Technology answer

Element

82

companies run it, <0.01% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 443 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, <0.01%. A host is a website, not a company.

Companies by month

No published series

82 companies is under the publication floor of 1,000, and the fixed panel anchored at 31 Dec 2020 carries 22 of them. A monthly line drawn off that many observations would be noise at the same weight as a line off millions, so this page states the count and its date and publishes no series.

First discovered 16 Oct 2023, last discovered 10 Sept 2026.

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 82each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator

Companies

Share

companies in the index

54,527,857

<0.01%

companies running anything in Live Chat and Messaging

3,137,933

<0.01%

companies running anything in Team messaging software

139

withheld

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, Element is rank 1 of 2 technologies in Team messaging software.

Open as a segment

82 companies; add a country, a sector or a band on the segment page. Counting is free.

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Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 10 Sept 2026

Element is an open-source Matrix-based team messaging and chat platform with hosted and self-hosted options.

Made by Element, it provides secure messaging, rooms, and federation over the Matrix protocol and can be embedded for website chat. Organizations use it for team communication and community chat, either hosted or on-premises.

Kindproduct

VendorElement, element.io

PathCustomer Engagement and Support > Live Chat and Messaging > Team messaging software

Slugelement

Deploymenthybrid

Pricingfreemium, subscription

Open sourceyes

First discovered2023-10-16

Last discovered2026-09-10

Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10

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Subcategory answerTeam messaging softwareCompanies running anything in Team messaging software, 139 of 54,527,857 in the index, and the technologies ranked in it.Category answerLive Chat and MessagingThe category above this one, with its subcategories and the companies in each.CatalogueAll 8,177 technologiesRanked by the companies running them, with the publication gate named and the long tail drawn.