What is OpenCloud?
File sync and sharing with team spaces, web office editing and full-text search on your own server.
Who is OpenCloud best for?
OpenCloud is best for public bodies and research teams that want file sharing on servers they control.
Team and project spaces
Files belong to a Space rather than to a person, so content stays when members leave.
Small and large installs
It runs on a Raspberry Pi 3 for up to 10 users and serves 1,000 users on a dual-core server with 8GB of RAM.
Office documents in the browser
Web Office with Collabora lets teams co-edit documents, and full-text search finds them later.
Sharing across organisations
Federation over the Open Cloud Mesh protocol links several OpenCloud installs and other compatible systems.
How much does OpenCloud cost?
OpenCloud Community Edition is free to self-host; support subscriptions start at €2 per user a month on Basic, with Professional at €4 and Premium at €8, quoted for about 100 users.
- Community Edition from GitHub
- Spaces, sharing, versions and search
- Community support
- Production and long-term releases
- Community support
- Price example for 100 users
- 9/5 email support with SLA
- Password policy and GDPR export
- For 100 or more users
- 24/7 phone support with SLA
- Multi-tenancy and custom logo
- Air-gapped and tenant-separated setups
The listed prices are examples; smaller and larger installs are quoted individually. Hosted OpenCloud is sold through partners, not by the maker. An add-on for research storage costs €10 per TB a year from 1 PB, and non-profits and open source projects can ask for support. Full pricing on opencloud.eu. We checked these prices on .
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Is OpenCloud open source?
Yes. OpenCloud's code is public under the Apache 2.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.
On GitHub
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+179 (+2.9%) in the last 30 days
- Last commit
- 12 Nov
- Repository age
- 1 years
- Latest release
- 11 Nov
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Repository
- opencloud-eu/opencloud
What are the best OpenCloud alternatives?
Three tools on Recaply do OpenCloud's job.
ownCloudOpen SourceFile sync and sharing in project spaces, with web office editing and desktop and mobile apps.
NextcloudOpen SourceFile sync and sharing with chat, video calls, calendar, mail and office editing.
SeafileOpen SourceSelf-hosted file sync and sharing with encrypted libraries, wikis and custom file views.
Questions about OpenCloud
What is OpenCloud?
File sync and sharing with team spaces, web office editing and full-text search on your own server.
Who is OpenCloud for?
OpenCloud is best for public bodies and research teams that want file sharing on servers they control.
Is OpenCloud free?
Yes. OpenCloud has a free Self-hosted plan: community Edition from GitHub.
How much does OpenCloud cost?
OpenCloud's paid plans are Basic at €2 per user per month, Professional at €4 per user per month and Premium at €8 per user per month.
Is OpenCloud open source?
Yes. OpenCloud's code is public under the Apache 2.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.
What are the best OpenCloud alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are ownCloud, Nextcloud and Seafile.
Where can I try OpenCloud?
On its official website, opencloud.eu.
Does OpenCloud need a database?
No. OpenCloud keeps all its data in the filesystem, either a POSIX filesystem such as ext4, XFS or ZFS, or an S3 bucket, so there is no database server to install or back up separately.
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