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Openfire vs SAMA: catalog facts
Openfire	SAMA
Free Free and open source under the Apache License.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Web-based administration console Works with any standard XMPP client	Server, web client and Flutter client are all open source End-to-end encryption and clustering included
Requires running and maintaining your own server Users need a separate XMPP client	Uses its own protocol, so it does not interoperate with XMPP or Matrix Small project with a limited community
Self-hosted	Web application, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: GPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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