Mattermost vs Openfire

Overview

Mattermost

Stacks480

Followers582

Votes302

Openfire

Stacks12

Followers47

Votes0

Mattermost vs Openfire: What are the differences?

What is Mattermost? Open-source, self-hosted, Slack alternative. Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.

What is Openfire? *An instant messaging and groupchat server *. It is a real time collaboration (RTC) server. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). It is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.

Mattermost and Openfire can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.

Some of the features offered by Mattermost are:

All your team communication in one place, searchable and accessible anywhere
Slack-compatible, not Slack-limited. Imports Slack channels, users and themes. Offers Slack-compatible webhooks and integrations including Hubot, Jenkins, GitLab and others
Self-host ready with System Console and IT admin tools for managing dozens of team sites. Installs with Linux binary, plus Docker, Heroku, AWS, Azure and Cloud Foundry options

On the other hand, Openfire provides the following key features:

Instant messaging
Rock-solid security and performance
Easy to setup

Mattermost is an open source tool with 15.8K GitHub stars and 3.23K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mattermost's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

Mattermost	Openfire
Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.	It is a real time collaboration (RTC) server. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). It is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.
All your team communication in one place, searchable and accessible anywhere; Slack-compatible, not Slack-limited. Imports Slack channels, users and themes. Offers Slack-compatible webhooks and integrations including Hubot, Jenkins, GitLab and others; Self-host ready with System Console and IT admin tools for managing dozens of team sites. Installs with Linux binary, plus Docker, Heroku, AWS, Azure and Cloud Foundry options	Instant messaging; Rock-solid security and performance; Easy to setup
Statistics
Stacks 480	Stacks 12
Followers 582	Followers 47
Votes 302	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 60 Open source 41 On-premise deployment 26 Free 22 Built using golang 21 Fast and easy to use Cons 2 Less integrations and plugins than slack 2 Many basic features are enterprise only 2 Custom sidewide themes only in enterprise 1 Not compatible with Telegram keys, which used by FSB 1 Basic permissions only in enterprise edition	No community feedback yet
Integrations
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Amazon EC2 Segment Jenkins GitLab Microsoft Azure Google Compute Engine Hubot Cloud Foundry Amazon SES	PostgreSQL Node.js Windows Linux IPFS macOS drawio

What are some alternatives to Mattermost, Openfire?

Slack

Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.

HipChat

HipChat is a hosted private chat service for your company or team. Invite colleagues to share ideas and files in persistent group chat rooms. Get your team off AIM, Google Talk, and Skype — HipChat was built for business.

Zulip

Zulip is powerful, open source team chat that combines the immediacy of real-time chat with the productivity benefits of threaded conversations. Zulip allows busy managers and others in meetings all day to participate in their teams chats.

RocketChat

Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms.

Gitter

Free chat rooms for your public repositories. A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations.

Flowdock

Flowdock is a web-based team chat service that integrates with your tools to provide a window into your team's activities. With the team inbox, everyone on your team can stay up to date. Stay connected with Flowdock's iOS and Android apps.

Microsoft Teams

See content and chat history anytime, including team chats with Skype that are visible to the whole team. Private group chats are available for smaller group conversations.

Telegram

Users can send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio and files of any type. It provides instant messaging, simple, fast, secure and synced across all your devices.

Keybase Teams

Keybase is for anyone. Imagine a Slack for the whole world, except end-to-end encrypted across all your devices. Or a Team Dropbox where the server can't leak your files or be hacked.

Fleep

Leave email behind and manage all conversations with your team, partners and clients in Fleep. If some of them are not Fleep users yet, they will receive all messages as normal emails.