%Slack, the messaging app for businesses, says it is raising prices and making significant changes to its free plan.
This marks the first time Slack has raised prices since the company launched in 2014, and the price hike comes after the company was acquired by cloud computing giant %Salesforce ($CRM) last year.
The price increases only impact users of Slack’s “Pro” plan. On September 1, monthly Pro subscriptions will increase to $8.75 U.S. per user each month from $8 U.S. previously. An annual subscription to Pro will increase to $7.25 U.S. per user per month from $6.67 U.S.
The price increases do not affect companies on Slack’s %BusinessPlus or custom enterprise plans. Also, Slack said that current Pro subscribers can lock in their existing annual rate for another year by renewing their subscription before September 1.
Slack also announced that it is making changes to its free plan. Currently, free Slack servers show the last 10,000 messages and up to 5GB of uploaded content. Beginning September 1, Slack is changing this to show the last 90 days of messages and uploads, with no limit on how many messages have been sent or the amount of uploaded content.
Slack’s free users will also get access to the “clips” feature that lets users send audio, video, and screen-share messages in channels and direct messages. Free teams will also now be able to set a retention period for their messages and files starting on September 1.
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