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Growing 22 data points: 14 reviews and reports, 8 bills.
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How much does Salesforce cost? Teams here report a median of $40,000 a year (8 bills). See plans
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100% of 13 buyers say overpriced
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From teams paying for it today, plus the reasons teams leave. Is your Salesforce bill bloated?
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Horrible punishing exhausting software designed as a tool to harrass, intimidate and terminate people. A slow organizing tool. Not only does this anti-human software harrass it's users it also harrasses the customers who are also being mis-managed by your competitors salesforce pipeline nonsense.
Nov 2026
Disgusting billing practices
Nov 2026
Awful UI, awful CEO, awful culture.
Oct 2026
Honestly for the life of me I can't see why any company would use Salesforce. It is the furthest away from an AI-native platform possible. Our CEO won't move off Salesforce because "it's where our data is" but it's so broken, hurts attribution, and the sales team hates using it.
Oct 2026
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Own your pipeline, records and reports. Email and calendar sync, enrichment and the add-ons sales teams expect stay rented.
Switch if you want something running this week and your process is standard. Build if your process is your edge, you want to own your data, or per-seat pricing keeps rising. Salesforce: Own your pipeline, records and reports. Email and calendar sync, enrichment and the add-ons sales teams expect stay rented.
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