Fluxer
by Fluxer · Open-source messaging, voice and video for groups and communities
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Overview
Fluxer is a free, open-source instant messaging and VoIP app covering direct messages, group chats and community channels, with Markdown, file sharing and link previews. Calls support screen sharing, noise suppression, echo cancellation and joining from several devices, routed through sixteen voice regions. Communities get roles, permissions, moderation tools, audit logs and bot or webhook integrations.
- Best for
- Friends, groups and communities wanting a free, open-source chat app with voice, video and self-hosting
- Pricing
- The captured page states the app is free and open source (AGPLv3) and asks for donations; no prices are shown, including for the Plutonium tier.
- Runs on
- AndroidmacOSWindowsLinuxSelf-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Free and open source under AGPLv3, with self-hosting supported
- Voice and video with screen sharing and noise suppression
- Roles, permissions, audit logs, webhooks and bot support
- Over thirty languages and sixteen voice regions
Trade-offs
- Labelled public beta, so features and stability may still change
- Self-hosting works with the desktop client only; mobile is 'coming soon'
- The paid Plutonium tier is linked but not described on the homepage
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Fluxer’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.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
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.
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 Fluxer 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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