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Wire vs Zulip: which is more reliable? (2026)
Wire and Zulip are effectively tied on reliability (99.6 vs 100.0). Over the last 90 days Wire reported 1 incident and Zulip reported 0, with effective uptime of 100% and 100% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Wire | Zulip |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 99.6 | 100.0 |
| Rank (team chat apps) | #7 | #5 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 100% | 100% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 1 | 0 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | — | — |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Wire and Zulip differ
- Zulip reported no incidents in the last 90 days, while Wire reported 1.
- Wire's longest outage on record lasted 1d (Apr 23, 2026); Zulip's lasted 3h 55m (Mar 26, 2026).
90-day uptime
Wire
Zulip
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Wire incidents
- MaintenanceSep 17, 2026 · ongoing
Affected: Wire Cloud Web and Desktop, Wire iOS App, Account Management, App Websocket, Backend API, Team Management Dashboard +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
Recent Zulip incidents
No incidents reported by Zulip in the last 90 days.
Other team chat apps to consider
- Element · #1 · 100% uptime
- Flock · #2 · 100% uptime
- Mattermost · #3 · 100% uptime
- Twist · #4 · 100% uptime