Standuply runs the ceremonies. Ray finishes the work.
Standuply has run agile ceremonies for a decade. Ray does the work between them. Here is how to tell which your team needs.
Compared against Standuply's own pages. Last checked August 2026.
What Standuply is
Standuply calls itself the standup bot for Slack and Microsoft Teams, aimed at engineering leaders: standups, retrospectives, backlog refinement, planning poker, 360-degree feedback and culture surveys, with answers accepted as text, voice or video, plus a Q&A knowledge system and to-dos. Standuply's own page
One message, two outcomes.
What happens to the same sentence in your channel, depending on which of the two is in the room.
Marcoin #product
The onboarding flow is dropping people at step three, we should track that properly.
Ray
- Creates the Jira issue from the thread itself
- Shows you the approval card before it writes anything
- Moves the status when the work moves
Standuply
- Collects the answer into the ceremony report
- Posts that answer back onto the linked Jira task
- Creating the issue is not what it is built for
The difference, in one table.
What each one is for, side by side. Standuply's column comes from their own pages, checked August 2026.
| Dimension | Ray | Standuply |
|---|---|---|
| The job | Turns conversation into tracked work and follows it through | Runs agile ceremonies and surveys, then reports the answers |
| Pricing model | Flat by team size, up to 25 people, then talk to us | Per user, or a flat fee for unlimited users |
| Chat platforms | Slack today | Slack and Microsoft Teams |
| Connected tools | A curated set of tools, each write behind an approval card | Roughly a dozen named, posting standup answers back to Jira tasks |
| Ceremonies | None. Ray does the work between the meetings | Retros, planning poker, backlog refinement, 360 feedback |
| Answer formats | Conversation in the thread | Text, voice or video replies |
What Ray costs
Free covers 25 tasks a month plus a one-time 50-task starter grant that never expires. Pro is one flat price for your team’s size: $49 a month for 1 to 3 people, $99 a month for 4 to 10 people, $199 a month for 11 to 25 people. No seats, and using Ray more never costs more.
What Standuply costs
A free Starter tier covers three users. Team is $2 per user a month, or $1.50 annually, and Business is $4 or $3.50. Both also offer a flat fee for unlimited users: $199 a month for Team, $299 for Business, or $149 and $249 billed annually. Enterprise is on request. Note that some software directories still list an older per-feature price that their live page contradicts. their pricing page
Which one you should pick
The honest version, their side first.
Choose Standuply if
- You are a team of more than twenty-five and price matters most. Their flat tier is $199 a month, or $149 annually, for unlimited users, where Ray's bands stop at twenty-five and become a conversation. At sixty people they are cheaper than us, and we would rather you heard it here.
- You run real agile ceremonies. Planning poker, retrospectives, backlog refinement and 360-degree feedback are theirs, and Ray has none of them.
- Your team is on Microsoft Teams, or people would rather answer a standup with a voice or video reply than by typing.
Choose Ray if
- Collecting the updates was never the hard part. Filing the tickets, chasing the statuses and finishing the follow-ups was.
- You want work to land in Linear, Jira, Notion or HubSpot straight from the thread, with an approval card before anything is written.
- You want an agent that decides what to do from what was said, rather than a survey whose answers you then act on yourself.
What Standuply does not do
Each one checked against their own documentation, August 2026. If any of this changes, tell us and we will fix it.
- Standuply's Jira integration pulls tasks into a report and posts the answers back onto them. Creating issues, moving statuses and logging work from a conversation are not documented, which fits what Standuply says it is for. their docs
The rest of the field
If you are still drawing up the shortlist, these are the other tools people weigh against Standuply and against Ray. Each one says where it is the better pick.
Ray vs ViktorViktor charges by credits. Ray charges by team size.
Ray vs Claude TagClaude Tag needs Claude seats. Ray needs a Slack channel.
Ray vs OpenClawOpenClaw runs on your machine. Ray runs for your team.
Ray vs Grok BotGrok Bot drives a computer. Ray works your tools.
Ray vs ChatGPTChatGPT is an assistant you ask. Ray is a teammate that acts.
Ray vs GeekbotGeekbot collects the updates. Ray does the work.
Ray vs DailyBotDailyBot makes the work visible. Ray moves it.
Ray vs Slack AISlack AI understands your Slack. Ray works outside it.
Ray vs Zapier AgentsZapier reaches everything. Ray lives where you talk.
Questions people ask.
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Try Ray with your own team.
Free to start, no card. Ray sees only the channels you invite it to, and nothing sensitive happens without your approval. Or read Standuply for their side of it.