The Engine vs Salesforce

The CRM without the implementation project

Salesforce is built for enterprises with a Salesforce team. If you do not have one, you are buying a platform whose real cost is the consultants required to make it do anything.

About the Engine

What Salesforce actually costs

Sales Cloud Enterprise

$175/user/mo

Billed annually, per user

Source

AI tiers

Higher again

The plans with the AI everybody wants cost well above Enterprise, per user

Implementation

Quoted per project

Usually a certified partner, before anybody is live

Every year, for as long as you run the business

$21,000+

Ten users on Sales Cloud Enterprise for one year, licences only, before any implementation or add-on.

Public list prices checked August 2026, each with its source. Pricing moves and is often negotiated, so treat these as the shape of the bill rather than a quote.

Why people move off Salesforce

The licence is the small number

The implementation is what actually costs, and it is quoted in tens of thousands before the first user logs in.

It needs specialists to run

Getting value out of it usually means certified admins, either hired or retained. Without them a lot of businesses never see the benefit they bought.

Everything else is another cloud

Marketing, service, analytics and AI are separate products with separate prices, and SMS is not there at all without another vendor.

Line by line

Including the rows where Salesforce wins. A comparison table with no losses in it is an advert, and you would be right not to believe the rest of it.

	The Engine	Salesforce
Starting price	Included in every fuel plan, from $497/mo	$175/user/mo, billed annually
Implementation	$497 once, done for you	A partner project, quoted separately
Time to live	Days	Months
Who runs it	We do	A certified admin you hire or retain
Two-way SMS	Built in	Another vendor, another bill
Marketing automation	Same platform	Marketing Cloud, priced separately
Team members	Unlimited	Per user, every user
Training a new hire	About an hour	Weeks, often with a course
Very large enterprise scale	Not who we are for	Genuinely unmatched

The difference that matters

Nobody switching off Salesforce wants another login

The reason Salesforce costs so much to start is that somebody has to configure it. On a fuel plan that somebody is us, it is included, and you are live in days rather than quarters.

See the fuel plans

And that is before the tools around it

Salesforce is one line on the bill. Most businesses are also carrying eight or ten of these, all of which the Engine includes.

CRM and pipeline managementSales funnelsWebsite builderEcommerceSurveys and formsEmail marketingTwo-way SMSBooking and appointmentsWorkflow automationAI voice agentAI content and chatAd managementSEO and local listingsCourses and products

Bought one by one, that stack is $1,926 a month. See the full list

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