- Category
- Video calls · SaaS alternative
- Cost
- Freemium
- Country
- Norway
- Licensing
- Proprietary
- Platforms
- Web · iOS · Android
Pros and cons
- +EEA data residency and GDPR-compliant by design, no US data transfer for European users
- +Guests join from a browser with no account, no app install, and no sign-in
- +Persistent room URLs you can bookmark and reuse
- +E2EE in peer-to-peer mode for small rooms (up to 4 participants), when networks allow
- −Closed source; no public client or server code to audit
- −E2EE only covers small peer-to-peer rooms: rooms above 4 participants route through Whereby's SFU with server-side decryption in memory
- −Free tier capped at 4 participants and 30-minute meetings
- −Owned by Videonor AS with a US subsidiary; sales operations sit under US law even though data does not
Privacy notes
Whereby is built and operated from Norway by a team spun out of Telenor in 2013, now owned by Videonor AS. Account data is stored in Ireland and media is routed through EEA-region video servers for European users; the company is GDPR-compliant and ISO 27001 certified. Audio and video content is never recorded to disk by default. Small rooms (up to 4 participants on the free tier) run peer-to-peer with end-to-end encryption when network conditions allow; larger rooms fall back to SFU routing where Whereby's servers terminate DTLS-SRTP in memory to mix and forward streams, so the operator can technically see decrypted media in transit. Norwegian and EU privacy law apply; the United States subsidiary handles sales but data residency stays in the EEA.
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