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Why are Businesses Choosing Google Meet over Zoom?

The Covid-19 pandemic fundamentally shifted the way people engage with each other. Google Meet is more secure, and Google's reliable global infrastructure enables organizations to scale to demand, and still deliver consistently high-quality performance for Google Meet users.

Why are Businesses Choosing Google Meet over Zoom?

Google Meet is a business-oriented video conferencing app suitable for businesses of all sizes. The solution helps users to make video calls with up to 250 users through high-definition video meetings.

Users join pre-scheduled meetings from calendar events, choose a link, enter meeting code, and even dial in from their phones. 

Google Meet integrates with G Suite versions of Google Calendar and Gmail and shows the complete list of Invitees/participants and scheduled meetings.

Key Features of Google Meet: 

  • Up to 250 participants can join the meeting at a time
  • Very easy to use and effective
  • Google Meet is available for both android and IOS devices
  • You can present your slides and documents by clicking on the present now icon on Google Meet
  • External participants can also join in Google Meet by clicking on the link sent to a particular id
  • You can record meetings and save them to Drive in Google Meet. This is a very good feature if anyone skips the meeting
  • Live Streaming- 100,000 members
  • Dial-in by dial Phone number
  • Meetings are now more secure through Google Meet. Any data which you share in Google Meet is secured

Now keeping in mind the current scenario due to the Global pandemic and organizations as a result opting to work from home so that their business keeps running smoothly, various high-end video conferencing solutions are in demand.

Apart from Google Meet, ZOOM is one of those leading video conferencing solutions which is making a huge impact.

However, if the latest reports and studies are to be believed, this Chinese-origin app has some major security issues with respect to user data. 

The below few points will guide you to understand why Google Meet stands tall against its competitors like ZOOM.

Comparison: Google Meet and ZOOM

Product Google Meet ZOOM
Price Google Meet is free until 30th September ZOOM has 4 plans: Basic- FreePro- $14.99 /month/person
Participants 250 participants at a time The free version can host up to 100 participants 
Limitations No such Limitations related to video duration

The free version has a limitation of 40 mins,

the paid version has a limitation of 24hrs 

Mobile & Desktop Version Users can use both mobile and desktop at a time Desktop and mobile versions can have compatibility issues with tools like in-meeting control
Enterprise Support Yes  No
Live Captions Live Caption is available No Live caption option
Security  Google Meet is more Secure and  Cloud has a track record ZOOM has SSL encryption and AES 256 bits encryption 



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