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Discord: pricing, features and alternatives
Group chat with text, voice and video, built around gaming and community servers
What is Discord?
Discord is a group chat app with text, voice and video that began with gamers and now hosts communities of all sizes. Users join or leave voice and text chats freely, stream screens and games, and add custom emoji and stickers. It is mainly a community and social product, not a workplace tool, and its paid Nitro membership adds personal perks rather than team features.
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
Key features
- Text, voice and video chat in one app
- Streaming of games, shows and photos with low latency
- Custom emoji, stickers and soundboard effects
- Built-in activities such as watching videos and playing games
- Developer integrations, apps and activities
Limitations to know about
- 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
Discord pricing
Its plans are Nitro Basic and Nitro.
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Nitro Basic | $2.99/month | Custom emoji anywhere, 50 MB uploads, custom app icons |
| Nitro | $9.99/month | 1 GB uploads, HD video streaming, custom profiles, app color themes |
Discord alternatives
Slack
Team messaging built around channels, with huddles, canvases and workflow automation
Element
Secure messaging and calls built on the decentralised Matrix standard
Rocket.Chat
Self-hostable secure messaging platform with Matrix and XMPP federation
Pumble
Team chat with a free plan that keeps unlimited users and message history
Zoom Workplace
Video meetings with team chat, mail, calendar, docs and an AI companion in one app
Google Chat
Direct messages and spaces inside Google Workspace, with Meet and Gemini built in
Guides that use Discord
Frequently asked questions
How much does Discord cost?
Discord does not publish a starting price we could verify, so check its own pricing page for current rates.
What is Discord used for?
Discord is a group chat app with text, voice and video that began with gamers and now hosts communities of all sizes. People use it for gaming groups and friend communities, open communities and fan groups that want voice and text in one place and creators and developers building a public community around a project.
What are the alternatives to Discord?
Tools that do a similar job include Slack, Element, Rocket.Chat, Pumble and Zoom Workplace. Each has its own page here with its plans, limits and prices.
Who makes Discord?
Discord is made by Discord, based in San Francisco, California, United States. The company was founded in 2015.
Sources
Every fact on this page comes from the pages below, read on the dates shown: Discord's own pages first, and a named public reference where they are silent.
- discord.com/ (features, platforms, audience) read 7 November 2026
- discord.com/nitro (Nitro plan prices (personal membership, not verified as the full pricing picture)) read 7 November 2026
- discord.com/company (how Discord describes itself, user figures) read 7 November 2026
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord (founding year, headquarters) read 7 November 2026
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