Open Source Self-Hosted Microsoft Teams Alternatives

Microsoft Teams is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are plenty of alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best open source Self-Hosted alternative is Element. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Element or Jitsi Meet. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft Teams and many of them are open source and available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Self-Hosted alternatives to Microsoft Teams are Wire, Rocket.Chat, BigBlueButton and Mirotalk.

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Microsoft Teams alternatives are mainly Group Chat Apps, but if you're looking for Video Calling Apps or Team Collaboration Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Free, Self-Hosted + Open Source, Linux and Self-Hosted. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Microsoft Teams.
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  1. Element icon

    Element

     779 likes

    Provides secure collaboration with end-to-end encryption, supporting chat, voice, and video calls. Available on all major platforms, it enables digital sovereignty with a decentralized design and interoperability through bridges to systems like Slack and Teams. Includes enterprise-grade SaaS.

    302 Element alternatives

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    • Matrix.org
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Cloudron
    • Snapcraft
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    chtfn
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    Element has come a long way, and is now a fully-featured group chat application, with spaces (to group several rooms), numerous bridges so people are not locked in one single tool, and great integrations.

    tutosfaciles48
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    Riot.im have a lot of mods/plugins which allow us to have video calls, ldap/AD integration, ...

    Guest
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    Clean and simple interface. Bridges is an extremely nice feature.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Element is Free Personal and Open SourceMicrosoft Teams is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Element is Privacy focused and LightweightMicrosoft Teams is not according to our users
  2. Jitsi Meet icon

    Jitsi Meet

     286 likes

    Go ahead, video chat with the whole team. In fact, invite everyone you know. Jitsi Meet is a fully encrypted, 100% open source video conferencing solution that you can use all day, every day, for free.

    149 Jitsi Meet alternatives

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    Nicolas
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    No account required, end-to-end encryption, open source... All good reasons to be happy with Jitsi

    Guest
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    good software alternative to Meet

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Jitsi Meet is Free and Open SourceMicrosoft Teams is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Jitsi Meet is Security-focused, Privacy focused and LightweightMicrosoft Teams is not according to our users
  4. Zulip icon

    Zulip

     267 likes

    Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is designed for both live and asynchronous conversations. Zulip topics create a separate space for each discussion, so different conversations will never get in each other's way.

    221 Zulip alternatives

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    • F-Droid
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    Geobomatic
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    Zulip approach instant messaging in an innovative way, a hybrid between pure IM and old fashioned forum. It helps keeping the messages organized and not jumble around many discussion in the same flow

    Nakul Verma
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    Zulip is a very good free and open source software that helps people to conversation to each other on random and some important topics separately. A usercan see who is online or ofline at the real time that is awesome.

    JonasF
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    Superior to Teams in terms of performance and most importantly because of the Threading model, which allows asynchronous parallel collaboration on multiple issues.

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    • Zulip is Free Personal and Open SourceMicrosoft Teams is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Zulip is Privacy focusedMicrosoft Teams is not according to our users
  5. Wire icon

    Wire

     316 likes

    Wire is the most secure collaboration platform featuring messenger, voice, video, conference calls, file-sharing, and external collaboration –all protected by the most secure end-to-end-encryption.

    282 Wire alternatives

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    • F-Droid
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    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
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    Rocket.Chat

     160 likes

    Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework.

    142 Rocket.Chat alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Cloudron
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    Guest
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    Open source, very powerful. Can be hosted independently on own hardware but also as-a-service. Does the exact same without limiting the user to one service provider or client.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Rocket.Chat is Freemium and Open SourceMicrosoft Teams is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Nextcloud Talk

     33 likes

    Self-hosted communication platform with secure audio, video, chat, web conferencing, screensharing, advanced encryption, and metadata privacy, running on user-controlled servers, supporting web and mobile apps, and eliminating third-party data exposure.

    109 Nextcloud Talk alternatives

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    • Nextcloud
    • F-Droid
    • Flatpak
    • Chocolatey
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    Briefing

     29 likes

    The preservation of privacy is the main driver for this project. Secure technologies, such as WebRTC, are used to establish a direct connection between the participants. The website that provides the web application and mediates the communication stores as little data as...

    164 Briefing alternatives

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    • npm
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    Twake

     28 likes

    Twake is a real-time teamwork platform. It is a suite of collaborative tools that includes the specificities of some bestsellers (Slack, Trello, Google Drive...). We provide professional messaging, storage space, online collaborative editors (Words, Excel, PowerPoint), task...

    127 Twake alternatives

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  13. Huly icon

    Huly

     11 likes

    Open-source platform unifying project, document, issue, and task management with real-time team collaboration, instant messaging, video conferencing, and GitHub bidirectional sync, all in one customizable workspace for developers and product teams.

    75 Huly alternatives

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    Tracim

     17 likes

    All you need in a team collaboration tool dedicated to small efficient teams. Chat, notes, drive, online collaborative edition, calendars, news, spaces, notifications...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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