Compare · vs TeamSpeak
TeamSpeak is legendary. It's also 2026.
m3llo vs TeamSpeak at a glance
| m3llo | TeamSpeak | |
|---|---|---|
| Voice chat | Yes neural noise cancel | Yes legendary |
| Screen streaming | Yes, 1080p60 | No |
| One-tap clips | Yes 30s voice and game clips | No |
| Text chat with GIFs | Yes | Basic |
| Crew feed / memory | Yes | No |
| Self-hostable | Yes Apache 2.0 | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Install weight | <80MB | ~75MB |
vs TeamSpeak
TeamSpeak was the voice app for competitive FPS crews for a decade. The quality holds up. It's self-hostable. It's been hosting someone's guild since 2008. Nothing disrespectful to say about it.
But it's still mostly just voice. No streaming, no clips, no persistent feed, no modern text chat. If all your crew wants to do is talk while you play, TeamSpeak does one thing and does it beautifully. If you want to watch each other's screens, save the moment someone did something stupid, or come back tomorrow and see what happened, you'll need three more apps.
m3llo aims for voice that's just as reliable, plus everything your crew actually wants to do alongside it. One app, one crew, one place.
Pick m3llo when
You love the Ventrilo feel but you're tired of duct-taping it to four other services. Or you want the same crew-level privacy without renting a box and managing users by hand.
FAQ
Common questions, answered straight.
Yes. m3llo is open source under Apache 2.0 and you can self-host it, the backend and the media relay both. If you'd rather not run anything, our hosted infrastructure in Europe does it for you.
We target under 60ms over WAN. Numbers vary while we tune the stack, so treat that as a goal rather than a guarantee. Low-latency voice is the core of the product, not an afterthought.
No. There are no user databases, permission trees, or channel admin work in m3llo. You invite your crew, they join, and that's the whole setup.
Sound like your crew?
Download it and try it for yourself. Free. Open source.