Slack, without a bill for every member.
Channels, threads, DMs and voice rooms like Slack, for one price per space. Your whole history stays around, and the ideas board and roadmap come included.
Stay on Slack if
- Everyone in the conversation works at your company.
- You rely on Slack Connect or a specific app from Slack's directory.
- Compliance and admin controls come first.
Switch to Probed if
- You're bringing in a community, not just coworkers.
- The bill grows faster than your group does.
- You're tired of losing history after 90 days.
What's different
One price for the whole space.
Slack charges for every active person on a paid plan, which adds up fast once a community joins. Probed is one plan per space, and members never pay.
A 40-person community, billed monthly: Slack $350/mo (Pro, $8.75 a person), Probed $19/mo (Premium, up to 250 members).
Every message, kept.
Slack's free plan shows the last 90 days and deletes messages after a year. Probed keeps your whole history on every plan, free included, and search finds all of it.
Keep your team in Slack if you like.
On Premium, Probed keeps channels in sync with Slack in both directions, so your team can stay where they are while the community talks in Probed.
Moving over from Slack
Create a space and invite a few regulars.
Connect Slack and link the channels you want kept in sync.
Share the invite link with your community.
Unlink channels as people settle in, or keep them linked for your team.
Side by side
Slack wins 4. Probed wins 4. 1 comes down to your group.
Marked "(paid)": on Premium and up. Feedback forms, customer profiles and a custom roadmap domain are paid too. Custom roles, the AI assistant and the AI room designer need Business.
Common questions
Why not just run a community on Slack?
Paid Slack plans charge for every member, and the free plan only shows the last 90 days of history, so an open community gets expensive or forgetful fast. Probed is priced per space and anyone can join with a link.
Can I keep using Slack alongside Probed?
Yes. On paid plans Probed keeps channels in sync with Slack in both directions, so your team can stay in Slack while your community talks in Probed.
Does Probed keep old messages on the free plan?
Yes. There's no history limit on any Probed plan.