Team Chat Apps · reliability comparison
Element vs Wire: which is more reliable? (2026)
Element and Wire are effectively tied on reliability (100.0 vs 99.6). Over the last 90 days Element reported 0 incidents and Wire reported 1, with effective uptime of 100% and 100% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Element | Wire |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 100.0 | 99.6 |
| Rank (team chat apps) | #1 | #7 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 100% | 100% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 0 | 1 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | — | — |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Element and Wire differ
- Element reported no incidents in the last 90 days, while Wire reported 1.
- Element's longest outage on record lasted 18h 18m (Nov 18, 2025); Wire's lasted 1d (Apr 23, 2026).
90-day uptime
Element
Wire
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Element incidents
- Partial outageJan 29, 2025 · ongoing
Element One Telegram bridge Matrix to Telegram direction media intermittent failures
Affected: Telegram, Element One
Recent Wire incidents
- MaintenanceSep 17, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Wire iOS App, Account Management, App Websocket, Backend API, Team Management Dashboard, Wire Android App +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: Service API, Team Management Dashboard, App Websocket, Backend API, Federation
- MaintenanceAug 17, 2026 · ongoing
Wire cloud calling cluster version upgrade
Affected: Conference Calling
Other team chat apps to consider
- Flock · #2 · 100% uptime
- Mattermost · #3 · 100% uptime
- Twist · #4 · 100% uptime
- Zulip · #5 · 100% uptime