Supermeet vs Google Meet: an honest comparison.

Meetings

For a quick internal call, Google Meet's strength is that it is already there: a link in a Calendar invite, a click in Gmail, no install.

Supermeet meetings cover everyday calls — up to 100 people, HD video, screen share with sound, chat, raise hand, breakout rooms, polls and cloud recording on paid plans — from the browser or from apps for Android, iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a free tier of 10 meetings a month, up to 1 hour each, for 20 people. Supermeet meetings also have incoming-video control (per person, per quality), focus mode, data saver and a document mode that keeps shared text crisp, and a meeting can run as a secure meeting in the apps.

Google Meet keeps clear advantages inside Workspace: native Calendar and Gmail integration, live captions and translation, and companion mode on eligible plans. Supermeet has no calendar add-ons or recurring meetings — only webinar and class registrants get a calendar file, and webinar registrants get email reminders — and no translation; its live captions are made by each speaker's own browser (Chrome, Edge or Safari), with a caption transcript to download.

Webinars and large events

Google Meet is a meetings product; large audiences are served by in-domain live streaming on higher Workspace plans, without registration pages, public join links, Q&A or replays as a product. Supermeet treats webinars and live classes as first-class: registration pages with a confirmation email, reminders and a calendar file, browser join with no install, a stage the host switches live between presenters, Q&A with upvotes, polls, reactions, and replays behind the same registration — for up to 5,000 webinar attendees or 10,000 live-class students on the broadcast path, with a 2–4 second target delay. Live classes add whiteboard and slides that travel as data rather than video, a raised hand invited to the stage as a live speaker, and data saver and audio-only modes in the apps for weak connections.

Security and leaks — the biggest difference

Google Meet encrypts calls in transit and offers host controls, but it does not stop a participant's device from capturing the screen and it has no forensic watermark; a leaked recording cannot be traced to a participant. Supermeet's secure mode is built for that case: app-only attested joins with per-session keys; screen capture blocked where the operating system allows it (Android), detected and blacked out on iPhone and iPad, and traced by the mark everywhere; and an invisible mark unique to each participant, drawn on their own device, resolved through a leak case that a person reviews before anyone is named, with an appeal path. In tests on synthetic video, the mark survived messaging-app-quality re-encodes down to 240p and a crop. It was also still read after a simulated camera angle; tests with real classroom footage and a real camera are still to run.

Pricing

Google Meet is free with a personal Google account and otherwise comes bundled into Google Workspace per-user plans, which price the whole suite. Supermeet prices video alone: meetings per host per month — Free, Pro at ₹1,100 (20% below Zoom Pro's list price, in India and in dollars) and Business at ₹1,500 — webinars at ₹599 a month with 1,000 attendee-hours included, then 30 paise per attendee-hour, and live classes at ₹45 per active student per month. GST is extra in India; plans are paid in advance on the web for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months and nothing renews on its own. Full pricing →

Data residency and compliance

Supermeet's servers — compute and database — are in Bengaluru, India. Recordings are kept in object storage whose location is not limited to India, and media is delivered worldwide through a content network. Supermeet is designed around India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act: fixed retention periods (join records 12 months; recordings follow the organization's setting, 12 months by default, with an email to the organization 48 hours before erasure), a signed certificate at the end of every erasure request, guardian consent for learners under 18 recorded by the organization from guardian identities it already holds, and no behavioural profiling, advertising or cross-session tracking of participants. Grievances go to privacy@supermeet.io; the legal pages are drafts pending counsel review. Google Workspace offers data-region policies on enterprise plans under Google's own compliance programme; check the current options for India.

Developers

Google Meet exposes APIs to create and manage meeting spaces and an add-ons framework that runs inside Meet, but no SDK that puts a Meet call inside your own app. Supermeet gives registered developers Client SDKs for Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac and the web (with an embeddable <supermeet-session> element) and a Host SDK for Node; they are not on public package registries. Secure sessions can run inside your own registered Android and Apple apps: you set a minimum build and can revoke an app's registration. Usage is metered per participant-minute and viewer-minute, with test keys for development. Developers →

What Supermeet does not do

• Calendar add-ons, or a Google Calendar or Gmail integration
• Recurring meetings or a personal meeting room
• Single sign-on (SSO/SAML): sign-in is Google or an emailed code
• Local recording, or recording to your own storage bucket
• AI meeting notes or summaries, or transcripts of recordings
• Translation, or captions beyond those each speaker's own browser makes (Chrome, Edge or Safari)
• Companion mode
• Apps for Windows or Linux (the browser covers meetings, webinars and Standard classes)
• Phone dial-in, or an end-to-end-encrypted meeting mode
• Noise cancellation tuned to the degree of Google's
• A consumer account that everyone already has

If any of these decides your choice, Google Meet is the better tool today. We publish this list so nobody discovers it after switching.

Migrating from Google Meet

• Recordings: old recordings stay in Google Drive; Supermeet cannot import them as replays.
• Calendar: keep using Google Calendar and put the Supermeet meeting link in the invite, or schedule the meeting for a time in Supermeet; there is no Calendar add-on.
• Team: members sign in with Google or a one-time email code; roles are set in the workspace.
• Secure content: run the sessions that matter as secure sessions; the apps tell participants, in English or Hindi, that what they see is marked to their account (secure-session notice).

For help planning a move: hello@supermeet.io.