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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HipChat (discontinued)

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AHipchat was discontinued by Atlassian. Users are being migrated to Slack.

    $0

    per user

    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
    HipChat (discontinued)Slack
    Editions & Modules
    HipChat Basic
    $0
    per user
    HipChat Plus
    $2
    per user
    Free
    $0
    Pro
    $7.25*
    per month per user
    Business+
    $12.50*
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HipChat (discontinued)Slack
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFor Server pricing info please visit https://www.hipchat.com/server (Only $1.20/user/month at the highest user tier!)*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.
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    HipChat (discontinued)Slack
    Considered Both Products
    Atlassian
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    I've used Slack and it's much better app in comparison with HipChat. Slack is much faster than HipChat. Slack has strong user community and lot of documentation around how to use it. Product functionality and performance is superb with Slack compared to HipChat. Slack has more …
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    HipChat really cannot compete with Slack so it doesn't surprise me that they've purchased the code base from Atlassian. As I mentioned earlier in the review it's screen sharing, video/audio quality and file transfers abilities are almost universally done better by the …
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    Slack and Google Hangouts have more features and offer meeting functionality. My choice would be Google Hangouts for ceremonies and Slack for messaging.
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    Slack is better developed then HipChat. It's better and faster for connecting with people. HipChat is also good but needs to be developed. The company has to update their software regularly to reach the level where Slack is now.
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    At the time, our organization was using Jabber for communication, which wasn't suited well for teams. HipChat brought a ton of great features when moving from Jabber, such as the ability to make rooms for each of our projects.

    Rocket Chat is an open-source Slack clone, which …
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    Slack is by far a better alternative, and HipChat was only developed as an alternative to Slack. It certainly falls short. The platform is not user-friendly, it is generally a bit buggy, and it doesn’t organize conversation threads in an efficient way like Slack does.
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    HipChat offers a good advantage for organizations looking for a low cost communication tool. The integration is easy and widely supported by many forums. Though, the technical issues are less reliable. Due to technical failures, Slack and Skype take the cake. Slack offers many …
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    We left HipChat because of ongoing support issues and it didn't seem to be exactly, cutting edge. We now use Slack which seems to be much more in line with our organization as a whole. The features we use on slack were not offered at the time on HipChat and I think they had …
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    HipChat stacks up really well against Slack. Many of the same features, look and feel and performance. Although we have about half of us on Mac and half on PC and several times we hear complaints of the desktop app not connecting soon after updates are released. Slack also …
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    HipChat might have a slight edge over Flowdock because of the larger number of integrations available in the marketplace. Otherwise Flowdock is a way better tool out of the box. It has the best solution for separating multiple conversations/threads in the same room. It's email …
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    Slack is way better, although it may be cost prohibitive for our team.
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    We recently moved from HipChat to Slack because of the lack of reliability of HipChat.
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    We use HipChat on marketing, the other teams (devs) use Slack. we chose HipChat because it is easier to use and doesn't have all the bloatware of Slack.
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    Both Skype and Slack definitely are better in my mind. We didn't choose HipChat; it's the tool that our client requires.
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    We selected HipChat because it was an enterprise solution to our organization. It allowed us to connect our enterprise ticketing software (which was used for everything) to communicate updates/patches and solutions to our clients. HipChat was a great tool because we were able …
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    Aside from HipChat we used Slack and Cisco Spark. Cisco Spark doesn't look as outdated as Hipchat but still is very limited with integrations and requires a paid version to take full advantage of it. Mobile version of Cisco Spark is limited and doesn't have many settings. Slack …
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    I used HipChat in a company which was pro "open source" and another one which is pro Atlassian.
    For the "open source" company I was not involved in the decision of selecting HipChat but I know that the integration with Jenkins and other internal tools were drivers for selecting …
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    I haven't evaluated any similar products. HipChat is really just perfect for the Atlassian user. Before my company used HipChat we were using Google Hangouts.
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    Hipchat behaves equally good among several other platforms used at my company (OSX, Windows, Linux). It brings us the possibility to integrate with most of our used tools, and the cost is lower than other options. Chat history and encryption makes it easier to find previous …
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    Now using Slack and it kicks ass over HipChat for so many things. It's worth the expensive price.
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    Slack, Trillian, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    We used hipchat because it is part of the Atlassian family of products, so integration was probably the easiest than if we went with something else. It's easy to for non-technical people to pick up and start using without much difficulty and allows flexibility in customization, …
    Incentivized
    Chose HipChat (discontinued)
    Hipchat is very similar with other services, but I believe it shines in its integration with other JIRA services. When your company is based around other JIRA products it just makes sense to go with the JIRA messaging client that easily connects to all the other services. To me …
    Incentivized
    Salesforce
    Chose Slack
    If the recipient is not online then Skype doesn't work properly. Similarly, we missed some notifications on HipChat so Slack is much better these.
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    We selected Slack because HipChat was being deprecated, and we needed to migrate to something else. Slack was the closest product in comparison to what we had tested. There were pains in migrating, but after all, was completed, it was pretty close to the same functionality and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    I like Slack better than the competitors I know of. HipChat had a superior search if I recall correctly. Otherwise, Slack is a cleaner and more fun version of the chat system.
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    I find that even though Slack is more expensive, it is way more simple, organized and straightforward than HipChat. Also, Slack has a much better performance on most mobile devices. Togther with that, HipChat has way less interations with other softwares than Slack, and these …
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    I have used it frequently but it slack is better than HipChat.
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    HipChat is the first chat tool that I learned and still use to this day. I am most comfortable with its interface and the team I use it with is trained to communicate there consistently. Slack was introduced to me later as we expanded into working with other teams within our …
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    I hated HipChat. It was clunky, not userfriendly, and just didn't work for us. Slack is the standard in this industry and we'd never go to a different option.
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    Slack has very useful and nice capabilities within its channels and integrations, but more sometimes can be less. Distraction can be a very bad factor for busy channels, and that might lead indirectly to losing information, especially since many users can set "snooze" on …
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    HipChat would be Slack's biggest competition, Slack has it beat in reliability and set-up time, if only Slack could adopt some of the features HipChat provides, such as the ability to edit typos and change the layout it would be much better. In my team, I chose Slack over HipCh…
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    Slack has better integration than HipChat and better mobile apps and mobile notifications.
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    Slack is definitely the marketplace leader for chat / digital communication. Overall Slack has done a very good job of making communication and collaboration easy and non-disruptive. The biggest feature that sets Slack apart from the other tools is the clean interface and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    I think Slack kills it when compared to HipChat. Slack's mobile app, groups, provisioning, and integrations capabilities are what set them apart.
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    Slack is another level. It integrates well with a great variety of third-party services. The huddle feature is great for starting a discussion quickly. The way channels and messages are organized is better.
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    Due to the notification systems of the other tools, we shifted to Slack. Sometimes HipChat was showing duplicate messages and sometimes the order was messed up. Similarly with Skype, if the other guy is online then the message was delivered but if not, they did not have a good …
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    Slack is far and away much better. It's quick and reliable. Something simple like having more emojis has made it much better just from that standpoint not to mention the other functions to be able to have a web call or set up groups and/or various channels, etc...
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    Because of the notifications, we used to use another tool and that tool does not alert you when you have new messages.
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    Overall I think it has the best collection of features in an easy to use interface that feels familiar to most people. I believe it is the only one that allows you to be a part of multiple teams and toggle between that with a simple click, which is great for our organization.
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    Slack has a much easier to understand interface, less loading time and overall a faster/cleaner feel, also provide few additional functionalities to make usage even easier, faster and productive. Nicer to the eye also.
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    Slack blows its competition out of the water, especially the voice call quality: it's second-to-none. Also, it has the most thorough integration support in the business.
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    Sococo was much more of a "virtual office" with separate visual rooms where you could see people were talking or hanging out. Eventually the call quality and reliability ended up sinking Sococo for us as a company especially since it was a cost per user and we had many users …
    Incentivized
    Chose Slack
    Partial to Slack due to longevity of using the platform.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
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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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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    HipChat (discontinued)Slack
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of HipChat (discontinued) and Slack
    Feature
    HipChat (discontinued)
    7.3
    106 Ratings
    Slack
    8.3
    479 Ratings
    Mobile Access7.397 Ratings9.5460 Ratings
    Search7.2103 Ratings8.7463 Ratings
    Task Management00 Ratings8.2310 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings6.961 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings7.9259 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.4284 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.0187 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of HipChat (discontinued) and Slack
    Feature
    HipChat (discontinued)
    7.3
    132 Ratings
    Slack
    8.9
    488 Ratings
    Chat7.7132 Ratings9.8488 Ratings
    Notifications7.7130 Ratings9.1484 Ratings
    Discussions6.5110 Ratings9.6473 Ratings
    Surveys7.834 Ratings8.1302 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase7.043 Ratings7.8300 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting7.023 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 HipChat (discontinued) and Slack
    Feature
    HipChat (discontinued)
    6.3
    95 Ratings
    Slack
    8.7
    461 Ratings
    Video files6.585 Ratings8.9412 Ratings
    Audio files6.873 Ratings9.1403 Ratings
    Access control6.660 Ratings8.4305 Ratings
    Advanced security features5.949 Ratings8.4264 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive6.027 Ratings9.0211 Ratings
    Device sync6.055 Ratings9.1339 Ratings
    Versioning00 Ratings8.4229 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings8.5318 Ratings
    User Ratings
    HipChat (discontinued)Slack
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (133 ratings)
    9.4
    (489 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (23 ratings)
    Usability
    7.2
    (8 ratings)
    9.2
    (103 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.1
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (66 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.2
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)