Messaging · Team chat · Video calls

Wire

Encrypted team messenger from Switzerland and Berlin.

open source self-hostable hosted in Europe Wire Swiss GmbH · CH

Secure collaboration for organisations, hosted in Europe or on your own servers.

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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	≈ €6/mo per seat	yellow — European company, European servers, but someone else runs it.

Facts

Company / project	Wire Swiss GmbH (CH) — Engineering in Berlin, company seat Zug
Licence	AGPL-3.0
Self-hosting footprint	2048 MB RAM · 1 vCPU · 10 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people
Commonly replaces	Slack, WhatsApp
Provenance	curated, verified 2026-09-04

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