CryptPad
by CryptPad · End-to-end encrypted, open-source collaborative office suite
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Overview
CryptPad is an open-source collaborative office suite that is end-to-end encrypted and supports real-time editing. Its apps cover rich text, sheets, code/Markdown, presentations, kanban, diagrams and forms. You can use a free account on a public instance, take a paid plan on the CryptPad.fr flagship instance run by XWiki SAS, or self-host using the documentation.
- Best for
- Teams wanting collaborative documents kept end-to-end encrypted, hosted publicly or self-run
- Pricing
- Free accounts on public instances and documented self-hosting; paid plans on the CryptPad.fr flagship instance are shown as €5 to €100/month, while a fully managed or on-premise instance from XWiki SAS starts at €1.5K/year, with enterprise tiers from €3,000/year to €25,000/year and 50% off for education and nonprofits.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- End-to-end encrypted, open-source and self-hostable
- Free account available on public instances
- Apps for text, sheets, code, slides, kanban, diagrams, forms
- Real-time editing and collaboration
Trade-offs
- Flagship paid plans only shown as a €5–€100/month range
- Managed or on-premise instance starts at €1.5K/year
- Entry enterprise tier caps at 50 users and 100GB storage
- Critical-issue response times quoted as 1–2 days
How CryptPad markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on CryptPad’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Collaboration and privacy”
- Angle: Security / trust-led
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from CryptPad’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The CryptPad pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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