element.io

Element

Who runs Element, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest secure team messaging alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Rocket.Chat

Measured from Element’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Element

Element element.io

Element is a Matrix-based end-to-end encrypted messenger and secure collaboration app. It’s decentralised for digital sovereign self-hosting, or through a hosting service such as Element Matrix Services. Element operates on the open Matrix network to provide interoperability and easy connections.

Wikidata: decentralized encrypted chat and collaboration software powered by the Matrix protocol

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Element tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

tracker that follows visitors

8 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.

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Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool
  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Element

Fewer trackers than ElementNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Element match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Element adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 11 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,221
Vector
384-d
Query
39 ms

Built with

Website builders
  • Webflow page source: data-wf-page=
Marketing automation
  • HubSpot page source: js-eu1.hs-scripts.com
Payments
  • Stripe TXT stripe-verification=1f46d5bd78ed2269f7c450125f067adffdd7b21c78617e098…
CDN
  • cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/github-buttons/2.11.2/buttons.min.js
  • Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5779fd4da5762eb-HAM
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:24880693…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=FDyPKzzoqeaEx8cvuTAwllsanySV9SKc9YZVOlu…
  • Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: 2XFiQHM9t3HqcyHjTRkNgDJGpHOqrgZgjL7nzRhmloA