# Ray vs Viktor

> The head to head, including where Viktor is the better choice. Competitor facts cited and dated.

Source: https://heyray.io/compare/ray-vs-viktor

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.

## The three differences that matter

**The bill is 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.

**It stays predictable at any size.** Ray's flat price scales by team size and
then stops moving. Viktor's meter climbs the more you use, which hits bigger
teams hardest.

**Approval cannot be switched off.** Ray gates every sensitive action in code.
Viktor's terms let you pre-authorize actions with no guaranteed human review.

## Side by side

| | Ray | Viktor |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pricing | Flat by team size | Credits, billed by usage |
| Your monthly bill | The band price, and it stays there | Moves with how much you use |
| Built for | Any team that lives in chat | Solo users to whole companies |
| Approvals | Structural, with no off switch | Configurable in their terms |
| Runs in | Slack, with Discord and Telegram next | Slack and Microsoft Teams |
| Integrations | A curated set, every write approval gated | 3,000+ tools |
| Memory | Org memory you inspect, correct, and purge | Learns your company |
| If a task fails | Never counted, never billed | Runs on metered credits |
| Free tier | 50 tasks that never expire, plus 25 a month | Trial credits that never expire |
| Data and ads | Never shared with ad platforms | Shares marketing identifiers (their privacy policy) |

Viktor's column reflects their published pricing, terms, and pages, last checked
July 2026.

## The cost of the same work

Viktor publishes that $50 buys 20,000 credits and that 20,000 credits run
"roughly 40 to 200 tasks". Their most credit-efficient case is therefore 100
credits per task, or $0.25. Priced at that
floor, here is what Ray's included work would cost on a meter.

| Team size | Ray | Tasks included | Same work, metered |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 to 3 people | $49 flat | 500 | at least $125 |
| 4 to 10 people | $99 flat | 1,200 | at least $300 |
| 11 to 25 people | $199 flat | 2,400 | at least $600 |

The metered column is a floor, not an estimate. Heavier work costs more credits,
and the meter has no ceiling.

## Where Viktor is the better call

**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 will not 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 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.

## 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 are 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

**Is this a fair comparison?** We only state what we can check. Every Viktor
fact here comes from their own public pricing, terms, and marketing pages, last
verified July 2026, and where Viktor is genuinely the better fit we say
so above. If we ever get something wrong, tell us and we will fix it.

**Can Ray really hold a flat price?** Yes. Under the hood every workspace has a
spend ceiling, and failed work never bills, so the economics stay sound at a
flat price.

**What about Microsoft Teams?** Not today. Ray is Slack first, with Discord and
Telegram next and Teams on the roadmap. If your team is on Teams right now, Ray
is not the fit yet.

**Do you have as many integrations as Viktor?** No, and that is a deliberate
trade. Ray ships a curated set of the tools teams actually use, each one deep
and every write approval gated. We add the ones teams ask for.

**How hard is it to switch?** There is nothing to migrate. Add Ray to Slack,
connect a tool with one click, and hand it something. Most teams are live in a
couple of minutes.