The 8 best standup bots for Slack in 2026

Every standup bot does the same core job: it asks your team a few questions on a schedule, collects the answers, and posts a digest to a channel. That part has been a solved problem for years. What actually separates the tools in 2026 is everything around that core, and above all one question the marketing pages bury: who counts as billable.

Full disclosure before anything else: we make asyncmate, one of the tools on this list. We compared publicly documented features, billing rules and free-plan limits, checked against each vendor's own pricing page; we did not run a long-term team trial of every product. And we say plainly where a competitor is the better deal, because a comparison that always concludes "buy ours" is not worth your time.

The one question to ask first

Standup bots price three different ways, and the same team can pay wildly different amounts depending on which basis they land on:

1. Per person who participates. You pay for the people who actually answer check-ins. Someone in the channel who only reads the digest is free. Geekbot and asyncmate work this way.
2. Per seat. You pay for every member counted as active in the workspace, whether they use the bot or not, until an admin deactivates them. DailyBot and Range work this way, and Standuply counts anyone added to a report.
3. Flat tiers. You pay a fixed monthly price for a band of team sizes. StandupBot and Polly work this way.

None of these is wrong, but each one has a team shape it punishes. Per-seat billing punishes big channels with few active responders. Flat tiers punish small teams that sit just above a band's floor. Work out which shape your team is before you compare feature lists.

The comparison in one table

Prices are each vendor's published monthly rate, last checked on August 15, 2026, and linked to the source in each section below. Annual commitments are cheaper on most of them. The AI column is there because it is the axis the roundups skip: two of these tools have no AI summary at all, and one gives it away free.

The rest of this page goes tool by tool: what each one is actually good at, what its pricing page says, and the drawback its own marketing will not mention.

Geekbot

Geekbot is the incumbent, with the largest user base in the category and a decade of polish. Standups, retros, polls and surveys, all async, all in Slack. If you want the safest well-trodden path, this is it. Their AI analysis, which surfaces topics, blockers and sentiment from the answers, sits on the top Scale plan, and how it is gated below that is not published.

Pricing: $3 per participant per month, or $2.50 on an annual commitment. Polls are billed separately at $1 per respondent per month. The free plan covers 10 users, and standup participants and poll respondents share that one pool.

The catch is the poll billing. A monthly poll with 20 respondents adds $20 to the bill on top of the standups. If your team runs polls at all, price that in. We compare the two in detail on the Geekbot alternative for Slack standups page.

• Best for: established Slack teams that want the proven, safe choice.
• Main drawback: polls are a separate per-respondent bill that can quietly double the price.
• Pricing source: geekbot.com/pricing

asyncmate

Our own tool, so read this section with that in mind. asyncmate is a Slack standup bot that runs async check-ins, standups, polls, surveys and kudos, with an AI digest that summarizes the day's answers and tracks blockers across runs instead of just quoting them, so a blocker in its fourth day reads differently from one raised this morning.

Pricing: everything is free during the beta, until November 1, 2026, AI digest included, with no card required. After the beta the price is $2.50 per month per person who answers, billed monthly with no annual commitment. That is Geekbot's annual rate as a monthly price. The free plan covers 10 people who answer, and polls, reminders and kudos stay free at any team size; poll voters are never billed. Above the free plan, the paid plan carries the AI digest, anonymous surveys and blocker insights alongside the standups.

The honest trade-off: asyncmate is the newest tool on this list. Geekbot and Standuply have years of edge cases behind them that we are still earning.

• Best for: teams that want per-answer billing with polls free, and an AI digest without an enterprise plan.
• Main drawback: the youngest product on this list, with the shortest track record.
• Pricing source: asyncmate.com/pricing

DailyBot

DailyBot goes wider than standups: check-ins, kudos, mood tracking, watercooler prompts, and automation across Slack, Teams, and Discord. If your team is not on Slack, it is one of the few real options here.

Pricing: Essentials at $2.40 and Advanced at $5 per active user per month, published as annual-discounted rates with no monthly figure listed. Their pricing FAQ is explicit that paid plans bill every member whose status is active in your org, whether or not they use DailyBot, until an admin deactivates them. The free plan covers one workspace with unlimited members, 2 check-ins and 50 reports across the organization. On the AI side DailyBot has the clearest tier mapping on this list: smart summaries, which detect blockers and group themes, start on the $2.40 Essentials plan, and the Advanced plan adds AI workflows, a CLI and an agent skill pack as the product repositions itself as an AI platform.

That seat definition is the thing to check. A 30-person workspace where 12 people answer check-ins pays for 30 seats, not 12. Details on the DailyBot alternative for Slack check-ins page.

• Best for: teams on Microsoft Teams or 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 is the process maximalist: 20 plus scrum processes, planning poker, 360 feedback, and it is the only tool here with voice and video standup recording. Teams that want a full agile toolkit inside Slack get the broadest menu.

Pricing: tiered by team size, and the headline "from $1.50" is the annual rate for teams of five or fewer. Their pricing page renders the exact tiers with a calculator rather than a table, so take the shape rather than the digits: roughly $3.50 per user on monthly billing for a team over 30, and a billable user is anyone added to a report, not someone who answers. The free plan automates for up to 3 respondents. Their AI-Enhanced Standups use GPT to probe vague answers with follow-up questions, though which tier carries that is not clearly documented.

For a small team on an annual plan, Standuply can be the cheapest paid option on this list. The rate climbing with team size is what to watch. More on the Standuply alternative for daily standups page.

• Best for: scrum-heavy teams that want retros, poker and 360s in one tool, or async video updates.
• Main drawback: the per-user rate climbs with team size, and anyone added to a report is billable.
• Pricing source: standuply.com/pricing

Troopr

Troopr is built for engineering teams that live in Jira. Two-way Jira sync, standups that reference tickets, retros, planning poker, and scheduled reports. If your standup answers are mostly ticket IDs, Troopr turns that into a feature.

Pricing: $8 per seat per month, or $6 on an annual commitment, with a free plan covering 3 seats. Part of that seat price is the Jira machinery, so the question is whether your standup actually uses it. If it does not, you are paying for a suite to get a standup bot. One genuinely generous detail: Troopr's AI standup summaries, with blockers, themes and action items, ship on every plan including the free one, the only free AI summary on this list. See the Troopr alternative for Slack standups page for the full comparison.

• Best for: engineering teams whose standups revolve around Jira tickets.
• Main drawback: the $8 seat price buys a Jira suite whether your standup uses it or not.
• Pricing source: troopr.ai/pricing

Polly

Polly is a polling and survey tool that added standups, rather than the other way round. If your main need is polls, surveys, and instant feedback with standups on the side, it belongs on your shortlist.

Pricing: standups start on the Basic plan at $19 per month, billed as $228 a year, with one creator licence included and extra licences sold separately. The free plan has unlimited poll responses and 45 days of history but no standups. Polly bills the people who create pollys, not respondents, which is generous for polling and expensive if all you want is a daily standup. It is also one of two tools here with no AI summary of standup answers on any tier. Comparison on the Polly alternative for Slack polls and surveys page.

• Best for: teams whose first need is polls and surveys, with standups second.
• Main drawback: standups only start on a $19-a-month plan billed annually, with extra creators sold on top.
• Pricing source: polly.ai/pricing

Range

Range wraps async check-ins in a full teamwork suite: meetings, goals, mood sharing, and integrations that pull your day's work into the check-in automatically. The check-in is one part of a larger product. Worth saying plainly, because a rumor keeps circulating in other roundups: Range is alive and operating as of August 2026, with an active blog and pricing page. What it does not have is any AI digest of the check-in answers; the suite, not AI, is the pitch.

Pricing: $8 per user per month, with a free plan covering up to 12 users on 2 teams with 30 days of history. As with Troopr, the seat carries the whole suite. Teams that will use the meetings and goals tooling get real value; teams that only want the check-in are buying more than they need. See the Range alternative for async check-ins page.

• Best for: teams that will actually use the meetings, goals and mood suite around the check-in.
• Main drawback: every user is a billable seat, and the check-in alone does not justify the suite price.
• Pricing source: range.co/pricing

StandupBot

StandupBot keeps it deliberately simple: standups in Slack, flat pricing, nothing else to configure. Flat tiers mean the bill never surprises you. Two things moved in 2026: it added Microsoft Teams support in April, and it is the only tool here that names its AI model, an OpenAI GPT-5.4 summary that writes the recap on every tier.

Pricing: $19 per month up to 20 people, $49 up to 50, $129 above that, with anyone following a standup counting toward the tier cap. No free plan beyond a trial.

Credit where due: for a team of 15 to 50 where everyone participates, those flat tiers can 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. Numbers on the StandupBot alternative with a free plan page.

• Best for: teams of 15 to 50 where everyone participates and a predictable flat 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

Which one should you pick

A team of 10 or fewer: start free on Geekbot or asyncmate. Both free plans cover you fully, and you can switch later with nothing lost; we break down exactly what each free plan includes on the free Slack standup bot page.

An engineering team deep in Jira: Troopr, if you will actually use the sync. Otherwise the $8 seat is hard to justify against the $2.50 to $3 options.

A team of 15 to 50 where everyone answers: price out StandupBot's flat tiers before paying per person. This is the one shape where flat wins.

A team on Microsoft Teams or Discord: DailyBot or Standuply, and since April 2026 StandupBot covers Teams too. Most of this list, us included, is Slack-only.

An AI summary without paying for it: Troopr, whose AI summaries ship on the free plan. asyncmate's AI digest needs Pro, though during the beta it is free for everyone.

Polls and surveys first, standups second: Polly, or asyncmate if you want the polls free and the standups on the same bill.

Everyone else: the difference comes down to the billing basis and the rate. Count the people who will actually answer, count the people who merely sit in the channel, and run both numbers through the table above. The bots all ask three questions at 9am. The bills do not look alike at all.

Two newer names have started appearing in roundups: Vereda AI, an engineering-management platform using free standups as a wedge, and Kollabe, flat-rate standups with AI summaries. Neither displaces the eight above yet, but both are pushing hardest on AI-included-free, which is where this category is clearly heading.

If you have not settled the questions your standup should ask yet, that matters more than the tool. Start with our daily standup template for Slack, then pick the bot that runs it cheapest for your team's shape. And if you want to try asyncmate while it is still free for everything, the beta runs until November 1, 2026.

FAQ

What is the best standup bot for Slack? There is no single best one, because they price for different team shapes. Geekbot is the proven incumbent, asyncmate has the lowest per-answer rate with polls free, StandupBot's flat tiers win for teams of 15 to 50 where everyone answers, and Troopr is the pick when standups revolve around Jira. Work out who on your team counts as billable first; the table above does the rest.

Is there a free standup bot for Slack? Yes, several; the free Slack standup bot page compares them in detail. Geekbot and asyncmate both run full standups free for up to 10 people, DailyBot's free plan takes unlimited members with 2 check-ins and 50 reports, and Standuply automates up to 3 respondents. You can also run a standup with no bot at all, using a scheduled Slack message and a thread; our daily standup template covers that setup.

How much does a standup bot cost? Per-person tools run $2.40 to $8 per user per month, and flat-tier tools $19 to $129 per month. The billing basis moves the bill more than the rate: a $2.40 seat price on every workspace member can cost more than a $3 rate on just the people who answer.

Which standup bots have an AI summary? Six of the eight, on very different terms. Troopr ships AI summaries on every plan including the free one. StandupBot's GPT-5.4 recap runs on all its tiers. DailyBot's smart summaries start on the $2.40 Essentials plan. Geekbot's AI analysis sits on its top Scale plan, Standuply does not document its AI tier, and asyncmate's AI digest is on Pro, free during the beta. Polly and Range have no AI summary at all.

Does Slack have a built-in standup bot? No. Workflow Builder, on paid Slack plans, can post a recurring form and collect answers, but nothing native delivers questions per time zone, chases missing answers, or posts a digest. Those mechanical parts are what the bots on this list automate.

What is an async standup? A standup written instead of held: everyone answers the questions in Slack on their own time inside a response window, and the team reads one digest instead of attending a meeting. We cover the format in what is an async standup, and the trade-offs against a daily call in async standup vs daily standup meeting.