Slack, the chat platform that serves as the online water cooler for so many teams, is raising its monthly price and changing the way its free plan works.
The company announced the changes via a blog post this afternoon.
Here’s what’s changing:
- If you pay for the “Pro” plan per month, the price will increase from $8 per user per month to $8.75 per user per month.
- If you pay for the “Pro” plan up to a year, the price will increase from $6.67 per user per month to $7.25 per user per month.
- If you’re on the free plan, they change how/how long the messages are saved. Previously, free Slacks showed the last 10,000 messages and 5 GB of uploads. Going forward, it will be based on time rather than quantity, with Slack showing the last 90 days of messages/uploads regardless of how much or how little was sent.
(Prices above are for US users, but will increase globally; a price change chart for other countries is available here.)
Slack notes that the pricing changes only affect users on the “Pro” plan, so Teams on the Business+ plan (which currently costs $12.50 or $15 per user per month) or custom enterprise plans do not appear to be affected.
Slack says the price change is “the first price increase since [Slack] first launched in 2014” — will go into effect on September 1, 2022. The company’s blog post also notes that you can lock in the existing price for an additional year by renewing before September.
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