Files & sync · Calendar & contacts · Notes · Video calls · Whiteboards & diagrams · Forms & surveys
Nextcloud
The European cloud platform: files, calendar, talk, office.
open source self-hostable hosted in Europe Nextcloud GmbH · DEThe most widely used self-hosted cloud: files and sync, calendar and contacts, video calls, notes, forms and an office suite through Collabora; also available hosted by European providers.
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How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
| Hosted in Europe | servers in Europe, run by a European company | ≈ €4/mo per seat | yellow — European company, European servers, but someone else runs it. |
Facts
| Company / project | Nextcloud GmbH (DE) |
|---|---|
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 1024 MB RAM · 1 vCPU · 20 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Dropbox, Google Drive |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 36,698 stars · updated 2026-09-04 · PHP, deb |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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