# Digital Samba — Video Conferencing

Digital Samba by Digital Samba S.L. holds a panel rating of 2/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Digital Samba S.L. (https://www.digitalsamba.com)
- Category: [Video Conferencing](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): provenance unknown
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/digital-samba
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/digital-samba/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/digital-samba/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-21 · evaluated 2026-10-15 · oldest source captured 2026-10-13

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Digital Samba S.L.
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

Digital Samba is browser-based video conferencing from Digital Samba S.L., a Spanish company. The strongest scoring is integrations, at 5-6, for a documented REST API with webhooks, pagination, a stated 1000-requests-per-minute limit and a public npm SDK; reach and accessibility follow at a flat 4, since joining needs no account, no download and no credit card. The meeting core, encryption and access, and recording governance span 2-4: on the meeting core the split runs between judges crediting the roles, permissions and live-statistics resources and those finding capacity and degraded-connection behaviour undocumented; encryption rests on a single end-to-end option with no public information on key handling; recording has a full API lifecycle but no public information on consent or retention. Sovereignty spans 4-6, tracking how heavily judges weight a stated posture — "100% European hosted. Only European sub-processors. Zero tracking." — with no infrastructure, subprocessor or certification named and no independently sourced sovereignty attributes on record. Pricing transparency sits at 1: a free beta is the only price fact published.

**Speaks for it:**
- Joining needs no account, no download and no credit card — a single click launches a call.
- A documented REST API covers rooms, participants, recordings, polls and webhooks, rate-limited to 1000 requests per minute.
- A public npm SDK, written in TypeScript with type definitions, embeds meetings in your own product.
- Recordings run a full API lifecycle — list, download, start, stop, archive, delete — producing an mp4.
- The vendor's own page states 100% European hosting, only European sub-processors and zero tracking.

**Held against it:**
- We found no public information on participant capacity, breakout rooms, host moderation or behaviour on a constrained connection.
- End-to-end encryption appears as a single line, with no public information on key handling or what the vendor can technically see.
- We found no public information on recording consent, participant notification, retention or organisation-wide recording policy.
- We found no public information on single sign-on, calendar integration, user provisioning or a self-hosted deployment option.
- We found no public information naming the infrastructure, subprocessors or certifications behind the stated European hosting.

**Best for:**
- You are building conferencing into your own application and want a documented API plus an embeddable SDK.
- Your meetings rely on outside guests joining from a browser without accounts or downloads.
- You manage recordings programmatically and can set consent and retention rules yourself.
- A stated European-hosted, zero-tracking posture matters to you and you can corroborate it during procurement.

**Avoid if:**
- You must control who may record, with consent and retention rules, organisation-wide from day one.
- You require single sign-on, user provisioning or deployment on your own infrastructure.
- You need published participant capacity and documented behaviour on constrained connections for large meetings.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The IT Administrator | The Security Officer | The Works Council Advocate | The Educator | The Accessibility Advocate | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The meeting itself | 2/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 2/5 | 1/5 |
| Encryption & meeting access | 2/5 | 1/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1/5 |
| Reach & accessibility | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Recordings, retention & admin control | 2/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Integrations & deployment | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 |
| European sovereignty | 3/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 2/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2.5/5** | **1.5/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **1.5/5** |

### The judges

- **The IT Administrator** (v1.0): Gets the call when the board meeting will not start. Wants capacity published rather than promised, room systems that work, SSO, and diagnostics after a bad call. Judges a product by its worst meeting, not its demo.
- **The Security Officer** (v1.0): Wants to know what the vendor can see, and reads "encrypted" as a question rather than an answer. Asks which meetings get end-to-end encryption, what stops working when they do, who holds the keys, and who can walk into a meeting with a link.
- **The Works Council Advocate** (v1.0): A recorded meeting is personal data about everyone in it. Wants to know who may record, who is told, how long it is kept, and whether attention tracking or attendance analytics can be switched off outright. Reads engagement scoring as surveillance with a chart.
- **The Educator** (v1.0): Teaches thirty people who join from whatever they have, half of them on a phone in a dead spot. Cares that the browser works without an install, that guests need no account, that breakout rooms are usable, and that nobody is excluded by bandwidth or by a missing caption.
- **The Accessibility Advocate** (v1.0): Judges the product by whether a deaf colleague and a screen-reader user can run the meeting, not merely attend it. Wants live captions, keyboard operation, a published conformance report, and dial-in for people with no usable connection. Treats an accessibility page with no report as a marketing page.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has read many pages claiming end-to-end encryption and wants the sentence that says which meetings, on which plan, with what turned off. Also reads for the participant cap, the dial-in minutes, and where recording storage stops being free.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

No sovereignty finding yet.

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Integrations**
- API auth: team_id:developer_key basic auth [S2]
- API auth: yes · yes [S4]
- API base URL: https://api.digitalsamba.com/api/v1 [S4]
- API http verbs: GET · POST · DELETE · PATCH [S4]
- API pagination: yes [S4]
- API rate limit: 1000 [S4]
- API resources: Rooms, Sessions, Participants, Roles and permissions, Live usage, Statistics, Tokens, Recordings, Restreamers, Polls, Quizzes, Content Library, Telephony, Webhooks [S4]
- Embedded sdk: yes · yes · Digital Samba Embedded [S1]
- Live statistics: yes · yes [S4]
- Postman available: yes · yes [S4]
- Recordings: dashboard · download_api_endpoint · mp4 · startRecording · yes [S4]
- Rooms subdomain: https://teamNameHere.digitalsamba.com/my-room [S4]
- Scribe postman docs: yes [S4]
- Sdks available: cURL and Java code examples available [S2]
- Webhooks: yes · yes [S4]

**Legal**
- Entity: Digital Samba, S.L. [S1]
- Hq address: 08012 · Barcelona · Travessera de Gràcia 98 bis 6-2 · Spain [S1]
- Ownership: yes · yes · yes [S1]

**Product**
- E2ee option: yes [S1]
- Free beta scheduling: yes · yes [S1]
- Free features: no · yes · yes [S1]
- Free hosting europe: yes · yes · yes [S1]
- No account required: no · no · no [S1]
- Privacy posture: no · no · no [S1]
- Recording archive: yes [S2]
- Recording delete endpoint: DELETE · /recordings/:id [S2]
- Recording delete response 204: 204 [S2]
- Recording operations: list · download · start · stop · delete · archive · unarchive [S2]
- Rest API recordings management: REST API provides recordings management endpoints [S2]
- Screen share: yes [S1]
- Sdk bundler recommendation: npm + bundler (webpack) [S3]
- Sdk cdn prototyping: unpkg · script tag · quick prototyping [S3]
- Sdk create control: DigitalSambaEmbedded.createControl({ url }) with .load() [S3]
- Sdk distribution: yes · npm module [S3]
- Sdk npm package: @digitalsamba/embedded-sdk · yes [S3]
- Sdk typescript: yes · yes [S3]

## Questions

### Is Digital Samba European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Digital Samba is based.

### Where does Digital Samba store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### Does Digital Samba have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Digital Samba?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates [alfaview (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/alfaview), [Tixeo (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/tixeo) and [Nextcloud Talk (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/nextcloud-talk) highest among the other 27 Video Conferencing products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [alfaview](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/alfaview) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Digital Samba alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/digital-samba/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- We found no public information on pricing on the pages we read (digitalsamba.com, docs.digitalsamba.com/reference/rest-api/recordings/delete, docs.digitalsamba.com/reference/sdk, docs.digitalsamba.com/reference/rest-api). If the vendor publishes it somewhere else, send us the page.
- We found no public information on compliance on the pages we read (digitalsamba.com, docs.digitalsamba.com/reference/rest-api/recordings/delete, docs.digitalsamba.com/reference/sdk, docs.digitalsamba.com/reference/rest-api). If the vendor publishes it somewhere else, send us the page.
- 2 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 product fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor page: https://www.digitalsamba.com (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Recordings, retention & admin control — found from sitemap: https://docs.digitalsamba.com/reference/rest-api/recordings/delete (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Integrations & deployment — found from sitemap: https://docs.digitalsamba.com/reference/sdk (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Integrations & deployment — found from sitemap: https://docs.digitalsamba.com/reference/rest-api (checked 2026-10-13)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Digital Samba — Video Conferencing", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-10-21. https://whats-best.ai/software/video-conferencing/digital-samba

Corrections: https://whats-best.ai/correct/838?target=page