Maurie AI vs Slack
One intuitive platform that makes scaling your business easy.
A Slack alternative for small businesses that want team chat in the same place as their customers: channels, direct messages and threads, next to a CRM, an AI agent, tasks, quotes, payments and marketing.
Team chat that already knows your customers.
Maurie AI covers the whole business: AI chat, CRM, quotes and e-signatures, payments, support, marketing, and local marketing. One platform, one customer record, one place to work.
Chat next to the customer record
In Maurie Chat a teammate shares a contact or a task as a card, turns a message into a task, and a workflow posts each new lead into a channel with the contact attached. At Slack, tracking leads and deals (Slack CRM) is listed on Business+.
Users included, not priced per seat
Maurie AI plans include users, and Maurie Chat comes with Growth and Pro for everyone in the workspace. Slack is priced per user: Pro is $8.75 per user a month when paying monthly. Both keep a limited history: 30 days in Maurie Chat, 90 days on Slack’s Free plan.
The rest of the business is built in
An AI agent for your website, an AI Phone Receptionist, a CRM, tasks, quotes with e-signature, payments, a shared inbox and marketing share one customer record.
Not listed on Slack’s pricing page — part of Maurie AI:
- An AI chatbot for your own website
- An AI Phone Receptionist
- Quotes and e-signatures
- Card payments and a cash register
- Email marketing and landing pages
- A published Help Center
- Google Business Profile and reviews
With Maurie AI, they are part of the platform.
How Maurie AI and Slack compare
| Feature | Maurie AI | Slack |
|---|---|---|
| Team chat | ||
| Channels and direct messages | Yes: Growth and Pro: open and private channels, direct and group messages | Yes: Channels on every plan |
| Threads | Yes: Growth and Pro, with @mentions and reactions | Yes: Yes: conversations in channels and threads |
| Message history | Partly: 30 days, then messages and files are deleted automatically | Partly: 90-day limit on Free; unlimited on Pro and up |
| Audio and video calls in chat | Not offered or not listed; see detail: Not offered in Maurie Chat | Yes: Huddles: 1:1 only on Free; group huddles on Pro and up |
| Channels shared with other companies | Not offered or not listed; see detail: Not offered | Yes: Slack Connect: 1:1 only on Free; included on Pro and up |
| Apps and integrations | Partly: No app directory; Maurie Chat connects to Maurie AI’s own CRM, tasks and workflows | Yes: Over 2,600 apps; up to 10 on Free |
| AI summaries of channels and threads | Not offered or not listed; see detail: Not offered in Maurie Chat | Yes: Thread and channel summaries on Pro and up |
| Automatic posts into a channel | Yes: Growth and Pro: a workflow posts in a channel with the contact attached | Yes: Workflow Builder on Pro and up |
| Sales & CRM | ||
| Contacts and customer records | Yes: Contacts on every plan; companies, lists, and property history from Starter | Partly: Slack CRM (track deals, log calls, manage contacts) on Business+ |
| Share a customer record in chat | Yes: Growth and Pro: a contact or a task as a card that opens the record | Partly: Salesforce records in channels; requires a Salesforce account |
| AI agent | ||
| AI chatbot for your website | Yes: Every plan, Free included | Not offered or not listed; see detail: Not listed on its site |
| AI phone receptionist | Yes: A separate package on any plan, from $49 a month for 100 minutes | Not offered or not listed; see detail: Not listed on its site |
| Tasks | ||
| Tasks | Yes: Every plan, linked to the customer’s contact | Partly: Lists on Pro and up |
| Turn a message into a task | Yes: Growth and Pro, with an assignee and a due date | Not offered or not listed; see detail: Not listed on its site |
| Quotes, documents & payments | ||
| Quotes, e-signatures and payments | Yes: Maurie Docs add-on and Maurie Pay | Not offered or not listed; see detail: Not listed on its site |
| Marketing | ||
| Email campaigns and landing pages | Yes: Starter and up: email builder, landing pages with embed code and QR codes, your own sending domain | Not offered or not listed; see detail: Not listed on its site |
| Plans | ||
| Free plan | Yes: Yes: 1 AI agent, 50 AI messages a month, 250 contacts, Cash Register | Yes: Free plan: 90 days of message history, up to 10 apps, 1:1 meetings |
| How plans are priced | Yes: Per plan, with users included | Partly: Per user, per month |
✓ included · ◐ partly or with limits · — not offered or not listed; see each feature’s detail. Slack details from its public website, checked November 11, 2026.
Maurie AI or Slack?
Choose Maurie AI if…
- You want team chat, your CRM, tasks and customer conversations in one workspace.
- You want each new lead, signed document or form posted to the team with the contact attached.
- You want users included in the plan instead of a price per seat.
Choose Slack if…
- Your team works in chat all day and needs audio and video huddles, clips, canvases and lists.
- You rely on integrations: Slack’s App Directory lists over 2,600 apps.
- You work with other companies in shared channels (Slack Connect), or want AI summaries of channels and threads.
- You need enterprise controls such as SAML single sign-on and data loss prevention.
What each one costs
Maurie AI
Maurie AI offers a Free plan, then Starter from $49 per month billed annually ($59 billed monthly) with 3 users included. Plans are priced per plan, not per seat.
Free $0 · Starter $49/mo billed annually ($59 monthly) · Growth $149/mo billed annually ($179 monthly) · Pro $399/mo billed annually ($479 monthly)
Compare every Maurie AI plan →Slack
Slack lists a Free plan (90 days of message history, up to 10 apps, 1:1 meetings), Pro at $8.75 per user a month when paying monthly ($7.25 billed annually), Business+ at $18 per user a month when paying monthly ($15 billed annually) and Enterprise+ at $45 per user a month billed annually.
As listed on Slack’s website on November 11, 2026. Prices can change; check their site for current pricing.
Maurie AI vs Slack: common questions
Is Maurie AI a good Slack alternative?
Yes, for a small business that wants team chat in the same workspace as its CRM, tasks and customer conversations, with users included in the plan. If your team needs huddles, shared channels with other companies or thousands of app integrations, Slack is built for that.
Is Maurie Chat included in my plan?
Maurie Chat is included on the Growth and Pro plans, for every user in your workspace, at no extra cost per user. Messages and files are kept for 30 days.
Can Maurie post new leads into a team channel?
Yes. On Growth and Pro, add “Post in Maurie Chat” to a workflow. When a form is submitted, a tag is added or a document is signed, Maurie posts in the channel with the contact attached.
Can we keep Slack and still use Maurie AI?
Yes. Some teams keep Slack for general chat and use Maurie AI for the AI agent, CRM, tasks and marketing.
Sources
Slack is a trademark of its owner. Maurie AI is not affiliated with or endorsed by Slack. This comparison is based on publicly available information checked on November 11, 2026; features and prices may have changed since.
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