What is Zulip?
Organized team chat solution available as cloud-hosted or self-hosted, supporting small teams to thousands of users.
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 $3.50/user/month (self-hosted Basic) to $12/user/month (cloud Standard Plus). Free tier available.
Free (Cloud)
FreeCloud free tier with 10,000 messages of search history and 5 GB total file storage
- file_storage
- 5 GB total
- search_history
- 10,000 messages
- 10,000 messages of search history
- File storage up to 5 GB total
- Complete team chat solution
- Hundreds of integrations
- Advanced roles and permissions
- Guest accounts
Standard (Cloud)
Cloud Standard plan with unlimited search history and 5 GB per user storage
- file_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
Standard Plus (Cloud)
Cloud Standard Plus with enhanced storage and SSO/SCIM support
- file_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
- Priority commercial support
Free (Self-hosted)
FreeSelf-hosted free tier for eligible communities
- Complete team chat solution with all Zulip features
- Mobile notifications without limitation for eligible communities
- Mobile notifications for up to 10 users for other organizations
Basic (Self-hosted)
Self-hosted Basic plan for small teams
- Complete team chat solution with all Zulip features
- Unlimited mobile notifications
- Support Zulip's open-source development
Business (Self-hosted)
Self-hosted Business plan for larger organizations
- Complete team chat solution with all Zulip features
- Unlimited mobile notifications
- Email and chat support
- SSO with SAML and Microsoft Entra ID
- AD/LDAP user sync
- Guests with configurable access
- Full and compliance data exports
- Data retention policies
Enterprise (Self-hosted)
Contact salesSelf-hosted Enterprise plan with maximum customization and support
- Complete team chat solution with all Zulip features
- Unlimited mobile notifications
- Email, chat and phone support
- SSO with OpenID Connect
- AD/LDAP, SAML and OpenID Connect group sync
- SCIM user and 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- CLI
- iOS
- macOS
- Web
- Linux
- Android
- Windows
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Air-gapped
- Self-hosted
Zulip alternatives
Other collaboration software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale 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 | 92 | 32.00 | 2932.2 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 16.00 | 1600.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 10.00 | 800.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 12.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 20 | 12.00 | 240.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 18.00 | 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.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","sso_scim":true,"free_tier":true,"messaging":true,"api_access":true,"e2e_encryption":true,"video_meetings":true,"compliance_controls":true,"guest_external_access":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |