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

Geekbot is the standup bot most Slack teams try first, and for good reason: it has been running async standups since 2015, it works in both Slack and Microsoft Teams, and its free plan is real. This review covers what it does well, what the free Starter plan actually includes, how the bill is calculated once you outgrow it, what the AI, CLI and MCP server add, and the complaints that come up in user reviews. Everything is checked against Geekbot's own pricing page and help centre as of August 23, 2026.

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

Geekbot in one paragraph

Geekbot sends each person the standup questions as a direct message at a time you choose, in their own timezone, collects the answers, and posts a report to a channel. On top of the daily standup it runs retros, polls and surveys from the same bot, with 25 or more templates, out-of-office handling, a reporting dashboard with participation and sentiment, and a paid-plan AI that can summarise, answer questions about the team's reports and create standups conversationally. It lists Shopify, GitHub, Zapier and GitLab among its customers, and the review sites are kind to it: 4.9 out of 5 on Capterra from about 150 reviews, 4.6 on G2 by Geekbot's own count, and a 95 percent satisfaction score on SelectHub's aggregate of 330 reviews.

What Geekbot does well

Setup and the daily flow. Installing it and getting a first standup running takes a few minutes, and the flow people see every day is the right one: a DM at their local time, answers typed back into the same conversation, one report in the channel when the window closes. Reviewers repeatedly single out the timezone handling and the fact that nobody leaves Slack. That is the core of the product and it has had a decade of polish.

Templates and customization. The 25-plus templates cover daily standups, retrospectives, sales reports, weekly team feedback and eNPS surveys, among others. Questions, days, times and participants are all editable per standup, and each person can have their own schedule. Out-of-office periods pause someone without anyone editing the participant list.

Reporting. The dashboard shows participation rates, who reported and who did not, who is out of office, and a sentiment distribution, plus a scheduled engagement summary posted into Slack or Teams on paid plans. Paid plans also add CSV export and an API for pulling report data into your own tooling.

Polls and surveys. Polls, surveys, eNPS and team feedback run from the same bot, with anonymous options, multi-select, scheduling, result-sharing controls and CSV or PDF export. Geekbot's Microsoft Teams page lists polls and surveys among the things the Teams app runs, so they are no longer a Slack-only line as of September 2026.

Teams support. Standups run on Microsoft Teams as well as Slack, and have for years. Many of the newer bots in this category are Slack only (our own Teams app only reached beta in August 2026), so for a Teams shop maturity here can decide it.

Support and compliance. Support gets good marks across tiers in reviews, and Geekbot states that its security certifications and compliance standards apply to every plan, including the free one, with ISO, a DPA and GDPR compliance listed.

Geekbot pricing in 2026, the short version

There are three plans on geekbot.com/pricing: Starter, Basic and Enterprise.

• Starter is free for teams of up to 10 active participants.
• Basic is $3 per standup participant per month on monthly billing, or $2.50 per participant per month on annual billing. Polls and surveys are billed separately at $1 per respondent per month, or $0.75 on annual billing.
• Enterprise is priced on request, with volume discounts, enhanced data storage, custom security assessments and priority support.

Two details do more to the bill than the headline rate. First, the pricing page opens on the annual toggle, so the $2.50 and $0.75 you see first need a year paid up front; month to month it is $3 and $1. Second, the poll charge is per unique respondent per month, and it is on top of the standup charge: by Geekbot's own help centre, if 40 people respond to any number of polls in a month, that is $40 added to the invoice. A team of 20 that runs a standup and one monthly poll pays $80 a month on monthly billing, not $60.

What Geekbot gets right here is the billing basis. It charges only for active participants: someone who answers a standup or responds to a poll or survey in that month. A workspace of 50 where 15 people use the bot is billed for 15. New teams get a 30-day trial of the full feature set, and non-profits can ask support for a 50 percent discount.

If you want to see what a specific team size costs, the calculator on our Geekbot alternative page does the arithmetic for both tools side by side, and our Geekbot pricing explainer works the rules through for teams of 15 to 100. The rest of this review stays on Geekbot itself.

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

The Starter plan is genuinely usable, which is why so many small teams stay on it. By the Starter plan help article, it includes unlimited standups and reports, full customization of questions and schedules, out-of-office periods, the 25-plus templates, reporting insights and analytics, and the same poll features as Basic.

Three limits matter.

1. The 10 is one shared pool. An active participant is anyone who participates in a standup or responds to a poll or survey that month. Ten people answering the standup and two more voting in a poll is twelve, and you are over the line. Geekbot's wording is gentle about it, you "won't suddenly lose access", but to keep going with more people a paid plan is required.
2. Three months of history. Starter shows reporting history for up to three months; unlimited history is a paid-plan feature.
3. A list of paid-only features. Posting the standup report as a thread, manual reminders to people who have not answered, anonymous standup reporting, API access, engagement summaries, CSV exports, unlimited history and Geekbot AI are all Basic and up.

For a team of six engineers who run one standup and never poll, none of those limits will bite. For a team of nine who also run a monthly pulse survey, the shared pool is the surprise.

Geekbot AI, CLI and MCP

Geekbot's AI is a paid-plan feature and it comes in three pieces as of mid-2026.

Geekbot AI inside Slack. By the features article, you can create standups and polls conversationally, and ask the bot questions about the team's activities, blockers, projects and trends across its reports. The home page adds automated theme grouping for free-text answers and AI-suggested poll options. The scheduled summaries highlight participation, blockers and sentiment.

Geekbot CLI. A command-line tool for running standups, submitting reports and triggering polls from a terminal or a CI pipeline, with structured output. Aimed at engineers.

Geekbot MCP server. A hosted Model Context Protocol server, announced in a July 2026 post, that lets an AI assistant such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex read and post reports, create standups and polls, and generate weekly rollups, with write actions kept human-in-the-loop. Both the CLI and the MCP server are available on the paid plan.

Our read: the MCP server is the most interesting of the three, because it makes standup data available to whatever assistant your team already uses rather than only inside Geekbot's dashboard. What Geekbot does not publish is a daily AI digest posted into the channel with the report, the kind that reads every answer and tells you what shipped and who is blocked; the summaries it describes are participation and sentiment rollups, and the deeper reading sits behind questions you ask the bot. If the daily read-it-for-me digest is what you want, that is the comparison to make; ours is described on the AI standup digest page.

Where reviewers push back

The reviews are positive overall, so the criticisms are worth weighing in proportion. These are the ones that recur across Capterra, SelectHub and the third-party roundups.

• Delivery timing. Some reviewers report delays in question delivery, reminders arriving at odd times, or the bot occasionally skipping a team member. Geekbot runs at large scale and this is not the majority experience, but it comes up often enough to mention.
• Configuration lives on the website. Creating and editing a standup is done in the web dashboard, not in Slack, which a few reviewers find a detour for quick edits. The new conversational AI on the paid plan is Geekbot's answer to this.
• Analytics depth. The dashboard is described as functional but not deep, and templates as fewer than some competitors offer. If you want project-level reporting, the expectation is that you export and do it elsewhere.
• Price per user. Some reviewers say they wish the per-user rate were lower, and the poll line is the part most often called out as a surprise on the first invoice.
• The free plan's edges. A minority of reviews describe the free tier as limited, which is fair once you count the shared 10 and the three-month history.

Nothing here is a deal-breaker for the typical team. They are the points to check against your own situation before you decide.

Who Geekbot is right for

• Teams on Microsoft Teams. Geekbot has run there for years; most of the newer standup bots do not, and ours is still in beta there.
• Teams that want the longest track record. Ten years, a large installed base, and the reference customers to match. If the safe, well-trodden path is the priority, this is it.
• Teams of ten or fewer that never poll. The Starter plan gives you the whole daily standup for free, indefinitely.
• Engineering teams that want standup data in their own tools. The API, the CLI and the MCP server are a real differentiator on the paid plan.

Who should look elsewhere

• Teams that poll or survey regularly. The per-respondent line can add 30 to 50 percent to the standup bill. Bots that do not bill polls at all, or flat-tier tools, price this differently; the best standup bots for Slack roundup compares the billing models.
• Teams that want a daily AI digest in the channel. That is not what Geekbot's AI is built around. It is what ours is, and it is the reason our paid plan exists.
• Teams that want monthly billing at the annual rate. Geekbot's $2.50 needs a year up front; month to month it is $3. We charge $2.50 monthly with no commitment, which is the whole argument of our Geekbot alternative page.
• Teams of 15 to 50 where everyone answers every day. Flat-tier bots can undercut any per-person rate at that shape, Geekbot's and ours included.

Geekbot and asyncmate in sixty seconds

Figures from geekbot.com/pricing and our pricing page, August 23, 2026. Geekbot is a trademark of its owner; asyncmate is not affiliated with Geekbot.

The verdict

Geekbot is a good product and a safe choice. The daily standup flow is exactly right, the free plan is real, the billing basis is fair, and Teams support plus the CLI and MCP server give it advantages no small competitor can claim. The things to go in with eyes open about are the shared ten on the free plan, the three-month history, and the per-respondent poll charge on top of the standup price. If those do not apply to you, install it. If they do, the free Slack standup bot comparison and the Geekbot 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 Geekbot free? Yes, for small teams. The Starter plan is free for up to 10 active participants a month, where an active participant is anyone who answers a standup or responds to a poll or survey. It includes unlimited standups, the templates and reporting insights, with history limited to three months and a list of features reserved for the paid Basic plan.

How much does Geekbot cost? On the Basic plan, $3 per standup participant per month on monthly billing or $2.50 on annual billing, plus $1 per poll or survey respondent per month ($0.75 annual). Only active participants are billed. Enterprise pricing is on request. There is a 30-day free trial of the full feature set.

Does Geekbot have AI? On paid plans, yes: a conversational assistant in Slack that creates standups and polls and answers questions about the team's reports, AI-suggested poll options, theme grouping of free-text answers, and scheduled summaries of participation, blockers and sentiment. A CLI and an MCP server for AI assistants were added in July 2026, also on the paid plan. Geekbot AI is excluded from the free Starter plan.

Does Geekbot work with Microsoft Teams? Yes. Standups run on both Slack and Microsoft Teams. Geekbot's Teams page also lists polls, surveys and retrospectives as things the Teams app runs.

What is the history limit on Geekbot's free plan? Three months of reporting history on Starter. Paid plans have unlimited history.

How do I cancel Geekbot? Remove the Geekbot app from your Slack or Teams workspace; that is the documented way to cancel.

Is Geekbot worth it? For a team that wants a proven async standup bot, especially on Microsoft Teams, yes. Price the poll line honestly if you survey people regularly, and check whether the shared free-plan pool of ten covers everyone who will answer anything. If a daily AI digest in the channel or polls that never appear on the bill matter more to you, compare it against a newer bot before you commit to a year.