Rocket.Chat vs Mattermost? Choose more than chat.

Compare Mattermost to Rocket.Chat and learn how to bring everything in your workflow together with an adaptable open source collaboration platform built for mission-critical operations.

Technical and operations teams powered by Mattermost

More than just secure chat. Purpose-built collaboration to accelerate mission-critical workflows.

Collaborating within the modern enterprise is complex. Your team needs tools built to accelerate unique workflows, empowering them to do their best work while overcoming the challenges of always-on digital operations.

Mattermost is purpose-built for technical and operations teams. Bring together every tool, process, and conversation into a secure collaboration hub while maintaining complete control of your data.

Designed for the way technical and operational teams work

Team Messaging

Team collaboration and technical workflows

Work together effectively with real-time communication, file and code snippet sharing, in-line code syntax highlighting, and workflow automation purpose-built for technical teams.

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Custom Integrations

Flexible integrations with essential technical tools

Execute and automate workflows with flexible, custom integrations with popular technical tools like GitHub, GitLab and ServiceNow.

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Audio & Screen Sharing

Communication that fits your flow

Seamlessly switch from chat to audio calls and screenshare without switching tools.

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Workflow Automation

Orchestrate and execute repeatable processes with better command

Checklist-based process playbooks with workflow orchestration in one unified location.

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The Mattermost difference

Essential developer tool integrations

Mattermost integrates with the tools your team uses every day for seamless workflows customized to the way your team works.

Advanced collaboration features

Keep your team focused on critical workflows with technical features like code syntax highlighting, Markdown formatting, and custom slash commands.

Secure, resilient deployment

Keep sensitive data protected with fully self-sovereign infrastructure and the ability to deploy Mattermost anywhere, including in air-gapped environments.

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Innovation and support from a vibrant OSS community of developers

Open source is in our DNA. Mattermost gives you the ability to customize, extend, and build bespoke integrations — all with the support of our developer community.

  • 25,000+ GitHub™ Stars
  • 30,000+ total contributions
  • 4,000+ contributors

Everything your team relies on, all in one place

Stop losing time to context switching with robust integrations that bring your workflows into a single system. Mattermost goes beyond general-purpose chat with collaboration features designed to help developer teams build code, execute sprints, deploy releases, and manage outages and support escalations.

Markdown formatting and syntax highlighting turn your messaging platform into a collaborative CLI.

Flexible automation and playbooks to orchestrate R&D workflows.

Deep integrations with a core set of third-party developer tools, supplemented with community solutions for long-tail integrations.

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Collaboration built for mission-critical enterprises

From governments and intelligence organizations to financial services and healthcare companies, teams trust Mattermost for secure collaboration.

Choose between on-premises and private cloud deployment options that meet your unique security and compliance needs and enable you to retain full control and sovereignty over your data. Deploy in air-gapped and other high-security environments, use EMM for secure mobile comms, and define granular controls for enterprise data archiving to keep data properly secure and accessible.

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Accelerate mission-critical work

Speed up ChatOps, DevSecOps, and integrated security operations workflows with a resilient, adaptable collaboration hub.

Eliminate tool frustration with a custom fit

Leverage Mattermost’s open source codebase to build the exact tool your team needs instead of relying on an inflexible, proprietary solution designed for general business users.

Keep your data in your hands

Safeguard sensitive company data and proactively secure your systems with your own IT team. Don’t learn about a vendor’s vulnerabilities in the news and wait for a proprietary fix.

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