Platform overview by RocketChat

The Secure CommsOS™ for mission-critical operations

Platform overview interface screenshot from project README
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Verdict 81/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty 97178k docker pulls Last release 6 days ago

Self-host Platform overview on hetzner for $4.13/mo and save approximately $34/year vs Slack.

Health score
81 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
45k
14k forks

About Platform overview

From the project's README at github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

The ultimate secure open-source solution for team communications

Rocket.Chat is an open-source, secure, fully customizable communications platform developed in TypeScript for organizations with high standards of data protection.

We are the ultimate solution for team communications, enabling real-time conversations between colleagues, with other companies, and with your customers or citizens, regardless of how they connect with you. The result is an increase in productivity and user satisfaction rates.

Every day, tens of millions of users in over 150 countries and in organizations such as Deutsche Bahn, The US Navy, and Credit Suisse trust Rocket.Chat to keep their communications completely private and secure.

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
99
maturity
100
community
88
security
85
sustainability
65
adoption
45

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 45k github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
GitHub forks 14k github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
Docker Hub pulls 97178k hub.docker.com / rocketchat
NPM downloads (last month) 22 rocket.chat

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age11.0 yearssince May 2015
Last commit2 days agoMay 5, 2026
Releases shipped1,206last: 6 days ago
Security policySECURITY.mddeclared by maintainers

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

Security advisories

1 known advisories tracked via OSV.dev. Most recent: GHSA-ffxg-5f8m-h72j.

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