Comparisons that start from Rocket.Chat, the self-hosted team chat platform with an MIT core and separately licensed enterprise code, against other open-source chat options.
Which Rocket.Chat plan fits: the free Community workspace and Starter plan limits, what Starter adds such as LDAP, SSO and unlimited push notifications, and when the Commercial, Government or Defense plans become necessary for high availability, audit logs or air-gapped deployment.
Rocket.Chat cloud hosting run by Rocket.Chat against a self-managed workspace: which plans can be cloud hosted, the Standard, Premium and Dedicated hosting tiers with their SLAs, regions and upgrade control, and how to get a MongoDB export to leave the cloud.
A single-vendor chat platform against an open federation protocol and its servers: compares Rocket.Chat and Matrix on licensing and paid editions, federation, end-to-end encryption, clients, hosting footprint and which suits public sector or cross-organization chat.
Rocket.Chat against Zulip for internal team chat: conversation model, which authentication and compliance features sit in free versus paid plans, mobile push notification limits, data import paths and the infrastructure each needs.
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