Best Open Source Communication Tools

Open source communication tools, ranked by score and analyzed honestly. Part of our Self-Hosted & Apps coverage.

Ranked by score. Updated weekly.

1

Socket.IO

88

Real-time bidirectional event-based communication

63,078TypeScriptpermissive
2

discord.js

85

Library for Discord bot development

26,705TypeScriptpermissive
3

Synapse

85

Matrix homeserver for decentralized chat

12,083Pythonpermissive
4

Zulip

83

Team chat with threading

25,168Pythonpermissive
5

NATS

83

High-performance cloud and edge native messaging system

19,798Gopermissive
6

LiveKit

83

Open source WebRTC infrastructure

18,690Gopermissive
7

Rocket.Chat

81

Open source Slack/Teams alternative

45,312TypeScriptpermissive
8

Novu

81

Open source notification infrastructure

38,979TypeScriptpermissive
9

Chatwoot

81

Open source live-chat and support desk

29,226Rubypermissive
10

centrifugo

81

Scalable real-time messaging server in a language-agnostic way. Self-hosted alternative to Pubnub, Pusher, Ably, socket.io, Phoenix.PubSub, SignalR. Set up once and forever.

10,270Gopermissive
11

cli

81

A command-line tool for Lark/Feishu Open Platform — built for humans and AI Agents. Covers core business domains including Messenger, Docs, Base, Sheets, Calendar, Mail, Tasks, Meetings, and more, with 200+ commands and 19 AI Agent Skills.

10,210Gopermissive
12

ZeroMQ

80

High-performance async messaging

10,870C++weak-copyleft
13

netty-socketio

79

7,025Javapermissive
14

The Lounge

79

Self-hosted modern web IRC client

6,235TypeScriptpermissive
15

Mattermost

73

Open source secure collaboration platform

36,710TypeScriptstrong-copyleft
16

Typebot

69

Open source chatbot builder

9,936TypeScriptstrong-copyleft
17

wecom-cli

69

企业微信开放平台命令行工具 — 让人类和 AI Agent 都能在终端中操作企业微信

1,986Rustpermissive
18

weixin-agent-sdk

69

微信Clawbot接入任意Agent

1,136TypeScriptpermissive
19

pixelfed

67

Photo Sharing. For Everyone.

6,964PHPstrong-copyleft
20

Plunk

67

Open source email platform

5,095TypeScriptstrong-copyleft

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