Mattermost
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Per year
Quote
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Mattermost vs Zulip
Compare with for .
Mattermost
50%
match · quote
Zulip
70%
match · $800/yr
Zulip is the better fit.
It publishes its prices; the other needs a sales quote.
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What you'd pay
Entry plan for 10 people, billed yearly where offered. Prices checked Oct 2026.
Zulip
Cloud
$6.67 × 10 seats$66.70
× 12 months$800.40
Per year
$6.67 per person / mo
$800
Mattermost
From FreeFree plan
G2 4.3 · 369 reviewsSecurity-sensitive and regulated organizations, and DevOps teams, that must run Slack-style chat on their own servers and want incident playbooks next to the chat.
vs
Zulip
From $6.67Free plan
G2 4.6 · 117 reviewsTeams that want fully open-source chat they can self-host with no feature gates, especially remote or async teams that prefer topic threads.
Side by side
| Mattermost | Zulip | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free self-hosted editions; paid plans by quote | Free; Cloud from $6.67/user/month (annual) |
| G2 Rating | 4.3 (369 reviews) | 4.6 (117 reviews) |
| Best For | Security-sensitive and regulated organizations, and DevOps teams, that must run Slack-style chat on their own servers and want incident playbooks next to the chat. | Teams that want fully open-source chat they can self-host with no feature gates, especially remote or async teams that prefer topic threads. |
Pros and cons
Mattermost
Pros
- Self-hosting is the default, not an add-on
- Air-gapped and DDIL deployments on Enterprise Advanced
- Playbooks and Boards built in for incident and DevOps work
- Open source core under AGPLv3 with a large plugin platform
Cons
- No public prices for any paid plan; annual prepaid only
- Version 11 cut the free Team Edition from 1,000 to 250 users
- Free Team Edition mobile push runs on a test service with no production SLA
Zulip
Pros
- No open core: free self-hosted edition has every feature
- Public prices on every plan except Enterprise
- Topic threads make long, async discussions easy to follow
- Supports air-gapped hosting
Cons
- Free self-hosted mobile push covers only 10 users
- Topic model takes some getting used to after Slack
- Cloud Plus needs 10 users and self-hosted Business needs 25
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