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Comment by fabian2k | Hacker News Reader

I've no experience with this area, but the $150 per user and month seem pretty high to me. How many people would typically need that kind of access? Only Sales, or even more parts of the company?

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This is list price, though to be fair they throw discounts around pretty easily (we got 35% off for a 50-user purchase). All customer-facing teams and people needing to understand customers (marketing, for example) would have access.

For us: sales, account management, support, marketing, even some engineering need licenses.

The Oracle heritage is certainly showing in the pricing.

I don't have experience with many systems, but I'd assume the accounting departments need access, as well as customer success/tech support departments.

If you pay your sales guys $100k a year, $150 is nothing.

$150 * 12 months, but your point still stands.

I don't fully understand it but my company stores important customer support data (including issues and software changes) in Salesforce, and I as an engineer have no access to that information because the per user cost is too high.

It is the highest you'll get for an Enterprise Edition license as far as I know. You do get great discounts on large volumes, like some said. To give you an example: if you get, say, 500 licenses, you can probably upgrade them to Unlimited Edition (list price of USD300/user/mo) for almost no additional cost.

LinkedIn recruiter is God Tier on pricing - $800 a month for a product they don't really update. An amazing model.

I suspect that is more like "sales" users rather than customers/contacts/leads/etc.

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