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Salesforce, Inc. · CRM software
The enterprise standard, with a free suite to start and prices that rise by the edition.
Salesforce Sales Cloud is the best known enterprise CRM. Its pricing page lists a Free Suite, then Starter Suite at about R418, Pro Suite at about R1 673, Core at about R3 262, Advanced at about R6 608 and Max at about R9 202 per user a month, mostly billed annually, with free trials. It has an enormous ecosystem of partners, including South African consultancies, and usually needs an administrator.
Starter Suite
About R418
Per user a month
Pro Suite
About R1 673
Per user a month, billed annually
Core
About R3 262
Per user a month, billed annually
Advanced
About R6 608
Per user a month, billed annually
Max
About R9 202
Per user a month, through a sales step
Ten users on Core
About R32 600
A month
Founded
1999
Salesforce
Figures marked as a vendor's own are that vendor's claims about itself and are not tested here.
Every plan Salesforce Sales Cloud lists, in rand, with a button to Salesforce, Inc.'s own pricing page.
Free plan
R0
Free to use, as the vendor lists it
Plan
R413
per user a month
Billed monthly or annually.
Plan
R1 653
per user a month
Billed annually.
Plan
R3 224
per user a month
Billed annually.
Plan
R6 531
per user a month
Billed annually.
Plan
R9 094
per user a month
Billed annually. Through a Salesforce representative.
Each button opens Salesforce, Inc.'s own page in a new tab, where you buy or sign up. Prices are the vendor's, shown in rand.
Salesforce Sales Cloud lists 6 priced plans: Free Suite at no cost, Starter Suite at R413 /user, Pro Suite at R1 653 /user, Core at R3 224 /user, Advanced at R6 531 /user, Max at R9 094 /user. Every figure is shown in rand, converted from the vendor's own price at the day's reference rate.
The vendor does not say whether VAT is in these figures, so ask before you set them beside a price that does. South African VAT is 15 percent.
Read from salesforce.com/sales/pricing on 11 October 2026.
A plan priced per user or per employee shows the price of one. Both VAT footings are shown where the vendor states its basis.
1 user
5 users
10 users
25 users
50 users
The price per head multiplied by the size of the team. Volume discounts, minimum seats and add ons are not included.
The price per head multiplied by the size of the team. Volume discounts, minimum seats and add ons are not included.
| Users | Starter Suite | Pro Suite | Core |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R413 | R1 653 | R3 224 |
| 5 | R2 067 | R8 267 | R16 121 |
| 10 | R4 134 | R16 534 | R32 242 |
| 15 | R6 200 | R24 802 | R48 363 |
| 20 | R8 267 | R33 069 | R64 484 |
| 25 | R10 334 | R41 336 | R80 605 |
| 30 | R12 401 | R49 603 | R96 726 |
| 40 | R16 534 | R66 138 | R128 968 |
| 50 | R20 668 | R82 672 | R161 210 |
All prices are in rand. Where a vendor lists in dollars, pounds or euros we convert at R16.53 per US dollar, R21.86 per pound and R18.53 per euro (European Central Bank reference rates, via Frankfurter, 9 OCT 2026).
Amounts written out in the text of this review are at the reference rate of 2 October 2026. The charts and the calculator use the rates above, so a figure can differ by a rand or two.
Pick a plan, your team size and any extras. It adds Salesforce Sales Cloud's own prices in rand and shows the month and the year, with VAT in and out where the vendor states its basis.
Your bill
R4 133.60
a month, as the vendor lists it
The vendor does not say whether VAT is in its price, so none is added or taken out.
The plan and extras you chose, at each team size. A plan is left out at a size the vendor does not sell it for.
| Users | Your bill a month |
|---|---|
| 1 | R413 |
| 5 | R2 067 |
| 10 | R4 134 |
| 15 | R6 200 |
| 20 | R8 267 |
| 25 | R10 334 |
| 30 | R12 401 |
| 40 | R16 534 |
| 50 | R20 668 |
Opens Salesforce, Inc.'s own page in a new tab. Nothing is bought on this site.
Free to start
Starting prices of the priced products in the same category, cheapest first. This is a price sort, not a ranking: the cheapest product is not the best one, and some are priced per user, some per month and some excluding VAT.
Bar lengths use a square root scale, so a very high price does not flatten the rest. The figures are exact.
The middle starting price of the paid products here is R190.
Price on request, so not charted: Sage CRM.
Positions use a square root scale, so a very high price does not flatten the rest. The figures are exact.
A dot is one plan. Free plans and plans on request have no price to place. A per user price is the price of one user.
A founding year says how long a company has existed. It says nothing about how good the product is.
An official video from Salesforce on YouTube. Software Register did not make or edit them. They are the vendor's own account of the product, so read them beside the prices and limits on this page.
What Salesforce is
Overview, 8:51, published 8 July 2024. From the Salesforce channel on YouTube.
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Sales Cloud is the sales product within Salesforce. The page describes the Free Suite as account, contact, lead and opportunity management with basic features, Starter Suite as adding built in sales flows, lead routing, AI email and event syncing and dynamic email marketing, and Pro Suite as adding greater customisation, sales quoting and forecasting. Core adds Premier Success, Slack Business plus and Tableau Next. Advanced adds enhanced security, more AI, expanded data capacity and backup and recovery. Max adds the full suite of AI, including Agentforce for Sales and Sales Planning.
Cost and complexity are the main drawbacks. The free and Starter suites make the product accessible, and the step up to Pro Suite is a factor of four per user. Without an administrator, a smaller team may not use the power it is paying for.
Against HubSpot, Salesforce is deeper and costlier, while HubSpot is easier to start and cheaper at the low end. See the full comparison.
Strengths
Limits
Best for
Think twice if
In short
A deep platform that rewards complexity and a team to run it. Price your real edition and seat count in rand before you commit, and ask a South African partner what implementation will cost.
Start where the vendor sells it, and keep this page open beside you for the limits.
Free to start
Salesforce lists a Free Suite at no cost, with a free trial of the paid editions. The Starter Suite is the first paid edition.
Salesforce Sales Cloud starts at R413 /user per user a month, with a free plan as well. It lists 6 priced plans, from Free to R9 094 /user.
The vendor's page does not say whether VAT is included, so we show the plain figure and do not guess. Ask before you compare it with a price that states its basis.
Yes: Salesforce Sales Cloud offers a free plan and a free trial.
Available to South African businesses, with a network of Salesforce partners in South Africa.
On this register the closest are Freshsales, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Sage CRM, Zoho CRM. Each has its own page, and the compare tool sets any two side by side.
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Read the guideEvery price and fact on this page was read from Salesforce, Inc.'s own pages, researched on 11 October 2026. A figure the vendor states about itself is marked as the vendor's. This review gives no score and no rank, and a vendor cannot pay to change it. Read how the register works.
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