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nextcloud-aio-mastercontainervsRocket.Chat

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

nextcloud-aio-mastercontainerRocket.Chat
Score76/10082/100
Rank in category#2 of 27 in File Sharing & Collaboration#1 of 13 in Instant Messaging
GitHub stars10 74346 348
Stars, last 30 days+263+187
Stable releases, 12 months3736
Latest releasehelm-chart-14.4.2 · 28 Oct 20268.5.4 · 16 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0Other
Main languagePHPTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Rocket.Chat scores 82/100 against 76/100 for nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer, so it is the safer default.

nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer ships more often: 37 stable releases in the past year, against 36 for Rocket.Chat.

If you want the quickest setup, nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer is easier to run; Rocket.Chat needs more configuration.

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