What does an enterprise CRM plan give you that a small-business plan doesn't?
Summary
Mostly room to test, room to integrate, and tighter control over who sees what. Salesforce's Enterprise Edition includes 25 developer sandboxes and a Partial Copy sandbox that Professional Edition doesn't get, and its daily API allowance grows by 1,000 calls for every license. On HubSpot, nested teams, permission sets, and custom objects are all Enterprise-only.
Sandboxes
A sandbox is a copy of your org where admins can try changes without touching the data sales is working in. Salesforce includes 10 Developer sandboxes with Professional Edition, 25 with Enterprise, and 100 with Unlimited. Enterprise and Unlimited also include one Partial Copy sandbox, which carries a sample of real data and 5 GB of data storage. Unlimited also includes five Developer Pro sandboxes and one Full sandbox, which matches production.
Extra Developer Pro sandboxes can be bought on any edition, but extra Partial and Full sandboxes only on Enterprise and above. Refresh intervals are one day for Developer, five days for Partial Copy, and 29 days for Full.
API calls per day
Every integration with an ERP, a data warehouse, or a phone system spends API calls, and Salesforce counts them for the whole org over 24 hours, not per user. Both editions start from a base of 100,000 calls.
| Salesforce licenses | Enterprise (+1,000 per license) | Unlimited (+5,000 per license) |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 115,000 | 175,000 |
| 200 | 300,000 | 1,100,000 |
The 15-license Enterprise figure is Salesforce's own worked example.
Who sees what on HubSpot
- Nested teams. Sales Hub offers teams from Professional, but putting one team inside another takes Enterprise. A parent team can see everything owned below it, and a nested team can't see everything the parent owns.
- Permission sets. Creating and assigning them needs Enterprise.
- Custom objects. Only Enterprise plans can create them, and the number allowed depends on the subscription, as does the number of teams.
Sales Hub Enterprise also carries a required one-time onboarding fee of $3,500.
Salesforce's plan names
Salesforce's sales pricing page now lists Pro Suite at $100 per user per month, Core at $195, Advanced at $395, and Max at $550, all billed annually. The limits above are published under the older edition names (Professional, Enterprise, Unlimited), and the pricing page doesn't include a table matching one set of names to the other.
Sources
- https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.data_sandbox_environments.htm&type=5
- https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.salesforce_app_limits_cheatsheet.meta/salesforce_app_limits_cheatsheet/salesforce_app_limits_platform_api.htm
- https://knowledge.hubspot.com/user-management/create-and-manage-teams
- https://knowledge.hubspot.com/object-settings/create-custom-objects
- https://www.hubspot.com/pricing/sales
- https://www.salesforce.com/sales/pricing/
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Written by Kaz (pen name). Published September 27, 2026. The figures above come from the vendor and review-site pages listed under Sources. We have not used these products. Corrections: contact form.