Head to head

Flip vs Workativ

Same facts, side by side: starting price, free tier, MCP, API and what each one is actually built for.

Flip

€4950/year

Desk and frontline intranet for shop-floor teams. Growth is from EUR 4950 per year for up to 300 employees. There is no USD rate card.

Where Flip fits

  • Retail, manufacturing, and logistics employers with shift workers on phones
  • Companies under 300 employees that can take the printed Growth package
  • HR ops that want shifts, absences, and payslips as Mini Apps later
  • European frontline comms buyers comparing Flip to Staffbase

Workativ

$99/mo

Workativ is an AI help desk for HR and IT questions that live in Slack or Microsoft Teams. The AI-agent pricing page starts at Starter $99 per month (200 chat sessions, 1 agent). Business is $349 per month. Yearly billing saves 15 percent.

Where Workativ fits

  • SMB and mid-market HR or IT teams that want a Slack or Teams agent at $99/mo
  • Companies that will grow into Business at $349/mo for 500 sessions and 2 agents
  • Teams that prefer session caps over per-employee billing
  • Ops leaders who need live-agent handoff without standing up ServiceNow

At a glance

DetailFlipWorkativ
Starting price€4950/year$99/mo
Free tier–No–No
MCP server–No–No
Public API–No–No
Listed underInternal communicationsHR help desk
Capterra4.6 from 55 reviewsNot enough reviews

Where they pull apart

Flip

Stands out: Growth is a fixed package up to 300 employees (newsfeed, chat, voice and video, live translation, knowledge base, signage, polls). Enterprise adds Ask AI, Mini Apps, and identity.

Watch out: getflip.com/pricing prints euro prices only. Larger than 300 employees is a custom Enterprise quote, and AI Agents, HR Mini Apps, and Flip Flows are add-on modules.

Not the right fit for

  • US teams that will only sign a USD rate card
  • Knowledge-worker companies that already standardized on Slack

Workativ

Stands out: Session-based pricing with no per-user fees, so the whole company can talk to the agent. Starter is a published $99/mo proof-of-concept SKU, unusual in this category.

Watch out: Starter caps you at 200 AI chat sessions, 1 agent, 2 actions, 1 live agent, and 30 days of data retention. Business lifts that to 500 sessions, 2 agents, 5 actions, and 3 live agents. Enterprise is custom.

Not the right fit for

  • Enterprises that need a quote-only HRSD suite on top of Workday
  • Buyers who need unlimited sessions on the cheapest card

Pros and cons

Flip

  • Printed Growth package from EUR 4950/year up to 300 employees
  • Live translation and a phone-first app for shift workers
  • Capterra 4.6 from 55 reviews on the matched Flip employee-app page
  • No USD rate card on the English pricing page
  • Over 300 employees, and all AI/HR modules, go back to a quote
  • Desktop web is often a ported mobile view, a recurring reviewer complaint

Workativ

  • Published Starter at $99/mo with no per-user fee
  • Business at $349/mo is still a flat session SKU rather than PEPM
  • Slack and Teams deployment without buying a full ITSM
  • 200 sessions on Starter will not cover a busy 500-person HR inbox
  • Capterra has only 4 reviews
  • Enterprise connectors and extra sessions leave the public table

What each one costs

Flip

€4950/year

No USD rate card. Growth is from EUR 4950 per year for up to 300 employees and includes the core intranet and employee app (newsfeed, chat, calls, live translation, knowledge base, signage, polls). Enterprise is custom for larger organizations and adds AI and HR Mini Apps. Module packs are quoted on top of the platform. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 19 Sep 2026

Workativ

$99/mo

Starter is $99 per month for 200 AI chat sessions, 1 AI agent, 2 actions, and 1 live agent. Business is $349 per month for 500 sessions, 2 agents, 5 actions, and 3 live agents. Yearly billing saves 15 percent. Enterprise is custom. Pricing is session-based with no per-user fees. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 19 Sep 2026

Common questions

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