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JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Post by jrh206 »

owens99 wrote: post #34
worble wrote: post #28

Looking for pricing, I get to this page: https://www.8x8.com/products/apis/video >We're charging on a Monthly Active User (MAU) >Pricing starts at $0.35/MAU and decreases based on volume. >An MAU is defined as a unique user who attended at least one meeting, with at least one other user, in the same month. To determine a unique user, we store an identifier on the device's local storage, and that will remain the same…

That’s way too expensive. My $80/month server bill can support millions of users per month but would only get me Edit: my guess is I misunderstood who they are targeting with this. Thought they were targeting developers who want to integrate Jitsi with an existing product.

Personally, I feel like this is really generous pricing

Compare it to, e.g. Slack (https://app.slack.com/plans/T01JN93179R?geocode=en-gb) or Zoom (https://zoom.us/pricing)

Notwithstanding any accounting issues raised by worble, which I'm sure will be ironed out over time

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Post by cryptonym »

owens99 wrote: post #34
worble wrote: post #28

Looking for pricing, I get to this page: https://www.8x8.com/products/apis/video >We're charging on a Monthly Active User (MAU) >Pricing starts at $0.35/MAU and decreases based on volume. >An MAU is defined as a unique user who attended at least one meeting, with at least one other user, in the same month. To determine a unique user, we store an identifier on the device's local storage, and that will remain the same…

That’s way too expensive. My $80/month server bill can support millions of users per month but would only get me Edit: my guess is I misunderstood who they are targeting with this. Thought they were targeting developers who want to integrate Jitsi with an existing product.

Not the best comparison. Probably depends on your use-case.

How much does it cost to setup and maintain the platform (actually reachable from end users) 24/24 at 99.99 ? Global infra ? Dealing with HIPAA/GDPR ?

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Post by argument_clinic »

cudder wrote: post #5

> Free for up to 25 monthly active users This is the only mention of pricing that I can find on your site unless I sign up. I wonder what the cost is for >25 MAU.

BTW, having to sign up just to see the price is a big no-no for me and I'd probably not sign up just to see it.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Post by rkangel »

cloogshicer wrote: post #20

Does anybody know a video conferencing tool with low CPU usage while screen sharing? All the tools I've tried, including Jitsi, slow down my computer to a crawl.

Fundamentally, generic screen sharing is going to involve running a video encoder live (because that's what you're doing - generating a video stream of your desktop). Something needs to do that work, and unless your GPU can it's going to be the CPU.

The only way around it that I know is a 'remote desktop' type protocol where you send drawing primitives to reconstruct the desktop on the other end. That is obviously a much more complicated thing to get working and is better for different use cases.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Post by jamespo »

saghul wrote: post #39
owens99 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s way too expensive. My $80/month server bill can support millions of users per month but would only get me Edit: my guess is I misunderstood who they are targeting with this. Thought they were targeting developers who want to integrate Jitsi with an existing product.

Millions of users per month doing video conferencing?

Of course not

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Post by glaive123 »

jrh206 wrote: post #41
owens99 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s way too expensive. My $80/month server bill can support millions of users per month but would only get me Edit: my guess is I misunderstood who they are targeting with this. Thought they were targeting developers who want to integrate Jitsi with an existing product.

Personally, I feel like this is really generous pricing Compare it to, e.g. Slack ( https://app.slack.com/plans/T01JN93179R?geocode=en-gb ) or Zoom ( https://zoom.us/pricing ) Notwithstanding any accounting issues raised by worble, which I'm sure will be ironed out over time

They must be targeting people who just want to use this for internal purposes, rather than developers who want to integrate Jitsi with an existing product.
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