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.
Visit Element01 · 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.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- 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
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
What changed
Price and policy 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
- 9,222
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 37 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
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms48931578
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com include:24880693…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS derek.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=FDyPKzzoqeaEx8cvuTAwllsanySV9SKc9YZVOlu…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: 2XFiQHM9t3HqcyHjTRkNgDJGpHOqrgZgjL7nzRhmloA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Atlassian 9/20
- Cloudflare 9/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on element.io 9/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on element.io 8/20
- Apple Business · not on element.io 7/20
- Zendesk · not on element.io 7/20
- Amazon SES 5/20
- HubSpot 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20
- OneTrust · not on element.io 5/20
- Stripe 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on element.io 4/20
- SendGrid · not on element.io 4/20