Video conferencing is a $15 billion industry built on monthly subscriptions, desktop apps, and data collection. We think there's a better way: ephemeral meetings that cost pennies, run in your browser, and leave no trace when they end.

How It Works

Create a meeting, share the link, and everyone joins instantly from their browser. No downloads, no account creation for guests, no "please update your app" prompts. Powered by WebRTC for peer-to-peer connections with end-to-end encryption.

  • Click "Create Meeting" from your dashboard
  • Set a title, duration, max participants, and optional password
  • Share the meeting link via email, chat, or however you communicate
  • Participants click the link and join — camera and mic permission prompts, then they're in
  • Meeting auto-expires when time runs out or the host ends it

Everything You Need, Nothing You Don't

  • HD Video & Audio — 720p with adaptive bitrate, echo cancellation, and noise suppression
  • Screen Sharing — Share your entire screen, a specific window, or a browser tab
  • Real-time Chat — Text chat alongside video for sharing links, code snippets, and notes
  • Meeting Recording — Record video, audio, and screen share for later review
  • Virtual Backgrounds — Blur or replace your background without a green screen
  • Host Controls — Mute participants, remove attendees, lock the room
  • Password Protection — Require a password to prevent uninvited guests

End-to-End Encryption — Always

Every meeting on 25cent.cloud is end-to-end encrypted by default. Audio and video streams use SRTP/DTLS encryption — the media is encrypted at the source and decrypted only by the recipients. We can't see or hear your meetings even if we wanted to.

Zoom charges extra for E2E encryption (and it disables some features). Google Meet doesn't offer it at all. On 25cent.cloud, it's always on with no feature trade-offs.

Ephemeral by Design

When a meeting ends, everything is destroyed:

  • Chat messages — deleted
  • Recordings — available for download, then deleted after 24 hours
  • Participant data — purged
  • Meeting room — token invalidated, URL no longer works
There's no meeting history accumulating in some cloud database, no voice transcriptions being trained into AI models, no metadata being monetized. The meeting happened, then it didn't.

Pricing That Makes Sense

1 quarter per participant-hour (25¢/participant-hour).

Real-world examples:

  • 1-on-1 call (30 min) — 2 participants × 1 hour = 2 quarters ($0.50)
  • Team standup (15 min, 5 people) — 5 participants × 1 hour = 5 quarters ($1.25)
  • Client presentation (1 hour, 4 people) — 4 quarters ($1.00)
  • Workshop (2 hours, 10 people) — 20 quarters ($5.00)
Compare that to Zoom Pro at $13.33/month or Google Workspace at $6/month — and you're paying whether you have meetings or not.

API Integration

Schedule meetings programmatically:

```
POST /api/meetings
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN
Content-Type: application/json

{
"title": "Sprint Planning",
"duration": 1,
"maxParticipants": 10,
"enableRecording": true,
"password": "standup-2026"
}
```

Embed meeting creation into your app, CRM, or scheduling tool. The API returns a join URL and host URL you can distribute however you want.

Who Is This For?

  • Freelancers — Professional video calls without a monthly subscription
  • Small teams — Daily standups and client calls at pennies per meeting
  • Privacy-focused organizations — E2E encrypted, ephemeral, zero data retention
  • Event organizers — Host webinars and workshops with pay-per-use pricing
  • Developers — Integrate meeting creation into your own products via API
Secure Meetings are available now. Read the full guide or create your first meeting from your dashboard.