Alternatives to Salesforce
Sales Force CRM software alternatives for small teams.
Salesforce, which many people type as Sales Force, is the largest CRM software on the market.
Salesforce
Spodus- Editions and contracts
- Six editions, annual above the entry one
- Free, then Starter, Growth and Enterprise per seat
- AI, quoting and engagement
- Sold as separate products
- Quotes and Spodus AI on every plan, sequences on paid
- Needs an admin or a partner
- Usually
- No
- App marketplace and partner ecosystem
- Included
- Not offered
What actually pushes small teams off Salesforce.
Not the product.
The demo is two editions up
Sales Cloud is sold in six editions, per user, and only the first paid one can be billed monthly; everything above it is an annual contract.
The AI and the extras are sold on top
Most of the AI is marked available for purchase on the lower editions and bundled only on the top one.
It needs an admin, and you do not have one
Salesforce is a platform.
What a Spodus seat is instead.
A finished CRM for a small team, with the invoice, the ticket and the people records on the same customer.
One rate, no editions
Starter and Growth are both priced per seat, at one flat rate, with a three-seat minimum.
A CRM you set up yourself
Contacts, companies, deals and pipelines arrive with their shapes already built.
The other four products on the same record
Convert a deal and the invoice starts from it, with the tax rate on it.
What you would be giving up.
Salesforce does far more than Spodus, and some of it we will never do.
Side by side.
| Spodus | Salesforce | |
|---|---|---|
| Editions and contracts | Free, then Starter, Growth and Enterprise per seat | Six editions, annual above the entry one |
| App marketplace and partner ecosystem | ||
| Reporting depth, forecasting and territories | Weighted pipeline and dashboards | |
| Custom objects, flows and platform code | Custom objects and fields, automations | |
| AI, quoting and engagement | Quotes and Spodus AI on every plan, sequences on paid | Sold as separate products |
| Needs an admin or a partner | No | Usually |
| Invoicing, tax rates and recurring schedules | ||
| Help desk with SLAs and a portal | Service Cloud, separate product | |
| HR, time off and org chart |
Salesforce's pricing structure above was read from their own pricing page on 11 September 2026. Spodus is priced per seat, from a three-seat minimum; customers in the support portal are free.
Accounts, contacts, opportunities: there is a preset.
Spodus ships a CSV importer with a Salesforce preset.
Thinking about the rest of the stack?
The same honest read on the other tools teams try to leave.
Two ways
to start
Start fresh today, or bring the clients, deals and history you already have.
Start fresh
Free for up to three people.
You get every product: CRM, invoicing, support, team, chat and Spodus AI, which asks before it changes anything. Upgrade when your team grows.
Start for freeBring your data
Bring your data from the tool you use now.
Your deals arrive with their stages, owners and dates. Connect your work email, and each client's emails land on their record. On a paid plan, we'll move it all for you, free.
Try it before you cancel anything.
Start today, or bring your own data to a demo and see it there.
Questions, answered
For a small team, yes. For a sales organisation, no. Spodus has pipelines, deals, contacts, companies, custom objects, dashboards and automations, and it adds invoicing, tickets and people records on the same customer. It has no app marketplace, no platform code, no territories and no dialer. Email sequences from your own mailbox are on paid plans. Teams that leave Salesforce for Spodus are the ones using the pipeline and one report.
Yes. Salesforce is the company and the product, Sales Force is how many people type it, and SFDC is the old abbreviation for Salesforce dot com that still shows up as SFDC CRM in job adverts. Searches for CRM Sales Force, Sales Force CRM system and Sales Force CRM tool all land on the same product: Sales Cloud, sold in six editions per user.
We do not quote Salesforce's rates here: they change by edition, contract and add-on, and a stale figure is worse than none. Spodus is free for up to three people, then priced per seat on Starter and Growth, at one flat rate, with a three-seat minimum, no editions and no add-ons. Our prices are on our pricing page. Add up your edition, your add-ons and what you pay a consultant, then compare.
Yes, and it is one of the seven presets in the importer. Export accounts, contacts and opportunities to CSV, and the mapping pre-fills from Salesforce's own column names. Stages map onto yours, custom fields come across, and duplicates are caught on the way in.