On-premise collaboration or cloud collaboration?
Element can be deployed on-premise or as a fully hosted service.

On-premise collaboration.
Element provides on-premise end-to-end encrypted messaging, as well as voice and video.
It's ideally suited to nationwide deployments and enterprises with substantial security requirements, as well as smaller organisations with technical expertise.
On-premise use demands in-house resources, and knowledge of both Element and Matrix.
Element provides support, bridging and an admin app for on-premise deployments with more than 250 users.
Support starts at $3 per user, per month.
Element supports on-premise deployments.

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University of Innsbruck
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Cloud collaboration.
All the benefits of Element, hosted on your behalf as a fully managed service.
Choose between multi-tenant (from five seats) and single-tenant (from 500 seats) hosting, opt for custom DNS if required.
Data confidentiality is assured through end-to-end encryption. And with Matrix being an open standard, there's no vendor lock-in.
Fully managed bridging services are available, along with enterprise functionality such as Single Sign-On, data retention policies, antivirus and data loss prevention (DLP).
Subscriptions start from $3 per monthly active user.
Built on Matrix
Matrix is an open network for secure, decentralised communication, connecting 42M+ users over 80K+ deployments.
Governed by The Matrix.org Foundation, the Matrix protocol is an open standard with open source implementations, supporting a vibrant developer ecosystem. Element was founded by the team behind Matrix as a way to bring it to the mainstream.