# Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Graph) vs Zulip (slim)

> Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Graph) and Zulip score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 62.2 (B) and 61.5 (C). Zulip leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do work chat. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Graph) and Zulip score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 62.2 (B) and 61.5 (C). Zulip leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do work chat.

- Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Graph): B 62.2, rank #399 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/microsoft-teams.min.md
- Zulip: C 61.5, rank #422 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zulip.min.md
- Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Graph), good for Agents acting as a signed-in employee in a Microsoft 365 tenant that read channels and chats and post replies. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 92 against 82; Security & auth, 71 against 42. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Zulip, good for A team that already talks in Zulip and wants an agent to read channels and topics, post, react and manage users through a bot. Ahead on Reliability, 83 against 67; Agent ergonomics, 68 against 59; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20. Also Open source.

| Category | Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Graph) | Zulip |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 67 | 83 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 92 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 59 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 71 | 42 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 76 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Microsoft Teams (Microsoft Graph) | Zulip |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Microsoft | Kandra Labs, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0` | no (local only) |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| Pricing | Your plan | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT (SDKs) | Apache 2.0 for the server. The hosted Zulip Cloud service is under Kandra Labs' Terms of Service. The npm package zulip-js is MIT |
| Tools exposed | 25 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-09-21 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-10-01 | 2022-02-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-01 | 2022-01-01 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 835 stars, 2.9M npm/wk, 1.6M PyPI/wk | 26k stars, 7.1k npm/wk, 157k PyPI/wk |