An open source collaboration platform that won’t slow you down.
Give your developers everything they need to boost team productivity with an open source alternative to Microsoft Teams built for developer workflows.
Developers prefer Mattermost to Microsoft Teams
An all-in-one solution for developer collaboration
Channels
Group and direct messaging with all the features your team loves and developer tool integrations that turn your channels into collaborative CLI.
Boards
Kanban-style boards for teams to manage tasks, hit milestones, and drive alignment across complex workflows.
Playbooks
Checklist-based workflow management for when your team’s processes require collaboration and structure.
Why choose Mattermost over Microsoft Teams
Open source flexibility and extensibility
- Customize your workspace to your specific needs.
- Innovation and support from a vibrant OSS community of developers.
Purpose-built for developer workflows
- Work more effectively with a platform built for technical users.
- Code syntax highlighting, Markdown formatting, slash commands, extensive integrations, and more!
On-prem or private cloud deployment
- Deploy behind your firewall or host in a single-tenant secure cloud for superior security.
- The only collaboration solution where you always maintain data control and sovereignty.
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Go ahead – make Mattermost your own.
Your tools should be tailored to fit the way your team works. Mattermost gives you the ability to customize, extend, and build bespoke integrations — including with legacy systems and even Teams itself.
- 25,000+ GitHub™ Stars
- 30,000+ total contributions
- 4,000+ contributors
The OSS Community
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More deployment options than Teams
From governments and intelligence organizations to financial services and healthcare companies, teams in high-security and regulated industries trust Mattermost for secure collaboration.
Choose between on-prem 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.
Built to accelerate developer workflows
Mattermost goes beyond general-purpose chat with collaboration features designed to help developer teams with up to tens of thousands of concurrent users build code, execute sprints, deploy releases, and manage outages and support escalations all from one place.
Channel-based collaboration with powerful automation and tool integrations to raise messaging to the level of a CLI.
Playbooks for structured workflows that require repeatable execution with predictable outcomes.
Boards for project and product teams that need to manage deliverables, hit their milestones, and stay aligned.
Unlock the full potential of developer collaboration
Invest in your team’s productivity
Save as much as 70% on developer tools while helping your team reclaim 39% of their time for rapid and sustained ROI.
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.
Don’t just take our word for it
Mattermost vs. Microsoft Teams Platform Comparison
Learn why engineering organizations prefer Mattermost for developer workflows and collaboration.