Organizers also have complete control over participants' audio and can chat with the group or individuals via text if necessary. Some of the included tools are a collaborative whiteboard, annotations, and, of course, screen sharing.

Up to 10 hours of meetings can be stored in the cloud with the option to keep them private or share them via a link. Meetings can be created as either a one-off or recurring event and you also have the option to simply hold an impromptu meeting on the fly. This gets you support for up to 25 simultaneous video participants in a meeting with up to 50 total participants.īlueJeans Meetings has apps for basically every platform, and if you just need to participate in a meeting, there is a web-only client that will do the basics. You do get a 7-day free trial to see if BlueJeans Meetings is right for you, but then the base plan starts at $12.49 a month. But the lack of a free tier of service will turn off some ].

For personal use and for most small businesses, the free tier of Cisco Webex Meetings should be sufficient and is a strong contender versus the more limited free tier offered by Zoom.īlueJeans Meetings is another excellent video conferencing service, which should tick all of the boxes for many users. For an extra $4 a month, you can also add the “Call me” feature at this tier, which will automatically call you when it’s time for your scheduled meeting. Other critical features you get are user management and administrative controls, which is crucial if you are trying to use Cisco Webex Meetings to manage a large remote team remotely. Stepping up to the Starter tier gets you support for up to 25 active streaming video participants and 5GB of cloud storage with recording transcriptions. You get most of the compelling paid features like screen sharing, interactive whiteboards, messaging, multimedia sharing, and the Q&A, polling and Raise Hand features. The free tier no longer has a time restriction and it now allows for up to 100 participants with support for five actively-streaming videos. Cisco Webex Meetings has made some strong moves by revising its free tier and reducing pricing.

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