Nextcloud
🇩🇪 DE · from €71.29/user/yr
4.4/5· 697 reviews across 4 portals
Open-source collaboration suite with EU hosting and end-to-end encryption, built in Germany.
Replaces
Nextcloud is sought as a European alternative to:
Features
File Sync and Share
- Secure file synchronization and sharing across platforms, internally and externally
- File locking to prevent edit conflicts
- Document versioning and trash bin integration
- Offline file availability and mobile document scanning
- Granular access control and infrastructure integration
Collaboration
- Real-time collaborative document editing (Nextcloud Office, ONLYOFFICE integration)
- Group chat, web conferencing, and screen sharing (Nextcloud Talk)
- Whiteboard for drawings and annotations
- Integrated comments, audio/video chat in Virtual Data Room
- Team planning and email integration (Nextcloud Groupware)
Security and Administration
- LDAP/Active Directory user management and guest accounts
- Multi-factor authentication and Single Sign-On (SSO/SAML)
- Machine learning-based detection of suspicious logins
- Remote wipe to erase data from client devices
- Advanced file access control, retention, auditing, and monitoring
Automation and AI
- Workflow automation (Nextcloud Flow) and business process automation (Windmill)
- Structured data management (Nextcloud Tables)
- Local AI assistant for email summarization, content generation, and translation
- Chat integration for AI-powered assistance
Accessibility and Clients
- Light and dark theme support
- Extensive keyboard accessibility and screen reader support
- Mobile and desktop clients (iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux)
- Auto-upload, image editing, and multi-account support in mobile apps
Pricing
- Nextcloud Files, Talk, and Groupware included
- 1-year maintenance and business-hours email support
- Installation review and limited custom consulting
- All Standard features plus Nextcloud Assistant and Flow
- Extended maintenance (5+ years) and 1-business-day response time
- Support for clustered instances and extended business-hours support
- All Premium features included
- 24/7 phone support and SLA on fixes
- Full enterprise capabilities and custom consulting
Pricing varies by user count; optional components like ONLYOFFICE or Microsoft integrations may incur additional costs. Nextcloud One offers a fully managed service for smaller teams.
EU Trust Profile
What we verified against public sources, last checked 2026-10-06. Every point links to its evidence.
- Evidence →European legal entityNextcloud GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
- Evidence →Public sub-processor list
Listed for Enterprise customers, includes storage and access locations.
- Evidence →Self-hosting available
Customers can deploy on their own infrastructure or with a chosen provider.
- Evidence →Open sourceAGPL-3.0 or less restrictive
- Evidence →Documented data exportUser-initiated via Personal Settings or admin via WebDAV
We list only what we could verify against a public source on the check date. A point that is absent was not established either way — it is not a finding against the vendor. The vendor's own information prevails.
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Reviews
Recurring themes, synthesized from public reviews across portals.
What users value
- Strong data privacy and security with self-hosted model, giving users full control over their data
- Highly flexible and modular due to open-source architecture, allowing extensive customization and third-party integrations
- Easy to install and deploy, with a user-friendly interface accessible across multiple devices
- Comprehensive collaboration features including file sharing, real-time document editing, chat, video calls, and calendar integration
- Cost-effective with a free community edition and affordable enterprise subscriptions compared to proprietary alternatives
- Effective integration with Active Directory/LDAP and external file sources, plus robust device and user role management
- Reliable performance on SSDs, ensuring stable file syncing when deployed on appropriate hardware
Where users see room to improve
- · Feature overload and complexity can overwhelm users, affecting usability
- · Performance degrades with increasing user numbers and data volume, especially on slower hardware
- · Frequent updates may introduce new bugs, and some critical issues (e.g., Calendar bugs) persist for weeks
Ratings across portals
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Integrations
Nextcloud: frequently asked questions
- How much does Nextcloud cost?
- Nextcloud starts at €71.29/user/yr. Plans: Standard (€71.29/user/yr), Premium (€104.99/user/yr), Ultimate (€204.75/user/yr). Pricing varies by user count; optional components like ONLYOFFICE or Microsoft integrations may incur additional costs. Nextcloud One offers a fully managed service for smaller teams.
- Which tools does Nextcloud integrate with?
- Nextcloud connects with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office Online Server, ONLYOFFICE, Slack, Miro and Webex, plus 6 more integrations we found.
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Feature, pricing and integration details are based on web research (as of 2026-06-21), without guarantee, errors are possible. The vendor's website prevails.