Mattermost
Self-hostable team messaging and collaboration.
- Free
- Run it yourself (technical)
- Needs technical setup
- Free and open
- Community
- Instead of
- Slack, Microsoft Teams
- What it costs
- Free to run yourself
- How to start
- How to run it yourself
Needs technical setup
Get Mattermost
No ready-to-use version is listed yet.
Mattermost is free, but right now you'd have to run it yourself, which takes some technical know-how. Mattermost, Inc. may offer a ready-to-use version on their website.
How to run it yourself (technical)About Mattermost
Self-hostable team messaging and collaboration.
Listed by OpenCtrl from the project's public repository. OpenCtrl isn't affiliated with the project; its maintainers can claim this listing.
Pricing
- Good to know:
- Free to self-host under the AGPL-3.0 license. The maker may also sell hosted plans; see their website for pricing.
Compared with Slack, Microsoft Teams
| App | Price |
|---|---|
| Mattermost | Free to run yourself |
| Slack | Pricing not verified |
| Microsoft Teams | Pricing not verified |
OpenCtrl is not affiliated with the products listed here. Names are used to describe what an app replaces.
For technical people
Run it yourself, source code and more
Run it yourself
For people comfortable setting up servers. Source code · github.com/mattermost/mattermost
Installation and deployment instructions are in the project's repository.
License
Free and open · AGPL-3.0 Free and openAnyone can see how it works, and no company can take it away.
Source is AGPL-3.0 (with exceptions in its LICENSE); Mattermost's own compiled builds are MIT; enterprise features need a commercial license.
Works on
Web, Docker
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