Google Meet is the video meeting service in Google Workspace editions. Pages here cover replacing it with self-hosted Jitsi Meet or BigBlueButton.
Comparing Google Meet with self-hosted Jitsi Meet: participant limits by Workspace edition against videobridges you scale yourself, recording through Jibri instead of Drive, end-to-end encryption, guest access and what a Jitsi deployment takes to run.
For schools and training teams on Meet: BigBlueButton's classroom features (whiteboard, breakout rooms, polling, shared notes) and LMS integrations against Meet in Workspace for Education, plus the server sizing BigBlueButton 4.0 needs.
Moving meetings off Google Meet: standing up Jitsi with JWT or SSO login, replacing Meet links in Google Calendar invites and room calendars, moving recordings out of Drive, and rolling out to teams in waves.
Meet is bundled into Workspace editions, so leaving it rarely removes a line item on its own. This page breaks down when self-hosting meetings saves money (a cheaper edition, or leaving Workspace entirely) against Jitsi servers, bandwidth and operations.
For EU organizations comparing Workspace data regions and client-side encryption, which depend on the edition, with Jitsi or BigBlueButton run in their own datacenter or with an EU host, and what remains under Google's control in each setup.
Meet live streaming needs an Enterprise edition. This page covers streaming all-hands and lectures from a self-hosted Jitsi meeting through Jibri, or from BigBlueButton, and the separate streaming server or video platform you need for large audiences.
For education institutions weighing Workspace for Education against an open-source classroom: BigBlueButton inside Moodle or Canvas, Jitsi for staff meetings, student data protection and who runs the servers in term time.
Meet recordings are saved to Drive. This page covers getting them out with the Data Export tool or Takeout, what the 72-hour and 60-day export rules mean for planning, and where they go in a self-hosted setup.
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