Zoom API
Zoom's public REST API at api.zoom.us/v2 covers meetings, webinars, users, phone, chat, recordings, and dashboards, with OAuth 2.0 or server-to-server auth and event webhooks. Rate limits stack per plan and per endpoint category, which makes capacity planning the recurring complaint.
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Zoom scores A on the API Report Card. Zoom's public REST API at api.zoom.us/v2 covers meetings, webinars, users, phone, chat, recordings, and dashboards, with OAuth 2.0 or server-to-server auth and event webhooks. Rate limits stack per plan and per endpoint category, which makes capacity planning the recurring complaint.
Zoom has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Zoom (Zoom Communications, NASDAQ: ZM) is an AI-first communications platform. The flagship suite, Zoom Workplace, combines video meetings, team chat, mail & calendar, whiteboard, Zoom Phone (cloud PBX/PSTN), Zoom Rooms, and the AI Companion assistant.
Horizontal Enterprise Collaboration / Unified Communications (UCaaS) plus Contact Center (CCaaS). Scheduled and ad-hoc video meetings, breakout rooms, recording (cloud/local) and transcripts. Persistent team chat, channels, and 1:1 messaging.
9/10. Zoom reports 300M+ daily meeting participants and roughly 55% share of the video conferencing market per third-party trackers, with FY revenue around $4.6B.
Accounts, sub-accounts (ISV/master account), users, groups, roles, and SSO/SCIM identity. Meetings and webinars: schedule, participants, registrations, polls, Q&A, attendance, and recordings/transcripts.
Founded in 2011 by Eric Yuan, IPO in 2019, and the COVID-era breakout video platform. Architecturally modern - cloud-native media stack with global data centers, native mobile/desktop clients, and an extensive Marketplace.
Tight rate limits on Basic/Free accounts that surprise developers during testing. OAuth app rate limits and per-endpoint category limits are confusing across plan tiers. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Microsoft Teams, Google Meet / Google Workspace, Cisco Webex, RingCentral, 8x8, Genesys Cloud. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.