Mattermost vs Rocket.Chat
What each one’s own pages state, side by side. Every value is a quote AirStack found on that product’s pages; “Not observed” means AirStack has not found it on that product’s pages.
| Mattermost | Rocket.Chat | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | Zero-trust collaboration, automation and AI in private cloud, self-hosted, and air-gapped environments. mattermost.com | Collaborate anyway, in one secure platform for messaging, voice, video, apps and AI. rocket.chat |
| Starting at | Not observed | Not observed |
| Platforms | desktop, embedded inside Microsoft Teams, mobile, web, Android, Mac, PC, iOS mattermost.com | Android, iOS rocket.chat |
| Deployment | fully air-gapped, private cloud, self-hosted, cloud-based hyperscalers, on-prem data centers mattermost.com | Air-gapped, On-premises, Secure cloud, air-gapped environments, cloud, On-premise rocket.chat |
| Integrations | Matrix, Microsoft Teams, XMPP, GitHub, Jira, ServiceNow, Global Relay, Proofpoint, GitLab, Zoom, Grafana, Prometheus, Pexip, Elasticsearch, Actiance, Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine, CircleCI, Confluence, GitLab Plugin, Jira Plugin, Zoom Plugin, BotKube, Cisco Syslog, Nagios, Sentry, Prometheus AlertManager Plugin, Chess Plugin mattermost.com | Matrix, XMPP, MS Teams, ATAK, TAK, Jitsi, Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams rocket.chat |
| Compliance | CCPA, GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2 trust.mattermost.com | CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2 rocket.chat |
| Free plan | Yes mattermost.com | Yes rocket.chat |
| Plans | Enterprise, Enterprise Advanced, Professional mattermost.com | Commercial, Defense, Government, Starter rocket.chat |
| Open source | Yes mattermost.com | Not observed |
Where they differ
- Mattermost’s pages state that it is open source; AirStack has not found that on Rocket.Chat’s pages.
- Rocket.Chat claims HIPAA on its own pages; Mattermost’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
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