Rocket.Chat adds native video meetings to Messaging, merges federation options
What happened
Between the Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026 captures of Rocket.Chat's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Messaging now lists voice and video meetings (native video add-on); Defense coalition federation and XMPP bridge merged into Native XMPP and Matrix federation. Pulse files it as a product change (feature change) with a neutral direction.
It lands 139 days after Rocket.Chat's previous change, "Rocket.Chat rebrands Enterprise tier to Commercial in plan lineup" (May 25, 2026). Rocket.Chat has been tracked since 2026-04-26.
In the same window Microsoft, Slack, Mattermost and Basecamp also changed their Collaboration & Productivity pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Defense · FeatureAddedNot listedvoice and video meetings
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense | Feature | Not listed | voice and video meetings | Added |
Values as written on Rocket.Chat's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Rocket.Chat's pricing page (www.rocket.chat) from Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where voice and video meetings now appears.
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Rocket.Chat, pricing history
Full history- Oct 12, 2026improvedRocket.Chat adds native video meetings to Messaging, merges federation options · this change
- May 25, 2026packagingRocket.Chat rebrands Enterprise tier to Commercial in plan lineup
Across Collaboration & Productivity in the same window
All Collaboration & Productivity changes- MicrosoftOct 12Microsoft Teams Home cuts Family and Premium storage from 6 TB to 2 TB shared
- SlackOct 4Slack puts $45 price on Enterprise+ plan, dropping "Contact sales
- MattermostSep 28Mattermost drops Professional plan's 250-user cap, no limit shown
- BasecampAug 24Basecamp axes per-user fees for fixed pricing, cuts top-tier storage from…
Questions about this change
Did Rocket.Chat raise prices in October 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a product change: feature change.
What changed on Rocket.Chat's pricing page between Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026?
Defense feature: Not listed → voice and video meetings, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Rocket.Chat change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Rocket.Chat in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Rocket.Chat rebrands Enterprise tier to Commercial in plan lineup" on May 25, 2026; Rocket.Chat has been tracked since 2026-04-26.