Olivasal
A video meeting platform with end-to-end encryption, AI transcription and recap, offered as managed cloud or fully self-hosted (with HIPAA-aligned compliance available), free for 5 seats or from $16/seat/month for Pro.
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Description
Zoom and Google Meet are convenient, but for teams handling sensitive conversations — legal, healthcare, security — having your meeting recordings and transcripts sit on someone else's cloud by default isn't always acceptable. Olivasal offers the same modern video-meeting experience with the option to keep everything on your own infrastructure.
Olivasal is a WebRTC video meeting platform with end-to-end encryption, screen sharing, whiteboarding, live captions and AI-generated transcripts and meeting summaries. It can run as a managed cloud service or be fully self-hosted, including HIPAA-aligned compliance for regulated teams and (on Enterprise) the option to run the AI summarization on the customer's own GPU rather than sending data to a third party. The free tier covers 5 seats with 350 hours/user/month and a 45-minute meeting cap; Pro is $16/seat/month (5-user minimum) for unlimited meeting length and cloud recording; Enterprise adds unlimited hours, up to 1,000 seats and full self-hosting.
💬 Our review
The short version: one of the few video-meeting tools that takes self-hosting and encryption seriously rather than treating them as an enterprise afterthought — genuinely useful for regulated or privacy-conscious teams, though the free tier's 45-minute meeting cap will frustrate anyone running longer standups or workshops.
Against Zoom or Google Meet, Olivasal's real differentiator isn't the video call itself — it's the deployment flexibility: HIPAA-aligned self-hosting and the option to run AI summarization entirely on the customer's own GPU, which matters if you handle healthcare, legal or security-sensitive conversations and can't send recordings to a third-party cloud. Compared to open-source alternatives like Jitsi or BigBlueButton, Olivasal trades some of that free flexibility for a more polished, maintained product with AI features built in, at the cost of $16/seat/month once you're past the free tier's limits. The 45-minute cap on free meetings is a real friction point — most team meetings run longer, forcing an early upgrade decision. Best fit: healthcare, legal or security teams that need self-hosted or encrypted video with AI recap and are willing to pay per seat for it; skip it if you just need simple free video calls, where Google Meet or Jitsi are more generous.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Gratuit : 5 sièges, 350h/utilisateur/mois, réunions limitées à 45 min. Pro : 16 $/siège/mois (minimum 5 utilisateurs), durée illimitée, enregistrement cloud. Enterprise : sur devis, auto-hébergement complet.
Pros
Conformité HIPAA disponible en auto-hébergement, rare chez les outils de visio grand public
Option de faire tourner l'IA de résumé sur le GPU du client (Enterprise) plutôt que d'envoyer les données à un tiers
Chiffrement de bout en bout proposé sur les appels
Cons
Palier gratuit limité à 45 minutes par réunion, insuffisant pour la plupart des réunions d'équipe
16 $/siège/mois avec minimum 5 utilisateurs revient plus cher que Google Meet pour une petite équipe
Moins connu et moins éprouvé que Zoom ou Google Meet