Discord vs. Slack

Discord

209 Reviews and Ratings

Slack

9,074 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Discord	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	Discord is an app designed to connect users with communities over voice, video, and text chat, via Discord servers, a gaming and game industry oriented app for growing communities around video games and allowing developers to communicate with their customer base; the app may yet also be used for business communications of other kinds.	$4.99 per month
Slack	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	Slack 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

Discord

Slack

Discord Nitro: $0
Discord Nitro Classic: $0

Free: $0
Pro: $7.25*
per month per user
Business+: $12.50*
per month per user
Enterprise: Contact Sales

Pricing Offerings
Discord	Slack
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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*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.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Discord	Slack
Considered Both Products	Discord Ethan Whitted Project Manager in Product Management at Soma Games (Computer Games, 11-50 employees) Chose Discord The vast array of free features on Discord right out of the box makes it a stand-out in pricing from other chat platform options. Discord works phenomenally if you want a chat platform that is free, quick to set up, and very flexible in the ways you can start using it. It … Incentivized Helpful? Vinicius Andrade Product Designer in Information Technology at frete.com (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Discord Slack`s free version doesnt save the conversations history, there is no voice channels, it doesnt bring people together with all the incentives for interaction like Discord have. Incentivized Helpful? Vincent Po MD & Head of Global Marketing in Marketing at Ethan Hathaway (E-Learning, 1-10 employees) Chose Discord For small businesses, Discord by far works the same with less limitations compared to Slack. I understand Slack is built for enterprise-level companies, but for small businesses, Discord works better than Slack and Telegram. Telegram didn't really allow for specific … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Discord The organization of groups and channels are better on Discord than Slack although the later is widely used in the tech circuit while the former is use in the gaming community. Maybe for that fact the online features are better on Discord making it better suited for coding. Not … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Discord Not great, I would say overall the Teams suite has been very integrated into email, calendar, etc. Slack is about the same as Discord except I found it easier to access via my mobile phone. Now with teams on my mobile that is integrated into our whole organization I can simply … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Discord I like Slack for more professional settings, but Discord is excellent for casual groups, especially when a few people do not have iPhones. They're very similar, but I think there are a lot of Discord features I don't take advantage of, mainly because there seems to be so much … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Discord Honestly, I would use Slack and Skype over Discord anyway because they are faster, easier to use, and easier to find conversations. Discord is great at times but, in our experience, having it continuously buffering and taking forever to load really slows down our team. However, … Incentivized Helpful? Su Kaygun Sayran Content Marketing Specialist in Marketing at JotForm (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Discord Previously, we all used Slack. However, Slack is expensive. It doesn't keep message history and you don't have the freedom Discord offers. I can use the same account for business and personal life without worrying about privacy concerns that I had with Slack (account owners … Incentivized Helpful? Jeff Huisjen Director of studentLife at Mount Pleasant Community Church (Religious Institutions, 11-50 employees) Chose Discord Discord and Slack have some very similar features. While Slack feels a bit more professional, Discord allows for the addition of voice chat rooms. While Discord feels a bit younger and more unprofessional, it's a great program for engaging with students and young people. Where S… Incentivized Helpful? Leandro Sanchez Hardware designer in Engineering at Eycon S. A. (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 11-50 employees) Chose Discord It is more powerful than the other applications mentioned. It works without bugs and is more widely used Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Discord Discord is generally very simple and easy to get started using, but still offers a great deal of customization and features. Furthermore, third party features and plentiful and well supported. On top of that, the amount of usability you get for the price is absolutely … Incentivized Helpful? Hugo Forget Project manager in Product Management at Pixi Studio (Media Production, 11-50 employees) Chose Discord The interface is just easier to use. The platform is quite reliable. Audio/video calls in good quality. Web and mobile platform [as] well Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Discord Discord offers the most efficient way to onboard new users when we need to communicate quickly and via text and/or voice. Incentivized Helpful?	Salesforce Verified User Chose Slack In the team, we don't have thread options. Slack does offer thread options, and it is handy to use threads. Discord sometimes gets complicated for a non-techy, whereas Slack is a very easy-to-use platform. I still feel Google Meet and video calls are better and easier to use … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Slack Slack has a better UI than Discord and is easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Slack The most convenient way to organize and follow thread (so any conversation) and a very large way to customize the workspace by individual (my workspace is organize in my way, but my colleague can have their own structure and organization). Also being able to add customized … Incentivized Helpful? Rezwan Karim Business Analyst in Information Technology at SaynBeauty (Cosmetics, 51-200 employees) Chose Slack Discord is basically designed for gaming communities, while Slack is for professional and workplace communication. Also Slack is known for its integrations with third-party tools where Discord actually does not. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Slack Slack is more friendly and it seems easier to use than Discord, also easier integrations Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Slack I believe Slack is the most verstatile messenger, compared to software such as Skype, Facebook Messenger, Skype and Telegram. All those are not great for big companies and are missing many tools such as document archiving and apps integrations. Discord could maybe a nice … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Slack Slack is better than Skype and Discord, because slack you can keep all you messages organized and find them way easier than you can on Skype and Discord. Slack also have better options to help meet your team organization and communication better. Its also more fun and cute, by … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Slack Slack is the first level of organization after Whatsapp/Telegram groups for teams. Slack is easier to adapt but more feature-limited and also more expensive than Discord. Slack is more well-suited for communication and less suited for task management than Trello. More focused … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Slack I've use Discord but find it hard to learn and complicated Incentivized Helpful? Deneb Pulsipher, WAS Captain Accessible in Quality Assurance at SeaMonster Studios (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Slack Discord had most of the same features that we wanted to use, and worked pretty well for most of our use cases. Unfortunately, it was glitchy and just not as refined as Slack. Plus outside organizations that we want to connect with often weren't on Discord, so we had to keep … Incentivized Helpful? Adil Khan Robin Software Engineer \| Front-end Developer in Information Technology at Dhaka IT Solution (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Slack Slack is great for communicating with our remote team across the country. It keeps our teams connected when working on multiple projects and initiatives. Slack has more connectivity options than Google Meet, making it a valuable tool. Since we use other products, integration is … Incentivized Helpful? Bumhan YU Sr/Lead Product Designer at DoubleVerify (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose Slack Teams can be an excellent tool if the whole organization is structured around Microsoft products—e.g. OneDrive, 365 Accounts, Outlook, Office Suite, etc—as it provides a fully centralized integration of everything within MS. But as a standalone chat/communications application, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Slack I would choose Slack over both of these products. Discord is very game-centric, and teams, while a good product just doesn't deliver or have the level of integrations that Slack is able to provide. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Slack Discord feels like Slack's little brother. It's just less professional. Slack seems to be the go-to for professional, quick messaging communication. Discord can become messy and get out of hand. Slack always feels clean and polished. If given a choice, I wouldn't move to Discord… Incentivized Helpful? Bertrand POTART Product manager in Information Technology at ADEO (Retail, 10,001+ employees) Chose Slack We did not found the same level of features on all these products. Where Slack is better than other ones, is that you are interacting with other really fast, you can jump in open channels, private channels, be updated about topics and also manage different workspaces. The … Incentivized Helpful? Tony Dib Junior Desktop Support Engineer in Information Technology at Vivienne Court Trading (Capital Markets, 51-200 employees) Chose Slack Slack is very good for tech stack focused businesses with the automations and notification controls that can be set. Incentivized Helpful? Aniruddha Ganesh Full stack developer in Engineering at Mithyalabs (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Slack Slack's interface is more intuitive and easy to use than others. It's default colours and customizations make it easy to use in both light and dark mode. Other apps don't have this level of ease of use. Threads make it easy to organise messages and not lose track of information … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Slack Slack blows Teams out of the water with its simplicity and fun vibe. I used to work with a team before, but Slack is faster, smoother, and more intuitive—no clunky menus or endless clicks. It is also packed with playful features like custom emojis and integrations, making work … Incentivized Helpful? Adib Bamieh 🇵🇸 CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Corporate at Bamboo Orchard (Management Consulting, 11-50 employees) Chose Slack Slack is better at scaling, better for project management, and better for integrations than everything else we tried, including plain email. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Slack I would choose Slack a hundred times over Teams. I find the interface to be much friendlier and there are more robust features -- not to mention gifs and custom reactions. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Slack Slack is BY FAR the most robust and efficient professional communication tool. It allows for organization within large companies and for smaller groups to emerge, both professional teams and social groups like a channel to share food cooked or plants gardened. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Slack Slack is my favourite tool so far. It is easy to use. It does everything that I need. I love the designer and you are free to use any email address. 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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Discord

Slack

Comparison of Project Management features of Discord and Slack
Feature	Discord 8.2 23 Ratings	Slack 8.2 479 Ratings
Task Management	8.48 Ratings	8.2310 Ratings
Gantt Charts	9.01 Ratings	6.961 Ratings
Scheduling	8.06 Ratings	7.9259 Ratings
Workflow Automation	7.05 Ratings	8.4284 Ratings
Mobile Access	9.221 Ratings	9.5460 Ratings
Search	8.719 Ratings	8.7463 Ratings
Visual planning tools	7.04 Ratings	8.0187 Ratings

Comparison of Communication features of Discord and Slack
Feature	Discord 7.9 23 Ratings	Slack 8.9 488 Ratings
Chat	9.523 Ratings	9.8488 Ratings
Notifications	9.222 Ratings	9.1484 Ratings
Discussions	9.523 Ratings	9.6473 Ratings
Surveys	8.014 Ratings	8.1302 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase	9.112 Ratings	7.8300 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting	10.02 Ratings	8.9110 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts	4.01 Ratings	8.7182 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook	4.01 Ratings	8.9120 Ratings

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Discord and Slack
Feature	Discord 7.7 22 Ratings	Slack 8.7 461 Ratings
Versioning	6.89 Ratings	8.4229 Ratings
Video files	7.222 Ratings	8.8412 Ratings
Audio files	6.721 Ratings	9.1403 Ratings
Document collaboration	6.510 Ratings	8.5318 Ratings
Access control	8.212 Ratings	8.4305 Ratings
Advanced security features	7.69 Ratings	8.4264 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive	10.01 Ratings	9.0211 Ratings
Device sync	8.312 Ratings	9.1339 Ratings

User Ratings
	Discord	Slack
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (23 ratings)	9.4 (489 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (23 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (2 ratings)	9.2 (103 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.2 (3 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)