Stack Overflow for Teams is now free forever for up to 50 users
I’m excited to announce the launch of our Free plan on Stack Overflow for Teams starting today.
What you need to know
- Our private knowledge sharing and collaboration platform, Stack Overflow for Teams, is now free for up to 50 users.
- No credit card is required to start your Team, and it’s free forever.
- Our Free plan includes ChatOps integrations to Slack and Microsoft Teams.
- We have invested in a guided onboarding process to help admins and users experience value quickly and efficiently.
- Our Basic customers now get access to single sign-on (SSO) for an easy and secure login experience.
If you aren’t familiar with Stack Overflow for Teams, it combines the best features of the public Stack Overflow platform with features tailored for companies who need a private knowledge sharing and async collaboration platform. Check out our Product Tour page to learn more about these features.
With Stack Overflow for Teams being a flexible platform, we’ve seen customers use it for everything from helping onboard new employees, driving innersource initiatives, enabling cloud or platform migration efforts, a self-serve help center to reduce tickets, and so much more. Since launching Teams in 2018, we have added thousands of customers ranging in size and use cases including Microsoft, Expensify, Box, Instacart, and Unqork. Developers and technologists love our Teams platform because they spend less time answering the same questions over and over again and can unblock their colleagues while reducing their own disruptions.
The open source ethos that is foundational to this network was an inspiration for our new free offering. We’re excited to enable those who are working towards a common goal to develop a collective knowledge base. I truly believe those in our technology community will find value from our free, private environment. Whether it’s in a startup, a side project, user group, open source project or hackathon, these communities can now ask questions that might be off-topic to our public site, but are essential to their knowledge base.
We know that sharing knowledge and collaboration is critical to companies and teams of all sizes. We also know people need a large enough group and time to see the impact and value of a knowledge sharing and collaboration platform like Stack Overflow for Teams. Our previous 30 day free trial of our Basic tier wasn’t long enough. Now, anyone can experience Stack Overflow for Teams free with a significantly sized group for as long as they need.
With the roll out of our new Free plan, we’ve enriched our Basic plan to now include a single sign-on (SSO) without changing the current price. SSO allows users seamless and secure access to our critical platform anywhere, anytime across all of our paid products.
If you want to know more about all of our plans, learn more here.
Start your free Team
Create a free Team by following the link, and invite with your colleagues or a group of people you’re looking to collaborate with.
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10 Comments
What about existing customers will we no longer be charged?
Apparently we have to go into the account billing and “Downgrade” to the _Free_ plan.
Untested, but looks like SSO is included with core functionality in Basic and other additional features are only available with a paid subscription (Business, Enterprise) Articles, Collections, User groups, Dashboard etc. See coloured tags in the shared product link in the post next to each feature.
tbh though, free or not most VCS have issue trackers, wikis, kanbans, snippets and whatnots for developers.. it’s unclear the target market, as for non-developer departments, there are a plethora of OSS tools more features and integrations.
WOW! I wish this had happened in the past, as the adoption/cost curve was so high I had to move on.
This is a really great move and I’m excited to see more places adopt this type of approach. Nice move and I hope it nets a lot of new Enterprise customers after they feel safer getting used to it with the lower tier.
How does this affect existing accounts? Whilst this is great news my plan says it is still going to renew at the previous rate, even though my current plan says it is $0?
Where is the data/questions/answers hosted?
Can we retrieve or remove them from the server if we decide to not use Teams later?
How do we protect any internal IP that is posted internally?
How about rebranding it so it doesn’t share a name with Microsoft Teams? Which already exists at all the companies using the O365 environment…which are many.
Congratulations. This just allowed me to convinced the management to give a try to this product, as the initiative was put on hold due to initial costs.
Of course, the long term solution will be at least the Basic Plan, but this Free plan allows to show that it works before pouring money in something that might fail (the community building that is).
Thanks.
How many Teams can be created?
I work in education and it would be great to create 2-3 small teams, each having roughly 10-12 members (one team for each class I am currently teaching) so my students can collaborate and ask/answer in their own private space?
This would also be a first good step for them to start networking, becoming familiar with SO, learn how to ask and answer properly…
Asked the other way round: can ONE account be a member of multiple teams? (my account for instance should be a member of each class’ team)
And I would also like to create the class teams, as sometimes students join or leave a course, so I need to add/remove members of the team.
You can join multiple Teams, yes. As an Admin and the creator of a free Team, you can create up to 4 Teams total. If a user tries to create a 5th free account, they will be directed to sign up for our paying Basic tier and will be required to put in a credit card.