Geekbot vs Range

Geekbot

• Remote teams replacing daily standup meetings with written check-ins
• Teams of up to 10 participants, which can use it free
• Managers who want blockers and team mood summarized from updates
• Running quick polls and recurring surveys inside Slack or Teams

Range

• Remote and hybrid teams replacing daily standup calls with written updates
• Teams of 12 or fewer, which can stay on the Free plan
• Managers who want status updates, goals and meeting notes linked together

Geekbot

• Geekbot works inside Slack or Microsoft Teams, so a team needs one of them; its own web dashboard is for setup, analytics and billing.
• The free Starter plan covers up to 10 active participants and keeps up to 3 months of reporting history.
• API access, Geekbot AI, anonymous reporting, engagement summaries and CSV exports are listed under the Basic plan.
• Standups and polls are billed separately: standups per participant, polls and surveys per respondent.

Range

• The Free plan is capped at 12 users, 2 teams, 12 meeting agendas, 3 goals and 30 days of check-in history.
• Private check-ins, private agenda items and guest users need the Pro plan.
• Okta and OneLogin single sign-on are limited to the Enterprise plan.
• Range runs only in a web browser, alongside a Chrome extension and apps for Slack and Microsoft Teams; no desktop or mobile app is listed.

Geekbot

Asynchronous standups

The bot messages each participant in Slack or Teams with the standup questions, collects the replies and broadcasts every report in a chosen channel.

Schedules across time zones

Questions arrive in each person's local time, participants can set their own reporting times, and out-of-office periods pause the standup.

Polls and surveys

Instant polls and recurring surveys go to channels or DMs, with anonymous voting, AI-generated answer options and results shown as charts.

Insights and analytics

Reporting insights cover participation rates, categories of blockers and team sentiment, and a dashboard tracks reported tasks and projects over time.

Templates

More than 25 pre-built templates include a daily standup, a retrospective, a sales report and an employee NPS survey.

API, MCP server and CLI

The Basic plan includes API access, and an MCP server and a command-line tool connect Geekbot to AI agents.

Range

Async check-ins

Teammates post what they did and what they plan to do on a daily, weekly or custom schedule, with reminders by email or Slack when an update is due.

Work pulled in from connected tools

Range gathers recent activity from 75+ tools such as GitHub, Jira, Asana and Google Drive, so tasks and documents can be added to a check-in with one click.

Mood sharing and team questions

A check-in can include how the person is feeling and an answer to one of 350+ team-building questions, and trend graphs track team mood over time.

Meeting agendas and notes

Build a shared agenda, give each topic an owner and a time limit, capture notes and action items, and send the takeaways by email or Slack when the meeting ends.

Goals

Set hierarchical goals with owners, timelines and KPIs, link check-ins to a goal with a hashtag, and get reminders in Slack when a status update is due.

Team Directory

Map teams and sub-teams, and open a page for each one showing its recent check-ins, goals, blockers, mood and meeting load.

Geekbot

• Starter$0

  Up to 10 users. Unlimited standups, reports, polls and surveys, schedule customization, reporting insights and an analytics dashboard.

• Basic$2.50

  per standup participant / month, annual plan ($3 monthly)

  Adds threaded reports, engagement summaries, anonymous reporting, API access, Geekbot AI and CSV exports. Polls cost $0.75 per respondent ($1 monthly).

• EnterpriseCustom

  Volume discounts, integration with Jira, Google Calendar and Asana, a dedicated database instance, managed cloud deployment and custom security assessments.

Range

• Free$0

  Up to 12 users and 2 teams, check-ins with 30 days of history, 12 meeting agendas, 3 goals and unlimited integrations.

• Pro$8

  per team member; billed month to month per the pricing FAQ

  Unlimited teams, goals, agendas and check-in history, plus private check-ins, private agenda items, guest users and restricted admin roles.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Recommended for 100+ users: Okta and OneLogin SSO, advanced user management, custom invoicing, a premium SLA and priority account support.

Geekbot

• Annual discount

  17% off standups on the annual plan

  Standups cost $2.50 per participant / month on the annual plan against $3 monthly, and polls and surveys cost $0.75 per respondent against $1, a 25% saving.

Range

• Education

  Education plans on request

  Range's pricing FAQ says it has education plans and asks schools to contact the company. The price is not published.

• Nonprofit

  Nonprofit discounts on request

  The same pricing FAQ says nonprofit discounts are available by contacting Range. The amount is not published.