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Amazon Chime vs. Slack

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Amazon Chime

75 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Chime

    Score5.6 out of 10
    		N/AAmazon Chime is a communications service from Amazon Web Services with a built-in VoIP solution. Amazon Chime can be used for online meetings, video conferencing, and business calling, and features pay-as-you-go pricing.

    $0

    per minute

    Slack

    Score9.1 out of 10
    		N/ASlack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020. The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls. The…

    $8.75

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Amazon ChimeSlack
    Editions & Modules
    Business Calling - Inbound
    $0.002216
    per minute
    Business Calling - Phone Numbers
    $1
    per number per month, US Only
    Meetings - Pro
    $3
    *per user per day
    Meetings - Basic
    Free
    Business Calling - Outbound
    Country Dependent
    per minute
    Business Calling - Receive Text
    Free
    US Only
    Business Calling - Send Text
    Country Dependent
    Free
    $0
    Pro
    $7.25*
    per month per user
    Business+
    $12.50*
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon ChimeSlack
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details*up to $15.00 per user per month*Per active user, per month, when paying once a year. Pro is $8.75 USD per active user when paying month to month. Business+ is $15.00 USD per active user when paying month to month.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Amazon ChimeSlack
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Chime
    Amazon Chime stacks up cleaner and much more intuitive to Google Hangouts Chat. In comparison to Slack, Amazon Chime is much better because Slack is not conducive to having a face-to-face conversation, much less, screen sharing. Microsoft Teams was hard to use when some of our …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Chime
    I believe the two products (Slack and Skype) are better suited for the situations where it is a smaller crowd. This is due to those systems being easier to chat within and collaborate in the smaller environment.
    Incentivized
    YagneshKumar Patel
    Software Support Engineer in Information Technology at ProfitSword, LLC (Hospitality, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Amazon Chime
    All the mentioned above products are better if not rated much higher with the features they have compared to Amazon Chime. Amazon Chime does not support well with google calendar and other negative features I mentioned compared to other products. Amazon Chime lacks features …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Amazon Chime
    They are all good products, but here is why we switched:

    1. UberConf. This was the first conference software we used. It used to be great, it actually had a free version that worked perfectly. Then the service started to falter, mostly lag time between user and presenter. And …
    Incentivized
    Jesse Bickel, MS - PMP
    Sr. IT Project Manager in Information Technology at CaptureRx (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees)
    Chose Amazon Chime
    Amazon Chime WILL become an industry leader. Amazon is still behind WebEx and is gaining ground on Microsoft. The advantage Microsoft will have is the ability to embed in organizations through Office, and have that advantage over WebEx as well. We selected Amazon Chime as …
    Incentivized
    Salesforce
    Sunita Rajkanwar
    Product Marketing Manager in Marketing at Amazon (Retail, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose Slack
    Slack is easier to use vs Zoom which is mostly just video based. Text based communication is much simpler with Slack. Slack is better than Chime as it offers file preview, stores text messages for longer. But group video calls are better with Chime. Slack is better than Teams …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Slack
    Slack is definitely better than teams with a much better UI and user friendly communications work flow
    Incentivized
    Mrunal Deshmukh
    Software Engineer in Engineering at Amazon (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose Slack
    Teams and Skype have very limited features as compared to Slack. I would prefer Slack any day over them as it is well suited for both internal as well as external communication.
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Slack
    More user friendly and easier to collaborate
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
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    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
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    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
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    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
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    Features
    Amazon ChimeSlack
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Amazon Chime and Slack
    Feature
    Amazon Chime
    10.0
    26 Ratings
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    High quality audio10.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    High quality video10.026 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low bandwidth requirements10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile support10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Amazon Chime and Slack
    Feature
    Amazon Chime
    9.2
    25 Ratings
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    Desktop sharing10.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Whiteboards8.311 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Amazon Chime and Slack
    Feature
    Amazon Chime
    9.7
    25 Ratings
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    Calendar integration10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Meeting initiation10.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with social media8.39 Ratings00 Ratings
    Record meetings / events10.023 Ratings00 Ratings
    Slideshows10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Amazon Chime and Slack
    Feature
    Amazon Chime
    10.0
    22 Ratings
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    Live chat10.022 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience polling10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Q&A10.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Amazon Chime and Slack
    Feature
    Amazon Chime
    10.0
    22 Ratings
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    User authentication10.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list10.016 Ratings00 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Amazon Chime and Slack
    Feature
    Amazon Chime
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    Video conferencing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio conferencing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video screen sharing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant messaging10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Amazon Chime and Slack
    Feature
    Amazon Chime
    -
    Ratings
    Slack
    8.3
    479 Ratings
    Task Management00 Ratings8.2310 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings6.961 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings7.9259 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.4284 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings9.5460 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings8.8463 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.0187 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Amazon Chime and Slack
    Feature
    Amazon Chime
    -
    Ratings
    Slack
    8.9
    488 Ratings
    Chat00 Ratings9.8488 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings9.1484 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings9.6473 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings8.1302 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings7.8300 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings8.9110 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings8.7182 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings8.9120 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Amazon Chime and Slack
    Feature
    Amazon Chime
    -
    Ratings
    Slack
    8.7
    461 Ratings
    Versioning00 Ratings8.4229 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings8.9412 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings9.1403 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings8.5318 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings8.4305 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings8.4264 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings9.0211 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings9.1339 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon ChimeSlack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (27 ratings)
    9.4
    (489 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (23 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (103 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (66 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)