DenwaysMeet, Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams: Video conferencing software
compared.
Participants, time limits, price per seat and guest access, from each vendor's own pages. Checked on 2 November 2026.
The short answer
DenwaysMeet puts meetings, voice rooms, chat and tasks in one workspace, on every plan, with guest links that need no account.
DenwaysMeet's Free plan allows 5 participants for 25 minutes, and Starter allows 25 participants for 3 hours at $12 a seat a month. Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams allow larger, longer meetings: 100 participants for 40 to 60 minutes on free plans, and 100 to 300 participants for 24 to 30 hours on first paid plans.
We make DenwaysMeet, so check the rival columns against the vendors' own pages, listed below.
How do their limits and prices compare?
The plans each vendor lists, cheapest first. Plans are not equivalents: a first paid plan on one product may include things another sells higher up.
| DenwaysMeet | Zoom | Google Meet | Microsoft Teams | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 5 participants, 25 minutes. Up to 5 members. | Workplace Basic: 100 participants, 40 minutes. 1 licence. | With a Google Account: 100 participants, 60 minutes. No time limit on mobile calls and 1:1s. | Teams free: 100 participants, 60 minutes for group meetings, 30 hours for 1:1 calls. |
| First paid plan: price per seat | Starter: $12 a seat a month, or $120 a year ($10 a month). Up to 25 members. | Workplace Pro: $14.16 a user a month, billed annually. 1 to 99 licences. | Workspace Base: ₹99 a user a month with a one-year commitment, ₹120 without. Up to 20 users. | Teams Essentials: $4 a user a month, paid yearly. 1 to 300 employees. |
| First paid plan: limits | 25 participants, 3 hours. | 100 participants, 30 hours. | 100 participants, 24 hours. | 300 participants, 30 hours. |
| Next plan up: price per seat | Business: $25 a seat a month, or $250 a year ($20.83 a month). Up to 250 members. | Workplace Business: $18.33 a user a month, billed annually. 1 to 250 licences. | Workspace Starter: ₹270 a user a month with a one-year commitment, ₹325 without. Up to 300 users. | Microsoft 365 Business Basic: $7 a user a month, paid yearly. 1 to 300 employees. |
| Next plan up: limits | 150 participants, 12 hours. | 300 participants, 30 hours. | 100 participants, 24 hours. | 300 participants, 30 hours. |
| Larger plans | Education, $5 a seat a month, quote-based: 250 participants, 4 hours. Enterprise, $49 a seat a month, quote-based: 500 participants, no time limit. | Workplace Enterprise, through sales: 1,000 participants in its plan summary, 500+ in its comparison table; 30 hours. A paid add-on, Large Meeting, goes up to 5,000 participants. | Workspace Standard, ₹1,080 a user a month with a one-year commitment: 150 participants, 24 hours. Enterprise editions, through sales: 500 to 1,000 participants, 24 hours. | Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilot, $23.50 a user a month, paid yearly: 300 participants, 30 hours. |
| Guests without an account | Yes, on every plan. A guest join link needs no account; the guest waits in the waiting room until let in. | Yes. Zoom says a participant does not need a Zoom account to join a meeting. | Workspace customers can invite anyone by link or meeting ID, even without a Google Account. On the no-cost version, participants sign in with a Google Account or are approved by the organiser. | Yes, from a meeting link. Microsoft notes that admin settings can require an emailed code or a Teams account for some meetings. |
| Desktop app | Runs in any browser. Windows and macOS installers are not available right now. | Yes. Zoom’s download centre offers the Zoom Workplace desktop app. | Joins from a computer browser with no software install, Google says. | Yes. Microsoft offers desktop apps for PC and Mac. |
Read on each vendor's own pages on 2 November 2026. DenwaysMeet's figures are the defaults in its plan table. Limits can be changed for an organization.
Prices are not converted, and vendors set them by country, so yours may differ. Our check ran from India: Zoom defaulted to rupees and we chose its US dollar option, Google's page showed rupees only, and Microsoft's US page shows dollars. Zoom and Google state their prices exclude tax. Google was also showing lower introductory prices to new customers, which are not counted here.
Which to choose
Which video conferencing software should you choose?
The right choice depends on what you already run. These are the cases the facts above support.
DenwaysMeet, if voice rooms and chat belong together
Every plan includes chat, meetings and tasks, with voice rooms people can walk into without scheduling and guest links that need no account. Plan on Starter or above if you meet in groups larger than 5 or for longer than 25 minutes.
Zoom, if meetings run long or very large
Its paid plans list 30 hours per meeting, Workplace Business lists 300 participants, and the Large Meeting add-on goes up to 5,000. Its free plan stops at 40 minutes.
Google Meet, if you want it with Gmail and Docs
Workspace plans include Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Chat, Drive and Docs. Google says Meet joins from a computer browser with no software install, and a Google Account gets 60 minutes at no cost.
Microsoft Teams, if you already run on Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 business plans are sold in a version with Teams. If you mainly need meetings, Teams Essentials lists $4 a user a month, paid yearly, for 300 participants and 30 hours.
Sources
All opened on 2 November 2026. If a line is out of date or wrong, write to info@denways.com and we will correct it.
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