Collabora Online is a self-hosted, open-source alternative to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. See its features, editions, and pricing tiers.
Collabora Online is a browser-based collaborative office suite built on LibreOffice technology, developed by Collabora, an open-source consulting company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Cambridge, UK. It's positioned as a self-hostable, open-source alternative to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.
Rather than running as a standalone cloud service, Collabora Online plugs into an existing file-storage platform such as Nextcloud, ownCloud, EGroupware, or Pydio, which handles storage and user accounts while Collabora provides the in-browser editing engine for Writer, Calc, Impress, and Draw documents.
It enables real-time, multi-user collaborative editing of documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and vector graphics directly in a browser, with strong compatibility for both the OpenDocument format and Microsoft Office file formats.
Native apps extend offline access across Android, ChromeOS, iOS, iPadOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows, and because it's self-hosted, organizations keep full control over where document data is stored, supporting GDPR and other data-residency requirements.
Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) is free and updated roughly monthly, suited to testing, personal use, or small teams, but not recommended for large-scale production due to its faster, less stable release cadence.
Commercial, production-ready editions are sold on an annual subscription, with reported starting rates around €3 per user per month for on-premise deployments up to about 99 users, and custom pricing for larger Enterprise deployments that add long-term support and signed security updates.
The Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) is free, suited to testing, personal use, or small teams. Production-grade, commercially supported editions require a paid subscription.
It requires an underlying file-storage and user-management platform such as Nextcloud, ownCloud, EGroupware, or Pydio; it does not run as a fully standalone product.
Yes, it offers strong compatibility with Microsoft Office formats such as .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx, alongside native OpenDocument support.
Commercial pricing has been reported starting around €3 per user per month for on-premise deployments up to about 99 users, billed annually, with custom pricing for larger Enterprise deployments.
It's developed by Collabora, a UK-based open-source consulting company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Cambridge, which is also one of the largest contributors to the LibreOffice codebase.