7 alternatives to Rocket.Chat
rocketchat/rocket.chat — The Secure CommsOS™ for mission-critical operations (46,373 stars, MIT, ui, auth, integration).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 3,000 licence-cleared components from rocketchat/rocket.chat itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vercel/chat | 6.0 | MIT | 2,427 |
| 2 | cloudflare/partykit | 6.7 | ISC | 1,310 |
| 3 | livekit/python-sdks | 6.0 | Apache-2.0 | 391 |
| 4 | pterodactyl/panel | 7.4 | MIT | 9,401 |
| 5 | colanode/colanode | 5.1 | Apache-2.0 | 5,187 |
| 6 | dancode-188/synckit | 4.7 | MIT | 669 |
| 7 | go-joe/joe | 4.5 | BSD-3-Clause | 475 |
The alternatives in detail
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Universal chat layer for building bots and agents.score 6.0/10 · MIT permissive · 2,427 stars · 323 components · search them
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PartyKit, for Workersscore 6.7/10 · ISC permissive · 1,310 stars · 48 components · search them
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LiveKit real-time and server SDKs for Pythonscore 6.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 391 stars · 51 components · search them
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Pterodactyl® is a free, open-source game server management panel built with PHP, React, and Go. Designed with security in mind, Pterodactyl runs all game servers in isolated Docker containers while exposing a beautiful ascore 7.4/10 · MIT permissive · 9,401 stars · 811 components · search them
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Open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative that puts you in control of your datascore 5.1/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 5,187 stars · 832 components · search them
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Local-first collaboration SDK for React, Vue, and Svelte. Batteries-included: Rich text, undo/redo, cursors, and presence.score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 669 stars · 288 components · search them
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A general-purpose bot library inspired by Hubot but written in Go. :robot:score 4.5/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 475 stars · 19 components · search them
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