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Slack Plans Reviewed

Slack has four different plans available, and in this section, I’m going to go over them quickly. If you’d like to see how they work up close, simply book in a demo now.

Slack Free

Unlike Microsoft Teams, Slack has a free plan. Impressively, there’s actually no user limit – so it’s suitable for businesses of all sizes who want to get organized without spending big.

However, unfortunately, that’s where the fun ends – it’s relatively limited. The biggest issue is that message history only lasts for 90 days, so it’s unsuitable if you’re not looking for a one-off project. There’s also no uptime guarantee and you’ll be limited to 10 integrations.

Slack Pro

Slack Pro is the first paid plan offered by Slack, available for $7.25 per user, per month if you pay annually, or $8.75 per user, per month if you pay monthly. This is slightly more expensive than Microsoft Teams Business Basic plan, which costs $6.00 per user, per month.

On this plan, you’ll be able to keep your message history and rely on a 99% uptime guarantee not included on the free plan. You’ll also be able to connect up as many external applications as you want thanks to the integration limit being lifted, and you’ll also get access to the workflow center so you can build out and automate common processes.

Slack Business+

Slack’s Business+ plan (sometimes called the “plus” plan) retails at $12.50 per user, per month if you pay for a whole year at once, or $15 per active user if you opt to pay on a month-by-month basis.

This is roughly in line with ClickUp’s pricing, although it’s more of a work management app that goes heavy on collaboration features rather than a dedicated comms app. It’s exactly the same price as Microsoft Teams‘ Business Standard plan.

A lot of the additional features on this plan are geared toward large businesses. This is the first Slack plan with a SAML-based single sign-on option, as well as message analytics that allows you to see who has read messages you’ve sent. There’s also a data export function that will let you export all messages contained within the platform.

Slack Enterprise

For pricing on this Slack plan, you’ll have to contact their sales team to get a custom quote tailored to your business’s size and needs. Only very large businesses should consider this plan, as it has lots of advanced and expansive features that most businesses won’t need.

For example, the automation limit is set at 5,000 runs per month, more than double what you get on the Business+ plan (2,000 runs a month). Unless you have hundreds of employees building them, you really won’t need them.