# Teamwire review (2026): is it worth €79 a month, billed yearly? > GDPR-focused business messenger hosted in Germany Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Teamwire is a business messenger from Teamwire GmbH, built for organizations such as public safety, healthcare and critical infrastructure. It covers chats, calls, location sharing, alerting and a central user directory, hosted in a German cloud or, on the top plan, a private cloud or on-premise. - **Category:** Team Communication - **Made by:** Teamwire GmbH - **Website:** https://teamwire.eu - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you are a small team, as every plan has a 25-user minimum. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Teamwire is a paid product with a free trial, starting at €79 per month for up to 25 users, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 15-day free trial, no credit card needed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Small Business | €79 per month for up to 25 users, billed annually | Up to 25 users, 3 devices per user, German cloud hosting; the 25-user minimum applies. | | Standard | €3.45 per user / month, billed annually | 25 to 500 users, 3 devices per user, German cloud, LDAP/AD sync and audit logs. | | Professional | Custom | 25 to unlimited users, 5 devices per user, private cloud or on-premise hosting; price on request. | Read from https://teamwire.eu/en/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Teamwire before buying. ## Key features - **Messaging and calls:** 1:1, group and broadcast chats, attachments, polls, 1:1 voice and video calls and a central user directory. - **Alerting and location:** Alert messages with an emergency button and acknowledgements, live location sharing and a push-to-talk interface. - **Role concept:** Operational roles shown beside names let groups follow responsibilities without manual updates. - **Administration and compliance:** Central user administration, data-retention policies, audit-proof archiving, audit logs and MDM support. - **Hosting choices:** German cloud in an ISO 27001 and BSI C5 certified data centre; private cloud or on-premise on the Professional plan. - **SDKs and APIs:** SDKs and APIs connect Teamwire to CRM, ERP, help desk and other systems and to chatbots. ## Good for - Public-sector and healthcare teams with data-sovereignty rules - Organizations that need alerting and emergency functions - IT teams that want on-premise hosting ## Worth knowing - Every plan has a 25-user minimum per organization; Standard tops out at 500 users. - Voice and video conferences are an optional add-on at 0.75 euros per user per month on Small Business and Standard. - Chat widget, WhatsApp Business integration and federation are quoted on request. - Prices are shown in euros. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Teamwire is a business messenger from Germany, with alerting, location sharing and a central user directory, hosted in a German cloud or on-premise on the top plan. Every plan has a 25-user minimum, so a small team still pays for 25. - **Value for money: D.** Small Business is €79 a month for up to 25 users, so one person pays €79. That is in the dearest tenth of team chat tools. Standard drops to €3.45 per user, but also starts at 25. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 15-day trial with no card, and no free plan. - **Features: B.** Chat, calls, alerting, location, roles, audit logs, LDAP sync and SDKs. Conferences are an extra €0.75 per user a month. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Directory sync, roles and hosting need an administrator to set up. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iOS and Android, with SDKs and APIs. No desktop app is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Teamwire's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among team communication apps - Teamwire's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 6 of the 50 other team communication apps we grade, and level with 7. - It stands best on features (B, above 39 of 50) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at about $88.26 a month, against a middle price of $7 for the category: 37 of the 38 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 12 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/team-chat ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Teamwire you would be making chat that a whole team counts on staying up. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 37 of the 50 other team communication apps grade higher. It costs $1,059.11 a year. - You could not: Chat that a whole team counts on staying up. - You could not: Video calls. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: audit logs. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Team chat, Video calls, Public API, Self-hostable ## Alternatives - [Signal](https://toolgpa.com/tools/signal): Nonprofit messenger with end-to-end encrypted chats and calls. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mattermost-vs-teamwire) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://teamwire.eu/en/ - https://teamwire.eu/en/pricing/ - https://teamwire.eu/en/product/overview/essential-features/ - https://teamwire.eu/en/product/overview/integrations/ - https://teamwire.eu/en/product/overview/hosting/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/teamwire Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).