Slack Pricing
- Productivity pricing
- $8.75/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
Slack pricing starts at $8.75 a month, which is $105 over twelve months. There is a free plan. Every figure below was read from the vendor's pricing page on 9 August 2026.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
Slack ranking and coverage
- In Productivity
- #15 of 28
- Overall
- #58 of 122 tied
- Terms score
- 5.7 /10
- Referenced here
- 2 pages
Cost position 6.1 · Portability 4 · Subscription flexibility 7 - Ranked on published terms only: entry price against category peers, portability and subscription flexibility, equally weighted. This is not a quality score.How the rank is calculated.
Slack pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free tier available; Pro from $7.25 per user/month billed annually |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $8.75 a month, or $105 a year |
| How that is reached | Pro at $8.75 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | No trial offered |
| How it charges | freemium |
| Priced plans published | 4 rows on the vendor's page |
| Affiliate programme | No |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 9 August 2026 |
Every Slack plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 9 August 2026. Charged as freemium. No free trial is offered.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | per month | 90 days of message history, 10 app integrations |
| Pro | $8.75 | per month | per user, paying monthly - $7.25 per user/month billed annually. Full history and unlimited apps |
| Business+ | $18 | per month | per user, paying monthly - $15 per user/month billed annually. Adds SAML SSO and compliance exports |
| Enterprise Grid | Custom | Negotiated | Multiple workspaces, advanced compliance and HIPAA support |
What Slack actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proper user, paying monthly | per month | $8.75 | $105 |
| Business+per user, paying monthly | per month | $18 | $216 |
Slack pricing over time
Read from 9 archived captures of the vendor's pricing page , spanning July 2014 to September 2026. Every figure below links to the capture it came from, so you can check it against the page as it stood on the day.
- Pro changed once between 3 July 2014 and 3 September 2026, from $6 per user to $8.75 per user, up 45.8% overall.
Pro
7 archived captures with no price we could read
The capture exists, but the figures on it could not be extracted - usually a page that renders prices in JavaScript, or a currency selector the archive did not record. Listed rather than dropped, because a gap in a price history reads as "nothing changed" and these are not that.
- 14 April 2016 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 21 May 2018 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 16 December 2019 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 6 May 2021 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 2 September 2022 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 11 January 2024 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
- 10 May 2025 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
Compiled 18 September 2026 from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Plan names were matched against the archived page text and the first currency-anchored figure within 160 characters was recorded, rejecting any figure with a competing plan name standing between it and the name it was matched to. The currency and the unit were read from each capture rather than assumed: captures served in a currency other than $, and captures where no plan name sat beside a figure, are listed as unread rather than dropped. Archived pages show the price as served to the archive's crawler, which may differ by region from the price you are shown.
Slack pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against Slack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discord | $2.99 a month | Yes | −$5.76 a month (−66%) |
| Microsoft Teams | $4 a month | Yes | −$4.75 a month (−54%) |
| Slack | $8.75 a month | Yes | This product |
Which Slack plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A small team wanting to try it | Free | Works well, but only the last 90 days of messages are searchable, which is the real constraint. |
| You need your message history to be permanent | Pro | $7.25 per user billed annually. History, not features, is why almost everyone upgrades. |
| You need SAML SSO or compliance exports | Business+ | $15 per user billed annually, and unavoidable if legal or IT mandate either. |
| You run several business units, or need HIPAA support | Enterprise Grid | Multiple connected workspaces under central administration. |
| You already pay for Microsoft 365 | Consider Teams instead | Teams is included in a licence you already hold, so Slack is a second bill for messaging. |
| You are running a community rather than a company | Do not buy Slack | Discord is free, keeps unlimited history and charges nothing per person. |
Verdict by who you are
Startup or scale-up teamYes
Slack is the best chat product and its integration ecosystem is unmatched. Pro at $7.25 is easy to justify.
Microsoft 365 organisationCompare first
Teams is already paid for. Slack is better, but you are choosing to pay twice for messaging.
Open-source project or communityNo
The 90-day free history limit destroys a community archive, and per-user pricing does not suit thousands of members. Discord costs nothing and keeps everything.
Regulated enterpriseYes
Business+ and Enterprise Grid provide the retention, compliance export and identity controls auditors ask about.
Two-person teamCompare first
Free is adequate at this size, since the history limit matters less when you can remember every conversation.
Should you buy Slack?
Buy Slack if…
- Teams that want fast, well-organised internal communication
- Engineering and product organisations with heavy tool integration
- Working with external partners through shared channels
Do not buy Slack if…
- Organisations already paying for Microsoft Teams
- Teams needing built-in video conferencing at scale
- Anyone who cannot enforce norms about channels and notifications
What leaving Slack would cost
moderate lock-in
Slack scores on public API, documented migration friction averaging 2 of 3. Portability 4/10 , after 1 off for documented migration friction; lock-in is the inverse. How this is calculated.
| What you would move | Friction | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Message history | Moderate | Exportable on paid plans, but the archive is JSON rather than anything readable in another tool. |
| Files shared in channels | Moderate | Exported as links, so years of shared documents end up scattered rather than organised. |
| Integrations and Workflow Builder automations | High | Every app connection and automation must be rebuilt from scratch. |
| Channel structure and conventions | Moderate | Not technical friction, but naming habits and etiquette are real institutional knowledge. |
| Custom emoji and team culture | Low | Easy to dismiss and genuinely felt. Teams resist migration over this more than admins expect. |
The technical export is decent; the behavioural lock-in is the strong part. People hold years of muscle memory in a chat tool, which is why these migrations stall rather than fail outright.
The 90-day cliff
Slack’s free tier does not delete your messages, it hides them. Everything older than 90 days becomes unsearchable until you upgrade, at which point it reappears. This is the single most effective conversion mechanic in business software, and it catches teams roughly one quarter after adoption, usually while looking for a decision nobody wrote down anywhere else.
What the app directory is actually for
The reason engineering organisations defend Slack is not the chat. It is that deploys, alerts, incidents, pull requests, support tickets and customer signups can all land in the channel where the relevant people already are, with enough interactivity to act without switching tools. That is a different product from a messaging app, and it is what makes migration painful once established.
Slack Connect changes the external calculation
Shared channels with clients, agencies and suppliers work well enough that many companies now run whole relationships in them instead of email. Microsoft Teams can do this, but the cross-tenant experience is materially clumsier, and for agencies in particular that difference alone justifies the licence.
Pricing notes
Pro is $8.75 per user per month paying monthly, or $7.25 billed annually. Business+ is $18 or $15 on the same basis. Slack also runs frequent introductory discounts of around 50% for the first three months on new teams, which is worth checking at signup but should not be modelled as your ongoing price. Since the Salesforce acquisition, expect steadily tighter CRM integration to be part of the enterprise pitch.
Slack questions, answered
- Is Slack worth it?
- Slack is the best pure messaging tool in the category and has been for a decade: faster than its rivals, better organised, and supported by an app ecosystem that turns it into a genuine control surface for other software.
- How much does Slack cost?
- Free tier available; Pro from $7.25 per user/month billed annually. The cheapest paid tier we recorded is Pro, published at $8.75 a month, which works out at $8.75 a month or $105 over a year. Verified against the vendor's pricing page.
- Does Slack have a free plan or free trial?
- Slack has a free plan. No free trial is offered.
- What is the best Slack alternative?
- It depends on the job. Microsoft Teams: Usually already paid for, and includes real telephony. Discord: Free and excellent for communities, weaker on business administration. Google Chat: Included with Google Workspace, and considerably less capable.
- Can I self-host Slack?
- No. Slack is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Every claim below is about our work, not about Slack. A "no" is recorded rather than omitted, because the difference between a tested review and careful desk research is the reader's to weigh. How we research a profile.
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Prices read from the vendor : yes
Read from Slack's own pricing page on 9 August 2026
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Plans and terms recorded : yes
4 rows, each with its billing period
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Original screenshots : yes
2 captured by us: pricing page, homepage
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Sources cited and dated : yes
1 primary source, each with the date it was read
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Product used first-hand : no
Not tested. This profile is desk research from primary sources
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Alternatives used first-hand : no
None, so comparisons here rest on published facts rather than use
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Vendor contacted : no
Not contacted for this profile
Where Slack appears on this site
2 other pages here reference Slack. Every one is listed below, so the figure can be checked rather than taken.
- Another profile Discord names it as a competitor
- Another profile Microsoft Teams names it as a competitor
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Provenance and freshness
When each fact was last checked
- Pricing ·
- Plans ·
- Free trial
- Features
- Platforms
- Integrations
- Affiliate programme
- Company details
What has changed
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August 2026
- Per-user pricing verified, annual and monthly
- Added plan picker, verdicts and switching-cost breakdown
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Slack pricing - checked 9 August 2026
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