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Prosody vs SAMA: catalog facts
Prosody	SAMA
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Simple setup and low resource use Federates with other XMPP servers	Server, web client and Flutter client are all open source End-to-end encryption and clustering included
Requires a server and some administration 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: MIT	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 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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