Slack vs Zoom Workplace

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	Slack Free plan · from $7.25/user/mo Visit Remove	Zoom Workplace Free plan · from $14.16/user/mo Visit Remove
What it is	Team messaging built around channels, with huddles, canvases and workflow automation	Video meetings with team chat, mail, calendar, docs and an AI companion in one app
Free plan	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	Meetings up to 40 minutes; up to 100 participants per meeting; 3 editable whiteboards; 5 two-minute clips; local recording only; 3 meeting summaries a month
Cheapest paid plan	$7.25/user/mo billed annually (Pro)Slack pricing	$14.16/user/mo billed annually (Pro)Zoom Workplace pricing
What it covers	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.	Pro is $16.99 per user a month billed monthly, or $14.16 per user a month billed annually; USD list prices on zoom.us/pricing.
Free trial	None stated	None stated
Platforms	Web, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android	Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android
Integrations (vendor's figure)	Over 2,600 apps in the Slack Marketplace	Not stated
Open source	No	No
Good for	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	Teams that want meetings and team chat in one app Short free calls with up to 100 people (40-minute cap) Companies that need SSO and admin controls on a business plan
Watch out for	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	Free Basic plan caps meetings at 40 minutes Free plan records locally only; cloud recording needs a paid plan Participant caps per plan are shown inconsistently on Zoom's pricing page
Made by	Slack Technologies (Salesforce)	Zoom Communications

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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