Zulip
Threaded team communication platform for synchronous and asynchronous collaboration
- Also known as
- zulip
Available worldwide
What is Zulip?
An open-source team collaboration application that organizes conversations into topic-based threads, blending instant messaging with email-style threading to support both real-time and delayed communication patterns.
Zulip pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $6.67/user/month (cloud annual), free open-source self-hosted option, or $3.50/user/month for commercial self-hosted support. Free tier available.
Free
FreeCloud plan with limited history and storage
- storage
- 5 GB total
- messages_history
- 10,000
- Message history search (10,000 limit)
- File storage up to 5 GB total
- Complete team chat solution
- Hundreds of integrations
- Advanced roles and permissions
- Guest accounts
Standard
Full-featured cloud plan
- storage
- 5 GB per user
- Unlimited search history
- File storage up to 5 GB per user
- Flexible permissions with custom groups
- Message retention policies
- Brand Zulip with your logo
- Priority commercial support
- Public access option
Plus
Advanced cloud plan with enhanced features
- storage
- 25 GB per user
- All Standard plan features
- File storage up to 25 GB per user
- SSO with SAML (Okta, OneLogIn)
- SCIM user and group sync
- Custom domain
- Limit user list access for guests
Self-hosted (Open Source)
FreeFree open-source self-hosted option
- Complete team chat solution with all Zulip features without limitation
- 100% open-source software
- Retain full control over your data
Self-hosted Basic
Commercial support plan for self-hosted deployments
- Unlimited support
- Email and chat support
- SSO with SAML and Microsoft Entra ID
- AD/LDAP user sync
- Full compliance
- Data exports
- Data retention policies
Self-hosted Enterprise
Contact salesPremium support plan for self-hosted deployments
- Email, chat and phone support
- SSO with OpenID Connect
- AD/LDAP, SAML and OpenID Connect group sync
- Implementation consulting
- Custom feature development
- Advanced deployment options
What Zulip does
The capabilities that matter for collaboration software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Messaging
- ✓
- Video meetings
- ✓
- Whiteboard
- -
- Screen sharing
- ✗
- Recording / transcription
- -
- End-to-end encryption
- ✓
- SSO / SCIM
- ✓
- Guest / external access
- ✓
- Compliance controls
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Max participants
- -
- App marketplace
- ✓
- Public API / bot framework
- ✓
- Free tier
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (63)
Independently observed- Redmine←•
- OpenProject←•
- Zabbix←•
- Buildbot←•
- GoCD←•
- Stripe←•
- Okta←•
- OneLogin←•
- Microsoft Entra ID←•
- Discourse←•
- Mastodon←•
- Patreon←•
- Airbrake←•
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Discord
- Mattermost
- Rocket.Chat
- Matrix
- IRC
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Bitbucket
- Asana
- Jira
- Linear
- Trello
- Basecamp
- Jenkins
- CircleCI
- GitHub Actions
- Travis CI
- TeamCity
- Heroku
- Netlify
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Ansible Tower
- Puppet
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Nagios
- New Relic
- Sentry
- PagerDuty
- Opsgenie
- Splunk
- Freshdesk
- Zendesk
- Salesforce
- Dropbox
- Google Calendar
- Nextcloud
- Notion
- Zapier
- IFTTT
- n8n
- BigBlueButton
- Jitsi Meet
- Webex
- Zoom
- Tenor
Zulip FAQ
Common questions about Zulip, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Zulip?
An open-source team collaboration application that organizes conversations into topic-based threads, blending instant messaging with email-style threading to support both real-time and delayed communication patterns. It is indexed under Collaboration Software.
Source: https://zulip.com
Is Zulip free to use?
Zulip is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $3.50 per user per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://zulip.com/plans/
What platforms does Zulip support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Zulip. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Source: https://zulip.com
Can Zulip be self-hosted?
Yes. Zulip can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://zulip.com
What does Zulip integrate with?
We have confirmed 61 integrations for Zulip, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, Matrix, IRC and Email, plus 53 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://zulip.com/plans/
What security certifications does Zulip have?
We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Zulip. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Zulip not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://zulip.com/security/
Zulip alternatives
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Compare Zulip
Side by side against other collaboration software, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Zulip, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 100 | 0.07 | 7.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 61 | 0.08 | 4.8 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 20 | 0.06 | 1.3 | ✓ |
| Stars | 0 | 0.03 | 0.0 | - |
| Dependent projects | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Development activity | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
| Release cadence | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Package downloads | 0 | 0.14 | 0.0 | - |
| Security score | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Hosting: both · Sso scim: Yes · Free tier: Yes · Messaging: Yes · Api access: Yes · Pricing model: per_seat_subscription | mediumsource · 2026-09-07 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 130 | mediumsource · 2026-09-03 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-07 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
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