Aircall vs Slack Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Essentials
- Minimum number of users
- Max number of teams
- Phone number included in the plan
- Price of each additional number, per month
- Inbound calls & internal calls (Toll-free excluded)
- Outbound calls - domestic
- Outbound calls - international
- SMS and MMS business text messaging - domestic
- Access to call recordings
- Analytics data
Professional
- Minimum number of users
- Max number of teams
- Phone number included in the plan
- Price of each additional number, per month
- Inbound calls & internal calls (Toll-free excluded)
- Outbound calls - domestic
- Outbound calls - international
- SMS and MMS business text messaging - domestic
- Access to call recordings
- Analytics data
Custom
- Minimum number of users
- Max number of teams
- Phone number included in the plan
- Price of each additional number, per month
- Inbound calls & internal calls (Toll-free excluded)
- Outbound calls - domestic
- Outbound calls - international
- SMS and MMS business text messaging - domestic
- Access to call recordings
- Analytics data
Free
- 90 days of message history
- Up to 10 apps
- 1:1 meetings
- 1:1 external messages
Pro
- Unlimited message history
- Unlimited app integrations
- Group meetings
- Group external messages
- AI conversation summaries
Business+
Popular- Unlimited message history
- Unlimited app integrations
- Group meetings
- Group external messages
- AI conversation summaries
- Slackbot (personal AI agent)
- AI workflow generation
- AI search
- AI daily recaps
- AI file summaries
- SAML-based single sign-on
- SCIM user management
Enterprise+
- Unlimited message history
- Unlimited app integrations
- Group meetings
- Group external messages
- AI conversation summaries
- Slackbot (personal AI agent)
- AI workflow generation
- Enterprise search
- AI daily recaps
- AI file summaries
- Multiple SAML configurations
- SCIM user management
- EMM integration support
- Native data loss prevention
Aircall vs Slack FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Slack is the cheaper option, starting at $8/mo vs $30/mo for Aircall.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Slack has a free plan. Aircall doesn't — you'll need to pay from day one.
- How do they charge?
- Both use a per-seat model, so the comparison is straightforward — it comes down to features and limits at each price point.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Aircall: At $30-$50/seat annually, Aircall sits in the mid-market range — more expensive than scrappy alternatives like OpenPhone or Grasshopper, but cheaper than enterprise CCaaS players like Genesys or NICE. They're clearly targeting SMB and mid-market sales and support teams who want a polished product without an enterprise procurement process. Slack: Slack sits in the mid-to-premium range for team messaging — more expensive than Teams (often bundled free with Microsoft 365) but positioned as the best-in-class product for companies that care about developer integrations and culture. They're not trying to win on price; they're targeting teams that see communication tooling as a competitive advantage.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Aircall and Slack and let you know when something moves.