desktop and mobile web conferencing app available as a standalone tool or as part of the RingCentral Ring EX platform. The free plan lets up to 100 participants meet for up to 50 minutes, while the paid plan, available from $10 to $15 per user per month, allows 200 participants to meet for up to 24 hours. All plans include chat messaging, screen sharing, collaborative notes, meeting recording, breakout rooms, and virtual bite boards. The AI Meeting Insights feature takes video calls to the next level with real-time transcription, post-meeting summaries, highlight reels, and keyword and trending topic analysis. Users can share images and files during meetings, access task management tools, and search or share complete meeting transcripts. In addition to standard video meetings, RingCentral Video users can scale to add webinar capabilities and conference room hardware. RingCentral Video is best for smaller teams that only host a couple of video meetings per week to share key information between departments. RingCentral Ring EX, which includes video calling on all plans, is also good for businesses looking for a Zoom workplace alternative with a built-in phone system. Dialpad AI Meetings offers a free plan where 10 participants can meet for 45 minutes, and a paid plan from $15 to $20 per user per month that lets up to 150 participants meet for five hours. Like RingCentral Video, Dialpad AI Meetings is available as a standalone app or as part of Dialpad's UCAS solution, Dialpad Business Communications. All plans include screen sharing, chat messaging, unlimited audio recordings, end-of-meeting reminders, host controls, third-party integrations, HIPAA compliance, and emoji reactions. Advanced features like meeting co-hosts, AI meeting summaries, live and post-meeting transcripts, suggested follow-up tasks, and video recording are restricted to the paid plan. Meeting social profiles display each attendee's name, profile photos, company email address, and even information imported from third-party social media channels like Twitter, Salesforce, and LinkedIn. Dialpad AI Meetings is best for small teams looking for a free video calling app with built-in third-party integrations and AI-powered features. These teams don't require high meeting participant capacities, host shorter meetings several times a week, and leverage AI meeting summaries to ensure those who couldn't make the meeting don't miss out on key information. Microsoft Teams offers one free plan for 60-minute meetings with 100 participants and three paid plans from $4 to $12.50 per user per month with 30-hour meetings for 300 participants. Teams is available as a standalone meeting app or as part of the Microsoft 365 suite, meaning it works seamlessly alongside tools like PowerPoint, OneDrive, and Outlook. Teams comes with robust in-meeting chat and file sharing and co-editing task management, polling, and Microsoft Whiteboard, which includes 41 pre-made templates for seamless collaboration. The collaborative annotations feature lets participants add comments, reactions, notes, and more to shared screens and comes with pen tracking to differentiate users. Teams includes numerous features to boost participant engagement, including user avatars and immersive spaces, which let team members meet and move around in shared 3D virtual environments. Teams also lets users upgrade to a webinar platform or access the Microsoft Copilot AI Assistant as an add-on. Teams is best for current Microsoft 365 users or fully remote workplaces that are heavily reliant on video conferencing tools for near-daily collaboration. Cisco Webex has a free plan with 40-minute meetings for over 100 participants and a paid plan from $12 per user per month that lets up to 200 participants meet for 24 hours. Like the other apps we've mentioned, Webex is a standalone video calling tool but is also included with a Webex calling and meeting suite. All Webex plans include chat messaging with document sharing and co-editing, two-way whiteboarding, desktop and mobile screen sharing, meeting co-hosts, local meeting recording, and hand gesture recognition. Paid plans include the Webex AI Assistant with meeting and message summaries, automatic reframing, GenAI-powered HD video, and instant message translation in 30-plus languages. The voice intelligence feature leverages smart audio to distinguish between main and background speakers, suppress background noise, and provide more accurate meeting transcripts. The People Insights tool lets users create custom profiles or pulls employee data from the company directory or public websites. Webex also offers two online platforms for 10,000-plus attendees. Webex is best for mobile-first collaboration, small-medium-sized businesses that may want to scale and add voice calling capabilities in the future, or businesses prioritizing highly secure meeting apps. Google Meet is a user-friendly online meeting app with a free plan that lets 100 participants meet for 60 minutes. It's also available as part of the Google Workspace suite with four plans from $6 per user per month and 24-hour meetings for 1,000 participants. All plans include in-meeting chat, screen sharing, and virtual hand-raising. Paid plans add breakout rooms, Q&A polling, meeting live streaming to YouTube, co-hosts, and translated meeting captions. As part of the Google Workspace suite, Google Meet is designed to work alongside Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and more. Google Meet is the most basic Zoom alternative, ideal for teams looking for an intuitive and no-frills free video conferencing platform for quick catch-ups instead of extensive planning sessions. Unlike the other Zoom alternatives we covered here, GoToMeeting doesn't offer a free plan. All three paid plans, from $14 to $19 per user per month and up, include unlimited meeting durations, team chat, breakout rooms, whiteboards, screen sharing, closed captions, and HD video for up to 250 participants. Advanced plans include unlimited meeting recording, AI-powered meeting summaries, and the Meeting Smart Assistant with suggested action items, highlight reels, and transcripts with timestamps and speaker differentiation. The Slides PDF tool automatically combines all slides, even from multiple presentations, shared during a meeting, puts them in order, and sends them to participants in a shareable PDF. GoToMeeting is best for hybrid teams or current GoTo software users looking to automate routine business processes and make meetings more efficient by leveraging AI. Features like commuter mode, color-coded buttons for safe driving, and voice commands with Siri make it ideal for mobile-first teams as well. The best Zoom alternative for your team depends on your budget, the level of daily team collaboration, and whether your workforce is fully remote, in-house, or blended. We suggest trying out each provider's free version or free trial to find the right fit. Want more information on each of these providers? Subscribe to our channel and access in-depth video calling app reviews, and comment below if you've got a favorite option already. Until next time, this is Nate from Get VoIP.