Glue vs Twist

Glue

• Teams that find channel-based chat noisy and want every topic in its own thread
• Teams that want an AI assistant and coding agents inside their chat threads
• Workspaces of five people or fewer, which can stay on the free Startup allowance

Twist

• Distributed teams that reply across time zones rather than in real time
• Teams that want written discussions kept findable by topic
• Working with clients or contractors: single-channel guests are free
• Teams already using Todoist, which has several Twist integrations

Glue

• Only a Startup workspace's first 5 users are free, and it is capped at 5 groups and 1 admin; Glue's docs say this is not a freemium plan.
• Premium AI models from Gemini, Anthropic and OpenAI need Business or Enterprise; Startup uses open-source models.
• Data imports are not part of the Startup plan; Business allows up to 100 MB and Enterprise is unlimited.
• The plan cards and docs put SAML SSO and SCIM on Enterprise only, though the pricing page's comparison table also ticks SAML SSO for Business.

Twist

• Twist's own What's New page says development is on hiatus: no new features and no fixes for small bugs for the time being. Its last entry is from May 2023.
• The Free plan shows and searches only the last month of comments and messages; older content is kept but hidden until the team upgrades.
• Free teams are limited to 5 integrations and 5 GB of file storage.
• On Unlimited every member and multi-channel guest is billed, so a team cannot mix free and paid members.

Glue

Named threads

Every conversation is a thread with a subject line, sent to any combination of groups and people. Any message can be turned into a new thread, and a finished thread can be closed.

Personal inbox

The threads that involve you are tracked in your own inbox, so you follow individual conversations instead of whole channels and archive them when you are done.

Groups

Groups collect people and threads for a department, team or project, and each has a group chat private to its members. Guests from outside the workspace can be added.

Glue AI

Mention @Glue AI in a thread to ask about a project's status or get a summary. It answers from the web and from the threads and groups the person asking is allowed to see.

Agents and MCP servers

Agents such as Cursor can be mentioned in a thread to work alongside the team, and the Apps section offers MCP servers next to the regular app integrations.

Integrations and public API

Pre-built integrations post updates and link previews from tools like GitHub and Linear. Zapier, webhooks and a public API cover custom integrations on every plan.

Twist

Threads

Each conversation in a channel is a titled thread with its own comments. Threads can be closed, pinned, muted or moved to another channel.

Public and private channels

Channels group threads by team, project, topic or client, and can be public to the whole team or private to invited members.

Inbox

The inbox lists every thread a member has been notified about across channels, with Active, Done and Saved views for working through them.

Direct and group messages

Messages sit alongside threads for one-on-one or small-group exchanges, with file attachments, GIFs and emoji reactions.

Search with filters

Search covers threads and messages and can be narrowed by author, channel, thread title and date range.

Integrations and API

The directory covers tools such as GitHub, Google Calendar, Jira Software and Todoist, plus Zapier, Make and n8n, and a developer API for custom automations.

Glue

• Startup$0 up to 5 users, then $6

  per user / month, billed annually ($7 billed monthly)

  Up to 5 groups and 1 admin, unlimited threads, message history, apps, webhooks and external users, public API access and open-source AI models.

• Business$12

  per user / month, billed yearly ($14 billed monthly)

  Everything in Startup plus unlimited groups, multiple admins, data imports up to 100 MB and premium AI models from Gemini, Anthropic and OpenAI.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Everything in Business plus unlimited data import, SAML and SCIM, priority support and guided onboarding.

Twist

• Free$0

  Up to 1 month of comment and message history, 5 integrations, 5 GB of file storage, 500 member accounts and 500 guest accounts.

• Unlimited$6

  per user / month, billed yearly ($8 billed monthly)

  Full history, unlimited integrations and file storage, unlimited members and guests, priority support, custom groups and Google sign-in.

Glue

• Annual discount

  About 14% less with annual billing

  Glue's billing docs list Business at $12 per user / month on an annual plan against $14 monthly, and Startup at $6 against $7, a saving of about 14%.

Twist

• Annual discount

  25% less with yearly billing

  Twist Unlimited costs $6 per user / month billed annually against $8 billed monthly. Doist's help center says no other discounts are currently offered.