🆚 Microsoft Teams vs. Slack

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Slack is slightly more popular than Microsoft Teams.
🌎 Slack is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
🌍 Microsoft Teams is more popular in Germany, Australia, and Canada.

Microsoft Teams

Slack

Type

Online collaboration tool

Instant messaging app

About

Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business collaboration platform built for hybrid work, offering chat, video conferencing, file storage, and application integration.

It supports persistent chat one-on-one or in channels, HD audio and video meetings with screen sharing, recording and transcription, real-time co-authoring of documents via OneDrive or SharePoint, calendar and Outlook integration, task and polling tools, and webinar and live event capabilities for up to thousands of participants.

Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform for businesses, currently owned by Salesforce.

It provides real-time messaging with organized channels, searchable history, file sharing, workflow automation, and integrations with over 2,600 third-party apps.

It also includes informal live conversations called huddles, which start as audio chats within channels or direct messages and can include video and screen sharing.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

microsoft.com #3

slack.com #1,026

Pricing

Free version ✔️Group calling for up to 60 minutes and 100 participants

Microsoft 365Personal$9.99/month
Family$12.99/month
Business Basic$72/user/year
Business Standard$150/user/year
Business Premium$264/user/year

Microsoft Teams Essentials$48/user/year

Free version ✔️90 days of message history, 10 apps

Pro$8.75/month

Business+$18/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Slack instant messaging app is 1.4 times more popular than Microsoft Teams.

Total websites

Market share

Online Collaboration

Instant Messaging

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Slack is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, while Microsoft Teams is more popular in Germany, Australia, and Canada.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

France

Australia

Canada

Saudi Arabia

Spain

Italy

Brunei Darussalam

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Video Conferencing category.
🥇 Most popular in Brunei Darussalam in the Instant Messaging category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the Video Conferencing category.
🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Video Conferencing category.
🥈 Second most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Online Collaboration category.

🥉 Third most popular in Ireland in the Online Collaboration category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Ireland in the Instant Messaging category.
⭐ 6th most popular in France in the Instant Messaging category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Online Collaboration category.
⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Online Collaboration category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Slack is more popular among sites focused on business, software and hardware, and Internet services, while Microsoft Teams is more commonly used on education and reference, government and military, and finance and banking sites.

Business

Education/Reference

Government/Military

Software/Hardware

Internet Services

Finance/Banking

Health

Marketing/Merchandising

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Blogs/Wiki