Twist vs Zulip
No clear leader: Twist (64.3) and Zulip (61.7) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for collaboration software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Twist
An asynchronous team messaging platform that reduces reliance on synchronous meetings and supports distributed work with threaded conversations and async-first workflows.
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.
Twist
From $6/user/mo. Free tier.
- FreeFree
- Access up to 1 month of comments and messages
- Up to 5 integrations
- Up to 5 GB file storage
- Standard support
- Up to 500 internal member accounts
- +1 more
- Unlimited$6/user/mo
- Access full history of comments and messages
- Unlimited integrations
- Unlimited file storage
- Priority support
- Unlimited internal member accounts
- +1 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.
- Dropbox
- Zapier
- Google Calendar
Twist
- Google Drive
- OneDrive
- Todoist
- Calendly
Zulip
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Discord
- Mattermost
- Rocket.Chat
- Matrix
- IRC
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Bitbucket
- Asana
- Jira
- Linear
- Trello
- Basecamp
- Jenkins
- CircleCI
- GitHub Actions
- Travis CI
- TeamCity
- Heroku
- Netlify
- Docker
- +36 more
Twist 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.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.