Slack — The AI-powered productivity platform for team messaging, channels, and huddles
Slack transforms business communication with organized channels, direct messages, audio/video huddles, and 2,600+ app integrations.
About Slack
Slack (part of Salesforce) is the world leading digital headquarters for workplace collaboration. By organizing conversations into searchable channels, enabling quick informal Huddles, Canvas collaborative documents, and AI workflow summaries, Slack keeps distributed teams connected and aligned.
Key features
- Organized Channels & DMs — Group discussions by project, topic, or department with thread replies.
- Audio & Video Huddles — Start informal screen-sharing voice huddles with a single click.
- Slack AI Search & Recap — Summarize channel conversations and get answers from company messages.
Pricing
Pricing model: Freemium.
- Free Plan — $0 — 90 days of message history, 10 integrations, 1:1 audio & video huddles
- Pro Plan — $7.25 / month — Unlimited message history, Unlimited integrations, Group huddles up to 50
- Business+ — 2.50 / month — 99.99% uptime SLA, SAML SSO, Data exports for all messages
Pros
- The gold standard for real-time team messaging and channel organization
- Massive ecosystem of over 2,600 app integrations and bot webhooks
- Huddles make quick design and code discussions effortless
Cons
- Free plan message history limit of 90 days hides past discussions
- High volume of notifications can disrupt deep focused work if unmanaged
Platforms
Web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android
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