Slack vs Zoom Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
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
- Basic AI
- AI conversation summaries
Business+
Popular- Unlimited message history
- Unlimited app integrations
- Group meetings
- Group external messages
- Advanced AI
- 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
- Enterprise-Grade AI
- 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
Basic
- 40 minutes per meeting
- 100 participants per meeting
- Meeting summaries (for 3 hosted meetings per month)
- AI queries (20 per month)
- AI note-taking (3 uses per month)
- Instant messaging
- VoIP calling
- 1 personal booking page
- 3 editable whiteboards
- 5 two-minute clips
- Limited AI capabilities
- AI help me write (Canvas) (3 docs per month)
- Connect Gmail/Outlook in Zoom
- Sync Google/Microsoft calendars
- Surface, manage, and complete tasks
- One place for your Zoom files
Pro
Popular- 30 hours per meeting
- 100 participants per meeting
- Unlimited AI note-taking
- Basic AI queries
- Agentic search
- Workflows in Zoom
- Unlimited meeting summaries
- Unlimited in meeting questions
- Create custom meeting summary templates (8 per month)
- Group videos in channels (25 unique viewers)
- Zoom recordings, Clips, and uploads
- Unlimited AI document creation
- Unlimited clips
- Custom avatars (3 mins per month)
- Zoom Mail
- Zoom Calendar
- 10 GB per user
- Live Chat Support
Business
- 300 participants per meeting
- Unlimited booking pages
- Unlimited whiteboards
- SSO, managed domains
- Multi-region storage and media control
- Device management
- Information barriers and other policies
- Archival and data loss prevention APIs
Enterprise
- 1000 participants per meeting
- Full-featured PBX
- 500 attendees
- Rooms
- Workspace Reservation
- Visitor Management
- Translated captions
- Customer managed key
- Hybrid cloud
- Contact management network
Slack vs Zoom FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Slack starts lower at $8/mo, compared to $14/mo for Zoom.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Both offer free plans, so you can try each without paying. Start with whichever fits your workflow better and upgrade when you hit the limits.
- 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. Slack: Slack sits at the premium end compared to Teams (bundled free with Office) or Google Chat, betting that UX and integrations justify the premium rather than competing on price. They're clearly targeting teams that already value Slack's workflow lock-in over budget-conscious buyers comparing spreadsheets of features. Zoom: Zoom sits mid-pack — not the budget pick (Google Meet and Teams often bundle video into existing suites for less marginal cost) but cheaper than pure enterprise comms platforms once you factor in Zoom's broader phone/webinar ecosystem. They're really fighting for teams who already associate 'Zoom' with video and don't want to relearn a new tool.
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