Microsoft Teams alternatives
Microsoft Teams is already the cheapest team chat app we track at a 10-person team (free). Here's how the other 2 compare. The closest match, Slack, covers 90% of what Microsoft Teams does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.
What Microsoft Teams does
Core: Built-in team chat, Built-in video meetings, Office suite bundle.
Important: Threaded conversations, Searchable message history, Guests and shared channels, App integrations ecosystem, Bots and workflow automation, AI summaries and answers, Built-in docs and tasks, Desktop and mobile apps (partly), SSO and user provisioning (partly), Retention and compliance controls.
Also has: Screen & camera recording, End-to-end encryption (partly).
Alternatives to Microsoft Teams at a 10-person team, best match first
- Slack: $87.50/mo Pro storage allowance not stated; Business+ would be $180 (Pro plan, 10 members, monthly billing). It covers 90% of Microsoft Teams; missing or partial: Office suite bundle. Free plan: Free plan: 90-day message history and search, 10 apps, one workspace..
- Zoho Cliq: $18/mo Third-party prices; vendor page prices not readable (Standard plan: $18/month flat for up to 25 users, monthly billing). It covers 76% of Microsoft Teams; missing or partial: Threaded conversations (partly), Searchable message history (partly), Guests and shared channels (partly), App integrations ecosystem (partly), AI summaries and answers (partly). Free plan: Free plan with chat, channels and video meetings; search capped at 10,000 messages..
Prices at every size
- Microsoft Teams: a 10-person team free, a 50-person team free, a 25-person team with SAML SSO $100/mo (free version member cap and storage pooling unstated)
- Slack: a 10-person team $87.50/mo, a 50-person team $437.50/mo, a 25-person team with SAML SSO $450/mo (Pro storage allowance not stated; Business+ would be $180)
- Zoho Cliq: a 10-person team $18/mo, a 50-person team $100/mo, a 25-person team with SAML SSO $18/mo (Third-party prices; vendor page prices not readable)
Prices are total USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for the cheapest plan that runs a team's chat with full, unlimited searchable message history: 10 or 50 members, and 25 members signing in through SAML single sign-on. A free plan counts as $0 only when it covers the team with no message-history, member or storage cap it would hit.
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