Cosmos Video

Cosmos Video is an always-on virtual office for remote teams, combining presence, spatial video, and team chat. Teammates can move their avatars closer to join a conversation and step away to end it. Rooms include personal, meeting, focus, and game spaces, plus spatial networking areas. Team messaging supports public and private channels, direct messages, persistent meeting chat, threads, and file sharing. Cosmos Replay records meetings and provides AI-powered transcription and summaries. Listed integrations include Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack, and Spotify; Miro, Figma, and Google Docs are embedded apps. Game rooms include 12 built-in multiplayer games. The Free plan supports up to four concurrent users, calls for up to four people, 25 MB uploads, and seven-day recording retention, and is available without a credit card. Cosmos lists Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, web, and extension availability. Its pricing FAQ says the service is GDPR and SOC II compliant and uses AES-256 encryption for video calls. The Enterprise plan lists features including SSO, dedicated video servers, and a support SLA. The company identifies itself as UK-based and headquartered in London.

Cosmos Video combines spatial video, rooms, chat, and recorded meeting summaries in a virtual office. Teams considering the Free plan should account for its user, upload, and recording-retention limits.

Cosmos Video may suit remote teams that want an always-on shared space with spatial conversations and persistent chat. Its rooms and meeting recording tools may also fit teams that use focus, game, or networking spaces.

Overview

Cosmos Video is a virtual office for remote teams that want ongoing video presence alongside chat and shared rooms. It suits teams that rely on informal coworking and quick conversations as well as meetings; its main trade-off is that the free plan’s four-person limit and small upload allowance leave little room for a larger team.

Key features

Rooms and spatial video

Avatars let people approach one another to join a conversation and step away to leave, making spontaneous exchanges part of the shared workspace rather than a separate scheduled call. Personal, meeting, focus and game rooms, plus spatial networking areas, give teams places for different kinds of work and social interaction. The 12 built-in multiplayer games add a recreational option. A room can hold up to 150 users, though plan-specific online-user limits determine whether a team can use that capacity.

Chat, recordings and integrations

Public and private channels, direct messages, threads, file sharing and persistent meeting chat keep team communication in one place. Cosmos Replay records meetings and provides AI-powered transcription and summaries, useful for revisiting discussions; retention and storage allowances still matter. Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack and Spotify are named integrations, while Miro, Figma and Google Docs are embedded apps.

Security and support

The pricing FAQ says Cosmos is GDPR and SOC II compliant and uses AES-256 encryption for video calls. Its Security Centre has GDPR and SOC 2 compliance sections and provides access to security documentation. Support response times vary materially by tier: seven days on Free, 24 hours on Premium and six hours on Enterprise.

Pricing

Cosmos uses a freemium model, with a 14-day trial. The Free plan costs nothing and requires no credit card. It allows four online users in a space, calls with up to four people, 25 MB uploads and seven-day recording retention. That is enough to explore the workspace with a small group, but the concurrent-user cap, modest upload size and short retention constrain regular team use.

The Recording storage add-on costs $15 a month, billed 15 USD / month for 50 hrs, and adds 50 hours of recording storage. It addresses storage needs, not the Free plan’s four-user or 25 MB upload limits.

Premium has custom pricing and is billed annually. It supports up to 150 online users and call participants, 150 MB uploads, and recording storage of three hours per user multiplied by space capacity. This is the more suitable tier for larger teams that need expanded participation and storage, but the annual term and custom pricing call for a sales conversation before budgeting.

Cosmos Enterprise has custom pricing and is sold through contact sales. It supports up to 500 online users and call participants, and adds SSO, dedicated video servers and a support SLA. Custom URLs and floor plans, secure access, an uptime SLA, VIP onboarding and migration are also listed. It is aimed at organizations that need enterprise controls and service commitments rather than just more room for calls.

Platforms

Cosmos is available on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and the web, as well as through an extension. The mobile apps make it an option for teams that need access beyond desktop browsers.

Who it's for

Cosmos is a good fit for remote teams that want persistent video presence, room-based coworking, chat and recorded meeting summaries in a single virtual office. Its focus timer and accountability tools also suit people looking for a shared work setting. It is less compelling for larger groups that expect to remain on the free tier, or for teams that do not want to buy into a room-based presence model.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Proximity video and multiple room types support spontaneous conversation as well as focused work, without making every exchange a scheduled meeting.
• Pro: Chat, meeting recordings, AI transcription and summaries bring ongoing discussion and meeting follow-up into the same workspace.
• Pro: Enterprise combines capacity for up to 500 people with SSO, dedicated video servers and a support SLA.
• Con: Free tops out at four online users and calls, with 25 MB uploads and seven-day recording retention, so a team can outgrow it quickly.
• Con: Premium and Enterprise pricing is custom, and Premium is billed annually, making costs harder to assess upfront.
• Con: Free support has a seven-day response time, a poor match for teams that need timely assistance.

Alternatives

For a broader set of virtual study-room choices, see Virtual Study Room Apps.

Choose FLOWN if a community-session format is a better fit: its free plan includes four community sessions per month, all on Fridays, and permits attendance in private community sessions but not hosting public ones.

Focusmate is a more focused option for scheduled accountability sessions: its free plan includes three sessions per week, while Plus offers unlimited sessions for $8 a year, billed $8/mo. billed annually.

Kaizen may suit someone seeking personal focus tools rather than a virtual office: its free plan includes seven tasks, five habits, app blocking for three apps, access to any Focus Room and 30 days of statistics.

Momo offers unlimited tasks in The Pile, unlimited timed sessions and task and history sync across devices on its free plan, for users whose priority is individual task sessions.

Pomoroom is another freemium option for Android and iOS.

StudyStream may be preferable for straightforward focus rooms: its free plan allows one hour daily, with paid Basic and Premium monthly plans.

WhumbleZone is a free option with core features and no subscription or hidden paywall, though its terms state it has no uptime SLA.

AcademyNC is aimed at study groups, offering unlimited study groups, chat and file sharing, study rooms and AI study tools on its free plan.

Verdict

Choose Cosmos Video if your remote team wants an always-on shared space where proximity video, varied rooms, persistent chat and recorded meeting summaries work together. Its free tier is a reasonable small-group starting point, but the four-user ceiling and limited uploads make it a trial of the model, not a durable plan for a larger team. Look elsewhere if you need predictable published pricing or a simpler focus-session tool.