DocumentServer vs WPS Office
DocumentServer and WPS Office are both office suite software. DocumentServer is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 7.1k GitHub stars. WPS Office is a commercial product from Kingsoft.
Which to pick
- Pick DocumentServer when
- You want browser-based Office-compatible editing on your own servers.
- Pick WPS Office when
- You need a free, Office-compatible suite for personal use on Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile.
Side by side
ONLYOFFICE Docs, an online office suite for editing Word, Excel, PowerPoint, forms and PDF files collaboratively in the browser, integrated with Nextcloud and other platforms.
A free office suite with a writer, spreadsheet, presentation and PDF tools that open and save Microsoft Office formats.
The free edition caps simultaneous connections, so larger teams need a paid edition.
The free version shows ads, it comes from a Chinese vendor which matters to some organisations, and complex Office files may not round-trip cleanly.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Desktop app and mobile app
JavaScript, C++ and Node.js
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Kingsoft
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
7.1k GitHub stars
2.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release v10.0.0.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.