# OpenAI put @ChatGPT in Slack channels, with coding through Codex. Is it the same as Maito? And does it remember your company? Source: https://maito.app/compare/maito-vs-chatgpt-in-slack Date: 2026-10-14 Author: Dmitry Dubovetzky Maito vs ChatGPT in Slack: @ChatGPT answers, drafts, and hands coding to Codex Cloud for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise workspaces, priced per seat. Maito is one AI teammate your whole company works with in Slack and its AI assistants, for any coding task and business work, at $149 per workspace per month plus your AI provider's usage. ## Is ChatGPT in Slack the same as Maito? **No. ChatGPT in Slack is an assistant you mention for a summary, a draft, or a Codex task. Maito is an AI teammate that remembers your company, works with the whole team in one thread, and carries the work through to the result.** Both answer when you mention them in a channel. The difference shows up the second time you ask. @ChatGPT starts fresh, with no memory at launch. Maito remembers what the team decided, who asked for what, and how your product works. Maito costs $149 per workspace per month, plus your AI provider's usage and any cloud credits beyond the included $20. ChatGPT in Slack comes with ChatGPT Business or Enterprise, priced per seat. ## What does @ChatGPT actually do in Slack? **You mention @ChatGPT in a channel, a thread, or a direct message, and it summarizes discussions, drafts replies, turns conversations into plans, and uses the tools your admin approved.** For repository work, @ChatGPT starts a separate Codex Cloud task in an environment your workspace has published, running as the person who asked, then posts the result back to the thread. A follow-up from someone else starts a different coding task. When a request needs authorization, the person who asked gets a private Allow and Deny card. The same app works in Microsoft Teams. [ChatGPT in Slack](https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/third-party/slack). ## Wait, @ChatGPT doesn't remember anything? **Right for the @ChatGPT assistant: at launch it doesn't record memory or use anyone's ChatGPT memories, instructions, or chat history. Maito learns your company from shared work and uses it in later conversations.** @ChatGPT works from the thread in front of it and the company connections your admin sets up for its service account, even in a DM. It doesn't inherit a person's files, apps, or private channels. [Using ChatGPT in Slack and Teams](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001537-using-chatgpt-in-slack-and-microsoft-teams), [ChatGPT in Slack and Teams for admins](https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/enterprise/chatgpt-slack-and-teams). OpenAI's other Slack options work differently. Workspace agents are named agents your team builds in ChatGPT, with files, skills, tools, and shared editing, and a separate Agents app brings them into Slack channels. [ChatGPT workspace agents](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001143-chatgpt-workspace-agents-for-enterprise-and-business), [Agents app in Slack](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001199-chatgpt-agents-app-in-slack). ## And what makes Maito a teammate rather than an assistant? **Maito keeps the context between requests, so anyone on the team can pick up where someone else left off, and it does the work itself, from a sent follow-up to a tested pull request.** Your company gives Maito its name, role, and instructions. Your team works with it in Slack and in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Muse, and it's the same agent with the same memory everywhere. Coding tasks run in their own sandbox and end in a pull request with checks. Business work runs in your connected tools. [How Maito works](/homepage). ## How do Maito and ChatGPT in Slack compare at a glance? **Both answer in Slack threads, take on coding work, and run recurring work. Maito also remembers your company across conversations and lets anyone in the thread continue the same coding task, for $149 per workspace plus your AI provider's usage.** | | Maito | ChatGPT in Slack | | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | What it is | An AI teammate for your company | OpenAI's assistant in Slack and Microsoft Teams | | Where you use it | Slack, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Muse | Slack, Microsoft Teams, and ChatGPT | | Who it's for | Everyone: support, product, operations, sales, and engineering | Workspaces on ChatGPT Business or Enterprise | | Working together | Yes: The whole team works with one agent, in any thread | Yes: Replies in the thread; coding controls belong to the requester | | Business tasks | Yes: Research, reports, follow-ups, and work in your connected tools | Yes: Summaries, drafts, plans, and admin-approved tools | | Code changes | Yes: Any coding task, in its own sandbox, with a pull request and checks | Partly: Hands repository work to a separate Codex Cloud task | | Company knowledge | Yes: Remembers facts and saves workflows as skills | No: @ChatGPT has no memory at launch | | Recurring work | Yes: Loops on a schedule, from a webhook, or on request | Yes: Team tasks on a schedule or app event | | Price | $149 per workspace, unlimited people, plus provider usage | ChatGPT Business from $20 per seat per month | ## What does Maito's memory change compared with @ChatGPT? **Maito answers with what your team said and decided before, then does the next step. @ChatGPT only knows the thread it's in and the connectors your admin approved.** _Illustrative conversation:_ > **Jordan:** @Maito Acme is asking about SSO again. What did we tell them last time? > > **Maito:** In August, Priya told Acme that SSO would ship in Q4, starting with Okta. It's now live for Okta and Google. > I drafted a reply that confirms it and links the setup guide. Want me to also let Priya know before you send it? Jordan didn't have to find the old conversation or know that Priya made the promise. Maito connected the question to what the team already knew. ## And what do Maito and ChatGPT in Slack do when a customer reports a bug? **@ChatGPT starts a Codex Cloud task and posts the result back. Maito handles the whole bug, from the customer's report to the fix and the reply, and anyone on the team can step in along the way.** _Illustrative conversation:_ > **Sofia:** @Maito a customer says password reset emails arrive after the link has already expired. Ticket #5120. > > **Maito:** Reproduced. Video attached: the email is queued behind bulk sends, so it lands after the 15-minute window. > I opened PR #530 to send reset emails on the priority queue, with a test for the delivery order. > > **Tom:** Use the existing priority queue helper rather than a new one. > > **Maito:** Done. PR #530 now uses the existing helper. QA passed on staging, and the customer reply is drafted below. Sofia reported it, Tom shaped the fix, and Maito did the work in between, all in one thread. Maito reproduces the bug, records it, collects the evidence, writes the fix and the tests, runs QA, opens the pull request, and drafts the reply. ## Can ChatGPT in Slack run work every week? **Yes, through team tasks. On ChatGPT Business and Enterprise, team tasks run in the cloud on a schedule or an app event, under the team's service account, and people can ask for one from Slack. Maito runs recurring work as Loops.** Authorized teammates maintain a team task, and workspace agents can also send results to Slack on a schedule. [Team tasks in ChatGPT](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001540-creating-and-managing-team-tasks-in-chatgpt), [Agents app in Slack](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001199-chatgpt-agents-app-in-slack). A Maito Loop can post the Monday pipeline update, check new errors every morning, or summarize customer feedback each Friday, using the same company knowledge as every other conversation. A Loop starts on a schedule, a webhook, or a request, and any teammate can pause or edit it in the thread. ## What do Maito and ChatGPT in Slack cost? **Maito costs $149 per workspace per month with unlimited people, plus your AI provider's usage and any cloud credits beyond the included $20. ChatGPT in Slack needs ChatGPT Business, from $20 per seat per month billed annually or $25 monthly.** **Maito: $149 per month + provider usage** - One workspace, unlimited people - Sign in with your ChatGPT subscription as your AI provider, or use another one - $20 in included credits for coding sandboxes and web search **ChatGPT Business: $20 per seat** - $25 per seat billed monthly - Premium seats: $100 per seat billed annually - Includes ChatGPT, Codex, workspace agents, and admin tools Twenty Standard seats cost $400 a month billed annually. A ChatGPT Business plan buys much more than Slack access, so the useful question is whether your team already pays for it. Maito's subscription stays at $149 however many people join, and your provider bills model usage, including a ChatGPT subscription if you sign in with one. [ChatGPT Business pricing](https://openai.com/business/pricing/). ## When is ChatGPT in Slack enough? **ChatGPT in Slack is enough when your company already pays for ChatGPT Business or Enterprise and its @ChatGPT assistant, workspace agents, and team tasks cover the work your team brings to Slack.** ## Can we use Maito and ChatGPT together? **Yes. Maito works inside ChatGPT, so your team can give work to the same Maito agent from ChatGPT and from Slack, with the same memory in both.** ## So should you choose Maito or ChatGPT in Slack? **Choose Maito if you want one AI teammate that remembers your company, lets anyone continue the same task, and finishes the work, for $149 per workspace plus your AI provider's usage. Choose ChatGPT in Slack if you already pay for ChatGPT Business and its assistants cover what your team asks for.** **Choose Maito if:** - You're tired of re-explaining context every time you ask - Several people should work on one request in the same thread - A customer's bug should go from report to reply without a handoff - One agent should handle conversations, coding, and recurring work **Choose ChatGPT in Slack if:** - Your company already pays for ChatGPT Business or Enterprise - You want to build workspace agents inside ChatGPT Try it on something your team discussed last month. Ask both about it in Slack, then ask for the next step, and see which one already knows what you mean.