# Collabora Online

> Self-hosted, open-source office suite based on LibreOffice

Collabora Online is an open-source online office suite based on LibreOffice, with Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and drawings. The vendor does not host it: organizations run it on their own servers or get it through a hosting partner, connected to a platform such as Nextcloud or ownCloud that handles file storage and access. Supported subscriptions are priced per user, and a free development edition is available.

- **Category:** Docs & Wikis
- **Made by:** Collabora Productivity Ltd
- **Website:** https://www.collaboraonline.com
- **Runs on:** Web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 6, 2026

## Pricing

Collabora Online has a free plan. Paid plans start at $3.40 per user / month on a yearly subscription (up to 99 users).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE): free, self-hosted rolling release with no SLA or long-term support. The vendor suggests it for testing, home use or small teams, not production.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Collabora Online Development Edition | Free | Self-hosted rolling release, updated about once a month, for testing, home use and small teams. No SLA or long-term support. |
| Collabora Online for Business | $3.40 per user / month, on a yearly subscription | Up to 99 users, self-hosted, with long-term support, a service level agreement, signed security updates and a customer portal. |
| Collabora Online for Enterprise | Custom | 100 or more users with volume discounts, adding roadmap input, integration support, customization, and the desktop version and mobile support. |

Read from https://www.collaboraonline.com/subscriptions/ on Oct 6, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Collabora Online before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Special pricing for educational institutions** (Education): The subscriptions page asks educational institutions to get in touch for special pricing. No rate is published. Source: https://www.collaboraonline.com/subscriptions/
- **Special pricing for NGOs** (Nonprofit): The subscriptions page asks NGOs that want to deploy Collabora to get in touch for special pricing. No rate is published. Source: https://www.collaboraonline.com/subscriptions/
- **Multi-year contract discounts** (Other savings): Subscriptions are priced yearly, and the vendor says discounts for three-year contracts are available on request. Source: https://www.collaboraonline.com/subscriptions/

## Key features

- **Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw:** Four browser-based editors cover text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and drawings, with pivot tables and charts in Calc and Visio files opening in Draw.
- **Collaborative editing:** Several people can edit one document together. The FAQ sets no formal limit and calls 20 people in a session normal, and external users without an account are not charged for.
- **Microsoft and OpenDocument formats:** Opens and saves DOCX, XLSX and PPTX, the older DOC, XLS and PPT formats and the OpenDocument equivalents, and offers PDF download.
- **Deployment on your own servers:** The server runs on a Linux system, a virtual machine or a Docker container, so documents stay on infrastructure you control. Large Kubernetes deployments scale through the COOL Controller.
- **Integration through WOPI:** Ready integrations cover Nextcloud, ownCloud, OpenCloud, Moodle, Alfresco, SharePoint and Mattermost, and other web applications connect by implementing the WOPI protocol.
- **Admin console:** An admin console shows the users connected, the documents open and their resource usage, and can pass monitoring data to external services.

## Good for

- Organizations that must keep documents on their own servers
- Nextcloud, ownCloud or OpenCloud users adding document editing
- Software vendors embedding an office editor in their own product
- Home users and small teams running the free CODE edition

## Worth knowing

- Collabora does not host the product: you run the server yourself or go through one of its hosting partners.
- It only edits documents, so it has to be paired with another product that handles file storage and user access.
- The free CODE edition has no SLA or long-term support, and the vendor does not recommend it for business or production use.
- Business stops at 99 users, at $3.40 per user a month on a yearly subscription; 100 or more users need an Enterprise quote.

## Works with

Nextcloud, ownCloud, OpenCloud, Moodle, Alfresco, SharePoint, Mattermost, Drupal

**Tags:** Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Real-time collaboration, Open source, Self-hostable

## Alternatives

- [ONLYOFFICE](https://toolgpa.com/tools/onlyoffice): Open-source office suite for documents, sheets, slides and PDFs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/collabora-online-vs-onlyoffice)
- [Google Docs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/google-docs): Browser-based word processor, free with a Google Account. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/collabora-online-vs-google-docs)
- [Zoho Writer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoho-writer): Free online word processor with AI and document automation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/collabora-online-vs-zoho-writer)
- [CryptPad](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cryptpad): End-to-end encrypted, open-source collaborative office suite. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/collabora-online-vs-cryptpad)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 6, 2026:

- https://www.collaboraonline.com/subscriptions/
- https://www.collaboraonline.com/
- https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-online/
- https://www.collaboraonline.com/code/
- https://www.collaboraonline.com/faqs/
- https://www.collaboraonline.com/integrations/
- https://www.collaboraonline.com/about-us/

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