Video conferencing tools run online meetings with screen sharing, and some add webinars with registration and replays. European tools are chosen for servers in Europe, on-premises options for sensitive meetings, and independence from US providers. The strongest European options are Whereby (Norway) for small teams and consultants holding quick client calls, Infomaniak (Switzerland) for small businesses that want one Swiss provider and Proton (Switzerland) for teams that want encrypted email and files in one plan.
Best first. Headcount and founding year come from LeadWave's database; prices, hosting and G2 ratings from each company's own pages and G2, checked in November 2026.
| Alternative | Headquarters | Founded | Employees | G2 rating | Free plan | Paid plans from | Your data | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Whereby | Måløy, Norway | — | — | 4.6 (1,160 reviews) | Yes | Free | In Europe | No |
2 Infomaniak | Geneva, Switzerland | — | — | — | Yes | Free | In Europe | No |
3 Proton | Geneva, Switzerland | 2014 | 635 | — | Yes | $3.99/user/month | In Europe | No |
4 alfaview | Karlsruhe, Germany | — | — | 4.7 (11 reviews) | Yes | €1/room/month | — | No |
5 OpenTalk | Berlin, Germany | — | — | — | Yes | €75/user/year | In Europe | Yes |
6 Nextcloud | Stuttgart, Germany | 2016 | — | 4.4 (171 reviews) | Yes | €71.29/user/year | Self-hosted | Yes |
7 Pexip | Oslo, Norway | — | — | 4.5 (85 reviews) | No | — | Self-hosted | No |
8 Element | London, United Kingdom | 2017 | — | 4.2 (43 reviews) | Yes | Free | Self-hosted | Yes |
9 Wire | Zug, Switzerland | — | — | 4.2 (61 reviews) | Yes | €7.45/user/month | In Europe | Yes |
10 Tixeo | Montpellier, France | — | — | 4.5 (146 reviews) | No | — | Self-hosted | No |
11 Livestorm | France | 2016 | 143 | 4.4 (1,688 reviews) | No | €2.50/attendee | In Europe | No |
12 WebinarGeek | Zoetermeer, Netherlands | 2019 | 30 | 4.5 (483 reviews) | No | €59/month | — | No |
13 mailbox.org | Berlin, Germany | — | — | — | No | €1/user/month | — | No |
14 Digital Samba | Barcelona, Spain | — | — | — | Yes | Free | — | No |
15 eyeson | Graz, Austria | 2010 | 22 | 4.4 (85 reviews) | No | — | — | No |
Each page ranks the European options for that tool's users and says how each one compares.
Browser-based video meetings with fixed room links
Norwegian video meeting tool that runs in the browser with permanent room links and no download for guests. Also sells a video API for developers.
Swiss email, cloud storage, chat and video meetings
Swiss hosting company whose kSuite bundles email, kDrive storage with online document editing, kChat messaging and kMeet video calls. Runs in its own data centres in Switzerland.
Encrypted email, files, documents and video meetings
Swiss company behind Proton Mail, Drive, Docs, Sheets and Meet. Mail, files and documents are end-to-end encrypted. Business plans bundle the apps as Proton Workspace.
German video conferencing for meetings and classes
Video conferencing app from Karlsruhe used for meetings, training and online teaching. Licensed per room rather than per user, with a free plan.
Open-source video meetings hosted in Germany
Video conferencing from a Berlin company in the same group as mailbox.org. Runs in German data centres or on your own servers. Free plan with 30-minute calls.
Self-hosted files, office editing, chat and calls
Open-source collaboration platform you run on your own servers or through a hosting partner. Nextcloud Hub covers file sync, online document editing, Talk chat and video calls, mail and calendar.
Enterprise video meetings, self-hosted or as a service
Norwegian video platform for large organisations. Connects meeting-room hardware with Teams, Google Meet and Zoom, and runs its own secure meetings, including on your own infrastructure.
Secure team messaging built on Matrix
Messaging and calling platform from the team that created the Matrix open standard. Organisations self-host it or buy a managed server. Used by several European governments, including in openDesk.
End-to-end encrypted messaging, calls and file sharing
Encrypted messenger for teams with chat, voice and video calls, and file sharing. Offered as a cloud service with servers in the EU, or on your own servers. Free for teams of up to five.
Secure video conferencing certified by ANSSI
French video conferencing with end-to-end encryption, certified by the French cybersecurity agency ANSSI since 2017. Available as a cloud service or installed on premises.
Browser-based webinars and virtual events
French platform for webinars, product demos and online events in the browser, with registration pages, reminders and analytics. Priced by attendee credits bought per year.
Webinar software from the Netherlands
Dutch webinar platform for live, automated and on-demand webinars, with registration pages and marketing integrations. Viewers join in the browser.
German business email with office and video add-ons
Email, calendar and contacts run by Heinlein Hosting in Berlin. The Standard plan adds cloud storage, online office editing and video meetings. Ad-free and paid only.
Free video meetings and an embeddable video API
Spanish video conferencing company with a free meeting product and a paid API for embedding video calls in other software, priced per participant minute.
Video meetings and a video API from Austria
Austrian video platform that merges all participants into a single stream to keep bandwidth low. Sells an API for building video into other software and virtual situation rooms.
LeadWave's database has 24 companies headquartered in Europe that our Video Conferencing list matches, most of them in the United Kingdom (5), Finland (3), Sweden (3), France (2) and Austria (1). Here are the 15 largest; all 24, with their CEOs' contacts, are in the Europe SaaS companies list.
| Company | Country | Employees | Funding | CEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 OpenExchangeopenexc.com | United Kingdom | 1,001–5,000 | $39.1M | Mark Loehr |
2 Slidosli.do | Slovakia | 215 | $39.2K | — |
3 Interactiointeractio.io | Lithuania | 177 | — | Henrikas Urbonas |
| 4Livestormlivestorm.co | France | 143 | $35.1M | Gilles Bertaux |
5 Dream Brokerdreambroker.com | Finland | 51–200 | — | Mika Ahokas |
6 ClickMeetingclickmeeting.com | Poland | 78 | — | Dominika Paciorkowska |
7 Brellabrella.io | Finland | 59 | — | Markus Kauppinen |
8 Councilboxcouncilbox.com | Spain | 44 | $5.9M | Víctor García |
9 IndustryGeniusesindustrygeniuses.com | United Kingdom | 11–50 | — | Zeeshan Idrees |
10 Linkandolinkando.com | Germany | 11–50 | — | Jörg Prüßmeier |
11 Sparkupsparkup.app | France | 11–50 | — | Vincent Bruneau |
| 12Webinargeekwebinargeek.com | Netherlands | 30 | — | Remco Treuren |
13 Kindkind.app | Sweden | 26 | $3.6M | Louise Sternros |
| 14eyesoneyeson.com | Austria | 22 | $5.2M | Andreas Kröpfl |
15 Contrastgetcontrast.io | United Kingdom | 21 | — | Tim Minton |
Showing the 15 largest of 24. Headcount is the latest known figure.
A company counts as European if it's headquartered in Europe: the EU, the EEA, Switzerland, the UK, or elsewhere in geographic Europe, never Russia or Belarus. Headquarters means where it's run from, not a registered office. Companies founded in Europe but headquartered elsewhere today are listed separately, and a non-European owner is always named.
Each company was checked against its own legal notice, pricing page and data-processing terms, and its G2 page. The order weighs how fully each one replaces the US leaders, its track record and its ratings. No company paid to be listed or ranked.
Whereby (Norway) for small teams and consultants holding quick client calls, Infomaniak (Switzerland) for small businesses that want one Swiss provider and Proton (Switzerland) for teams that want encrypted email and files in one plan. Each is headquartered in Europe; the table compares their hosting, prices and G2 ratings.
Whereby, Infomaniak, Proton, alfaview, OpenTalk, Nextcloud, Element, Wire and Digital Samba have a free plan with no time limit.
Whereby, Infomaniak, Proton, OpenTalk, Wire and Livestorm store customer data in Europe by default. Being European doesn't make a tool GDPR compliant on its own: check its data processing agreement too.
Yes: OpenTalk, Nextcloud, Element and Wire, which you can also host on your own servers.
LeadWave's database lists 24 European Video Conferencing software companies, most of them in United Kingdom (5) and Finland (3). All of them, with their CEOs' contacts, are in our list of 4,000+ European SaaS companies.
Jitsi Meet is open source and widely self-hosted in Europe, but the project belongs to 8x8, a US company. We list European companies, so Jitsi itself is not in the ranking.
Livestorm and WebinarGeek are webinar platforms with registration pages, reminders, replays and marketing integrations. Whereby, alfaview, OpenTalk and kMeet are built for meetings rather than audiences.
Yes. Pexip, Tixeo, OpenTalk, Nextcloud Talk and Element can be installed on your own infrastructure, which suits government and regulated sectors.
