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Mattermost

Channel-centric collaboration for secure workflows

Overview

What Mattermost does

Open-source-based, self-hostable team messaging platform aimed at technical and secure environments, sold as prepaid annual seat licenses.

The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Mattermost.

  • No prices are published for any of the three paid tiers (Professional, Enterprise, Enterprise Advanced); all require contacting sales
  • Professional is capped at a maximum of 250 users, forcing a move to Enterprise for larger teams
  • Licenses are sold only as prepaid annual subscriptions, and organizations that exceed their licensed seat count must purchase additional seats on a prorated quarterly basis

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of Mattermost

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Where to go from Mattermost

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  • Deployment flexibility and compliance across regulatory frameworks

  • Remote access and support software from Germany, used for connecting to computers anywhere

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