Slack
slack.com
Work chat that became infrastructure
from $8.75/moFree plan
Discord
Communities with voice always on
Free plan availableCommunicationSince 2015
from $2.99/moVisit discord.com
What Discord is
Servers, channels, voice rooms and bots. Increasingly used for product communities and support alongside gaming.
What Discord has cost
We have read this pricing page 8 times since Jan 2021, including archived copies of it. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.
- $4.99/moJan 2021 – Jul 2022 · Nitro Basic · 4 readings · archived page
- $2.99/moJul 2026 – Sept 2026 · Nitro Basic · 4 readings · archived page
Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.
People use it to
Current offers
Free plan
Free plan, no card required
Ongoing free tier published by the vendor. Limits vary by plan.
Discord alternatives
Other tools in communication that cover similar ground. Full comparison.
Zoom
zoom.us
Video meetings that just work
from $14.16/moFree plan
Microsoft Teams
microsoft.com
Chat and meetings inside Microsoft 365
from $4/moFree plan
Where Discord sits on price
Entry prices across Communication, cheapest first.
- Discord$2.99
- Microsoft Teams$4
- Twist$6
- Google Meet$7
- Slack$8.75
- Zoom$14.16
- Krisp$16
- CosVoice$29
8 of these 8 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page. The median is taken across the 8 verified prices in Communication.
Discord pricing questions
- How much does Discord cost?
- Discord starts at $2.99 a month on its Nitro Basic plan, billed monthly. That figure was read from discord.com's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
- Does Discord have a free plan?
- Yes. Discord publishes an ongoing free tier — not a countdown trial. Limits vary by plan, so check what the free tier covers before you commit.
- What is Discord used for?
- Servers, channels, voice rooms and bots. Increasingly used for product communities and support alongside gaming. People mainly use it to build a community, chat with a team, run voice channels.
- What are the best alternatives to Discord?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are Slack, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet. Slack, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet publish a free plan.