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Replaces: Microsoft 365 · Google Workspace

Nextcloud

Files, collaboration and a full office suite — on your own infrastructure, on your own terms.

Overview

Nextcloud

Nextcloud Hub is a self-hosted collaboration platform: file sync and share, real-time document editing, calendars, contacts, project boards, forms and an app ecosystem with hundreds of integrations. Built in Europe, sponsored by Nextcloud GmbH, and used by governments, universities and Fortune 500s.

If "the cloud" for your business means OneDrive and Google Drive, you've outsourced the most sensitive surface of your company — every contract, payslip and product spec — to a third party with very different incentives. Nextcloud is the credible alternative: comparable UX, native desktop and mobile clients, real admin controls, and a deployment you can place wherever the law and your customers expect.

What you get

Capabilities

Files, sync and sharing

Desktop, web and mobile clients with selective sync, public share links with expiry and password, and granular per-folder permissions.

Real-time document editing

Word, Excel and PowerPoint-compatible editing in the browser via Nextcloud Office — multiple authors, comments and tracked changes.

Calendar, contacts, mail

Shared calendars, address books and a built-in mail client. CalDAV, CardDAV and IMAP under the hood — works with every standards-compliant client.

Server-side encryption and audit

Encryption at rest, end-to-end encrypted folders, detailed audit log and fine-grained sharing policies for compliance-heavy environments.

Free & open source

Why this beats the proprietary default

The same advantages apply across every product on this page — open source is a category-level upgrade, not a niche preference.

Auditable source code

Anyone can read, review and audit the code. Security researchers, your own engineers, or an independent auditor — no black boxes, no "trust us".

Your data, your infrastructure

Runs on hardware you control, in a jurisdiction you choose. No silent data exports to a US hyperscaler, no "product improvement" sampling of your content.

Predictable cost, no per-seat tax

Pay for hosting and operations, not for every user, mailbox or feature flag. Adding the tenth or hundredth user doesn't multiply your bill.

Exit is built in

Open standards, open formats, no vendor lock-in. If you ever want to move — to another host, another team, in-house — the data and the software are yours to take.

Want to run Nextcloud on your terms?

We host, monitor, patch and back up the whole stack on European infrastructure — so you get the open-source upside without the operations cost.