Jitsi Meet
Jitsi Meet is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Video Conferencing & VoIP category, licensed Apache-2.0 and written mainly in TypeScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to Zoom and Google Meet and ships a Docker image. It has 30,145 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 23, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Video Conferencing & VoIP
- TypeScript
- Apache-2.0
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 30,145
- Forks
- 8,108
- Open issues
- 96
- Commits, last 12 months
- 911
- Last commit
- Oct 23, 2026
- Latest release
- stable/jitsi-meet_11248Sep 14, 2026
- Created
- Dec 16, 2013
- License
- Apache-2.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 23, 2026, 911 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases8 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 23, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 911 |
| Latest release | stable/jitsi-meet_11248 (Sep 14, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 8 |
| Releases, all time | 88 |
| Open issues | 96 |
| Open pull requests | 92 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Dec 16, 2013 |
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About Jitsi Meet
WebRTC application that uses Jitsi Videobridge to provide high quality, scalable video conferences.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet.
Topics
- webrtc
- sfu
- video
- video-conferencing
- video-communication
- jitsi
- jitsi-meet
- scalable-video-conferences
- debian
- deep-video
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Is Jitsi Meet free and open source?
Yes. Jitsi Meet is open-source software released under the Apache-2.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Jitsi Meet with Docker?
Yes. Jitsi Meet provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Jitsi Meet?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Jitsi Meet include BigBlueButton, Janus and FreeSWITCH. Jitsi Meet itself is a self-hosted alternative to Zoom and Google Meet.
Is Jitsi Meet actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Jitsi Meet was on Oct 23, 2026 with 911 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is stable/jitsi-meet_11248, published Sep 14, 2026. It had 96 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.