April 11 2022
In 2019, the team collaboration software market reached $9.5 billion worldwide, thanks to the COVID-19 situation resulting in a considerable change towards distance working, collaboration and chatting tools became more important than ever.
Besides the preferences, the 2 clear market leaders within the sector are Microsoft Teams and Slack. In these unpredictable times, businesses are rapidly installing collaborative technologies to keep productivity high.
In this piece, we'll compare Microsoft Teams vs. Slack and go over their features and market shares in-depth to help you answer this important issue and choose a winner.
2. Attributes to consider
| Attribute |  |
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|---|---|---|
| Channels (Teams) |  |
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| Confidential Messages | |
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| No. of Users | Up to 500k with a free plan | Unlimited |
| Unlimited Messaging | |
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| Broad Message Search | |
Up to ten thousand messages along with the free plan |
| Sharing of files | |
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| Guest Access | Restraint to five per account (for paid plans even) | Unlimited collaboration with external users (for paid plans) |
| Screen Sharing | |
only paid |
| One on one audio and video calls | Unbounded | Unbounded |
| Video Conferences | Up to 250 users with paid plans | Up to fifteen users with paid plans |
| Web, Desktop & Mobile Apps | |
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| Shortcuts & Productivity Tools | (40+ Shortcuts for Desktop App) | (50+ Shortcuts for a desktop app with most available for the online app also.) |
| Workflow Tools and a bot | Who Bot (for paid only) and Third-Party Chatbots |
Slack Bot is free for all users |
| Integrations | 472 apps to decide on from | Up to 10 for free plans, with 2,000+ apps to decide on from |
Note:
The comparison is as of March 2022