# Probed

> Probed is a chat app for small communities and groups, like Discord and Slack but calmer: channels, threads, DMs, voice rooms with video and screen share, and events, plus an ideas board where members vote and a public roadmap. Free for up to 25 members; Premium is $19/month for up to 250 and Business $99/month for up to 2,500. Members never pay, and message history is kept on every plan.

Probed runs on macOS, Windows, Linux and iPhone, and in the browser at https://app.probed.chat/. Paid plans add feedback forms, a custom roadmap domain, customer channels, integrations (GitHub, Linear, Slack, Discord and Teams sync), incoming channel webhooks, a REST API that reads and automates a space (members, invites, roles, channels, messages, customers and bulk customer import, ideas and roadmap, calendar events, soundboard, moderation) with signed webhooks, and a hosted MCP server any AI agent (Codex, Claude, Cursor and others) can use. Custom roles need Business. The walkable pixel-art Community map is an $8/seat add-on on Premium and Business.

The whole site as one Markdown file: https://probed.chat/llms-full.txt

## Docs

- [MCP server](https://probed.chat/docs/mcp.md): connect Codex, Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client to a Premium or Business space
- [API reference (v1)](https://probed.chat/docs/api.md): for Premium spaces: what you can automate, authentication, rate limits, posting messages, importing customers, webhooks, every endpoint and object
- [API errors](https://probed.chat/docs/api/errors.md): every error code and what to do

## Product

- [Home](https://probed.chat/): what Probed does and how it compares
- [Pricing](https://probed.chat/pricing): plans, member limits and Community seats
- [Community map](https://probed.chat/features/community-map)
- [Ideas board and public roadmap](https://probed.chat/features/roadmap)
- [Developers](https://probed.chat/developers): Probed for developers: API, MCP server and webhooks
- [Download](https://probed.chat/download)

## Guides

- [The best Discord alternatives for a small community](https://probed.chat/guides/best-discord-alternatives): An honest look at Discord alternatives for small communities and groups: Probed, Slack, Stoat, Element, Zulip, Circle and Gather, and who each one suits.
- [The best Slack alternatives for communities and small teams](https://probed.chat/guides/best-slack-alternatives): An honest look at Slack alternatives: Probed, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Mattermost, Zulip and Element, and which one suits a community, a small team or a company.
- [How to build a community around your product as a solo founder](https://probed.chat/guides/build-a-community-around-your-product): You do not need a 10,000-member Discord. Here is how a solo founder builds a small, high-signal community that drives retention, feedback, and word of mouth.
- [How to share a public product roadmap (for free)](https://probed.chat/guides/free-public-product-roadmap): A public roadmap turns 'when is that coming?' into trust. Here is how to run one for free, what to put on it, and how to collect feedback right beside it.
- [What happens to old messages on Slack's free plan?](https://probed.chat/guides/slack-free-plan-message-history): Slack's free plan hides messages after 90 days and deletes them after a year. What disappears, what upgrading brings back, and what to do if a community lives there.
- [How to talk to your customers without a help desk](https://probed.chat/guides/talk-to-customers-without-a-help-desk): Help desks turn customers into tickets. Here is how solo founders and small teams run real support as a conversation — and why a community often beats a queue.

## Use cases

- [Small businesses and their customers](https://probed.chat/use-cases/customers): Give each customer company its own private channel, with contacts, notes and an AI brief beside it, plus a community where customers help each other.
- [Creators and fans](https://probed.chat/use-cases/creators): Give your audience a space of your own: chat and voice with fans, events for live sessions, and an ideas board where they vote on what you make next. Fans never pay.
- [Game communities](https://probed.chat/use-cases/games): Run your game's community on Probed: channels for patch notes and bug reports, voice rooms for playtests, and an ideas board where players vote on what you build next.
- [Clubs and hobby groups](https://probed.chat/use-cases/clubs): Book clubs, running clubs, tabletop groups and makers: channels instead of one long thread, events people follow, and an ideas board for what to do next. Free up to 25 members.
- [Conferences and events](https://probed.chat/use-cases/conferences): Run your event's community on Probed instead of a free Slack workspace. Attendees join with one link, nobody pays per seat, and the conversations never expire.
- [Hackathons](https://probed.chat/use-cases/hackathons): Set up a hackathon space in minutes: a channel per team, voice rooms for mentors and one join link. One price per space, and the archive outlives the weekend.

## Comparisons

- [Probed vs Discord](https://probed.chat/compare/discord)
- [Probed vs Slack](https://probed.chat/compare/slack)
- [Probed vs Gather](https://probed.chat/compare/gather)
- [Probed vs Stoat](https://probed.chat/compare/stoat)
- [Probed vs Circle](https://probed.chat/compare/circle)
- [Probed vs Canny](https://probed.chat/compare/canny)

## Optional

- [About](https://probed.chat/about)
- [Privacy](https://probed.chat/privacy)
- [Terms](https://probed.chat/terms)
- [How we handle enforcement and bans](https://probed.chat/enforcement)