1. Zoom
For one-on-one video calls, Zoom uses about 540MB per hour for standard high-quality. The consumption increases to 1.08GB per hour for 720p quality and about 1.62GB per hour for 1080p streaming.
The data usage increases significantly when you’re on group video calls. Zoom eats 810MB per hour, 1.35GB per hour, and 2.4GB per hour, for standard, 720p, and 1080p quality group conference calls, respectively.
Mobile users will likely consume slightly lesser data as Zoom will optimize its bandwidth based on your connection.
2. Google Meet
Google Meet is one of the most widely used video conference services by schools and colleges. If you’re a student, you may be wondering how much data is consumed by Google Meet for 1 hour of the video conference.
Well, Meet’s average bandwidth per participant is 3.2Mbps inbound and 1.8Mbps outbound. This translates to data consumption of about 2.25GB per hour in high quality.
By default, Meet automatically tweaks the inbound and outbound bandwidths based on the connection. This results in varying data consumption rates. Anyway, it uses very little data on the mobile version- in our usage, it was roughly 500MB per hour.
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