# Ray vs Standuply

> Standuply runs the ceremonies. Ray finishes the work. Their facts from their own pages, checked August 2026, including where they are the better pick.

Source: https://heyray.io/compare/standuply

## 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.

Source: https://standuply.com

## One message, two outcomes

In #product, Marco says: "The onboarding flow is dropping people at step three, we should track that properly."

**Ray**

1. Creates the Jira issue from the thread itself
2. Shows you the approval card before it writes anything
3. Moves the status when the work moves

**Standuply**

1. Collects the answer into the ceremony report
2. Posts that answer back onto the linked Jira task
3. Creating the issue is not what it is built for

## Side by side

| | 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.

Source: https://standuply.com/pricing

## 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 checked against their own documentation, August 2026.

- 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. (https://help.standuply.com/en/articles/5167177-how-to-integrate-jira-task-tracker)

## Questions people ask

**Is Standuply cheaper than Ray?**

For a larger team, yes. Their flat tier covers unlimited users for $199 a month, or $149 billed annually, so a team of sixty pays less than Ray's top band, which covers up to twenty-five. Below that, compare their per-user price against our flat band for your size.

**Does Ray run retros and planning poker?**

No. Ray posts scheduled digests and does the work described in conversation. If ceremonies are what you are shopping for, Standuply is built for them and Ray is not.

**Can we run both?**

Yes. Nothing about the two conflicts, and if a standup format is already working for your team there is no reason to disturb it.

**Does Ray work in Microsoft Teams?**

Not today. Ray is Slack-only, with other chat platforms next.

## Our rule for this page

Every Standuply fact here comes from their own published pages, checked August 2026, and we say where they are the better choice. If anything here is wrong, tell us at support@heyray.io and we will fix it.