Cosmos Video vs flat.social

Cosmos Video is an always-on virtual office for remote teams, combining team presence, spatial video and chat. Teammates can move avatars closer to join a conversation and step away to leave it. Spaces include personal, meeting, focus and game rooms, plus spatial networking areas. Messaging supports public and private channels, direct messages, persistent meeting chat, threads and file sharing. Cosmos Replay records meetings and provides AI-powered transcription and summaries. Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack and Spotify are listed as integrations; Miro, Figma and Google Docs are embedded apps. Game rooms include 12 built-in multiplayer games. The free plan supports up to four concurrent users, calls for up to four people, 25 MB uploads and seven-day recording retention, and is available without a credit card. Cosmos lists Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, web and extension platforms. Its pricing FAQ says it is GDPR and SOC II compliant and uses AES-256 encryption for video calls. The maker, Cosmos Video Limited, describes itself as UK-based.

flat.social is a browser-based virtual meeting and events space where people move around shared rooms and talk with nearby participants. Audio volume and video connection respond to proximity. A flat can combine Open Spatial rooms for mingling, Conference rooms for presentations, and Chat rooms for text. Participants can draw, write and add images to shared whiteboards and sticky notes; built-in activities include football, chess, surfing, dice and arcade cabinets. Conference rooms support screen sharing and speaker or gallery layouts. Guests can join from a link, and the service runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. The Free plan costs nothing and allows up to five people at once with unlimited session length. A Day Pass costs $2, paid once, billed at $2 per seat for 24 hours, requires at least 10 seats and supports up to 100 people. Monthly costs $6 a month, billed at $6 per seat per month, with 10 to 100 seats, attendance insights, branding removal, roles and advanced access control, and priority support. Larger capacity can be discussed with the company. Slack users can start a flat with /flat and schedule recurring weekly events.