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CryptPad vs Collabora Online

Pick Collabora if you want the MPL LibreOffice-based editor Nextcloud Office can wrap. Pick CryptPad if you want an AGPL-3.0 end-to-end-encrypted pad.

Facts checked 21 Oct 2026. License, language, and GitHub activity come from the catalog or the project's own repo. "Not in the catalog row" means the public catalog dump does not store that number.

CryptPad in the catalog Collabora Online in the catalog Start on Railway

How they compare

CryptPadCollabora Online
LicenseAGPL-3.0 (catalog) sourceMPL as already named on /replace/google-docs; GitHub license field is unset source
LanguageJavaScript (catalog) Shell (catalog)
GitHub activity8,022 stars in the catalog source3,381 stars in the catalog source
Self-hostEncrypted pads. Official docs at cryptpad.org. Named on /stacks/onlyoffice-collabora. Nextcloud Office can wrap it.
Best forE2EE pads. LibreOffice-based OOXML next to Nextcloud.

Self-hosting and resource needs

Both sit next to ONLYOFFICE on /best/office-suites. Collabora is the Nextcloud Office wrap. CryptPad is a different job. The published Microsoft 365 / Slides stack remains ONLYOFFICE — /compare/onlyoffice-vs-collabora.

FAQ

Why not ONLYOFFICE?
ONLYOFFICE is the published stack — /compare/onlyoffice-vs-collabora and /compare/onlyoffice-vs-cryptpad.
Is this Google Drive?
No. Drive is Nextcloud — /replace/google-drive.
Are these free?
CryptPad is AGPL-3.0. Collabora Online is MPL as already named on /replace/google-docs. You pay hosting.
How do I deploy Collabora?
Open /stacks/onlyoffice-collabora or wrap it from /stacks/nextcloud-files.

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