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OpenVidu Meet deployment overview#

Production ready#

OpenVidu Meet is designed to be self-hosted, whether it is on premises or in a cloud provider. It brings to your own managed service advanced capabilities usually reserved only for SaaS solutions. There are two main reasons why you may need to self-host the real-time solution yourself:

  • Privacy: you can't afford to let your client's data get out of your reach. OpenVidu allows you to meet all your privacy and regulatory requirements: no data at all is sent to any third-party server. Everything is self-contained on your own servers.
  • Leverage your resources: your organization has access to its own infrastructure that can be used to host these services. SaaS solutions generally offer complete freedom from infrastructure management, but this comes with generally high prices that cover both the provider's infrastructure and their service surcharge. OpenVidu allows taking full advantage of your own infrastructure, reducing costs and increasing performance.

It is important to mention that when we talk about self-hosting OpenVidu, we don't just mean installing it in bare-metal servers or private VPCs. OpenVidu also supports deployments in the most popular cloud providers, using their native services when possible. AWS and Azure are currently supported, and others are coming soon. You can learn more about the different options to deploy OpenVidu in the deployment types section.

One of OpenVidu's main goals is offering a self-hosted, production-ready live-video platform with all the advanced capabilities typically reserved for SaaS solutions. This includes outstanding performance, scalability, fault tolerance and observability:

  • Performance

    OpenVidu is built to be incredibly powerful. It is based on the best open source WebRTC stacks: LiveKit and mediasoup . By combining the best of both worlds, OpenVidu provides outstanding performance.

    Learn more about performance

  • Scalability

    OpenVidu has been designed from the outset with scalability in mind. Host videoconference rooms and large live streams with hundreds of participants. Autoscale your cluster to adapt to the demand and optimize your resources.

    Learn more about scalability

  • Fault Tolerance

    OpenVidu offers fault tolerance in all its components. Deploy a reliable high-availability cluster knowing that if one of your node goes down, others will be able to continue working with no downtime.

    Learn more about fault tolerance

  • Observability

    OpenVidu brings everything necessary to monitor the status, health, load and history of your deployment. It automatically collects events, metrics and logs, and provides OpenVidu Dashboard and a Grafana stack to navigate them.

    Learn more about observability

OpenVidu Meet editions#

OpenVidu Meet is available in two editions:

OpenVidu COMMUNITY#

It is completely open-source and free to use. It includes all the features you need for your video conferencing solution. Everything listed in the Features section is available in OpenVidu Meet COMMUNITY: HD video, HiFi audio, recording, screen sharing, advanced chat, virtual backgrounds, and more.

OpenVidu Meet COMMUNITY is perfect for production deployments with moderate user load. It can be easily deployed on your own servers, and you can customize its branding to match your organization’s identity. If necessary, upgrading to OpenVidu PRO is seamless and non-disruptive.

OpenVidu PRO#

It is OpenVidu's commercial edition and requires a license. It is meant for high demanding environments with significant user load. On top of every functional feature available in OpenVidu COMMUNITY, OpenVidu PRO brings 2x performance, advanced observability, scalability and fault tolerance features. As well as priority support from our team of experts.

OpenVidu PRO follows a simple pricing model based on the size of your deployment (number of CPU cores). Check the OpenVidu pricing page for more details.

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Different OpenVidu deployment types support different editions.

Deployment types#

OpenVidu Meet offers user-friendly installers that facilitate quick on-premises deployments, so you can self-host your real-time solution in your own infrastructure or any cloud provider.

The following documentation pages focus on three different deployments:

The table below summarizes the main characteristics of each deployment type.

Type of deployment OpenVidu Meet:
Local deployment
OpenVidu Meet:
Basic deployment
 OpenVidu Meet:
Advanced deployment
OpenVidu Edition COMMUNITY COMMUNITY PRO
Suitability Suitable to test and develop Suitable for production applications with medium user load Suitable for production applications with dynamic user load and need for high availability
Features Try out all OpenVidu Meet features in your laptop All OpenVidu Meet features, ready for production All OpenVidu Meet features ready for production, plus 2x performance, advanced observability, scalability and fault tolerance
Number of servers Your laptop 1 server Multiple servers
Installation instructions Try Install Install