LunarWindLunarWind compared with Slack
Both are team chat for companies. This page sets out where they differ. Slack's figures are from slack.com as shown to a visitor in Sweden on 1 October 2026.
| LunarWind | Slack | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | One price per workspace each month by team size: $49 up to 10 people, $99 up to 25 people or $179 up to 50 people. Inviting a colleague inside your band costs nothing extra. | Per active user each month: Pro €8.25, or €6.75 paid annually. Business+ €18, or €15 paid annually. |
| A team of 20, paid annually | Team, for up to 25 people: $990 a year, the same for 12 people or 25. | Pro: €1,620 a year. Business+: €3,600 a year. |
| History and search | Every message and thread title is kept and searchable on every plan, as far back as it goes. | Messages are saved and searchable for 90 days on the free plan, without limit on paid plans. |
| Conversations | Every message belongs to a thread with a title, inside a channel. | Messages go into a channel or a direct message, and a reply can start a thread under one message. |
| Online status | None. There is no active or away status for anyone to see. | A dot next to your name shows coworkers whether you are active or away. You are set to away after 10 minutes of desktop inactivity. |
| Notifications | Only for threads you started, wrote in or were mentioned in, with daily quiet hours in your own time zone. | Configurable, including a notification schedule that pauses notifications outside the hours you set. |
| Integrations | Full control: build your own integrations and agents on our open API and Go module, or write to us and we set them up with you. | Apps from the Slack App Directory. |
| Hosting | A server in the EU, run by a Swedish company. | Slack is a US company owned by Salesforce. Business+ and Enterprise+ let a team choose the region where some data at rest is stored. |
Who LunarWind is for
If your team wants fewer interruptions, works across time zones or simply at different hours, and wants its conversations hosted in the EU at a fixed price per workspace, LunarWind is made for you.
Prices in USD, excluding VAT, invoiced by Scriptdrift Software Consulting AB.
Slack is a trademark of Slack Technologies, LLC. LunarWind is not affiliated with or endorsed by Slack.