# Ray vs Viktor

> Viktor charges by credits. Ray charges by team size. Their facts from their own pages, checked August 2026, including where they are the better pick.

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

## What Viktor is

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.

Source: https://viktor.com

## One message, two outcomes

In #ops, Priya says: "We need the Q3 numbers pulled and posted here every Monday morning."

**Ray**

1. Schedules it and posts the digest every Monday
2. Shows you the approval card before it writes anything
3. Costs the same in a heavy month as a quiet one

**Viktor**

1. Runs it across the tools it is connected to
2. Draws down credits on every run it makes
3. Costs more in a month the team leans on it

## 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 |
| Chat platforms | Slack today | Slack and Microsoft Teams |
| Integrations | A curated set, every write approval-gated | 3,000+ tools |
| Memory of your team | 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, per their privacy policy |

## 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 Viktor costs

Credits, bought in bundles and drawn down as the agent works. Their published entry economics are $50 for 20,000 credits, which is $0.0025 a credit, and their own pricing FAQ puts 20,000 credits at roughly 40 to 200 tasks depending on complexity. Their most credit-efficient case is therefore about $0.25 a task, and that is the floor we compare against rather than a heavier figure we could have picked. The meter has no ceiling, so a month the team leans on it costs more than a quiet one.

Source: https://viktor.com/pricing

## Choose Viktor if

- 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 $75M in the bank and thousands of organisations 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.
- Your team is on Microsoft Teams. Viktor supports it and Ray is Slack-only today.
- You need a long tail of integrations. Viktor connects to thousands of tools where Ray ships a curated set, and if the tool you need is in that tail, the count is the thing that matters.

## Choose Ray if

- You want one flat bill you can predict, at any team size, with no credit math to do.
- You want approval to be structural rather than a setting somebody can turn off.
- You want memory you can inspect and correct rather than a system that learns about you.
- You would rather failed work cost nothing, because on Ray it is never counted and never billed.

## What Viktor does not do

Each checked against their own documentation, August 2026.

- Viktor's credits have no ceiling. A heavier month costs more, which is the point of a meter and the thing teams tell us they feel. Ray's band price is the same either way, and the spend ceiling that makes that sound sits under every workspace. (https://viktor.com/pricing)

## Questions people ask

**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 August 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. The full detail is on the pricing page.

**What about Microsoft Teams?**

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

## Our rule for this page

Every Viktor 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.