Built for Your Organization's Document Needs
Pydio Cells is an open-core, self-hosted enterprise content management (ECM) platform, specifically designed for organizations that need advanced document sharing and collaboration without security trade-offs or compliance issues.
Here are just a few of the organizations using Pydio Cells to power their document sharing, collaboration and management.
One Platform. Every Team Covered.
all controls organizations rely on Pydio Cells to meet GDPR NIS2 HIPAA PIPEDA
A Single Workspace for Every Document, Every Discipline.
Co-author any standard document format in real time, directly within the browser, powered by Collabora Online or OnlyOffice.
Dedicated collaboration spaces unify personnel, files, and correspondence in one authoritative environment — supplanting the fragmentation of email chains and ancillary messaging tools.
Where Does That Document Actually Live?
Consolidate your files within intuitively organized Workspaces and Cells, accessible from any device, anywhere.
Extend secure access to internal or external collaborators in a matter of clicks, without relinquishing oversight of who holds it.
Cells' interfaces behave precisely as intuition dictates — minimizing the friction of adoption for every user, regardless of technical fluency.
Access, Governed. Activity, Accounted For.
Log in the way your team already does — OpenID Connect, SAML, and LDAP/Active Directory all just work.
Set the rules once: who gets in, by user or group, based on IP address, location, time of day, or whatever your policy calls for.
Running multiple tenants, departments, or client environments? Multi-tenancy keeps each one walled off — its own configuration, its own data, its own identity — all on a single Cells deployment.
Scalable and Reliable by Design
Scalability isn't just a buzzword, it's something every growing enterprise needs. As document volumes climb, files get bigger, and new sources and services come online, today's enterprise needs real speed, flexibility, and scale, without giving up the security Cells already delivers.
Cells v5 delivers a fully reengineered, cloud-native foundation — built to scale effortlessly from a single server to a globally distributed enterprise deployment, without re-architecting along the way. Broadened database support, including PostgreSQL.
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What Customers Say About Pydio
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Pydio helped us solve many regulatory compliance issues. We needed a fast-to-deploy on-premise solution to allow auditable file exchanges with our customers and Pydio really fits the bill. Pydio's premium remote support was the cherry on the cake.
Dimitri R Security & System administrator at major Insurance company -
We've been using Pydio for years now and the platform has always met our needs for end user experience and advanced security. Today we have more than 10 Pydio instances and they are at the heart of our customer data exchanges. Moreover, GDPR has strengthened our desire to control our data and Pydio responds very well to this need.
Jeremy Godefroy Deputy IT Manager at Inter Public Group -
We’ve been using Pydio Cells at CY Cergy Paris Université as a sovereign solution for our research staff since early 2019. Following the increased need for collaboration during the Covid19 crisis, we opened the tool to all university staff. It meets our needs very well and is easy to learn. The granular access management via the 'Cells' concept is very flexible and efficient.
Baptiste Mary Computer Science and Digital at CY Cergy Paris Université
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Pydio Cells?
Pydio Cells is an open-core, self-hosted platform for document sharing, collaboration, and management. It combines enterprise-grade file sharing, real-time co-editing, granular access control, and no-code workflow automation — all running on infrastructure you control, rather than a vendor's cloud.
Is Pydio Cells free or open source?
Yes. Cells Home is free and open source, covering core file sharing, collaboration, and security features for small teams or self-hosted evaluation. Cells Connect and Cells Enterprise are paid tiers that add enterprise SSO, advanced compliance tooling, multi-tenancy, and priority support for larger deployments — see Pricing for current plans.
Is Pydio Cells really self-hosted? Where does my data actually live?
Yes. Cells runs entirely on infrastructure you own or control — on-premises servers, a private data center, or a cloud environment you manage. Your documents never pass through Pydio's own servers, which is the key distinction from SaaS platforms like Dropbox or SharePoint Online.
Is Pydio Cells GDPR and NIS2 compliant?
Cells is built with the controls GDPR and NIS2 compliance programs require: exportable, GDPR-aligned audit logs, granular role-based access, and configurable retention and lifecycle policies via Cells Flows. Because deployment stays entirely within your infrastructure, you retain the audit trail and data control these regulations demand.
Can Pydio Cells replace SharePoint, Nextcloud, or Dropbox?
For many organizations, yes. Cells avoids the Microsoft 365 licensing and Active Directory dependency that come with SharePoint, ships as a more complete enterprise product than the app-ecosystem approach of Nextcloud, and — unlike Dropbox — never places your documents on a vendor-managed cloud. See the full comparison for a feature-by-feature breakdown.
What's new in Pydio Cells v5?
Cells v5 is a full architectural rewrite: a cloud-native core built for Kubernetes, first-class PostgreSQL support alongside MySQL/MariaDB, native multi-tenancy, a redesigned metadata system with custom Entity Values, and Enterprise LLM integration that runs inside your deployment boundary instead of routing documents to external AI services.
Is Pydio Cells part of Wire now?
Yes. Wire acquired Pydio in January 2025 to combine Wire's end-to-end encrypted communications platform with Pydio Cells' document management and collaboration capabilities into a single secure workspace. Pydio Cells continues to be developed and sold as a standalone product alongside that integration.
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