Comparisons
Slack alternative
Slack solves chat. Only chat. The rest of the team's work stays spread across other subscriptions.
What it costs per year
For 10 people, on each vendor's annual list price.
Slack
$870.00
per year
Beskos
$0.00
per year
What each one covers
| Slack | Beskos | |
|---|---|---|
| Mail on your own domain | Not available | Included |
| Calendar and invites | Not available | Included |
| Contacts with custom fields | Not available | Included |
| Team files | Limited | Included |
| Chat with channels and threads | Included | Included |
| Video meetings with recording | Limited | Included |
| Edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint | Limited | Included |
| Wiki / knowledge base | Not available | Included |
| Kanban boards | Not available | Included |
| AI assistant included | Paid add-on | Included |
| Desktop folder sync | Not available | Included |
| Own domain with DKIM and DMARC | Not available | Included |
| Source you can read | Not available | Included |
| Run it on your own server | Not available | Included |
| Data in the European Union | Limited | Included |
| Provider subject to EU law | Not available | Included |
| Managed service, nothing to host | Included | Not available |
| All in the same app | Not available | Included |
Where Slack is better
- The best corporate chat there is, with years of refinement.
- Thousands of ready-made integrations and bots.
- Slack Connect for talking to clients and suppliers.
Where Beskos wins
- Chat with channels, threads, mentions, reactions and webhooks — plus the rest of the work next to it.
- No artificial limit on message history.
- A message becomes a task, an event or a wiki page without leaving the app.
- Costs less than chat alone does in most stacks.
In short
If you only need chat and the rest is already solved, Slack is excellent. If you're paying for Slack on top of mail, files and tasks, Beskos replaces the whole bill.
Read it before you believe any of this
Every row above is a claim about software you can download. The code is public, so the table can be checked rather than trusted.