Open Source Slack Ai

Open Source Slack AI is a self hosted alternative to Slack's built in AI features. It lets a workspace summarize conversations using its own OpenAI or other LLM API keys, rather than paying a per user per month fee for the official Slack AI add on. The app provides three capabilities. Thread summaries condense a long discussion so a reader can see what matters without losing context. Channel overviews explain what a channel is for, which helps people who have just joined. Channel recaps generate a summary of everything that happened since a chosen date, whether that is the last few hours or the last few weeks away. The project is aimed at small and midsize teams that want these features without enterprise pricing, and it is highly customizable because the code is open. There are two ways to run it. The free open source version is self hosted, costs $0 per month and suits teams that can manage their own infrastructure. A fully hosted version runs the server for the customer, includes free and instant updates and 24/7 email support, and is priced at $200 per month, shown against a struck through $600. Access to the hosted plan currently runs through a waitlist. Both versions use the customer's own LLM API keys, so model usage is billed by the model provider according to what is used.