Team Chat Apps · reliability comparison
Discord vs Wire: which is more reliable? (2026)
Wire is more reliable than Discord, scoring 99.6 vs 62.0 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Discord reported 19 incidents and Wire reported 1, with effective uptime of 99.40% and 100% respectively.
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Discord | Wire |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 62.0 | 99.6 |
| Rank (team chat apps) | #11 | #8 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.40% | 100% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 19 | 1 |
| Partial / major outages | 14 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 34m | — |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Discord and Wire differ
- Discord reported 19× as many incidents as Wire over the last 90 days (19 vs 1).
- Discord had 14 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Wire.
- Discord's longest outage on record lasted 6h 17m (Oct 31, 2026); Wire's lasted 1d (Apr 23, 2026).
90-day uptime
Discord
Wire
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Discord incidents
- Partial outageOct 31, 2026 · resolved in 6h 17m
- Partial outageOct 30, 2026 · resolved in 55m
- Degraded performanceOct 1, 2026 · resolved in 1h 5m
Affected: API, Media Proxy
- Partial outageSep 24, 2026 · resolved in 1h 24m
Age group status mismatch across devices
Affected: Android
- Partial outageSep 17, 2026 · resolved in 2h 21m
Issue / Delay in establishing call connectionofficial update ↗
- Partial outageSep 16, 2026 · resolved in 1h 2m
Recent Wire incidents
- MaintenanceSep 17, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Wire Android App, Wire Cloud Web and Desktop, Wire iOS App, Account Management, App Websocket, Backend API +1 more
- InformationalSep 14, 2026 · resolved in 1h 21m
- MaintenanceSep 8, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Conference Calling
- MaintenanceAug 17, 2026 · ongoing
Wire Cloud Production cluster version upgrade
Affected: App Websocket, Backend API, Federation, Service API, Team Management Dashboard
- MaintenanceAug 17, 2026 · ongoing
Wire cloud calling cluster version upgrade
Affected: Conference Calling
Other team chat apps to consider
- Element · #1 · 100% uptime
- Flock · #2 · 100% uptime
- Mattermost · #3 · 100% uptime
- Rocket.Chat · #4 · 100% uptime