Hubgets vs Microsoft Teams

Hubgets combines team communications with searchable knowledge, and is offered as a service or in a private cloud. It supports business voice and video, direct and group messages, and file sharing. The platform indexes and classifies communications, including Topics, so teams can search earlier discussions. Topics provide shared spaces for project and task conversations, with feedback, content, and decisions visible to participants. Page by Hubgets lets business partners reach a team member in a browser by chat, voice, or video without revealing an email address or phone number. Open APIs are advertised for integrations; Enterprise can connect with applications on a company intranet. Enterprise can run on company premises or in a private cloud, with data behind a customer-managed firewall and customer-selected compliance and auditing. The maker says its AI assesses team mood and adjusts communication flows using more than 50 factors. The free cloud plan supports up to 20 users and limits message history to the last 5,000 messages per thread. Startup supports up to 1,000 cloud users; Team supports up to 10,000. The maker lists its start in 2015 and headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.

Microsoft Teams brings chat, channels, calls, meetings, and screen sharing together, with guest access and unlimited message history. People can join meetings as guests without a Teams account, and free users can sign in with an email address or phone number without a subscription. Free group meetings and calls last up to 60 minutes; one-to-one calls have no time limit. The free plan lists 100 participants and 5 GB of cloud storage. Teams runs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, and the web. Its listed integrations include Microsoft 365, SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, Exchange, Planner, Forms, Power BI, OneNote, Power Apps, Power Automate, and LinkedIn; Teams also has over 250 integrated business apps. Business plans support up to 300 users or people, include encryption for meetings, chats, calls, and files, and can include recordings and transcripts. Business plans list 1 TB per user for Business Basic and 10 GB per user for Teams Essentials. Essentials is $4 a year, billed at $4.00 per user/month, paid yearly; Business Basic is $7 a year, billed at $7.00 per user/month, paid yearly.