Self-hosted team chat in 2026: revisit Mattermost, Rocket.Chat and Zulip before you move another team off Slack

• Manoj Shukla
• November 1, 2026

Sooner or later, every growing Indian company has the same conversation about chat. The free plan of a hosted chat tool has started hiding old messages, or the renewal quote for a paid plan has arrived for a few hundred users, or a large customer has asked where the project discussions are stored.