Chanty vs Zulip
On the evidence we track, Chanty leads this comparison with a composite score of 73/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for team chat. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Chanty
LeaderChanty is a team communication platform combining instant messaging, high-quality video conferencing, and task management capabilities, designed for secure remote and distributed team collaboration.
Zulip
An open-source team collaboration application that organizes conversations into topic-based threads, blending instant messaging with email-style threading to support both real-time and delayed communication patterns.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Chanty
LeaderFrom £3/user/month billed annually. Free tier available.
- FreeFree
- Unlimited public & private chats
- Unlimited announcement channels
- Unlimited voice messages
- Scheduled messages
- Disappearing messages
- +6 more
- Business£3/user/month billed annually (£4/user/month billed monthly)
- Everything in Free plan
- Unlimited group chats and channels
- Unlimited group audio and video calls
- Unlimited screen sharing
- Task boards and to-do lists
- +11 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Everything in Business plan
- White labeling and embedding
- Directory sync with SAML and SSO
- SCIM provisioning
- Recognition and rewards
- +13 more
Zulip
From $6.67/user/month (cloud annual), free open-source self-hosted option, or $3.50/user/month for commercial self-hosted support. Free tier available.
- FreeFree
- Message history search (10,000 limit)
- File storage up to 5 GB total
- Complete team chat solution
- Hundreds of integrations
- Advanced roles and permissions
- +1 more
- Standard$6.67/user/month billed annually or $8/month
- Unlimited search history
- File storage up to 5 GB per user
- Flexible permissions with custom groups
- Message retention policies
- Brand Zulip with your logo
- +2 more
- Plus$10/user/month billed annually or $12/month
- All Standard plan features
- File storage up to 25 GB per user
- SSO with SAML (Okta, OneLogIn)
- SCIM user and group sync
- Custom domain
- +1 more
- Self-hosted (Open Source)Free
- Complete team chat solution with all Zulip features without limitation
- 100% open-source software
- Retain full control over your data
- Self-hosted Basic$3.50/user/month (with $20/month first-year discount)
- Unlimited support
- Email and chat support
- SSO with SAML and Microsoft Entra ID
- AD/LDAP user sync
- Full compliance
- +2 more
- Self-hosted EnterpriseContact sales
- Email, chat and phone support
- SSO with OpenID Connect
- AD/LDAP, SAML and OpenID Connect group sync
- Implementation consulting
- Custom feature development
- +1 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Slack
- Jira
- GitHub
- Salesforce
- Zendesk
Chanty
Leader- Google Workspace
- Office 365
Zulip
- Microsoft Teams
- Discord
- Mattermost
- Rocket.Chat
- Matrix
- IRC
- GitLab
- Bitbucket
- Asana
- Linear
- Trello
- Basecamp
- Jenkins
- CircleCI
- GitHub Actions
- Travis CI
- TeamCity
- Heroku
- Netlify
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Ansible Tower
- Puppet
- +34 more
Chanty or Zulip: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
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