Ray vs Viktor
Ray vs Viktor, honestly.
Viktor is the best-funded name in AI for chat. Here is where Ray is the better fit, where Viktor is, and how to tell which one your team should pick. Every claim on this page is checked against Viktor's own pages.
Compared against Viktor's own pages. Last verified July 2026.
Ray
An AI teammate that lives in your team's chat. It turns conversation into tracked work, chases the statuses nobody wants to, and posts the digest every morning, on one flat price that never moves with usage. Every sensitive action waits for your approval before it happens.
Viktor
A well-funded AI coworker for Slack and Microsoft Teams, built to run work across a whole company. It connects to thousands of tools and bills by credits, a meter that tracks how much you use, so the price moves with your usage.
If you want a bill you can predict and approval you can't switch off, Ray fits, at any size. If you need Microsoft Teams today or a long tail of integrations, Viktor is the stronger pick. The rest of this page is the detail.
The bill
Flat, never metered
Ray is one price by team size, and it stays there. Viktor bills by credits that climb with how much you use.
Any size
Predictable at any size
Ray's flat price scales by team size and stays flat, whether you're three people or thirty. Viktor's meter climbs the more you use, which hits bigger teams hardest.
The guardrail
Approval you can't switch off
Ray gates every sensitive action in code. Viktor's terms let you pre-authorize actions with no guaranteed human review.
Side by side.
The whole picture in one place. Viktor's column reflects their published pricing, terms, and pages, last checked July 2026. Where Viktor is the stronger choice, we say so right below.
On the things that matter, there is no setting to get wrong.
Both of us will tell you an AI should ask before it acts. The difference is what happens when someone decides to skip that. Viktor's own terms let you switch on auto-approve and pre-authorize actions, with, in their words, no guaranteed human review.
Ray has no such switch. Approval on anything sensitive is built into the code around each tool, so it holds even against a bad instruction or a clever prompt. It is not a default we picked. It is the way Ray is built.
Viktor Terms of Service, §5, as published July 2026. Their review-first default is real. Our point is only that theirs is a setting, and ours is not.
Where Viktor is the better call.
No product wins on every axis, and pretending otherwise is how you lose trust. Here is where we would point you to Viktor instead.
You need enterprise compliance today.
Viktor raised $75M and has the machinery to match it: a SOC 2 report, signed DPAs and SLAs, data residency, and a dedicated onboarding team. Ray is a small company and won't pretend to match that yet. If a security review needs those boxes checked before you can start, Viktor is the honest answer today.
You want a big, proven vendor.
Viktor has $75M in the bank and thousands of organizations already on board. Ray is new, small, and building in the open. If you would rather bet on scale and a long track record than on the product details, that is a fair reason to choose Viktor.
The bill, in plain numbers.
The clearest way to see the difference is to look at what you actually pay each month.
Ray, flat by team size
- 1 to 3 people$49/mo
- 4 to 10 people$99/mo
- 11 to 25 people$199/mo
- 26+ peopleFlat, let's talk
The price is the whole bill. It never moves with usage. 50 free tasks to start, and they never expire.
Viktor, by the credit
$50 a month buys 20,000 credits, shared across the whole workspace and reset each month. Need more? A volume selector and top-ups add credits, and the price climbs with them. There is no annual plan.
Viktor's published pricing, July 2026.
The same work, in dollars
The tasks each Ray plan includes, priced at Viktor's own credit rate. Ray stays flat. Viktor climbs with every task.
Viktor's published rate: $50 buys 20,000 credits, which their own FAQ calls "roughly 40 to 200 tasks." We price each plan's included tasks at Viktor's most credit-efficient rate, so these are floors. Heavier tasks cost more, and the meter has no ceiling. Verified July 2026.
Choose Ray if
- You want one flat bill you can predict, at any team size
- Your team runs its work in Slack
- You want approval to be structural, not a setting someone can turn off
- You want memory you can inspect and correct
- You're tired of doing credit math
Choose Viktor if
- You need a SOC 2 report before you can start
- You need signed DPAs, SLAs, or data residency today
- You want a large vendor with a long track record
Questions people ask before switching.
The short answers are here. If we haven't covered something, just ask.
Try Ray with your own team.
Ray is in your Slack in two minutes, on the free plan, no card. Watch it work, approve what matters, and decide for yourself.