Sales pipeline CRM · United Kingdom

Salesforce Sales Cloud alternatives, ranked by cost per seat

1 of the 1 nearest providers we hold work out cheaper per seat than Salesforce Sales Cloud, which costs £20.00 per seat per month at ten seats over three years.

The cheapest is Zoho CRM at £12.00, a difference of £2,880 for a ten-seat team across the term.

The group, by cost per seat

Every provider in the same category and market that publishes a computable price, in price order.

Cheapest published plan at each provider, United Kingdom pricing, ordered by effective cost per seat at ten seats over three years. Ordering is that number and nothing else — see Method.
Provider	Published price	On	Min seats	Onboarding fee	Effective / seat at 10	Next step
Salesforce Sales Cloud (this page)	£20.00 VAT basis not stated	annual billing	—	—	£20.00	See Salesforce Sales Cloud pricing
Zoho CRM	£12.00 ex VAT	annual billing	—	—	£12.00	See Zoho CRM pricing

UK providers do not publish on the same basis. Figures here are exactly as published; where the provider states the basis we print it. At 20% VAT an ex-VAT figure is 1.2 times higher on the invoice, so an ex-VAT price and an inc-VAT price are not comparable as printed. We do not convert between them.

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How that is worked out

seats billed = max(seats you have, minimum seats the plan requires) plan per month = published seat price x seats billed three-year cost = plan per month x 36 + mandatory onboarding fee effective per seat = three-year cost / (36 x seats you have) monthly-billing gap = monthly-billing price / annual-billing price

Nothing else is added. Paid add-ons, extra contact capacity, sales tax and VAT are not in any figure on this site, because they depend on choices the pricing page does not price for you. Where a provider makes an onboarding fee mandatory and publishes the amount, it is added once. Every figure here is a floor. The full method is at Method.

When to stay where you are

Three conditions under which the table above should not move you.

A cheaper seat price is not a reason on its own. Moving a CRM means exporting and re-importing your records, and no provider here publishes what leaving involves.
If you are under five seats, the ranking is different — put your seat count in rather than reading the ten-seat column.

Who this is not for

This is a price ranking, not a shortlist of better products. We have not used any of these providers. If your reason for moving is features or support, the order on this page tells you nothing about that.

Sources

Salesforce Sales Cloud pricing page. checked 2026-10-03
Zoho CRM pricing page. checked 2026-10-03

Written by Kaz (pen name). Figures are copied from providers' published pricing pages on the dates shown. We have not used these products. Corrections: contact form.