Rocket.Chat

About Rocket.Chat

Platform for internal team communication and conversations with customers and other organisations. The ee/ and apps/meteor/ee/ directories are under a commercial enterprise licence; the rest of the code is MIT.

What it can replace

• Slack

  Partial alternativeProposed

  Basis:

  SIAX's assessment

  Provenance:

  SIAX record

  Migration effort:

  Not assessed

  Confidence in the assessment:

  Not assessed

  Last checked:

  2026-10-29

  SIAX:s kategoribedömning; projektets eget material (README, webbplats) nämner inte tjänsten som alternativ vid kontroll 2026-10-29

• Intercom

  Partial alternativeProposed

  Basis:

  SIAX's assessment

  Provenance:

  SIAX record

  Migration effort:

  Not assessed

  Confidence in the assessment:

  Not assessed

  Last checked:

  2026-10-29

  SIAX:s kategoribedömning; projektets eget material (README, webbplats) nämner inte tjänsten som alternativ vid kontroll 2026-10-29

Feature coverage

The features have not been assessed yet. We show no coverage without evidence.

Three separate assessments

Licence, project health and security are reported separately. We never combine them into one score.

Operations and data control

Deployment options

Self-hosted, Vendor's cloud

Verified · Official source

• Official source, retrieved 2026-10-30: docs.rocket.chat/docs/choose-your-deployment-model.md

Packaging

docker, docker-compose, kubernetes

Verified · Official source

• Official source, retrieved 2026-10-30: docs.rocket.chat/docs/deploy-with-docker-docker-compose.md
• Official source, retrieved 2026-10-30: docs.rocket.chat/docs/deploy-with-kubernetes.md

Databases

mongodb

Minimum resources

2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 20 GB disk (upstream)

Sign-in (SSO)

Unknown Unknown

Export

Unknown

• Hosting

Data residency and GDPR

Glossary: Data residency

For organisations operating in Sweden or elsewhere in the EU. Only sourced facts are shown. This is not legal advice.

Data location

You decide: when you run the tool yourself, the data stays where you run it, for example in a data centre in Sweden or elsewhere in the EU. Inferred

Data control features

None documented yet Unknown

Run by SIAX

The hosting provider and region of SIAX Cloud are listed in the list of sub-processors.

GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) applies to personal data processed in Sweden as in the rest of the EU. Transfers to countries outside the EU/EEA are governed by Chapter V.