The 8 best standup bots for Microsoft Teams in 2026

A standup bot for Microsoft Teams does the same job as one for Slack: it messages each person a few questions on a schedule, collects the answers, and posts one digest to a channel. What changes on Teams is everything around that loop. A bot cannot message anyone until the app has been let in, channel posts do not notify people by default, and some of the tools that dominate Slack roundups have no Teams app at all. The Slack shortlist does not carry over, so this page is the Teams one.

Full disclosure first: we make asyncmate, one of the tools below, and our Teams app is the newest on the list and still in beta. Every number here comes from the vendor's own pricing or help pages, checked on September 5, 2026 and linked in each section. We say where a competitor is the better pick, because a roundup that always ends with "buy ours" is not worth your time.

Three things Teams changes about the shortlist

1. Install is by team, and an admin is in the loop. A Teams bot cannot start a chat with someone until the app is installed for that person or for a team they belong to; Microsoft documents the failure as a plain 403 in its proactive messaging guide. So every bot on this list is added to a team, not to a person. Geekbot's help page even warns that the individual install "won't work for your team". Teams admins can also block third-party apps for the whole org, which makes the first question not "which bot" but "will our admin allow one".

2. Channel posts do not notify by default. Unless a person has turned on "all new posts" for a channel, a message the bot drops there shows up as a quiet unread mark, not a notification. A bot that asks the standup questions in a channel gets ignored. The good ones send the questions by personal chat, which does notify, and post only the digest to the channel.

3. Store or catalog. The established bots sit in the Teams app store: search Apps, click Add, choose a team. Newer ones, ours included, come as an app package that an admin uploads to the org catalog first, and only then can anyone add them to a team. Same result, one extra step, and it needs the "upload custom apps" setting to be on.

The one question to ask first

Standup bots price four different ways, and the same 30-person team can pay very different amounts depending on which basis it lands on:

1. Per person who participates. Only the people who answer are billed. Someone who reads the digest is free. Geekbot, ScrumGenius and asyncmate work this way.
2. Per seat. Everyone counted as active in the org is billed until an admin deactivates them. DailyBot and Jell work this way, and Standuply counts anyone added to a report.
3. Flat tiers. A fixed monthly price for a band of team sizes. StandupBot.
4. Per creator. The person who sets up the standup pays; respondents are free. Polly.

Count the people who will actually answer, count the people who merely sit in the team, and keep both numbers next to you while you read the table.

The comparison in one table

Prices are each vendor's published rates as of September 5, 2026. Where a vendor publishes only annual rates, the table says so.

The rest of the page goes tool by tool: what each one is good at on Teams, what its pricing page says, and the drawback its own marketing skips.

Geekbot

Geekbot is the incumbent on both platforms, and its Microsoft Teams page lists async standups, polls, surveys and retrospectives as the things the Teams app runs. Install is the standard path: open Apps inside Teams, search for Geekbot, add it to a team. Their help article is explicit that you must pick "Add to a team" and not the individual option. If you want the well-trodden path on Teams, this is it, and the full product is in our Geekbot review.

Pricing is the same on Teams as on Slack: $3 per participant per month, or $2.50 on an annual commitment, with polls and surveys billed separately at $1 per respondent per month ($0.75 annual). The free Starter plan covers 10 users and keeps 3 months of history. The AI features, which summarise reports and answer questions about them, are on the paid Basic plan and above.

The catch is the poll line. A monthly pulse poll with 20 respondents adds $20 a month on top of the standups. Price that in if you survey people at all. The Slack-side comparison on our Geekbot alternative page applies to Teams too, since the rates are identical.

• Best for: Teams shops that want the proven, store-installed option.
• Main drawback: polls are a separate per-respondent bill, and the free plan keeps only 3 months of history.
• Pricing source: geekbot.com/pricing

asyncmate

Our own tool, so read this section knowing that. asyncmate runs async check-ins in Microsoft Teams the same way it runs a Slack standup bot: each person gets a personal chat message at their delivery time, answers in a short form inside the message, and the team gets one digest in the channel with every answer in its thread. On the paid plan an AI summary sits on top of the digest: what shipped, who is blocked, what needs a decision, with blockers tracked from one run to the next instead of quoted once and forgotten.

What runs on Teams today: check-ins and standups, reminders to any channel (free for any number of people), polls with a live tally where voters are never billed, kudos by mentioning the bot in a channel, daily hours logging on a card, and bot commands in chat for status, skip, snooze, out of office, time zone and polls. Not yet: posting digests into private channels, and a Teams Store listing.

Install is the part to be honest about. During the beta there is no store entry, so a Teams admin uploads the app package to your org catalog once; after that anyone can add it to a team. When the bot joins, it posts a short code in the team, you enter it in the asyncmate dashboard, and the team is linked. The app asks for no org-wide Graph permissions and shows no admin-consent screen; it uses resource-specific permissions that cover only the teams it is added to. One more Teams-specific detail: Teams does not tell bots what time zone a person is in, so each person sets theirs with a tz command in chat, and until they do, prompts go out in the check-in's zone. The setup is on the Microsoft Teams page.

Pricing: free for up to 10 people who answer, then $2.50 a month per person who answers, billed monthly with no annual commitment. Reminders, polls and kudos stay free at any team size, and people who only read the digest are never on the bill. During the launch offer everything, AI digest included, is free until November 1, 2026. A Slack workspace and a Teams team live in one account and are billed as separate workspaces.

• Best for: teams that want per-answer billing with polls and reminders free, and an AI digest without an enterprise plan.
• Main drawback: the youngest Teams app on this list, installed through an org catalog upload rather than the store.
• Pricing source: asyncmate.com/pricing

DailyBot

DailyBot is the tool to look at if your company is not all on one chat platform: the same check-ins, kudos, mood tracking and AI reports run on Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat and Discord. For a Teams-and-Google-Chat company, that alone can decide it. Our DailyBot review covers the whole product.

Pricing on dailybot.com/pricing: Essentials at $3 per active user per month, or $2.40 on annual billing, and Advanced at $6.50 monthly or $5 annual. The free Starter plan covers one workspace with unlimited members and 14 days of history. Smart summaries, which pull out blockers and group themes, start on Essentials; AI-generated reports are on Advanced. Their pricing FAQ defines an active user by seat status, not usage: "New members join as active by default, so they count toward billing right away", until an admin deactivates them.

That seat definition is the thing to check. A 30-person team where 12 people answer pays for 30 seats, not 12. The DailyBot alternative page runs the numbers.

• Best for: companies spread across Teams, Google Chat and Discord, or teams that want mood and culture tooling beyond standups.
• Main drawback: every active seat is billable until an admin deactivates it, not just the people who answer.
• Pricing source: dailybot.com/pricing

Standuply

Standuply bills itself as a "standup bot for Slack and MS Teams" and is the process maximalist of the group: 20 plus agile processes, planning poker, 360 feedback, and voice and video answers to standup questions, which nothing else here offers. Teams that want a full agile toolkit inside Teams get the broadest menu.

Pricing on standuply.com/pricing is tiered by team size (up to 5, 5 to 30, over 30 users) and rendered through a calculator rather than a table, so take the shape rather than exact digits: the headline "from $1.50" is the annual rate for five or fewer users, and a billable user is anyone added to a report, whether or not they answer. The free plan automates for up to 3 respondents. There are also flat plans for up to 200 and for 200 to 500 employees, which beat any per-user rate once the team is big enough. AI-enhanced standups, which ask follow-up questions when an answer is vague, are listed, but the tier that carries them is not documented. Details on the Standuply alternative page.

• Best for: teams that want the widest agile toolkit, or voice and video answers.
• Main drawback: anyone added to a report is billable, and the exact per-user price takes a calculator to find.
• Pricing source: standuply.com/pricing

StandupBot

StandupBot added Microsoft Teams in April 2026, so it is the newest arrival on Teams after ours. The pitch is simplicity: standups, flat pricing, nothing else to configure. Its changelog names the AI model behind the recap, an OpenAI GPT-5.4 summary on every tier, which is more than most vendors disclose, though the pricing page itself does not list the feature.

Pricing on standupbot.com/pricing: $19 a month for up to 20 active users, $49 for up to 50, $129 above that, with roughly 17 percent off on annual billing. There is no free plan; the FAQ answers "Not at this time", and every plan starts with a 14-day trial. An active user is "anyone that participates or follows a meeting", so followers who only read count toward the cap.

Credit where due: for a team of 15 to 50 where everyone answers, those flat tiers beat every per-person price on this list, ours included. A 40-person team pays $49 flat where per-person tools charge $100 or more. The flat price cuts the other way for small teams, since 4 people pay the same $19 as 20. The StandupBot alternative page has the numbers at each step.

• Best for: teams of 15 to 50 where everyone participates and a predictable bill matters.
• Main drawback: no free plan, and a 4-person team pays the same $19 as a 20-person one.
• Pricing source: standupbot.com/pricing

ScrumGenius

ScrumGenius is the most Teams-native name here. It runs on Microsoft Teams, Slack, Cisco Webex and plain email, and it can be bought through Microsoft AppSource, which matters for organisations that purchase software only through their Microsoft agreement.

Pricing on scrumgenius.com/pricing says "plans start at $2.50/mo", billed per active participant of a check-in, and the FAQ is clear that billing owners, observers and admins who do not answer are not charged. There is a full-featured trial with no card, and no free plan listed. No AI summary appears on the pricing page. Beyond the "from" price, the page does not publish a plan table, so ask for the tier breakdown before you commit.

• Best for: organisations that buy through AppSource, or teams that also live in Webex or email.
• Main drawback: no free plan, and only a "from" price is published.
• Pricing source: scrumgenius.com/pricing

Jell

Jell pairs daily standups with goals and OKR tracking, so the check-in can reference the goals a person is working toward. Microsoft Teams and Slack integrations are included on every plan.

Pricing on jell.com/pricing: Essentials at $5 per user per month, or $4 on annual billing, and Advanced at $10 monthly or $8 annual, with an Enterprise plan on quote. Every user is a seat. There is a trial but no free plan, and no AI feature is listed on the pricing page.

• Best for: teams that want goals and OKRs tracked alongside the standup.
• Main drawback: the highest per-head rate among the per-user tools, with no free plan.
• Pricing source: jell.com/pricing

Polly

Polly is a polling and meeting-engagement tool that also does standups, and on Teams that order matters more than on Slack. Its Teams pricing page lists standups, under the name AgilePolly, as an Enterprise-only feature. The Free and Pro plans cover polls, quizzes, trivia and Q&A in Teams meetings.

Pricing: Free at $0 with unlimited responses and 30 days of results history, Pro at $19 a month billed as $228 a year, Enterprise on quote. Polly bills creators, not respondents: "Only creators who are utilizing premium features while creating a polly need a license". Installing on Teams goes through the Teams admin center, where the app has to be allowed and assigned by policy, which is more setup than a store add. The Slack side is on our Polly alternative page.

• Best for: teams whose first need is polls and meeting engagement, with standups a distant second.
• Main drawback: standups on Teams start on the Enterprise plan.
• Pricing source: polly.ai/microsoft-teams-pricing

Two names that did not make the table

Range runs async check-ins with a Microsoft Teams integration, but the product is a web-app suite of meetings, goals and mood sharing at $8 per user, with the check-in one part of it; the Range alternative page covers it. Troopr is on every Slack roundup, ours included, but it is Slack only, with no Teams app on its site as of our last check.

Running a standup in Teams without a bot

Teams has no built-in standup feature, but you can get part of the way with what Microsoft ships. Power Automate can post a scheduled message to a channel on a recurrence, people answer in the thread, and Microsoft Forms can collect structured answers if you want columns instead of prose.

What that setup cannot do is the part the bots are for. Everyone gets the prompt at the same clock time, which fails the moment the team spans time zones. Nobody chases the people who did not answer. There is no digest, so the thread is the record, and it goes stale by Thursday. And because channel posts do not notify by default, the scheduled post is easy to miss. For a co-located team of five it works. For everyone else, the bot earns its price. If you are still deciding whether to go async at all, async standup vs daily standup meeting lays out the trade-offs.

Which one should you pick

A team of 10 or fewer: Geekbot or asyncmate, both free at that size, both installed at team level. Geekbot has the store listing and the track record; asyncmate has polls and reminders off the bill and the AI digest free during the launch offer.

A company on Teams and Google Chat or Discord: DailyBot. Nothing else here spans those platforms.

A team of 15 to 50 where everyone answers: price out StandupBot's flat tiers before paying per person.

An organisation that buys through Microsoft AppSource: ScrumGenius.

Goals and OKRs in the same tool: Jell.

Polls and meeting engagement first: Polly, knowing that standups on Teams need its Enterprise plan.

Everyone else: two numbers decide it. How many people will actually answer, and how much admin friction your org tolerates. Per-answer tools reward big teams with small active groups; per-seat tools punish them. Store-listed apps clear an admin faster than a catalog upload, and that is a real cost of picking the newer tool, ours included.

FAQ

Does Microsoft Teams have a built-in standup bot? No. Teams ships no standup feature. Power Automate can post a scheduled message to a channel and Forms can collect answers, but nothing native delivers questions per person, chases missing answers or posts a digest. That is what the bots on this list automate.

Does Geekbot work in Microsoft Teams? Yes. Geekbot's Teams page lists async standups, polls, surveys and retrospectives, it installs from the Teams app store by adding it to a team, and the pricing is the same as on Slack: free for up to 10 users, then $3 per participant per month or $2.50 annually.

Do standup bots in Teams need admin approval? Usually some. Apps in the Teams store can be added to a team by its members unless an admin has blocked third-party apps, which many organisations do by default. Apps that are not in the store, like asyncmate's beta, need an admin to upload the package to the org catalog. Separately, some bots request Microsoft Graph permissions that need admin consent; asyncmate does not, it uses resource-specific permissions scoped to the teams it joins.

What is the best free standup bot for Microsoft Teams? Geekbot and asyncmate both run full standups free for up to 10 people, with Geekbot counting participants and asyncmate counting people who answer. DailyBot's free plan takes unlimited members with 14 days of history, and Standuply automates up to 3 respondents. Polly's free plan has no standups, and StandupBot, Jell and ScrumGenius offer a trial rather than a free plan.

Why does nobody see the standup post in the channel? Because Teams does not notify on channel posts unless a person has turned on notifications for that channel. The bots that work well on Teams send the questions by personal chat, which does notify, and post only the digest to the channel. If you run a standup with a scheduled channel post instead, ask everyone to enable "all new posts" for that channel.

Can one tool run standups in both Slack and Microsoft Teams? Yes. Geekbot, DailyBot, Standuply, StandupBot, ScrumGenius, Jell, Polly and asyncmate all run on both. With asyncmate, a Slack workspace and a Teams team sit in one account and switch in the dashboard, each with its own roster and billing. Our Slack roundup covers the same tools from the Slack side.