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Best Real-Time Office Suites for self-hosting

The 11 best Real-Time office suites you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

At a glance

AppDeploy effortDifficultyMin. RAMLicense★ Stars
tldrawUnder-an-hour setupMedium512 MBApache-2.050,904
UniverUnder-an-hour setupHard512 MBApache-2.022,589
TeableUnder-an-hour setupMedium1,024 MBAGPL-3.021,893
Docs by Suite NumeriqueUnder-an-hour setupMedium1,024 MBMIT16,915
GristUnder-an-hour setupMedium512 MBApache-2.011,950
CodiMDUnder-an-hour setupMedium512 MBAGPL-3.010,154
EtherCalcUnder-an-hour setupEasy256 MBCPAL-1.03,055
WBOUnder-an-hour setupEasy256 MBAGPL-3.02,668
VriteUnder-an-hour setupMedium1,024 MBAGPL-3.02,004
LibreOffice OnlineUnder-an-hour setupHard2,048 MBMPL-2.0656

Quick picks

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Real-Time within the office suites category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.

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