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quassel-webservervsRocket.Chat

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

quassel-webserverRocket.Chat
Score43/10082/100
Rank in category#79 of 110 in Chat#1 of 13 in Instant Messaging
GitHub stars21146 348
Stars, last 30 days—+187
Stable releases, 12 months036
Latest release—8.5.4 · 16 Oct 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseMITOther
Main languageLessTypescript

Which one should you pick?

Rocket.Chat scores 82/100 against 43/100 for quassel-webserver, so it is the safer default.

Rocket.Chat ships more often: 36 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for quassel-webserver.

Rocket.Chat is growing faster right now (+187 stars in 30 days).

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