Nextcloud Talk vs Zoho Meeting

Nextcloud Talk combines meetings, chat, and webinars in a self-hosted communication service. It supports private, group, and public calls, URL invitations for external participants, and chat that remains after calls. Users can share Nextcloud Files documents and connect rooms with files, calendars, and tasks. Federation links chats and calls across Nextcloud servers, while bridges connect services such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Matrix, IRC, Mattermost, and XMPP. Talk runs in browsers and on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, with a public API for app integrations. Security features listed include end-to-end encrypted calls, layered encryption, brute-force protection, suspicious-login detection, and a $10,000 bug bounty. Typical private deployments handle 6–10 participants, or up to 20 without video. Webinars, lobby-based public video conferences, SIP dial-in, and larger calls require the High Performance Backend.

Zoho Meeting is a web conferencing service with screen sharing, recording and breakout rooms. It supports up to 250 participants, while the Free plan allows 100 participants and limits meetings to 60 minutes. The Professional plan lists 250 participants and meetings up to 24 hours; Standard lists 250 participants, 5 GB of storage per host and two co-hosts. Zoho Meeting has a free plan, paid plans and a 14-day trial. The pricing note says paid access starts at $1/mo when billed annually, while Standard is separately listed at $1 a year, billed annually. Supported platforms include web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android, with a Chrome extension and API also listed. Integrations include Zoho CRM, Bigin by Zoho CRM, Zoho Projects, Zoho Connect, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoho Mail, Gmail, Zoho Flow, Zoho Bookings, Microsoft Outlook, Zoho Notebook, Zia, Rev AI, Zapier and HubSpot. The maker is listed as founded in 1996.