Discord vs Slack

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 7 November 2026.

Compared on	Discord See pricing Visit Remove	Slack Free plan · from $7.25/user/mo Visit Remove
What it is	Group chat with text, voice and video, built around gaming and community servers	Team messaging built around channels, with huddles, canvases and workflow automation
Free plan	No	Free plan keeps 90 days of message history, allows up to 10 app integrations, and limits huddles and Slack Connect external messages to 1:1
Cheapest paid plan	Not publishedDiscord pricing	$7.25/user/mo billed annually (Pro)Slack pricing
What it covers	Not stated	List prices. Slack also lists a 50% promotional price for the first 3 months on monthly Pro billing for teams that buy online within 7 days of creating the workspace. Members active in a 28-day period are billed.
Free trial	None stated	None stated
Platforms	Web, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android	Web, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Not stated	Over 2,600 apps in the Slack Marketplace
Open source	No	No
Good for	Gaming groups and friend communities Open communities and fan groups that want voice and text in one place Creators and developers building a public community around a project	Teams that want channel-based conversation with a large set of connected apps Companies that need to message people at other organizations through Slack Connect Workspaces that want to automate approvals and routine requests without code
Watch out for	Aimed at gaming and social use; Discord describes itself as a platform for connections around playing games Nitro adds personal perks and is not a team plan with admin or compliance controls The pages read do not state business pricing or enterprise controls	The Free plan keeps only 90 days of message history and 10 apps Group huddles and group external messages need a paid plan Single sign-on needs Business+ and above
Made by	Discord	Slack Technologies (Salesforce)

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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