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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HipChat (discontinued)

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AHipchat was discontinued by Atlassian. Users are being migrated to Slack.

    $0

    per user

    Mattermost

    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Mattermost from the company of the same name in Palo Alto is a messaging, collaboration and communication platform providing high security and compliance for the businesses that need it.

    $0

    per month per user

    Pricing
    HipChat (discontinued)Mattermost
    Editions & Modules
    HipChat Basic
    $0
    per user
    HipChat Plus
    $2
    per user
    Free Self-Hosted
    $0
    per month per user
    Professional
    $10
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Us
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HipChat (discontinued)Mattermost
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsFor Server pricing info please visit https://www.hipchat.com/server (Only $1.20/user/month at the highest user tier!)—
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    Community Pulse
    HipChat (discontinued)Mattermost
    Considered Both Products
    Atlassian
    No answer on this topic
    Mattermost
    Chose Mattermost
    Mattermost is as good of a software as HipChat. They both allow for easy communication within our company across private, group, or mass messaging. The notifications of both work well without flaw. The only difference that I have noticed between the two would be that HipChat …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Would buy again
    43 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    41 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    45 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    31 Answers
    Features
    HipChat (discontinued)Mattermost
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of HipChat (discontinued) and Mattermost
    Feature
    HipChat (discontinued)
    7.3
    106 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Mattermost
    8.3
    46 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Mobile Access7.397 Ratings9.143 Ratings
    Search7.2103 Ratings8.825 Ratings
    Task Management00 Ratings7.034 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings8.410 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings8.410 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings7.427 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of HipChat (discontinued) and Mattermost
    Feature
    HipChat (discontinued)
    7.3
    132 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Mattermost
    8.4
    49 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Chat7.7132 Ratings9.249 Ratings
    Notifications7.7130 Ratings8.449 Ratings
    Discussions6.5110 Ratings8.847 Ratings
    Surveys7.834 Ratings8.830 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase7.043 Ratings6.033 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting7.023 Ratings8.99 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings8.713 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings8.39 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of HipChat (discontinued) and Mattermost
    Feature
    HipChat (discontinued)
    6.3
    95 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Mattermost
    9.1
    29 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Video files6.585 Ratings9.323 Ratings
    Audio files6.873 Ratings9.323 Ratings
    Access control6.660 Ratings9.923 Ratings
    Advanced security features5.949 Ratings9.020 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive6.027 Ratings8.613 Ratings
    Device sync6.055 Ratings10.017 Ratings
    Versioning00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings7.919 Ratings
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    HipChat (discontinued)Mattermost
    Small Businesses
    Flock
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Flock
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Microsoft Viva Engage
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Microsoft Viva Engage
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Keep
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Google Keep
    Score9.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HipChat (discontinued)Mattermost
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (133 ratings)
    7.8
    (51 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    6.4
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    7.2
    (8 ratings)
    6.4
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.1
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    7.0
    (36 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.2
    (10 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    HipChat (discontinued)Mattermost
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Atlassian
    Well suited for
    Cross-teams communication.
    Webhooks support. Easy integrations with Atlassian products and other systems as well. File sharing directly or in a group. Video/Audio calls.
    Not suited for:
    Lacks apps integration like Slack.
    Lacks quality with video calls.
    Slow file transfer for large files.
    Frequent downtime due to app instability.
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    Mattermost
    I used Mattermost on a full remote company and it perfectly suited our collaboration and communication culture. The company dealt with privileged and personal information of a huge data base of users, so it was a significant advantage for our need to comply with industry regulations.
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    Pros
    Atlassian
    • HipChat is very stable and reliable. I have never had issues with not being able to connect or being able to communicate with others on HipChat.
    • HipChat integrates quite well with other applications, such as Jira and Stash. This is a main selling point for my team. It provides a convenient feed of actions on a JIRA story or Stash pull request.
    • HipCat does a good job of allowing 1-1 and group chats. It is simple to start a new conversation and it is easy to hold a group conversation and keep track of who is in the room.
    • I like how HipChat has away/here/on mobile statuses. This makes it easy to see if a person is available to be contacted.
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    Mattermost
    • Easy intergration to our main CRM (Monday.com)
    • I'm not techy myself but I have seen a lot of our previous integrations in Slack transferred over to Mattermost so that's fun
    • The desktop and phone app (android) works well enough. I haven't tried it on the Apple ecosystem yet.
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    Cons
    Atlassian
    • Mobile app is not very responsive on iOS. Sometimes connection to Hipchat servers is taking too long even on good networks.
    • Both mobile and desktop versions have no alphabetical or recent sorting for groups and chat rooms.
    • Video and audio calls are pretty useless, they're slow and not always work.
    • The whole user interface is simple but very outdated - apparently Atlassian didn't focus too much on Hipchat even though they tried in the last 2 years.
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    Mattermost
    • Some of the features in paid plans could be free, however, they have much offered in free plan (self-hosted)
    • The Desktop App we use on windows has some bugs, like when Mattermost is down and comes back up, the app needs restart
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Atlassian
    If they fix the bugs the last update gave that are causing hipchat to crash more often.
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    Mattermost
    Mattermost has been an excellent tool for our business, allowing for a very cost-effective means of communicating, collaborating, and sharing project and business documentation and resources. The free community edition allows for simple installation on existing cloud server resources which results in significantly lower recurring costs compared to the competition
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    Usability
    Atlassian
    The app itself had a pleasant if not generic interface. As a user experience expert and engineer I can say the interface is fairly intuitive if not bland. It does what you expect it to do and it's available on iOS and Android devices. If I recall it was generally pretty light weight in terms of installation size.
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    Mattermost
    It's an extremely easy to use software, and I would recommend it to every company that is growing. I think they could improve their notification system, as it gets a little spammy sometimes and important notifications get lost. Also needs to improve the number of private chats that you are allowed to create.
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    Support Rating
    Atlassian
    HipChat support is good . Responds in timely manner when ever we have raised the request via email , phone and gives us continue update on the request .Though most of the questions are answered by HipChat FAQs , but they can still improve it and add more to the knowledge base .
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    Mattermost
    We have not had to contact support for Mattermost ever. All that we have needed has been available in the documentation or website. One of our DevOps team members set it up in a couple of hours. The whole team was using Mattermost that same day. No support needed.
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    Implementation Rating
    Atlassian
    I don't have insights as I was not a part of the implementation. However, I love the end product
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    Mattermost
    This went as expected. No surprises or major hurdles.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Atlassian
    We tried a lot of chat clients before choosing HipChat. The Skype for Business UI on the Mac side was 5 years old and terrible. Mac users hated the app including our CTO. Cisco Jabber was expensive to license and maintain; Skype was open to the public which took time away due to users dealing with spam and could allow viruses and malware. HipChat being a closed product, centrally managed and available to try without an upfront investment was perfect for our environment. All our Agile teams have their own room, chat and can communicate with others quickly and easily.
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    Mattermost
    I feel slack is a bit more difficult to use overall than Mattermost. Mattermost makes the tasks of communicating across departments and team members easier, as well as giving the ability to share information via hyper links, attachments, and other forms of communication among every body here. Also, easier user interface
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    Scalability
    Atlassian
    Actually I never shared of HipChat using with more than 25 persons in team simultaneously, but I believe it can be scaled for much largest collaboration teams. At least it works flawlessly for us, with transparent integration with Jira, and I am not see any reasons for some troubles for work at big scale.
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    Mattermost
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Atlassian
    • HipChat has increased the effiency with which I am able to communicate with my coworkers, particularly those who work out of other offices. Having a light, portable messaging solution has been beneficial for checking in on small things without the need to send emails or schedule phone calls.
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    Mattermost
    • Improved Communication Efficiency by consolidating all the variety of messaging apps etc
    • real-time communication and collaboration has improved the orgs ability to address issues and implement changes rapidly.
    • Accelerated decision-making processes, reducing the time required for team approvals and discussions which used to be in back and forth emails.
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    ScreenShots

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    Screenshot of HipChat is with your team, whenever, wherever. Try it on your desktop, web, mobile, tablet, & wearable.Screenshot of Give your eyes the respite they deserve from your blaring white screen with HipChat dark mode!Screenshot of HipChat becomes your command center by integrating with over 100 awesome apps/tools your team already loves (like Uber!).

    Mattermost Screenshots

    Screenshot of Channels: All team communications in one place.Screenshot of Playbooks: Orchestrates work across tools and teams.Screenshot of Boards: Project planning and milestones.Screenshot of Connections: Unites the entire technology stack through a single point of collaboration.