What makes Team Chat stand out

With Team Chat, you get the Slack features you already know, plus built-in AI, in an all-in-one chat platform.
No app-switching necessary.

  • Unified collaboration platform

    Centralize your communication on a single platform, with Zoom Team Chat, Meetings, Phone, Whiteboard, and more built to work together.

  • Simplified admin management

    Conveniently manage organization-wide settings in a central admin portal and minimize training and support with a platform your users already know and love.

  • Consolidated cost savings

    Connect and communicate across teams with instant messaging included with your Zoom Workplace plan at no additional cost.

Pyatok

“Integration of any data can be a headache, but the Team Chat migration tool made everything seamless and stress-free when migrating our public and private channels, direct messages, and even files.”

Dillon Harrison

IT Coordinator, Pyatok

Zoom vs. Slack
Zoom vs. Slack

Why choose Zoom over Slack

Zoom Team Chat Zoom Team Chat

Free +

AI Companion included with paid plans

Slack Slack

$8.75 - $15 User/Month +


$10 User/Month for AI

Continue in-meeting chat in channel

Zoom Team Chat is part of the Zoom Workplace app, making it easy for you to chat where most of your meetings take place.

 

Meeting chats can be accessed in Team Chat before and after the meeting, along with AI-generated meeting summaries with internal and external attendees at no additional cost for eligible paid plans.

Users must be members of a channel to join a Huddle and use chat or leverage third-party integration with Zoom or other meeting providers

Always-on Huddles

Yes (Beta – available upon request)

Search across your communication and collaboration tools

Yes

 

Enter relevant keywords to search for across the entire Zoom Workplace platform, from Team Chat to Meetings, Whiteboard, Docs, Contacts, and more, to find files or messages that match your search criteria.

Integrated phone capability
Integrated mail and calendar client
Shared spaces

Create a shared space for project collaboration that only select members can access

 

Stay organized on all aspects of the project with multiple channels within a shared space

 

Onboard a team member to a shared space and they’re instantly added to all associated channels

Native AI tools included*

Yes (Paid Add-on)

AI meeting summaries to chat

Yes (Paid Add-on)

 

Meeting summary only works when all participants are from the same organization, (cannot summarize if there are external participants.)

Channel summary

Yes (Paid Add-on)

Quick schedule
Sentence completion
Chat compose
Summarize chat threads

Yes (Paid Add-on)

Daily Recap

Yes - via workflow automation

Yes (Paid Add-on) & manually vs. AI driven

Mobile quick replies
Document summarization

Yes (Paid Add-on)

Schedule messages

Schedule message based on recipient's time zone

Yes - but only the sender's time

Message Reminders

Yes - with a reminder note

Threaded conversations

Yes - Threads integrated in conversation

Yes - Threads in side panel only

Audio & video messages
Native screenshot annotation
Create and arrange folders or sections
External chat
External chat controls and dashboard
Resource tabs in chat

Yes - With split view

Sidebar navigation

Drag, drop, pin tabs in sidebar

 

Spotlight chats with Starred tab

 

More advanced filtering and sorting capabilities

 

Meetings chat tab to keep track of conversations before and after meetings.

 

16 tabs available.

Yes (Limited Capability)

Quoting a message
Chat apps and integrations
Creating and sharing documents
No code/low code builder
Template workflows
Sequential workflows
Conditional workflows
Switchboard workflows
Legal hold

Yes (any paid account)

Yes (Enterprise account only)

File sharing controls
Automated SSO/IDP Channel Mapping
LTI Pro integration for education
Customer Managed Keys
User group permissions

Yes (define different permissions for a group in a very granular level which Slack doesn't have)

 

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