Both pitch self-hosted, open-source replacements for your SaaS stack: Puter's Everything project rebuilds Office, Zoom, Slack, Photoshop and AutoCAD from scratch as separate MIT apps, while Nextcloud Hub bundles office, chat, file sync and calls into one mature platform used by millions. Anyone picking a self-hosted Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace alternative weighs these two.
The verdict
Pick The Everything Project if you want free MIT source for dozens of app categories, including creative and CAD tools, to adapt piece by piece, even if some are demo-less and early.
Pick Nextcloud Hub if you need a production-ready, integrated office, chat and video suite today, with enterprise support and a vendor used by governments at scale.
At a glance
| The Everything Project | Nextcloud Hub | |
|---|---|---|
| Price and licensing | free, MIT, no paid tier | free self-host; from €71/user/yr |
| Setup and hosting | clone + npm per app | one Docker command |
| Breadth vs maturity | most categories, many demo-less | fewer apps, production-proven |
| Who's behind it | Canadian startup, ~7 staff | German firm, since 2016 |
Side by side
Price and licensing
The Everything Project: Every Everything app is released free under the MIT license with no subscription, hosted paywall, or enterprise tier offered by HeyPuter.
Nextcloud Hub: Nextcloud's self-hosted Community edition is free with full features, but its Enterprise support subscriptions start at €71.29 per user per year and require a minimum of 100 users.
Setup and hosting
The Everything Project: Each app lives in its own folder; running one locally means Node.js 22.12+, then git clone, npm install and npm run dev per app, with no shared backend linking them together.
Nextcloud Hub: Nextcloud All-in-One starts the whole office-plus-chat server with a single docker run command, though Talk's video calls recommend adding a TURN server for reliable connections.
Breadth vs maturity
The Everything Project: The README lists nine categories reaching into Photoshop, AutoCAD, SolidWorks and music-production alternatives that Nextcloud has nothing like, but Photo Studio, Video Studio, Vector Studio and 3D Studio all still show source code only with no live demo.
Nextcloud Hub has no creative or CAD apps, but its office, chat and file-sync core is a decade old and runs on over 400,000 servers, including rollouts to hundreds of thousands of French and German government staff.
Who's behind it
The Everything project comes from Puter Technologies, a Canada-based startup founded in 2022 with roughly seven employees and one undisclosed pre-seed round from Accel Starters, Shilling Capital and others.
Nextcloud Hub: Nextcloud GmbH is a German company headquartered in Stuttgart, founded in 2016 by Frank Karlitschek (who earlier founded ownCloud), and now markets itself as the sovereign European alternative to Microsoft 365.
Links
- The Everything Project: https://github.com/HeyPuter/everything
- Nextcloud Hub: https://nextcloud.com
- This comparison on Telegram: https://t.me/SkipCI/339
FAQ
When should I pick The Everything Project over Nextcloud Hub?
Pick The Everything Project if you want free MIT source for dozens of app categories, including creative and CAD tools, to adapt piece by piece, even if some are demo-less and early.
When should I pick Nextcloud Hub over The Everything Project?
Pick Nextcloud Hub if you need a production-ready, integrated office, chat and video suite today, with enterprise support and a vendor used by governments at scale.
Sources
- https://github.com/HeyPuter/everything
- https://nextcloud.com/pricing/
- https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one
- https://nextcloud.com/talk/
- https://nextcloud.com/blog/digital-sovereignty-gains-momentum-millions-of-new-enterprise-users/
- https://www.bouncewatch.com/explore/startup/puter
- https://theorg.com/org/nextcloud/org-chart/frank-karlitschek