Slack - Top Competitors (Mar 2022)

Slack Review
ITQlick Score: 100/100
ITQlick Rating:
Pricing: 2/10 - low cost
Category: Team Collaboration -> Slack review -> Slack competitors
Ranking:Ranked 1 out of 160 Team Collaboration systems
Company: Slack
Pricing: starts at $6.67 per month
Typical customers: Small, medium and large size businesses
Platforms: Desktop, Mobile, Cloud
Links: Slack review, Slack pricing guide
Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / updated: Mar 07, 2022

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Slack vs. Alternatives in 2023

Slack is a digital workplace that competes with other digital workplaces like Monday, Microsoft Teams, and Workplace by Facebook. Here we compare Slack against its alternative systems in critical areas.
  • Functionality: Slack has functionalities for a digital workplace like Workplace Messaging, Calls (video and audio calls), Integrations with external tools like Google Drive, Channels, File Sharing, etc. Workplace by Facebook comes with similar features to Slack but has other features like Live Video and Polls, Microsoft Teams, and Monday also lacks the Live Video.
  • Customers/Industries: Slack can be used in various industries, but it is targeted mainly at IT, Service, Sales, Operations, Engineering, Marketing, and Communications. In contrast, Workplace by Facebook targets HR, Comms, and IT. Monday targets the Marketing, Sales, IT, Operations, Software development industries, and Microsoft Teams targets the Health and Education Industries.
  • Cost: In terms of pricing, Slack has a starting license price of $6.67 per month, Microsoft Teams has a starting license price of $5 per user per month, $8 per seat per month, and Workplace by Facebook has a $4 per person per month. All the digital workplace softwares have free license plans except Workplace by Facebook that has a free trial available for their paid plans.
  • Cloud-Based/On-Premise: Slack, Workplace, and Microsoft Teams are both cloud-based and on-premise systems.
  • Popularity: In terms of popularity, Slack has 169k paying customers, is used by 65 Fortune 100 companies, and it is present in 165 countries, while Workplace by Facebook is being used by various companies and top organizations like the World Health Organization, Monday is used by 12k+ companies which include BBC, CocaCola, Hulu, Adobe, etc.
  • Scalability: Slack and its alternatives are all scalable in their unique ways. Businesses of various team sizes can use the softwares and customize them according to their company growth needs.
  • Support: Slack and Workplace by Facebook do not have Phone and 24/7 Live rep support compared to its alternatives. Microsoft Teams does not have Phone support, while Monday has Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live Rep), and Chat.

Slack alternatives - for small & large Business

Here are the top 4 alternatives to Slack that are worth checking out: Dropbox for SMBs, Deltek PM Compass for large size business, CoreconLink for growing companies, and Producteev for low budget organizations.

ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
Score ITQlick Score is a 1 to 100 score, based on pricing, and functionality Vs. alternative solutions
Pricing pricing Score is a 1 to 10 score, based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
License pricing license pricing (if provided by the software vendor)
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Slack
ITQlick rating
4.6/5
Score
100/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$6.67 per month
Functionality
15
Review
Best for SMBs
Dropbox
ITQlick rating
4.5/5
Score
99/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$9.99 per month
Functionality
23
Best for Enterprise
Deltek P...
ITQlick rating
4.1/5
Score
91/100
Pricing
6.4/10
License pricing
Pricing not available
Functionality
6
Growing
CoreconLink
ITQlick rating
2.8/5
Score
90/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$25 per user/month
Functionality
17
Free version
Jive por...
ITQlick rating
4.2/5
Score
90/100
Pricing
6.4/10
License pricing
$99 per month
Functionality
7


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