Team Chat & Video Meetings
Slack
Channel-based team messaging with huddles, clips, and deep app integrations.
4.7· 24,152 reviews· via CapterraFounded 2009 · San Francisco, CA
What is Slack?
Slack is a channel-based team messaging platform, now owned by Salesforce, used for workplace communication. It organizes conversations into channels and offers huddles, clips, message search, and thousands of app integrations and workflow automations.
Best known for: Channel-based workplace messaging
Key features
- Channel-based messaging
- Audio and video huddles
- Deep app integrations
- Workflow automation
- Powerful message search
- Clips and file sharing
Who Slack is best for
- Integration-heavy software teams
- Companies living in third-party apps
- Async channel-first collaboration
Ideal team: Small to large teams that coordinate work across many connected SaaS tools.
Slack pricing
Free
$0
- 90-day message history
- 1:1 huddles
- 10 app integrations
Popular
Pro
$7.25/per user / mo
- Unlimited history
- Group huddles
- Unlimited integrations
Business+
$12.5/per user / mo
- SSO and SCIM
- 99.99% uptime SLA
- Data exports
Costs to watch before you commit
- Priced per active user, so costs scale fast with headcount
- Advanced compliance and SSO gated behind Business+ and Enterprise
- Free plan hides messages older than 90 days
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