Discord vs Slack
Discord and Slack are both team chat software. Discord is a commercial product from Discord Inc. Slack is a commercial product from Salesforce, Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Discord when
- You run a public or semi-public community, such as gamers, an open-source project or a creator audience.
- Pick Slack when
- A team wants the chat tool with the widest integration ecosystem and is willing to pay per seat.
Side by side
Voice, video and text chat organised into servers and channels, built for gaming groups and online communities.
Team messaging organised into channels and threads, with huddles, shared channels between companies, workflows and thousands of app integrations.
Not built for business use: no proper data retention or compliance controls, and content is hard to search from outside.
Per-seat pricing is high, the free plan hides history older than 90 days, and Salesforce keeps tightening API access.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app (both)
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Discord Inc.
Closed source, sold by Salesforce, Inc.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
42k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
8.4k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Other comparisons
More team chat apps
Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.