Mattermost vs Swit (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Mattermost if

• Fits if your chat has to stay on your own servers or on an air-gapped network
• Works for technical teams who can run and maintain their own server

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if nobody on the team wants to run a server, as it's self-hosted by design
• Not for you if you want to see a price before talking to anyone, because every paid license is quoted by sales
• Tight if you rely on the free Entry mode, which only shows the latest 10,000 channel messages and has community support
• Watch out: Team Edition has no single sign-on, and the vendor doesn't recommend it for sensitive work
• Pricey if you need workflow automation or boards, as both start on Enterprise, sold as prepaid annual seats

Pick Swit if

• Fits if you want chat and a task board without two separate tools
• Works for a team that wants a trial before paying, with no card needed

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you are small, since Startup is 25 seats at $450 a year
• Pricey if you want automation at $99, or approvals, goals and guests at $5 a person each
• Skip it if you need on-premises hosting, because the vendor says there is none
• Watch out: SAML sign-on starts at Business, and two-factor and audit logs at Business Pro
• Tight if you stay free, with the hub only, 5 integrations and 1 year of history

Mattermost

• No prices are published: Professional, Enterprise and Enterprise Advanced are quoted by sales and sold as prepaid annual seat subscriptions.
• Entry shows only the latest 10,000 channel messages and has community support only; the vendor suggests it for teams of fewer than 50 users.
• It is self-hosted by design; the only vendor-hosted option described is single-tenant Mattermost Cloud Enterprise, arranged through sales.
• Team Edition has no single sign-on, and the vendor does not recommend it for government or sensitive commercial workloads.

Swit

• Startup is sold as 25 fixed seats; Growth caps at 100 seats.
• Plug-ins cost extra: Automation $99 for 100K actions a month, and Approvals, Goals and Guests $5 per user a month each.
• Swit is cloud only; the vendor says there is no on-premises version.
• SAML-based SSO starts at Business; two-factor authentication and audit logs are listed from Business Pro.

Mattermost

Channel-based messaging

1-1 and group messages, public and private channels, threaded discussions, file sharing and search across web, desktop and mobile, in 20 languages.

Playbooks

Repeatable playbooks for incident response, change management and compliance, with conditional checklists and escalation. The pricing page lists workflow automation from Enterprise.

Calls and screen sharing

1:1 audio calls with screen sharing are in every paid package, and group calls support about 50 concurrent users per self-hosted server. A 40-minute call limit is planned for Entry.

Boards

Kanban, table, calendar and gallery boards for assigning and tracking tasks next to the conversation. The pricing page lists work management from Enterprise.

AI agents

Agents summarize conversations and take actions using an LLM provider the customer chooses, or a self-hosted model in air-gapped environments.

Integrations and API

A REST API with an OpenAPI 3.0 spec, webhooks, slash commands and a plugin platform, with prebuilt integrations for tools such as Jira, GitHub and GitLab.

Swit

Channels and chat

Unlimited channels and chats on every plan, with posts shareable across workspaces inside an organization.

Tasks and projects

Task cards carry checklists, subtasks, assignees and priorities, and a project dashboard shows progress and workload.

Messages to tasks

On the Hub plan, a channel message can become a task, and a task card can be dragged into a chat channel.

AI plug-in

Chat, Taskify, Summarize, Write, Rephrase and Translate are sold as a plug-in available on all paid plans.

Plug-ins for work processes

Automation, Approvals, Goals and Guests are add-ons, priced separately on the pricing page.

Mattermost

• Entry$0

  Free mode of the Enterprise Edition: Enterprise Advanced features with 10,000 viewable messages, community support, and no compliance or high availability.

• Team Edition$0

  Open-source, MIT-licensed edition for small teams and personal use under 250 activated users, without single sign-on.

• ProfessionalCustom

  For teams of up to 250 users: single sign-on, AD/LDAP sync, guest accounts and next-business-day support. Sold as prepaid annual seats.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Adds workflow automation, work management boards, compliance and data retention tools, federated communications and high availability.

• Enterprise AdvancedCustom

  Adds zero-trust attribute-based access controls, classification banners, burn-on-read messages and support for air-gapped environments.

Swit

• Free$0

  Hub only. Up to 5 integrations, unlimited channels, projects and chats, basic project features.

• Startup$1.50

  per user / month, billed yearly ($1.80 billed monthly)

  Sold as 25 fixed seats, $450 a year. 5 GB per user, unlimited history and integrations, full projects.

• Growth$6

  per user / month, billed yearly ($11 billed monthly)

  Up to 100 seats, up to 5 workspaces and 20 GB of storage per user.

• Business$11

  per user / month, billed yearly ($21 billed monthly)

  Unlimited seats, up to 10 workspaces, 100 GB per user and SAML-based SSO.

• Business ProCustom

  Sold through sales, billed yearly. Adds 1 TB per user, two-factor authentication, audit logs and download control.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Sold through sales, billed yearly. 10 TB per user, EKM, IP-based access control and data residency.

Mattermost

• Nonprofit

  3-year Professional license for $250

  Eligible nonprofit and open-source organizations can apply for a 3-year self-hosted Mattermost Professional subscription for up to 1,000 users for a $250 fee.

Swit

• Annual discount

  Save up to 47% with yearly billing

  The pricing page shows yearly rates against monthly ones, such as $11 per user on Business billed yearly versus $21 billed monthly.