But they made the 5+ rooms $9 per month, which is way too expensive. There are not enough competitors for WebRTC conf tools, it should be quite simple and $4-5 a month (WebRTC doesn’t incur data costs on the servers since the data is peer-to-peer).
There are probably some operators that do pure p2p, but vast majority use some kind of bridge past certain number of users (& TURN might also be used for p2p). Usually this is to limit the amount of bandwidth participant needs.
Another alternatives are https://meet.jit.si & https://8x8.vc/. I cannot remember what was the current limit of participants in Jitsi (it was 75 back in June), but on 8x8.vc it's 100. In cases where you simply need a lot of viewers and limited number of participants there is also an option to livestream to Youtube.
(Disclaimer: I work at 8x8, but not directly on Meet or Jitsi)
8x8 offers more than just meetings.
You can see the feature list here: https://www.8x8.com/products/video-conferencing
Yes we bought Jitsi from Atlassian.
The Jitsi based meetings are integrated into our complete UC offering (yet we still deliver stand-alone meeting clients for customers who might want only meetings).
It’s just a feeling that this is wrong for what they contribute, but you’re right, if we share one account for a team, that would be a lower cost.
Maybe I was “anchored” by their previous pricing $4, which I thought I’d subscribe as soon as I’d have income, even though I didn’t need the paid features. But at $9, it’s a second psychological step. It feels like they stuff with features, where all we ask is often the WebRTC part.
Whereby costs $90 per Organisation for Meetings up to 12 users. We have a url for each team without a password and it works for us. Yes, 1 person manages those meeting rooms.
Add $10/month to extend to 50users.
Whereby was the best I could find to share screen of Fedora, still limited as sharing only works under Firefox not their Chrome based app or any other variant of Chrome I could get my hands on. Zoom, jutsi and others couldn’t properly share screens nor application Windows.
If it was for professional use $60 would not have mattered much, but that is not the case here.
(Our university offers some kind of paid plan on Zoom for all students so it will be hard to beat regardless, but that is not true for everyone)