Slack AI is very good at catching you up on a channel. Convaa is for the other half of the job: the collaborative working session where the team and the model think through something together, live.
| Convaa | Slack AI | |
|---|---|---|
| What the AI is for | Doing the work with you, in the thread, while everyone watches. | Summarizing and searching the conversations people already had. |
| Who can prompt it | Everyone in the thread, including people who joined from a link with no account. | Licensed Slack users in your workspace. |
| Models | Claude, GPT and open models, plus a Council that asks several at once. | The models Slack provides. |
| Working with the answer | Edit responses, comment inline, pin, assign action items, export to PDF, Word, Excel or slides. | Messages and summaries. |
| Running tools | Connect MCP servers, browse, and run approved steps with an audit trail. | Slack apps and workflows. |
| Self-hosting | One-command self-hosted stack, including on-premise. | Cloud only. |
Comparison based on each product's public pricing and documentation as of August 2026. Slack AI is a trademark of its respective owner; Convaa is not affiliated with or endorsed by it.