ejabberd vs Movim
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted matrix & xmpp options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare ejabberd with
choose an app… Rocket.Chat Mattermost Zulip SimpleX Chat Tinode Element Web Let's Chat Berty Matterbridge The Lounge Dendrite qTox Synapse Cinny WeeChat Ergo Converse.js irssi Openfire FluffyChat Quicksy Bridge Dino Nheko Tuwunel Conduit Nextcloud Talk ZNC mautrix-whatsapp MongooseIM gomuks Profanity Toxic Convos IRC Syphon Element Call Dendrite Lite Delta Chat Element X Fractal Maubot Briar JSXC Hydrogen matrix-nio Continuwuity mautrix-signal CoyIM Gajim Session mautrix-discord Chatmail Chatmail Relay SchildiChat Ketesa Synapse Admin jabberd2 Mjolnir Snikket Construct Tigase XMPP Server Pantalaimon Sliding Sync Proxy matrix-appservice-slack Coqui Chat Synapse-MAS Wesh Network aioxmpp Poezio Slidge Sygnal Metronome IM matrix-corporal PeerTube Plugin LiveChat Commet go-sendxmpp Simple-Matrix-Bot-Lib Monocles Chat Openfire Pade Plugin Prose conduwuit Prosody
Compare Movim with
choose an app… Rocket.Chat Mattermost Zulip diaspora* Tinode Element Web Let's Chat Matterbridge The Lounge Dendrite Synapse Cinny WeeChat Ergo Converse.js irssi Openfire FluffyChat Dino Nheko Tuwunel Conduit Nextcloud Talk ZNC mautrix-whatsapp MongooseIM gomuks Friendica Profanity Convos IRC Syphon Element Call Dendrite Lite Element X Fractal Maubot Smithereen Socialhome Hubzilla Streams Libervia Zap Osada Forte Peachpub
Feature ejabberd Movim Category Matrix & XMPP Matrix & XMPP License GPL-2.0 AGPL-3.0 Language Erlang PHP Setup difficulty Hard Medium Min. RAM 512 MB 512 MB Deployment docker, bare-metal docker, bare-metal, source GitHub stars ★ 6,711 ★ 2,038 First released 2002 2010 Replaces Slack, WhatsApp Facebook, Slack
Why pick each one
Choose ejabberd if… Extremely scalable Battle-tested Standards-based ejabberd details Choose Movim if… Released under the AGPL-3.0 license First-class Docker support for quick deployment Active community (2k GitHub stars) Written in PHP Movim details
Frequently asked questions Is ejabberd or Movim better? Neither is universally better. ejabberd has the larger community, while Movim is simpler to set up (medium difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are ejabberd and Movim free and open-source? Yes. ejabberd is licensed under GPL-2.0 and Movim under AGPL-3.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run ejabberd and Movim with Docker? ejabberd: yes. Movim: yes.