Cosmos Video

Overview

Cosmos Video brings a remote team into a shared virtual office, with spatial video, chat and rooms for different kinds of work. It suits teams that want informal, visible coworker presence as much as scheduled meetings. Its strongest case is that blend of rooms and proximity video; the main trade-off is that useful capacity and recording storage depend on the plan.

Key features

Rooms and proximity video

People move their avatars closer to join a conversation and step away to leave, making brief exchanges less dependent on arranging a call. Personal, meeting and focus rooms cover work settings, while game rooms and spatial networking areas offer more social spaces. The game rooms include 12 multiplayer games. Although the stated room capacity is 150 users, plan limits differ: Free permits four online users, while Enterprise goes up to 500.

Chat and meeting records

Public and private channels, direct messages, threads, file sharing and persistent meeting chat keep team communication alongside the virtual office. Cosmos Replay records meetings and adds AI-powered transcription and summaries, useful for revisiting discussions. Free recordings are retained for seven days; Premium includes three hours of storage per user multiplied by space capacity. Teams needing more can buy 50 additional hours for $15 a month.

Integrations and security

Named integrations include Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack and Spotify; Miro, Figma and Google Docs are embedded apps. That provides links to familiar work tools, though the selection given does not establish support for other services. Cosmos says it 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 offers security documentation.

Pricing

Cosmos uses a freemium model, with a 14-day trial. The free plan costs nothing and requires no credit card, but it caps a space at four concurrent users and calls at four people, allows 25 MB uploads and retains recordings for seven days. It is a practical starting point for a small team, not a roomy free tier for a growing office.

Premium is billed annually, with custom pricing. It raises the limits to 150 online users and 150 call participants, allows 150 MB uploads and includes three hours of recording storage per user multiplied by space capacity. This is the relevant step up for larger teams that need more room and recording capacity, but the annual billing term and unpublished price make cost comparison difficult.

Cosmos Enterprise has custom pricing and is billed through contact with sales. It supports up to 500 online users and call participants, and adds SSO, secure access, a custom URL and floor plan, dedicated video servers, an uptime SLA, VIP onboarding and migration. The package is aimed at organizations that need scale and managed security or support, rather than teams seeking a low-cost upgrade. Human support response times are seven days for Free, 24 hours for Premium and six hours for Enterprise.

The separate Recording storage add-on costs $15 a month for 50 hours of additional storage. It can help a team that otherwise fits Free, but it does not increase that plan’s user, call or upload caps.

Platforms

Cosmos is available on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and the web, as well as an extension. Its mobile apps make it accessible beyond desktop, though the listed room capacity and plan limits still govern participation.

Who it's for

Cosmos is best for distributed teams that want an always-present shared workspace, including rooms for focused work and informal contact. Focus timers and accountability tools may also suit coworking groups. Teams primarily seeking a simple one-to-one focus session, or unwilling to depend on a paid tier for more than four participants, should compare alternatives.

Pros and cons

• Pro: Proximity video and several room types support spontaneous conversation without making every interaction a scheduled meeting.
• Pro: Chat, meeting recordings, transcripts and summaries keep collaboration and follow-up in one product.
• Pro: Enterprise offers dedicated video servers, SSO and a six-hour human support response time for organizations with stricter operational needs.
• Con: Free limits both a space and calls to four people, so it is restrictive for teams beyond a small group.
• Con: Premium’s annual billing and custom pricing leave teams without a published figure for budgeting.
• Con: Free uploads are capped at 25 MB, and recordings last only seven days.

Alternatives

For a lighter focus-room approach, Kaizen has a free plan with seven tasks, five habits, blocking for three apps, Focus Room access and 30 days of statistics; its Premium Monthly plan is 3.99. Focusmate is a better fit for session-based accountability: Free allows three sessions per week, while Plus offers unlimited sessions for $8 a year, billed at $8/mo. billed annually. For community study sessions, FLOWN offers four free sessions per month, all on Fridays, and lets free users attend private community sessions but not host public ones.

StudyStream provides focus rooms with a one-hour daily free limit; Basic Monthly is $3.99 a month and Premium Monthly is $6.99 a month. Those limits may suit someone who needs a daily study room rather than an always-on team office. WhumbleZone is free, with core features and no subscription or hidden paywall, but its terms state there is no uptime SLA. ClassLab offers a free student account with communities, chat, study rooms, focus tracking, mind maps and an AI study assistant.

On mobile, Momo has a free plan with unlimited tasks in The Pile, timed sessions and task and history syncing across devices; Friend sessions cost $9.99 a month. Pomoroom has a free version and a monthly Premium plan at $2.99 a month. Browse the Virtual Study Room Apps list for more options.

Verdict

Choose Cosmos Video if your team wants a shared, spatial office that combines informal video presence, multiple room types and persistent communication. The free tier is a useful small-team entry point, but its four-person ceiling, brief recording retention and small upload allowance make a paid plan necessary as the team grows. Look elsewhere if you need a straightforward focus-session tool or require transparent Premium pricing before committing.