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Small businesses find Salesforce upgrade pricing prohibitive and consider switching

.86
Demand — how loud & how many (score)
Willing to payExplicit
Momentum (7d)▼ 1.4%
Cluster5 posts · 5 people
MarketplaceHubSpot App Marketplace
Updated17d ago
The story

The pain

We're a small business that has outgrown Salesforce Professional Edition. To get basic features like API access and unlimited workflows, we're forced to upgrade to Enterprise at 2.5x our current cost. When we compare pricing, HubSpot and Zoho offer similar or better capabilities at a fraction of the price, making us seriously consider leaving Salesforce despite years of investment.

Evidence

What people said · 5 complaints, 5 people

To get API access and unlimited flows — features that cost Salesforce essentially nothing to enable — the real answer is upgrading to Enterprise at $165–175/license. That’s 2.5x our current spend before we’ve added a single new capability.
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HubSpot is comparably priced or cheaper and includes a native dialer, automatic call recording and transcription, real workflow automation, SMS, and dramatically better marketing tooling — out of the box.
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The cost difference is significant. Depending on how we structure it, we’re looking at roughly a 50–75% reduction compared with what we are currently spending.
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Score breakdown

Reach
how many people
.82
Recency
how fresh
.44
Engagement
upvotes & replies
.99
Willingness to pay
people said they'd pay
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