A licensed user has either a free or paid meeting license and can schedule meetings with participants based on the capacity their plan allows. A Participant is an invitee in a meeting scheduled by someone with a meeting license. A Participant does not require a Zoom account nor license in order to join a meeting and can join for free. Participants can join a meeting from their phone, desktop, mobile and tablet devices.

All plans allow up to 100 participants by default in each meeting (up to 1,000 with Large Meeting add-on).

You can host an unlimited number of meetings but if you would like to have more than one meeting concurrently, you will need additional meeting licenses..

Zoom offers a full-featured Basic Plan for free with unlimited meetings. Try Zoom for as long as you like - there is no trial period. Both Basic and Pro plans allow for unlimited 1-1 meetings, each meeting can have a duration of 24 hours maximum. Your Basic plan has a 40 minutes time limit per each meeting with three or more total participants. Need your group meetings to last longer than 40 minutes? Sign up for a Pro Account here.

Securing your Zoom Meetings can start before your event even begins, with a robust set of pre-meeting features, including Waiting Rooms, Join by Domain, and Passcodes. Zoom also has controls at your fingertips to ensure your meetings are secure and disruption-free. Zoom takes care to ensure your data is secure at all times using learn more about our privacy and security features here.