DailyBot review (2026): pricing, free plan, AI and who it fits

DailyBot is the standup bot to look at if your team is not entirely on Slack: it runs the same check-ins on Microsoft Teams, Google Chat and Discord, and it has grown from a standup bot into a Y Combinator-backed "team updates and AI reports" platform with kudos, mood tracking, forms, automations and, since 2026, reporting from AI coding agents. This review covers what it does well, what the free Starter plan actually includes, how the per-active-user bill is calculated, what the AI adds on each tier, and the complaints that recur in user reviews. Everything is checked against DailyBot's own pricing page and help centre as of September 5, 2026.

Full disclosure: we make asyncmate, a competing Slack standup bot, and we have a DailyBot alternative page that does the pricing arithmetic. This article is the review, not the pitch. Where DailyBot is the better pick, we say so, and there are several places where it is.

DailyBot in one paragraph

DailyBot sends each person the check-in questions by direct message at a scheduled time, collects the answers, and posts a report to a channel. That loop runs in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat and Discord, and check-ins can also be submitted from VS Code, Cursor, a Chrome extension or a command line. Around the check-in sit kudos with a team leaderboard, mood and wellbeing tracking, forms and surveys, and a workflow engine for approvals, incident intake and recurring processes. The 2026 positioning adds AI reports that summarise responses and surface blockers, and a CLI plus "agent skill pack" so AI coding agents can file their own progress into the standup. The company lists Chime, Intuit, Motorola, NPR, Rakuten and Samsung among customers and shows a 4.8 score from 100-plus reviews on its home page; Capterra has it at 4.8 from 103 reviews and G2 at 4.7 from 56.

What DailyBot does well

Four chat platforms. Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat and Discord, with the same check-ins, kudos, mood and AI reports on each by DailyBot's own connection pages. Geekbot covers Slack and Teams; most newer bots are Slack only, and our own Teams app only reached beta in August 2026. A company with engineering on Slack and the rest of the business on Teams can run one tool.

More than a standup. Kudos with a leaderboard, mood tracking, forms and surveys, watercooler prompts and workflow automation all come from the same install. If what you actually want is a light team-culture layer rather than a standup bot, this breadth is the argument.

The free plan has no member cap. Starter is free for one workspace with unlimited members, the daily standup template and the free Kudos product. There is no "10 people" line to trip over; the limits are on reports and history instead (more below).

Check-ins from where the work happens. Submitting a standup from VS Code or Cursor, or having a coding agent report its session automatically, is a genuinely different idea from "answer the DM". For an engineering team already living in an editor with an agent, it removes the one manual step a standup bot still asks for.

Enterprise posture. SOC 2 Type II access, DPAs, SLAs and priority support are on the Enterprise tier, and the Advanced tier adds role-based access, 2FA, audit trails and a public API.

Support. Reviewers on Capterra and G2 consistently rate support highly, with the Capterra ease-of-use and customer-service sub-scores both at 4.8.

DailyBot pricing in 2026, the short version

Four plans on dailybot.com/pricing: Starter, Essentials, Advanced and Enterprise.

• Starter is free: one workspace per organisation, unlimited members, the daily standup features and kudos, with 14 days of history and exports.
• Essentials is $3 per active user per month, or $2.40 on annual billing, adding the full check-in builder, native integrations such as Jira and Calendar, AI summaries and digests, and six months of history.
• Advanced is $6.50 per active user per month, or $5 on annual billing, adding multiple workspaces, AI-generated reports, anonymous responses, AI steps inside workflows, the public API, the CLI and the agent skill pack, admin controls, and unlimited history.
• Enterprise is custom, adding SOC 2 Type II access, DPAs, SLAs and white-glove onboarding.

Two details do more to the bill than the headline rate.

First, the headline rates are the annual ones. The pricing page shows both terms side by side, "$2.40 annual / $3 monthly" for Essentials and "$5 annual / $6.50 monthly" for Advanced, and DailyBot's own plan comparison in the help centre lists Essentials at $3 and Advanced at $5, "annual discounts may apply", noting that list prices come from the pricing page and the checkout screen overrides the table. Read that as: budget $3 for Essentials month to month, $2.40 if you commit to a year, and confirm on the checkout screen.

Second, and more important, is what "active user" means, because DailyBot's pricing FAQ and its help centre describe it differently.

The pricing page FAQ is unambiguous: an active user "is any member whose status is active in your organization, it refers to their seat status, not whether they actually use Dailybot. New members join as active by default, so they count toward billing right away." To stop paying for someone, an admin sets them to inactive in member settings. The billing manager's own seat is free.

The help centre article on active vs. inactive users describes a usage rule instead: an active user is someone who "performed at least one billable action" in the billing window, such as authorising the app or submitting a check-in, and a pending invite "is usually not active yet".

Those cannot both be the whole story. Our reading, and the one to plan a budget on, is the pricing page: it is the document the plan-comparison table itself defers to, and it is the one that says new members are billable by default. If you install DailyBot in a 40-person workspace where 15 people answer check-ins, expect the first invoice to count 40 unless an admin has set the other 25 to inactive first. That is not a hidden fee, it is written on the pricing page, but it is the opposite of how Geekbot and asyncmate count, and it is the thing to ask their support about before you pay. The worked examples on our DailyBot alternative page show what the same roster costs both ways.

Paid-plan trials are granted on request through support rather than self-serve, by the help centre.

The free Starter plan: what you get and what you do not

Starter is a real plan, not a trial, and the absence of a member cap makes it unusual in this category. What it includes by the pricing page: one workspace, unlimited members, the daily standup features, the free Kudos product, workflows and commands, and basic visibility.

Three limits matter.

1. Fourteen days of history and exports. The feature table on the pricing page lists "History & exports" at 14 days for Starter, 6 months for Essentials and unlimited for Advanced. Two weeks is enough to see this week's report and last week's; it is not enough to look at a month.
2. Limited reports and automation runs. The help centre describes Starter as "limited reports & automation runs" without publishing the numbers on the pricing page, and reviewers mention running into a monthly report or message limit. Earlier in 2026 the page stated the caps outright; today it does not, so ask before you rely on the free plan for more than one daily check-in.
3. No AI, no integrations, no anonymity. AI summaries start on Essentials, AI-generated reports and anonymous responses on Advanced, and native integrations on Essentials. The free plan is the plain check-in and the kudos.

For a small team that wants a daily standup with a report they read the same day and forget, Starter does the job for free with no headcount ceiling. For a team that wants a month of history or any AI, it is a trial in all but name.

DailyBot AI: which tier gets what

DailyBot is the clearest of the standup bots about which AI feature sits on which plan, and the answer is "not the free one".

Essentials: summaries and digests. The pricing page describes "AI surfaces what matters from your team's responses" plus tracking of agent progress and blockers. This is the read-the-check-ins-for-me layer: what was said, what recurs, what looks stuck.

Advanced: AI-generated reports and AI in workflows. "Deep reasoning on trends, blockers, and team health", anonymous responses, AI as a step inside any automation, and the public API and connectors. The help centre puts the full "Advanced AI suite" on this tier and expands it under Enterprise.

Advanced: the CLI and agent skill pack. Coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor or Copilot can report progress, run check-ins and send team updates through the DailyBot CLI. When an agent finishes a session, the standup fills itself in. This is the most distinctive thing DailyBot ships in 2026 and nobody else in the category has an equivalent yet.

Our read: if your team's standup is increasingly "what did the agents do", DailyBot has built for that on purpose and it is worth the Advanced rate. If your standup is people typing what they did, the Essentials summary is the feature that matters, and the question becomes whether a $2.40 to $3 seat for every active member is the right way to pay for it. Our own take on the daily digest is on the AI standup digest page.

Where reviewers push back

Reviews are strongly positive on both Capterra and G2, so weigh the criticisms in proportion. These are the ones that recur.

• Notification timing. The most repeated complaint: reviewers struggle to change when the check-in arrives, with one developer saying it sends at 8 when they want 10 and they could not find how to change it. The setting exists; the point is that participants cannot find it from the DM.
• Free plan limits. The monthly report or message cap on Starter surprises people, and G2 reviewers name the free plan's usage limits as the common drawback.
• Feature discoverability. Several reviewers say there are features they never found. A product that does check-ins, kudos, mood, forms, automations and agent reporting has a lot of surface, and the reviews suggest the daily user sees a small slice of it.
• Editing after submitting. Updating an answer after it has been posted is described as awkward.
• Integrations. A minority found the integrations thinner than expected for their stack, though the Advanced tier's API and connectors address some of that.
• Review recency. The most recent Capterra review at the time of writing is from May 2025, so the reviews describe DailyBot before the 2026 repositioning around AI agents. Treat the praise for the core check-in as current and the feature commentary as a year old.

Nothing here is a deal-breaker. The notification-timing thread is the one to test in a trial with a real participant.

Who DailyBot is right for

• Teams on Microsoft Teams, Google Chat or Discord. Four platforms with the same feature set. This alone decides it for a lot of companies.
• Teams that want culture tooling with the standup. Kudos with a leaderboard, mood tracking and watercooler prompts in the same bot.
• Engineering teams running AI coding agents. Agent reporting through the CLI and skill pack is unique in the category as of this writing.
• Teams where everyone answers every day. If the whole roster is active anyway, the per-active-member rule costs nothing extra, and at $2.40 on an annual plan the seat is cheaper than most per-person rates in the category, ours included.

Who should look elsewhere

• Workspaces where a minority answers. The pricing FAQ counts every active-status member, new joiners included, until an admin deactivates them. A 40-person workspace with 15 people answering pays for 40 unless somebody keeps the member list pruned. Bots that count only the people who answer price this shape very differently; the best standup bots for Slack roundup compares the billing models.
• Teams that need history on the free plan. Fourteen days is short. Geekbot's free plan keeps three months; ours keeps 90 days.
• Teams that want anonymous surveys without the top tier. Anonymous responses are an Advanced feature at $5 per active user.
• Slack-only teams that just want a standup. Much of what the seat pays for is the multi-platform and automation breadth. If none of it will be used, a narrower bot is cheaper for the same daily loop, which is the whole argument of our DailyBot alternative page.

DailyBot and asyncmate in sixty seconds

Figures from dailybot.com/pricing and its help centre, and our pricing page, September 5, 2026. DailyBot is a trademark of its owner; asyncmate is not affiliated with DailyBot.

The verdict

DailyBot is the most capable multi-platform tool in this category and the only one that has thought seriously about AI agents as standup participants. The check-in itself is solid and well reviewed, the free plan has no headcount ceiling, and support is praised across the board. The things to go in with eyes open about are the 14-day free history, the annual-versus-monthly rate, and above all the billing basis: every active-status member counts, so the invoice tracks your member list, not your participation. If your team is spread across chat tools or runs on coding agents, install it. If it is a Slack team where a dozen people answer and the rest read, the free Slack standup bot comparison and the DailyBot alternative page are the next two reads, and how the asyncmate Slack standup bot works shows the same daily loop end to end.

FAQ

Is DailyBot free? Yes, for one workspace. The Starter plan is free with unlimited members, the daily standup features and kudos, with history and exports limited to 14 days and reports and automation runs capped. AI features and native integrations start on the paid Essentials plan.

How much does DailyBot cost? The pricing page shows Essentials at $3 per active user per month, or $2.40 on annual billing, and Advanced at $6.50 monthly or $5 annual. Enterprise is custom. By the pricing FAQ, every member whose status is active is billed, whether or not they use DailyBot, until an admin deactivates them.

Who counts as an active user on DailyBot? By the pricing page FAQ, any member whose seat status is active in the organisation, and new members are active by default. A help centre article describes a usage-based rule instead. Plan on the pricing page definition and confirm with their support before paying.

Does DailyBot have AI? Yes, on paid plans. Essentials adds AI summaries and digests of check-in responses; Advanced adds AI-generated reports on trends and blockers, AI steps in workflows, and a CLI and agent skill pack so AI coding agents can report their own progress. The free Starter plan has no AI.

Does DailyBot work with Microsoft Teams? Yes, along with Slack, Google Chat and Discord. Check-ins, kudos, mood tracking, forms and AI reports are listed for Teams on DailyBot's own connection page.

What is the history limit on DailyBot's free plan? Fourteen days of history and exports on Starter. Essentials keeps six months and Advanced is unlimited.

Is DailyBot worth it? For a team on Teams, Google Chat or Discord, or one that wants kudos, mood and automations with its standup, yes, and it is the only option if you want coding agents filing into the standup. Before you commit, count how many members will have active status against how many will actually answer, because that ratio is the whole bill.