Skype for Business is a professional video call meeting application/website used by several multinational companies and business organizations. It is the most popularly free video calling application. We can use it anywhere around the world. As Skype for Business is replaced by another Microsoft product, it is better to try other alternatives as well. We have listed the best Skype for Business alternatives that you could try.
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Best Skype for Business Alternatives
Below are the best Skype for Business alternatives that might help you:
- Microsoft Teams
- Cisco Webex Teams
- Zoom
- Google meet
- HiBox
- Jitsi
- Lifesize
- Bluejeans
- Whereby
- Chanty
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is an alternative created by Microsoft Corporation. The same tech giant who owns Skype for Business has announced officially that it’s all service towards Skype will be dropped by July 31, 2021. Also, it has many rich features on Teams so they are retiring it. Microsoft Teams can be used to host audio, video, and web conference with anyone from any part of the world. The maximum number of people who can join Team meeting is about 250. Teams app is available for free to Office 365 account holder on plans: Business premium, Business Essentials, Enterprise E1, E3, and E5. The cheapest plan among this is Business Essentials for $5 per user per month on an annual basis while the expensive one is Enterprise E5 for $35 per person each month.
Supported Devices: Android | iPhone | Windows | Mac | Web portal
Zoom
Zoom is both a web-based and application-based video conferencing tool. They are used to meet online with or without the video from any part of the world. They provide high-quality audio and video for the users. We can connect people easily through it whereas on Skype we need to organize a meeting and share among people to join in it. It has both paid and free versions of it. The basic version is free of cost with some limitations in time whereas the paid version has three types: Pro, Business, and Enterprise. The paid user has the advantage of having a separate host for them. Pro account costs about $14.99 per host per month, Business account costs about $19.99 per host per month and Enterprise account costs about $19.99 per host per month. The basic plan allows 100 users at a time while ad-ons can be added upto 500.
Supported Devices: Android | iPhone | Windows | Mac |Web Portal
Cisco Webex Teams
Cisco Webex Team is Video conferencing tool owned by a Multinational company Cisco Systems. It is a cloud-based and application-based video conferencing tool. They also have one-to-one and group messaging in it. They have digital two-way whiteboarding. you can also share your screen and its content in it. Meeting size for Cisco is 25 for users with a free Webex account which can be extended up to 100 if anyone user in space has paid the Webex account(Calling/team) and even can be extended to about 200 if anyone user in space has a web meeting host account. They have a subscription scheme from $13.50 per host per month to $26.95 per host per month.
Supported Devices: Android | iPhone | Windows | Mac | Web portal
Google meet
Google Hangouts Meet is a newly introduced video conferencing tool by Google Corporations and it is one of the best alternatives for Skype for Business. They are available in both web and mobile-based. Having Goggle meet can make a lot of work easier as it will be linked to all Google apps like Google calendar which will remind us if any meeting is been scheduled. Google meet is completely free for all users across the globe through which we can join about 250 users per meeting till September 30, 2020. From October 1, 2020, there will be two additional plans apart from free plan. The plans are G Suite essentials which cost $10 per active user per month and G Suite enterprise essentials which costs $20 per active user per month.
Supported Devices: Android | iPhone | Windows | Mac | Web Portal
HiBox
HiBox is one of the video conferencing tools with numerous features in it. They are used for video conferencing along with many other features like Task management, company chat, and your own personal AI assistant. Task management are used to manage all the task assigned by the organization and can keep track of it. Company chat is a chat box in which we can communicate within the organization. Your own personal AI assistant will help you with our daily tasks and help in replying to the company chat by recognizing our message pattern and provide suggestions to us. The pricing for HiBox is free with up to 10 users, Pro users cost about $4 per month per user and the Enterprise user costs about $8 per month per user.
Supported Devices: Android | iPhone | Windows | Mac | Web Portal
Jitsi
Jitsi is a free open source video conferencing tool for web and mobile. They have amazing video and audio quality in it. It does not an account/signup to login to it. You can access it for free without any requirements for it. They are 100% secure and can make video calls for any period of time without any restrictions on time. They are completely free to use for all users and no additional cost or additional service will be available in it. We can add about 75 users who join the meeting at a time.
Supported Devices: Android | iPhone | Web Portal
Lifesize
Lifesize is a video conferencing tool available for web and mobile. They are used to create virtual meetings online. Lifesize provides encrypted video, audio, and presentation transfer through it. They also have a live streaming feature in it. Lifesize can stream large group conference to about 10,000 concurrent viewers. They have a free version with unlimited meeting duration but no host and can have 25 participants, standard version costs $12.50 per month which provides one host and can have up to 100 participants and Pro version costs about $14.95 per month which provide a minimum of 15 hosts and can have 300 participants.
Supported Devices: Android | iPhone | Web portal
BlueJeans
BlueJeans is a cloud-based video conferencing tool. They have different categories of video conferencing methods like a meeting, room, and events. The meeting is conducted within an organization where we have a share screen and chat box for discussion in it. Room are created by a group of people for personal use which are meant only for video calls only allowed user with the link can be able to join the room. Events are created for a large number of people who can view events organized by some group of people in which any user can join the events. The BlueJeans standard costs about $9.99 per month with 50 participants and 5 hours of meeting recording and BlueJeans pro costs about $13.99 per month with 75 participants and 25 hours of meeting recording.
Supported Devices: Android | iPhone | Windows | Mac | Linux | Web portal
Whereby
Whereby app is a web and mobile-based video conferencing tool. We can connect it from anywhere around the world. It does not require login for the user who joins a meeting they can join as a guest and it requires to log in if you are going to create a meeting. They have three different plans for its users: free, pro, and business. Free users can use only for personal use with only one user and a single room. Pro costs $9.99 per month they can be used by individual use for professionals with 1 user and 3 meeting rooms. Business costs $59.99 per month they are used by small and medium teams with multiple user and admin and 10 meeting rooms.
Supported Devices: Android | iPhone | Web Portal
Chanty
Chanty is a video conferencing tool for fast communication. They are simple to use and have an amazing interface. Chanty has a free and business version of it. The free version has only unlimited audio calls and voice messages while the business version which costs about $3 per user per month will have an unlimited voice call, video call, and voice messages. It also can have file storage up to 20 GB, file sharing, guest users up to 3 per member, and built-in task management.
Supported Devices: Android | iPhone | Windows | Mac | Debian | Fedora
These are some of the tools which are helpful for people who cannot join a physical meeting by themselves can be able to join meeting virtually through this video conferencing tools and make them available from anywhere around the world.
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