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Zoom vs Whereby
Zoom and Whereby compared on what their own pages say, row by row — nothing about either in our words except a plain reading at the end.
Zoom and Whereby, row by row
| Zoom | Whereby | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan: how much | Not stated on the pages we read | “1 room URL” — Free source |
| Free plan: longest meeting | “Meetings up to 40 minutes” — Basic, the free plan source | “Meetings for up to 30 minutes” — Free source |
| Free plan: people in a meeting | “Participant capacity 100” — Basic, the free plan, and Pro source | “4 attendees per meeting” — Free source |
| Cheapest paid plan | “$14.16” — Pro, a user a month billed yearly source | “$10.99 per month” — Pro, one host source |
| Paid plan: longest meeting | “Meetings up to 30 hours” — Pro source | “No time limit on meetings” — Pro source |
| Most people in a meeting | “Meet with up to 300 participants” — Business; more with the Large Meeting add-on source | “200 attendees per meeting” — Business, $13.99 a host a month, at least three hosts source |
| Languages | “Translated Captions” — named in the plan comparison, without saying which plans source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Video recording | “Local & 10 GB cloud (per license)” — Pro; the free plan's row reads "Local", to the computer source | “Unlimited recording” — Pro source |
| AI notes and summaries | “AI notes, summary, and chat” — Basic, the free plan, marked limited source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| Single sign-on | “Custom branding for URLs, SSO, and more” — Business source | Not stated on the pages we read |
| API | Not stated on the pages we read | “If you're looking for our API product, click below to learn more about our plans and get started for free.” — Whereby Embedded, priced separately source |
Every cell is the company's own words, linked. Prices change — this is what each page said on 10 November 2026. Something changed? Tell us.
What the two pages add up to
- Whereby’s free plan allows four people for up to 30 minutes in one room; Zoom’s allows 100 people for up to 40 minutes.
- Whereby Pro is $10.99 a month for one host and has no time limit; Zoom Pro is $14.16 a user a month billed yearly, for meetings up to 30 hours.
- Whereby Pro includes unlimited recording; Zoom Pro adds 10 GB of cloud recording.
Which matters for your meetings
Whereby's free plan suits a quick call between a few people — four at most, for half an hour, in one room with a fixed link. Zoom's free plan allows 100 people for 40 minutes. On paid plans Whereby Pro removes the time limit for one host for $10.99 a month; Zoom Pro allows 30 hours.
What that comes to, worked out
A coach with fifty-minute sessions, one client at a time, finds neither free plan enough: Whereby stops at 30 minutes, Zoom at 40. Paid, Whereby Pro costs $10.99 a month, $131.88 over twelve months, and lifts the time limit; Zoom Pro costs $169.92 a year billed yearly and allows 30 hours. For a group of five, only Zoom's free plan lets everyone in, since Whereby's free room holds four.
The sums use only the numbers quoted above. Yearly prices are the monthly figure times twelve.
Where Meetful is different from both
Meetful is a video meeting app too, but the notes are part of the meeting rather than an extra. Each person is transcribed from their own microphone, so every line carries the name of whoever said it without guessing, and nobody has to invite a bot. People join from a link in their browser. The notes, the recording and the transcript are free, and anybody in the meeting can leave themselves out of the notes.
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Free video meetings in the browser: every line of the transcript under the name of who said it, and the summary and action items when you hang up. Nothing to install — guests just open the link.