Rocket.Chat
Self-hostable team chat with a free Community edition, a free Starter plan for up to 50 users, and paid plans.
Our verdict
What it does well
- Community edition is MIT-licensed and free to self-host
- Free Starter plan covers up to 50 users with unlimited push notifications
- Runs on-premises, in a private or secure cloud, or air-gapped
Where it falls short
- Paid plan prices are not published; you must ask sales
- Community: up to 100 concurrent users and 10,000 push notifications a month
- Files under the ee folders need a paid Rocket.Chat licence in production
Rocket.Chat is a communications platform with messaging, voice, video, and screen and file sharing. Its site focuses on defense, government and critical-infrastructure users, and lists on-premises, secure cloud (including an EU-hosted cloud) and air-gapped deployment. It also lists Matrix and XMPP federation, REST APIs and SDKs, and AI features that work with OpenAI-compatible models.
The repository is split by licence. Code outside the ee directories is MIT-licensed; code under apps/meteor/ee and ee is under the Rocket.Chat Enterprise Edition licence, which allows production use only with a Rocket.Chat subscription. That makes it open core. Apps exist for iOS and Android, and for desktop on macOS, Windows and Linux.
The docs list a Community edition (self-hosted, up to 100 concurrent users, up to 10,000 push notifications a month), a Starter plan (free, self-managed, up to 50 users, no paid support) and Commercial, Government and Defense plans with custom pricing. The pricing page shows no dollar prices for the paid plans.
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Last updated 16 October 2026. Facts checked against the official site on 16 October 2026. How we make money