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Element Call vs edumeet: catalog facts
Element Call	edumeet
Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0, with a commercial licence also offered.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
End-to-end encrypted group calls Built on the open Matrix protocol	Self-hosted with Docker and an installation script OIDC, SAML and local authentication
Self-hosting requires a Matrix setup alongside it Focused on calls, with no text chat of its own	Needs a public IP and two domain names to run on the internet Recording is disabled by default
Web application, Self-hosted	Web application, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Needs internet	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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