# Binadit Workspace

> The Dutch alternative to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365: mail, calendar, Drive, Office and Meet on servers in the Netherlands, under European law.

Binadit Workspace is a hosted suite for companies: mail, calendar, contacts, Drive (file sync and sharing), Office (documents in the browser), Meet (video meetings), Book (booking pages) and Receive (secure inbound files). Everything runs on servers in the Netherlands operated by Binadit B.V. in Rotterdam. Website: https://binadit.work (available in 34 languages, English at https://binadit.work/en/).

## Where the data lives

- Servers: The Netherlands
- Operated by: Binadit B.V., Rotterdam
- Ownership: 100% Dutch
- Applicable law: European
- US Cloud Act: Not applicable
- Suppliers outside the EU: None
- GDPR: Processing agreement under European law

## Products

- **Mail and calendar**: Mail, calendar and contacts on your own domain. A mailbox with calendar and contacts, in the webmail or in the mail program you already use. On your own domain, with security set up properly from day one.
- **Drive**: Sync, share and safely receive files. Your files on a server in the Netherlands, synchronised with your Mac. Sharing is a link. Receiving works too: someone outside your company sends you a file safely, without an account and without an email attachment.
- **Meet**: Video meetings, no account needed for your guests. Start a meeting from your calendar or with one click on meet.binadit.work. Whoever receives the link joins in the browser, without an account. In the meeting you share your screen, or a document from Drive that everyone edits together while you talk.
- **Book**: A booking page for every mailbox. Let customers pick a time themselves, as with Calendly, but across all your calendars and mailboxes and without any integration work. The appointment lands straight in your calendar, with a Meet link.
- **Receive**: Receive confidential files from anyone, safely. A page on your own address where clients, counterparties and applicants hand you files. No account, no app, no attachment in the mail. Everything is encrypted in their browser before it leaves and is deleted again after the retention period. The replacement for Cryptshare, included with Drive.
- **Office**: Documents, spreadsheets and presentations in the browser. Write, calculate and present together in the browser, on files that stay on Binadit Drive. Built on Collabora Online, the European office suite based on LibreOffice, so nothing leaves your Workspace.
- **Northmail**: Our own mail program for macOS and Windows. A free mail program with calendar and contacts, laid out like classic Outlook. Made for Binadit Workspace, but it also works with Exchange and Gmail.
- **Conserio**: Business chat, instead of Slack or Teams. Channels, direct messages and threads for your whole company, with calls through Meet and files from Drive. One login with your mail account, data in the Netherlands, and one price per company instead of per person.

## Pricing (per month, excluding VAT, cancel monthly, valid from 2026-10-01)

- Mailbox, per account (calendar, contacts, webmail, Northmail, Meet and Book included): 2 GB €2.95, 5 GB €3.95, 10 GB €4.95, 25 GB €5.95, 50 GB €7.95, 100 GB €10.95.
- Drive pool, per company (one storage pool for the personal drives of all accounts with Drive; Office in the browser included): 250 GB €9, 500 GB €15, 1 TB €25, 2 TB €40, 5 TB €75, 10 TB €120, 20 TB €200, 50 TB €450, 100 TB €800. Above 100 TB: own Drive server, €250 per month plus €7 per TB.
- Team Drive, per company (shared folders everyone sees, own storage next to the pool): 1 TB €29, 2 TB €45, 5 TB €85, 10 TB €140, 20 TB €240, 50 TB €500, 100 TB €900.
- Receive, per company (secure inbound file transfer, priced by inbox storage, retention at most 30 days): 50 GB €29, 250 GB €59, 1 TB €129, 5 TB €349.
- Conserio chat, per company regardless of the number of users: 6 months of history free, 12 months of history €49.95, 24 months of history €89.95, 36 months of history €129.95.
- Mail and Drive storage are never pooled together. Team Drive and Receive never count against the Drive pool. Storage is counted in logical bytes.
- Machine-readable: https://binadit.work/pricing.json. Calculator and comparison with Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Proton: https://binadit.work/en/pricing/

## Pages

- [Home](https://binadit.work/en/): overview, where the data lives, why not Google or Microsoft, how to start
- [Pricing](https://binadit.work/en/pricing/): all prices, a cost calculator and the comparison with Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Proton
- [Compare](https://binadit.work/en/compare/): feature-by-feature comparison with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Proton
- [Binadit vs Nextcloud packages](https://binadit.work/en/nextcloud/): Many European office suites are Nextcloud with a new logo. Binadit built Drive, Receive, Northmail and Conserio itself, and everything is live today.
- [Nextcloud alternative](https://binadit.work/en/nextcloud-alternative/): Looking for a Nextcloud alternative? Binadit Workspace includes mail, Drive, documents, meetings and chat, and we keep it running for you.
- [Blog](https://binadit.work/en/blog/): articles on GDPR transfers outside the EEA, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, US tech dependence and European alternatives (English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish)
- [Binadit Drive](https://binadit.work/en/drive/): file sync for macOS, Windows and Linux, built by Binadit; iPhone and iPad app in the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6817367614
- [Northmail](https://binadit.work/en/northmail/): free mail, calendar and contacts program for macOS, Windows and Linux
- [Binadit Receive](https://binadit.work/en/receive/): receive confidential files safely without an account for the sender
- [Binadit Conserio](https://binadit.work/en/conserio/): business chat instead of Slack or Teams, one price per company
- [Downloads](https://binadit.work/en/downloads/): signed apps with release history and checksums; catalog at https://binadit.work/releases/index.json
- [Full text for language models](https://binadit.work/llms-full.txt)

## Company

- Company: Binadit B.V.
- Address: Seinhuiswachter 2, 3034 KH Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Chamber of Commerce: 80923216
- Ownership: 100% Dutch
- Built on: Stalwart for mail and calendar, Jitsi for meetings, our own software for Drive, Book and Northmail. Everything open or our own, nothing from an American supplier.
- Support: support@binadit.com
- Contact: support@binadit.com, +31 10 477 53 62, https://binadit.com/contact

Languages of this site: Български (https://binadit.work/bg/), Bosanski (https://binadit.work/bs/), Català (https://binadit.work/ca/), Čeština (https://binadit.work/cs/), Dansk (https://binadit.work/da/), Deutsch (https://binadit.work/de/), Ελληνικά (https://binadit.work/el/), English (https://binadit.work/en/), Español (https://binadit.work/es/), Eesti (https://binadit.work/et/), Suomi (https://binadit.work/fi/), Français (https://binadit.work/fr/), Gaeilge (https://binadit.work/ga/), Hrvatski (https://binadit.work/hr/), Magyar (https://binadit.work/hu/), Íslenska (https://binadit.work/is/), Italiano (https://binadit.work/it/), Lietuvių (https://binadit.work/lt/), Latviešu (https://binadit.work/lv/), Македонски (https://binadit.work/mk/), Malti (https://binadit.work/mt/), Norsk (https://binadit.work/nb/), Nederlands (https://binadit.work/nl/), Polski (https://binadit.work/pl/), Português (https://binadit.work/pt/), Română (https://binadit.work/ro/), Русский (https://binadit.work/ru/), Slovenčina (https://binadit.work/sk/), Slovenščina (https://binadit.work/sl/), Shqip (https://binadit.work/sq/), Српски (https://binadit.work/sr/), Svenska (https://binadit.work/sv/), Türkçe (https://binadit.work/tr/), Українська (https://binadit.work/uk/).

## Home page

Mail, calendar, drive and meetings. On Dutch servers, under European law.

Binadit Workspace is the alternative to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 for companies that want to keep their data in Europe. One login, your own domain, and nothing that falls under American law.

### Why not just Google or Microsoft

Because your data then falls under American law, even when it sits in a European data centre. For many companies, and certainly for anyone handling customers' personal data, that is no longer a side issue.

- Headquarters and ownership: Google Workspace and Microsoft 365: United States. Binadit Workspace: Rotterdam, 100% Dutch.
- US Cloud Act: Google Workspace and Microsoft 365: Applies. An American company must hand over data on the order of an American court, even from a European data centre.. Binadit Workspace: Not applicable. Binadit falls under European law only..
- Where your data lives: Google Workspace and Microsoft 365: In a European region, managed and accessible from the United States.. Binadit Workspace: In the Netherlands. Managed from Rotterdam..
- Suppliers outside the EU: Google Workspace and Microsoft 365: Part of the service.. Binadit Workspace: None. Every server sits in a Dutch data centre and is run by Binadit itself..
- GDPR: Google Workspace and Microsoft 365: Processing agreement under foreign law, with transfer to the United States.. Binadit Workspace: Processing agreement under European law, with no transfer outside the EU..

- **Out of reach of the Cloud Act**: The US Cloud Act applies to American companies, wherever their servers are. Binadit is a Dutch company without an American parent, and the software runs on servers we operate ourselves. There is no party in the chain bound by that law.
- **GDPR compliant**: You sign a processing agreement under European law. There is no transfer to a third country, so no dependence on the Data Privacy Framework or on standard clauses that may be invalid tomorrow.
- **Dutch ownership, European hosting**: Binadit B.V. is entirely in Dutch hands. Mail, drive, meetings and scheduling run on servers in the Netherlands, in data centres of European companies. No subcontractor in the United States, not even for a small part.

### Start today

Create an account on my.binadit.com and order Workspace for your domain. Is your domain registered with Binadit, or do we manage its DNS? Then we put the records for mail, security and certificates in place for you, and you are up and running the same day.

- **Your account**: Create an account on my.binadit.com, add your company and choose Workspace. No card needed to start; you get a quote with it.
- **Your domain and DNS**: A domain registered with Binadit, or with its DNS in our hands, is ready in minutes: MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, autoconfig and the certificate names are placed for you. Is your domain elsewhere? Point its nameservers to Binadit, or set the records we give you.
- **Your people**: Create mailboxes, shared mailboxes and drive accounts in the portal, or let us do it and help move existing mail and files. Then sign in: the webmail, Northmail, Drive and Meet share one login.

### DNS that does more than store records

Every Workspace domain lives in the Binadit DNS tool, part of my.binadit.com. It was built for people who manage many domains and cannot afford a typo, which is why it does things other DNS panels leave out.

- **Every change is a version**: Each save creates a version. Made a mistake? Restore the previous one with one click, and the restore itself is logged too.
- **Scheduled changes**: Prepare a change now and let it go live at a moment you choose, such as switching the MX records to Workspace on Friday at 22:00, when nobody is mailing.
- **Templates**: Save the records of a domain as a template and apply it to the next domain. Templates are grouped, so a Workspace domain is set up the same way every time.
- **Search and replace across domains**: Change an IP address or a hostname in all your domains at once, or edit several domains in one go. Every affected domain gets its own version.
- **Copy, import and export**: Copy the records of another domain, import from Cloudflare or a zone file, and export whenever you want. Nothing is locked in.
- **Workspace records ready-made**: MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, autoconfig and the names for the certificates: the tool knows what Workspace needs and puts it in place without retyping.

## Binadit Drive

A sync drive built from the ground up by Binadit: one program on a server in the Netherlands or on your own Linux server, and your folders in the Finder as if they were local. No licence per user, no Docker, no American cloud in between.

### What makes it different

- **Built by ourselves, from the first line**: No Nextcloud, no Synology, no rebranded cloud. The server, the sync engine and the apps are Binadit's own code, written in Rust. That is why it is fast, why it runs on one small server, and why nobody else has a key.
- **Files on demand in the Finder**: Your folders appear in the Finder with a cloud icon. A file is fetched the moment you open it and stays local if you pin it. A laptop with a small disk holds a drive of terabytes.
- **Only what changed is sent**: Files are cut into chunks with a fingerprint. Change one page of a large document and only that piece travels. Identical chunks are stored once, so a copied folder costs no extra space.
- **Share with a link that expires**: A read link for a file or folder, valid for as long as you choose, 30 days at most. Team folders give colleagues rights per folder, with a quota of their own.
- **Receive files safely**: Binadit Receive lets anyone send you large files without an account. Names and contents are encrypted in the browser before they leave, the password never travels with the mail, and everything is deleted after the retention period.
- **Versions, trash and a search that reads**: Every change is a version you can restore; deleted files wait in the trash. Search looks inside PDF, Word and Excel files, on the server, so it is just as fast from your phone.

### Under the hood

- Server: One Rust binary with PostgreSQL, Let's Encrypt built in, no reverse proxy, no Docker
- Storage: Content-addressed chunks, deduplicated and compressed, on local volumes with an optional S3 tier
- Encryption: AES-256-GCM per chunk at rest; the key stays on the server, disks and backups hold nothing readable
- Clients: macOS with File Provider and Windows now; Linux, iOS and Android are in development on the same core
- Management: Web portal per server, admin API, audit log, quotas per account and per service
- Where: Binadit's shared server in the Netherlands, or your own server, managed by Binadit

### How it works

- **Sign in once**: Install the app, sign in with your Workspace account or a Drive account, and your drive appears in the Finder. Several servers and accounts side by side is fine.
- **Work as you always did**: Save, rename, move: the Finder is your interface. Changes reach the server within seconds and every other device shortly after.
- **Share and receive from the portal**: Links, team folders, versions and Binadit Receive live in the web portal, in the same style as the rest of Workspace.

## Northmail

Three panes, dense rows, keyboard shortcuts you already know, and every account as an equal: Workspace, Exchange and Gmail side by side. Free, without ads, with an assistant that runs on your own computer and never sends a word out.

### What makes it different

- **AI that never leaves your computer**: The assistant runs locally, with an open model you download once. Rewrite a selection in another tone or language, turn a few keywords into a draft, get reply suggestions. No mail, prompt or index ever goes to a cloud, and nothing is sent without you seeing it first.
- **Classic Outlook, 2026 edition**: Folder tree per account, message list and reading pane, reading pane where you want it, the shortcuts you remember. Dense by default, so a whole day fits on one screen.
- **Every account is a peer**: Binadit Workspace, on-premises Exchange and Gmail in one window, each with its own folders, calendar and contacts. No primary account, no compromise.
- **Move anything anywhere**: Drag a folder of five thousand messages from Exchange into Workspace and it arrives complete, with dates, flags and attachments intact. The transfer resumes after a lost connection and reports what it did.
- **Offline first**: Your mail, calendars and contacts are stored on your computer for the sync window you choose. Search, read, write and organise on the train; it syncs when you are back.
- **Finds your settings itself**: Type your address and Northmail finds the server. Passwords go into the system keychain, updates are signed and come from binadit.work.

### Under the hood

- Core: Rust: the store, sync and transfer engine; the interface runs in a native window
- Protocols: JMAP for Workspace, IMAP and SMTP, Exchange Web Services for on-premises Exchange, Gmail
- AI: Local llama.cpp runtime with Gemma models from Hugging Face, verified with a checksum, opt-in, removable
- Privacy: No telemetry, no account with Northmail, no remote images unless you allow them
- Platforms: macOS 13 and newer, and Windows 10 and newer
- Price: Free, for everyone, without ads or upsell

### How it works

- **Add an account**: Enter your email address. Workspace accounts are detected automatically; Exchange and Gmail take a minute more.
- **Mail arrives in the background**: Headers first, then the bodies, for the window you chose. Everything stays on your computer, encrypted by your system.
- **Switch on the assistant if you like**: After the first account Northmail asks once. Choose a model that fits your computer, wait for the download, and it works, even without internet.

## Binadit Conserio

Conserio is the chat of Binadit Workspace: channels, direct messages and threads, instant search, and calls through Meet. One login with your mail account, data on our own servers in the Netherlands, and one price per company, however many people join.

### What makes it different

- **One price per company**: Slack and Teams charge per person, every month. Conserio is free with 6 months of history and costs a fixed amount per month for longer history, whether you have 5 or 500 people.
- **Several companies in one app**: Work for more than one company? Connect them all and switch with Cmd or Ctrl plus a number. An All view collects your direct messages and mentions from every company.
- **Part of your Workspace**: Sign in with your mail account. A call opens Binadit Meet, files come from the Team Drive, your status follows your calendar, and you plan a meeting with free/busy and a Meet link from the chat.
- **Leave Slack without rebuilding**: Slack incoming webhooks, slash commands, the Events API and Bolt apps work against Conserio. Monitoring, CI and n8n flows keep running: change the address, keep the code.
- **Small, fast and offline**: A native app of a few megabytes instead of a browser in disguise. It starts in a third of a second, keeps a local copy of your messages, and sends what you wrote offline exactly once when the connection is back.
- **Your data stays here**: Messages live on Binadit's own servers in the Netherlands, without a subcontractor for their content. Push notifications are encrypted so that Apple and Google cannot read them.

### Everything a team chat needs

- Public and private channels, direct messages and group conversations
- Threads with their own unread state, reactions and mentions of people, groups or the whole channel
- Edit, delete, pin, save with a reminder, forward and quote
- Formatting, code blocks with highlighting and link previews
- Instant search with filters for person, channel, file and date, across all your companies
- Status, do not disturb with working hours, notifications per channel and keywords
- Calls and screen sharing through Binadit Meet, with ringing in direct messages
- Files from the Team Drive, never a second copy in the chat
- Webhooks, bots and the Slack-compatible API for your own tools
- Roles, guests, blocking a user, export per company and per person, audit log

### History you choose, and that really disappears

Every company keeps 6 months of chat history for free. Need more, for your records or for compliance? Choose 12, 24 or 36 months for one fixed price per month. Older messages are deleted for good, on the server and on every device; Conserio does not hide them behind a paywall like Slack does.

### Under the hood

- Apps: Native for macOS and Windows (Tauri, a few megabytes), iPhone (SwiftUI) and Android (Kotlin), all on one shared Rust core
- Server: One Rust program, tested with 50,000 open connections and 1,000 messages per second
- Login: OpenID Connect with your Binadit mail account; Conserio never sees your password
- Data: On Binadit's own servers in the Netherlands, encrypted in transit (TLS 1.3); no end-to-end encryption, so search, export and retention work for your company
- Own server: A larger company can get its own Conserio server on its own address

### Honest about what is not there yet

- No browser version yet; that comes after the apps
- Shared channels with other companies and an import from Slack or Teams are planned, not built
- Audio and video run through Binadit Meet, not inside the chat itself

## Binadit Receive

Give clients, counterparties and applicants one address where they hand you files. No account, no app, no attachment in the mail. The files are encrypted in their browser before they leave, land with the right colleague, and disappear again when you say so.

### Made for offices that receive sensitive material every day

- **Law firms**: Case files, evidence and signed agreements arrive from clients and opposing counsel without a 40 MB attachment bouncing. Every transfer is addressed to one lawyer and is gone after the retention period.
- **Accountants and auditors**: Bank statements, payroll data and annual figures come in through one page on your own domain, encrypted before they leave the client's computer, instead of by mail.
- **Supervisors and public bodies**: Reports, notifications and requested documents from the organisations you supervise, on a server in the Netherlands, with an overview of what came in and when it expires.
- **Anyone still mailing attachments**: HR receives applications, notaries receive identity documents, agencies receive artwork. If it is too big or too sensitive for mail, it belongs here.

### How it works

- **Share your Receive address**: Your office gets a page such as drive.binadit.work/send/your-firm. Put it on your website, in your mail signature, in the engagement letter.
- **The sender picks a colleague and drops the files**: They choose an address on your domain, select files or a whole folder, and the browser generates a strong password. Names and contents are encrypted right there, before anything is sent.
- **The password goes another way**: Your colleague receives a mail with a download link. The password is not in it: the sender passes it on by phone, text message or in person. Nobody at Binadit or in your own IT department can read what was sent.
- **Download, then it is gone**: Your colleague opens the link, types the password and saves the files straight to disk. After the retention period, 14 days unless you choose otherwise, the server deletes everything.

### What makes it different

- **Encrypted before it leaves**: The browser encrypts every file with its own key and wraps the file list in a password-protected container, using the open age format. The server receives opaque bytes and knows only the recipient's address and the sizes.
- **The password is nobody's to find**: It is never stored, never mailed and cannot be reset. Lose it and the transfer is unreadable, for you and for us. That is the point.
- **Only your people can receive**: Your administrator lists the exact domains that may receive. A sender cannot send to a private address or a typo. The list is checked again when the mail goes out.
- **Large files, whole folders**: Up to 100 files and 10 GB in one transfer, uploaded in resumable pieces. A dropped connection continues where it stopped, in the same tab.
- **Visible, revocable, gone**: Every transfer shows who received it, how big it was, when it expires and whether the mail went out. One click revokes the link. After the retention period the server deletes the files itself.
- **Part of Drive, no extra product**: Receive lives in the Drive web portal your team already uses, with the same login and the same servers. It works whether or not you sync files with Drive.

### Under the hood

- Encryption: age (X25519 and ChaCha20-Poly1305): a fresh key per file, the file list in a passphrase-protected container; standard age, no home-made cryptography
- What the server knows: Company, recipient address, file identifiers and ciphertext lengths. No names, no contents, no password
- Links: Upload and download capabilities of at least 256 random bits, never in a URL, referrer, cookie or log
- Limits: 100 files and 10 GB per transfer, 1 MB resumable chunks, a storage quota per inbox, retention 1 to 30 days
- Notification: One durable mail per transfer from a fixed sender, with a stable Message-ID; a failed mail can be retried
- Browser: Sending works in any current browser; downloading writes straight to disk in Chrome or Edge on the desktop

## Binadit Workspace compared

Side by side with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Proton. Not on price or on the number of features, but on the questions that decide where your data ends up and who can get at it.

Status as of September 2026, checked against each provider's own documentation. Spotted a mistake? Write to support@binadit.com and we will correct it.

| Aspect | Binadit Workspace | Microsoft 365 | Google Workspace | Proton |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headquarters and ownership | Rotterdam, 100% Dutch-owned | Redmond, United States | Mountain View, United States | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Law that applies to the provider | European law | US law | US law | Swiss law; Switzerland is not an EU member |
| US Cloud Act | Not applicable | Applies | Applies | Not applicable |
| Where your data is stored | The Netherlands, in data centres of European companies | EU region selectable; managed from the United States | EU region selectable; managed from the United States | Switzerland, Germany or Norway |
| Processing agreement (GDPR) | Under European law, no transfer outside the EU | Under foreign law, with transfer to the United States | Under foreign law, with transfer to the United States | Under Swiss law |
| Works with any mail program (IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV) | Yes, all standard protocols, plus JMAP | IMAP yes; calendar and contacts only through Exchange protocols | Yes, IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV | Only through Proton Mail Bridge on paid plans; no CalDAV or CardDAV |
| Own desktop mail program | Northmail, free, for macOS and Windows | Outlook | Web only | Proton Mail desktop app |
| Files synced to your computer | Drive for macOS and Windows | OneDrive | Google Drive for desktop | Proton Drive for Windows and macOS |
| Documents, spreadsheets and presentations in the browser, edited together | Office on Drive, built on Collabora Online | Word, Excel and PowerPoint for the web | Docs, Sheets and Slides | Proton Docs, documents only |
| Receive files from outsiders safely, without an account | Yes, with Binadit Receive | Yes, OneDrive file requests | No | No |
| Video meetings, guests without an account | Meet, in the browser, on Dutch servers | Teams | Google Meet | Proton Meet |
| Booking page for appointments | Book, included with every mailbox | Microsoft Bookings, in most business plans | Appointment schedules in Google Calendar | Not available |
| End-to-end encryption of mail | No; encrypted in transit and at rest on the server | No | No | Yes, between Proton users |
| Run it on your own server | Yes, on your own Linux server, managed by Binadit | No | No | No |
| Support | One fixed contact who knows your setup, through support@binadit.com | Ticket portal and partners | Ticket portal and partners | Ticket by email |

- Price. Binadit Workspace is priced per mailbox and per company: see the pricing page, with a calculator and this same comparison in euros.
- Office programs. Binadit Office edits Word, Excel and PowerPoint files in the browser, together, on files that stay in Drive; it is built on Collabora Online (LibreOffice). Anyone who prefers a desktop program keeps using it, with Drive syncing the files.
- Proton is a serious choice for anyone who wants end-to-end encryption above all else. The price of that is that standard mail programs and calendar apps only work through extra software, and that support and contracts fall under Swiss rather than EU law.

## Not another Nextcloud with a different logo

Most European alternatives to Microsoft 365 run Nextcloud under the bonnet. Binadit built the key parts itself, connects the rest with one login, and runs every server in the Netherlands.

| Aspect | Binadit Workspace | Typical Nextcloud package |
|---|---|---|
| Files and sync | Binadit Drive, our own platform written in Rust, with files on demand in Finder and File Explorer | Nextcloud with the provider's name and colours |
| What is available | Mail, calendar, Drive, documents, meetings, booking pages, Receive and chat, all live now | Often file storage first, with other parts labelled coming soon |
| Email | Our own mail servers plus Northmail, a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux | Webmail, or a separate mail provider alongside |
| Login | One login for mail, Drive, documents, meetings and chat | Separate apps, often with separate logins |
| Receiving confidential files | Binadit Receive, encrypted in the sender's browser, instead of Cryptshare | An upload link in the file share |
| Business chat | Conserio, one price per company, several companies in one app | Nextcloud Talk, or a separate subscription |
| Who runs it | Binadit B.V. builds the software and runs the servers in Dutch data centres itself | Often a chain of software maker, reseller and hosting party |
| Pricing | Per mailbox by size, Drive once for the whole company | Usually one price per user for everything |

### What we built ourselves

- **Binadit Drive**: A sync platform of our own, not a modified Nextcloud. Files appear in Finder and File Explorer and only download when you open them. Team folders have their own storage.
- **Binadit Receive**: Clients deliver confidential files without an account or an email attachment. Encrypted in their browser, deleted after the retention period.
- **Northmail**: Our own mail program for macOS, Windows and Linux, in the style of classic Outlook. It also works with Exchange and Gmail, so you can switch step by step.
- **Conserio**: Business chat instead of Slack or Teams, with calls through Meet. One price per company, not per person.
- **Documents in the meeting**: Share a file from the Team Drive in Binadit Meet and the whole meeting works on it together while you talk.
- **One whole**: Where good open source exists we use it: Stalwart for mail, Collabora for documents, Jitsi for video. We connect it with one login and one style, and build what is missing.

Nextcloud is good open-source software, and if you want to run it on your own server, that is a sound choice. The comparison above is a generalisation of packages built on it, not a judgement on any single provider. Check what each provider offers today. If you want a complete, managed workplace where everything fits together and one Dutch company stands behind it, that is Binadit Workspace.

## The Nextcloud alternative that you do not have to maintain

Running Nextcloud yourself means updates, backups, tuning and a separate mail server. Binadit Workspace gives you files, mail, documents, meetings and chat in one place, managed by us on servers in the Netherlands.

- **Updates that keep coming**: Major Nextcloud upgrades arrive regularly, and every app from the app store has to keep up. Someone has to test, upgrade and fix it.
- **Mail is not included**: Nextcloud Mail is a mail client. You still need a separate mail server, with its own spam filter, backups and security.
- **Tuning to stay fast**: Caching, background jobs, the database and PHP all need attention once the number of users and files grows.
- **You are the helpdesk**: When sync stops or a share breaks, your team or your IT partner has to find out why.

| Aspect | Binadit Workspace | Nextcloud, self-hosted |
|---|---|---|
| Who keeps it running | Binadit, with one contact person who knows your setup | You or your IT partner: updates, backups and security patches |
| Email | Our own mail servers with calendar and contacts, for any mail program | Nextcloud Mail is a client; a separate mail server is still needed |
| File sync | Binadit Drive, written in Rust, with files on demand in Finder and File Explorer | The Nextcloud desktop client with a PHP server |
| Documents in the browser | Collabora Online, built in and maintained by us | Nextcloud Office, also Collabora, installed and maintained by you |
| Video meetings | Binadit Meet, with guests without an account and documents from Drive in the meeting | Nextcloud Talk; larger calls need a separate backend |
| Business chat | Conserio, one price per company, with a Slack-compatible API | Nextcloud Talk |
| Receiving confidential files | Binadit Receive, encrypted in the sender's browser | Upload links in a shared folder |
| Where your data lives | On Binadit's servers in the Netherlands, with no US parent company | Wherever you host it, under your own responsibility |

If you want everything on your own hardware, have the time to maintain it, and use apps such as Deck or Forms, Nextcloud is a sound choice. If you want a complete workplace with mail included, that someone else keeps running, Binadit Workspace fits better.

## Blog

- [A European server is not enough: how data leaks out unnoticed](https://binadit.work/en/blog/a-european-server-is-not-enough/) (2026-10-06): Your mail and files are in Europe, yet your website, phones and tools still send data to US companies. Where it leaks, and how to close the gaps.
- [Less dependent on US technology: a practical step-by-step plan](https://binadit.work/en/blog/less-dependent-on-us-technology/) (2026-10-06): You do not have to remove everything American tomorrow. But you can replace the parts with good European alternatives now. Here is how to go about it.
- [Personal data outside the EEA: the GDPR rules in plain English](https://binadit.work/en/blog/gdpr-transfers-outside-the-eea/) (2026-10-06): When may personal data go to the US or another country outside Europe? GDPR Articles 44 to 49 explained, with the US CLOUD Act alongside.
- [The Data Privacy Framework after Trump v. Slaughter](https://binadit.work/en/blog/data-privacy-framework-after-trump-v-slaughter/) (2026-10-06): The EU-US Data Privacy Framework still applies, but the Supreme Court removed one of its foundations. What that means for your data in US clouds.
- [Why Binadit Workspace is not another Nextcloud provider](https://binadit.work/en/blog/not-another-nextcloud-provider/) (2026-10-06): Many European office suites are Nextcloud with a different logo. Binadit built the key components itself. What that difference means in practice.

## Pricing notes

- Prices are per month, excluding VAT, and can be cancelled monthly. There is no minimum number of mailboxes.
- A mailbox can be resized at any time; the new price applies from the next month.
- The Drive pool counts the personal drives of all accounts with Drive. Team Drive and Receive have their own storage and never count against the pool.
- Storage is counted in logical bytes: what you see in your folders is what you pay for, regardless of kept versions or deduplication.
- A company that fills its pool gets a warning at 80% and 95%; at 100% uploads pause until the pool is enlarged. Nothing is ever deleted.

## Current app versions

- Binadit Drive: macos: 0.1.2 (https://binadit.work/drive/updates/macos/releases/2026100101/binadit-Drive-0.1.2-2026100101.dmg); windows: 0.1.2 (https://binadit.work/drive/updates/windows/releases/0.1.2/binadit-drive-0.1.2-x64.msi); linux: 0.1.2 (https://binadit.work/drive/updates/linux/releases/f7ecb83/binadit-drive-client_0.1.2_amd64.deb)
- Northmail: macos: 0.1.45 (https://binadit.work/northmail/updates/macos/releases/0.1.45/Northmail_0.1.45_universal.dmg); windows: 0.1.45 (https://binadit.work/northmail/updates/windows/releases/0.1.45/Northmail_0.1.45_x64-setup.exe)
- Binadit Workspace Migration: macos: 0.1.14 (https://binadit.work/migration/macos/releases/0.1.14/Binadit_Workspace_Migration_0.1.14_universal.dmg); windows: 0.1.14 (https://binadit.work/migration/windows/releases/0.1.14/Binadit_Workspace_Migration_0.1.14_x64-setup.exe)
- Catalog with checksums and release history: https://binadit.work/releases/index.json