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0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Lifesize, Inc. · www.lifesize.com

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Lifesize at a glance

Vendor
Lifesize, Inc.
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Lifesize 1.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Lifesize's published pages score strongest as an organisation-wide conferencing service tied to its own room hardware: recording governance sits at a flat 4 — Record and Share enabled at account level, admins managing the recordings library, sharing restricted to specific users — and integrations score 4-5, with Icon systems prompting to join from the calendar named the bright spot. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 20 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 21 Oct 2026. all sources

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The Works Council Advocate

Weighted verdict

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.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Works Council Advocate

Panel median The Works Council Advocate This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Works Council Advocate
The meeting itself 2 of 5 2 of 5
Encryption & meeting access 2 of 5 2 of 5
Reach & accessibility 2.5 of 5 2 of 5
Recordings, retention & admin control 2 of 5 2 of 5
Integrations & deployment 2 of 5 2 of 5
European sovereignty 0.5 of 5 0.5 of 5

The meeting itself

How this is scored

Whether the call works: participant capacity, video and audio quality under load, screen sharing, breakout rooms, moderation, and what happens on a bad connection.

0 — Small meetings only, no screen sharing worth the name, no moderation controls, and the call degrades without telling anyone.

3 — Standard meetings with screen sharing and mute-all, but low participant limits, no breakout rooms and no bandwidth adaptation stated.

5 — Meetings at the scale most teams need with screen sharing, breakout rooms, host moderation, and documented behaviour on constrained connections.

8 — Large meetings and webinars with published capacity limits, per-participant moderation and waiting rooms, layout control, simulcast or adaptive bitrate stated, and reliable behaviour on mobile networks.

10 — Scale and control are engineering claims the vendor stands behind: capacity published per plan and per region, selective forwarding with adaptive quality documented, live streaming, hardware-room support, and diagnostics an admin can read after a bad call.

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The Works Council Advocate

Waiting rooms, required passcodes, four meeting layouts and in-call participant adding are documented, and presentations are visible in the recording options, so the basics exist. But we found no public information on participant capacity, breakout rooms, mute-all moderation, or how the call behaves on a constrained connection — nothing the vendor stands behind on scale or degradation. 2 3 9

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Encryption & meeting access

How this is scored

What is actually encrypted and against whom, plus who can get into a meeting. Judged on documented mechanism rather than on the word "encrypted".

0 — Transport encryption only, undocumented; meetings joinable by anyone with a link and no lobby.

3 — TLS in transit and encryption at rest, with the vendor holding all keys; access control is a passcode.

5 — The above plus a lobby or waiting room, host-controlled admission, per-meeting passcodes, and a clear statement that the vendor can technically access media.

8 — Optional end-to-end encryption for meetings with the trade-offs named (which features stop working), documented key handling, SSO-gated joining, and per-meeting access policies.

10 — End-to-end encryption available without surrendering the product — its cryptography documented or open source, key management explained, identity verification for participants, and the vendor stating plainly what it can and cannot see.

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The Works Council Advocate

The only encryption mechanism in evidence is SIP media encryption on room devices with its Off, Auto and Strict modes and the TLS signaling requirement, while meeting access is gated by passcode and waiting room. We found no public information on encryption for the web and desktop apps, key handling, end-to-end encryption, or any plain statement of what the vendor itself can see — so who sits inside the trust boundary is undocumented. 2 5

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Reach & accessibility

How this is scored

Whether everyone who needs to join can: browser without an install, dial-in, low bandwidth, guests without accounts, captions and keyboard operation.

0 — A desktop client is the only way in; guests must create an account.

3 — Browser joining exists but is degraded, guests can join by link, and there is no dial-in and no accessibility statement.

5 — Full-feature browser joining without an install, guest access by link, mobile apps, and a stated accessibility posture.

8 — Telephone dial-in with numbers listed, live captions, keyboard-navigable and screen-reader-tested interface, and documented low-bandwidth behaviour.

10 — Reach is designed for: browser parity with the client, dial-in across the regions the customer operates in, live captions and translation, a published accessibility conformance report, and a usable experience on a poor mobile connection.

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The Works Council Advocate

Browser joining is documented across Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer 11, Safari and Firefox, guests can join by link or be reached via the Call Me phone numbers, and live captions can be toggled per participant with a language choice — though only for live-streamed events. We found no public information on an accessibility statement, keyboard and screen-reader support, mobile apps, or documented behaviour on low bandwidth. 2 6 7

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Recordings, retention & admin control

How this is scored

A recording is personal data about everyone in the room. Who may record, who is told, where it is stored, how long it lives, and what the works council can switch off.

0 — Anyone can record, storage location unstated, no retention rule, no admin policy.

3 — Host-only recording with a notification, but storage region unstated, retention manual, and no organisation-wide policy control.

5 — Admin policy over who may record, participant notification and consent prompt, stated storage region, and manual deletion that works.

8 — Automatic retention and deletion per policy, recordings encrypted at rest with access logged, transcription handled with its own retention rule, and attendance or analytics features that can be switched off for co-determination.

10 — Built for a works agreement: every recording, transcript and analytics feature independently switchable and documented, retention executed and evidenced, an audit trail of who accessed which recording, and no participant-level behavioural scoring at all.

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The Works Council Advocate

There is genuine organisation-wide control: recording can be enabled or disabled at account level, admins manage every recording in the library, and sharing can be restricted to specific users. But an option to auto-record every meeting from the moment two people join, stopped only by ending the meeting, is documented with no word of participant notification or consent, and we found no public information on storage region, retention and deletion rules for recordings, access logging, or any attendance or analytics feature that can be switched off for co-determination. 2 8 9

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Integrations & deployment

How this is scored

Calendar, identity and the wider stack — plus, in this category, whether the product can be run on the customer's own infrastructure at all.

0 — No calendar integration, no SSO, no API; cloud-only with no alternative.

3 — One calendar integration and basic SSO, no API worth building on, cloud-only.

5 — Calendar integration for the major suites, SAML or OIDC SSO, a documented API for scheduling, and room-system support.

8 — The above plus SCIM provisioning, embedding via SDK, webhooks for meeting events, and either a self-hosted option or a documented private-cloud deployment.

10 — Deployment is the customer's choice: a genuine on-premises or private-cloud option with the same features, open protocols or open source, embeddable SDKs, and identity integration that does not require the vendor's directory.

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The Works Council Advocate

Calendar integration for Microsoft 365, Exchange 2013 and 2016 and Google Workspace is documented down to room-mailbox setup, room systems with the vendor's own hardware are first-class citizens, and an SSO configuration section exists in the admin console. We found no public information on a documented API, SCIM provisioning, webhooks or SDK embedding, or any self-hosted and private-cloud deployment. 2 10 11

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where media and metadata are processed, who the contracting entity is, which subprocessors carry the traffic. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; scored here as this buyer weighs it — which in this category is heavily.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, media routed through unstated regions, subprocessors unnamed.

3 — EU data residency for storage while media relays or metadata remain non-EU, or the contracting entity sits outside the EU.

5 — EU hosting and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — relays, analytics, support tooling, transcription — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — Media and metadata processed in the EU on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, complete subprocessor list published, any non-EU processing named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: media never leaves the EU, every subprocessor European, certification published, and an on-premises option that removes the question entirely.

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The Works Council Advocate

Every captured page is US-facing — a 1-866 support line, the US number as the default dial-in, a lifesizecloud.com join domain — and we found no public information on where media and metadata are processed, the contracting entity and its jurisdiction, ownership, or a single named subprocessor. For a body that must answer where its members' voices are processed, this silence is itself the answer. 1 2 6

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the annual invoice for their host count — including the capacity, dial-in and recording storage they actually need — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A per-host headline exists, but participant caps, dial-in minutes or recording storage are unpriced or unmentioned.

5 — Per-host prices public with billing period stated and capacity limits given, but at least one commonly needed piece (webinar capacity, dial-in, storage) sits in an unpriced add-on.

8 — Every tier and add-on priced publicly with per-host maths, capacity limits, dial-in rates, storage allowances, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: a calculator producing the annual invoice for a given host count, meeting size and recording volume, including overage and per-region dial-in.

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The Works Council Advocate

We found no public information on prices, billing periods, capacity limits, dial-in rates or recording storage allowances; the only trace of a commercial structure anywhere is the plan names Enterprise and Premium. A buyer cannot even begin to compute an annual invoice from the public pages. 10

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data residency Not determined — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined — uncited Report an error

Questions about Lifesize

Is Lifesize European?

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

Where does Lifesize store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

Does Lifesize have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Lifesize?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates alfaview (3/5), Tixeo (3/5) and Nextcloud Talk (3/5) 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 (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Lifesize alternatives.

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Sources (11)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor page www.lifesize.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 The meeting itself — found from sitemap support.lifesize.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 The meeting itself — found from sitemap support.lifesize.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Encryption & meeting access — found from sitemap support.lifesize.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Encryption & meeting access — found from sitemap support.lifesize.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Reach & accessibility — found from sitemap support.lifesize.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Reach & accessibility — found from sitemap support.lifesize.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Recordings, retention & admin control — found from sitemap support.lifesize.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Recordings, retention & admin control — found from sitemap support.lifesize.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Integrations & deployment — found from sitemap support.lifesize.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Integrations & deployment — found from sitemap support.lifesize.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →