What is Slack support actually costing you?

This calculator puts a number on the time, cost, and headcount your reporting is missing.

Your Best Guess
Total messages / day
Across all your Slack channels
Handle time
min
Reading, context-switching, replying
Hourly cost
/hr
Based on 100 support engineer roles at B2B tech companies
Typical B2B SaaS companies manage 50–200 Slack channels. At 1–2 messages per channel, that's 50–400 messages a day with no reporting.
$130,000
per year, invisible in your current reporting
Per week
41.7 hrs
Per month
$10,833
Full-time agents
≈ 1.0
How it's calculated: messages/day × time × cost × 260 workdays/yr
Today
With Plain
Weekly hours your team spends on Slack support
41.7 hrs
31.3 hrs
Hours reclaimed per week
10.4 hrs
Hours visible to leadership
0 hrs
All of them
Annual cost saved
$32,500
Cost attributable per customer
None
Full
Estimates based on a 25% time reduction. Fly.io saved 200+ engineering hours/year, Northflank cut response times by 50%, and Sanity saw a 120% increase in team satisfaction with Plain.
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Support where your customers are

All conversations in one place — Slack, email, Discord, MS Teams, in-app chat, and more.

AI automation without limits

Visual workflow builder to orchestrate AI agents and humans

Build anything

GraphQL API, MCP, and Machine Users to build your perfect support experience.

Build support your way.

Support where your customers are

All conversations in one place — Slack, email, Discord, MS Teams, in-app chat, and more.

AI automation without limits

Visual workflow builder to orchestrate AI agents and humans

Build anything

GraphQL API, MCP, and Machine Users to build your perfect support experience.

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