Salesforce and Agentforce pricing changes: every tracked move, dated
Salesforce has repriced the same product by changing what it counts. Agentforce launched priced per conversation, moved down to actions denominated in credit blocks, then gained a per-user wrapper around the same meter for buyers who needed a fixed number. A list increase carried an unmetered employee-agent grant bounded by fair use, not by a counter. A flat-fee, unlimited multi-year agreement arrived beside the credit meter. The credit system then charged a spoken action differently from a typed one, one product was offered under three purchase models at once, the entry suites went bundled, and a packaged agent shipped billed per autonomous resolution. Conversation to action to resolution, with seat prices alongside throughout.
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Salesforce pricing moves, newest first.
- Apr 18, 2024Pricing · Rate card
- Oct 29, 2024Licensing + Pricing · Unit swap
- May 15, 2025Licensing + Pricing · Unit swap
- Jun 17, 2025Packaging + Pricing · Repackage
- Aug 01, 2025Packaging + Pricing · Rate increase
- Aug 17, 2025Packaging + Pricing · Repackage
- Oct 14, 2025Licensing + Packaging · Unit swap
- Oct 24, 2025Pricing · Rate card
- Feb 23, 2026Licensing · Unit swap
- Mar 02, 2026Licensing + Packaging · Unit swap
- Mar 17, 2026Packaging · Repackage
- Apr 21, 2026Pricing · Price hold
- Jun 25, 2026Licensing + Pricing · Unit swap
- Sep 03, 2026Packaging + Pricing · Repackage
- Sep 20, 2026Licensing · Unit swap
- Oct 04, 2026Terms change
- Oct 28, 2026Packaging + Pricing · Rate card
The move
Between our captures of October 18 and October 28, 2026, Salesforce's Agentforce pricing page added an 'Agentforce Coworker User License' card: 'Your AI teammate, now available as a standalone SKU with predictable per-user pricing', at $50 USD per user per month with all Coworker searches included, beside the existing Agentforce User License ($5 per user per month, requires Flex Credits) and the Flex Credits meter ($500 per 100,000 credits).
The SPP read
Salesforce put Agentforce Coworker on its pricing page as a standalone per-user license with searches included, beside the low per-user Agentforce license that requires Flex Credits and the credit meter itself. The coworker alone can now be bought on a seat at a flat monthly price with no credit draw for its searches, while the rest of Agentforce runs on credits.
Read revised Nov 07, 2026Reason: The earlier text called this the first unmetered agent seat; the June 2025 and AELA entries priced agent work without a meter before it.
Salesforce put Agentforce Coworker on its pricing page as a standalone per-user license with searches included, beside the low per-user Agentforce license that requires Flex Credits and the credit meter itself.
The move
Between the September 27 and October 4, 2026 captures of salesforce.com/agentforce/pricing, the line 'Buying Model: Pre-Purchase only' was removed from the per-conversation Digital Wallet block (GBP per conversation, customer-facing agents), Slackbot was added to the Agentforce rate card product list beside Digital Wallet and Agentforce Vibes, the add-ons line read 'Sales, Service, and Field Service and Operations', and the editions block renamed Agentforce 1 Editions to Agentforce Max Editions with 2.75M Flex Credits per org per year (from 2.5M) at from $550 per user per month, the September 3 edition launch that row 753 already holds.
The SPP read
The per-conversation option on the Agentforce page no longer names pre-purchase as its only buying model; the label is gone and the conversation rate stands. Slackbot joins the list of products the rate card covers.
The move
Slack added a new FAQ entry explaining that Salesforce customers on Free and Pro invoice plans can access Slackbot, and Business+ customers on invoice plans can unlock higher message limits by purchasing Flex Credits through Salesforce.
The SPP read
Slack's pricing FAQ now describes Slackbot routes for Salesforce customers billed on invoice plans. Free and Pro accounts in that group can get Slackbot access, while the page otherwise describes a limited trial for Free and Pro users, and Business+ accounts can raise message limits by buying Flex Credits through Salesforce. The change ties Slackbot usage headroom to a Salesforce credit unit rather than a plan upgrade, and no rates are stated.
The move
On September 3, 2026 Salesforce launched Core, Advanced and Max editions for Agentforce Sales and Service, with Industries pricing to follow later in fall 2026. Core is $195 per user per month with 500,000 Flex Credits included per org per year, replacing the legacy Enterprise Edition ($175); Advanced is $395 with 1 million Flex Credits, replacing Unlimited ($350); Max is $550 with 2.75 million Flex Credits, the Agentforce 1 Edition price held, where Agentforce 1 had listed 2.5 million Flex Credits immediately before the change (1 million at its 2025 launch).
The SPP read
Salesforce reset its Agentforce edition ladder to Core, Advanced and Max, with a block of Flex Credits included in each edition and the largest block at the top. The list price rose at the lower two rungs and held at the top, and the included credit block grew modestly at the top against what the prior edition had listed; because the credits are granted per org and the price per seat, the grant is worth less per seat as a deployment grows, so the move reads as an increase for larger Core and Advanced deployments and roughly flat at the top. On the arc this sits at the credits stage: AI usage packaged as an included allowance within an edition.
Read revised Oct 21, 2026Reason: Chris 10-21 round 3: the increase-or-decrease read corrected to the 2.5M prior allotment
Salesforce reset its Agentforce edition ladder to Core, Advanced and Max, with a block of Flex Credits included in each edition and the largest block at the top.
Claim revised Oct 21, 2026Reason: verifier correction applied at the desk 10-21: Unlimited was $350, Agentforce 1 listed 2.5M Flex Credits immediately before the change, Industries pricing follows in fall 2026
On September 3, 2026 Salesforce launched Core, Advanced and Max editions for Agentforce Sales, Service and Industries.
The move
Salesforce announced Agentforce Help Agent, a pre-packaged AI agent, on June 25, 2026 (GA July 2026), introducing pay-per-resolution pricing at $2 per autonomous resolution, billed only when the agent resolves an issue start to finish with no human escalation or negative feedback.
The SPP read
Salesforce is describing outcomes in the general sense, but bills for action related items that aren’t necessarily tied to client outcomes. Many vendors are jumping on the marketing bandwagon and charging for “outcomes.” But a resolved call and an updated customer record are two very different types of outcomes. One is a step in a workflow, the other is a business outcome.
The move
Salesforce published updated Flex Credits Rate Cards dated February 23, 2026 and April 21, 2026, superseding the October 24, 2025 rate card, though the core voice (30 credits) and standard action (20 credits) rates remained unchanged as of the April 2026 update.
The SPP read
Salesforce published updated Flex Credits rate cards dated February 23, 2026 and April 21, 2026, superseding the October 24, 2025 card. Across the revisions the two rates that anchor the surrogate unit held: the core voice conversion and the standard action conversion stood where the October card set them as of the April update. The rate card is the pricebook for a minted currency, and it was reissued twice while the headline conversion rates stayed still.
Read revised Sep 15, 2026Reason: Read revised to describe the change without repeating the price points, which stay in the move record.
Salesforce published updated Flex Credits rate cards dated February 23, 2026 and April 21, 2026, superseding the October 24, 2025 card.
The move
Salesforce has built Agentforce directly into its Free, Starter, and Pro Suites at no additional cost within each tier.
The SPP read
The low end flipped to bundled-free while the top end went metered: Agentforce built into the entry Suites at no added cost, while enterprise editions run on credit meters and flat-fee agreements above them. Free at the bottom of a ladder is an acquisition instrument; the meter waits upstream.
The move
On March 2, 2026, Salesforce overhauled Data 360 (formerly Data Cloud) pricing into three purchase models, available immediately with no forced migration: consumption pricing, new profile-based SKUs at $240 per 1,000 profiles (baseline) and $420 per 1,000 (premium) annually, and Data 360 joining the pooled Flex Credit system shared with Agentforce.
The SPP read
Three purchase models for one product, available simultaneously with no forced migration: a consumption pool, per-profile SKUs, and the shared Flex Credit pool. Three meters for one product means the buyer, not the vendor, picks which unit the bill is denominated in.
The move
Salesforce's Flex Credits rate card dated February 23, 2026 added an 'Agentforce Voice Minutes' usage type: a footnote on the Standard and Custom Voice Action lines (30 credits each, 24 on the Agentforce 1 editions) reads 'For certain customers, the Agentforce Voice Minutes usage type may apply instead', with voice then billed per minute of conversation rather than per voice action; the April 21, 2026 card carries the same footnote.
The SPP read
Salesforce added a second way to meter voice on its credit rate card: for certain customers a voice conversation is charged by the minute it runs, where every other customer pays a fixed credit count per voice action. Both draw from the same Flex Credit pool at the card's rates, so the currency held and the thing counted on the voice line changed for the customers the footnote covers. A buyer whose calls run long pays more under the minute; a buyer whose calls are many and short pays more under the action.
The move
The Agentforce Flex Credits rate card effective October 24, 2025 priced voice actions at 30 credits (about $0.15 per action) against 20 credits (about $0.10) for a standard Agentforce action at the $500-per-100,000-credit rate, the first modality-differentiated action rate to take effect in the credit system. It landed three days after Agentforce Voice reached general availability on October 21, 2025.
The SPP read
The first modality-differentiated action rate to take effect: the same agent action costs more when it is spoken, at a higher credit count on the same card. It landed three days after Agentforce Voice reached general availability, so the modality premium arrived with the modality. Cost-based rate differentiation inside a value-denominated currency shows which way the meter is actually indexed.
Read revised Sep 15, 2026Reason: Read revised to describe the change without repeating the price points, which stay in the move record.
The first modality-differentiated action rate to take effect: the same agent action costs fifty percent more when it is spoken. Cost-based rate differentiation inside a value-denominated currency tells you which way the meter is actually indexed.
The move
At Dreamforce 2025 (October 14-16), Salesforce introduced the Agentic Enterprise License Agreement (AELA): a flat-fee enterprise agreement bundling Agentforce, Data 360, and MuleSoft on multi-year terms, positioned as the scale-up alternative to per-conversation and Flex Credit consumption pricing.
The SPP read
Salesforce added a flat-fee, multi-year enterprise agreement bundling Agentforce, its data platform and MuleSoft, offered beside the per-conversation rate and the Flex Credit meter already on sale. A customer on the agreement pays a ceiling price for the term with usage inside it unmetered on the invoice, so the consumption instruments stay on the catalog while the largest buyers can contract around them. The flat fee moves the usage risk from the buyer's bill to the vendor's cost of serving the term.
Teaser revised Nov 05, 2026Reason: The earlier teaser stated a motive; it now names the move.
A flat fee, to escape their own consumption model.
Read revised Nov 05, 2026Reason: The earlier text stated the vendor's reason for the agreement; now describes the agreement beside the meters already on sale.
The flat-fee agreement is the escape hatch from their own consumption model: when per-conversation and per-action pricing stalls enterprise commitment, a ceiling-priced multi-year restores it. The shared-risk framing does not answer the metering objection; it moves where the risk sits.
The move
Slack's June 17, 2025 repackaging took effect for existing customers at their first renewal after August 17, 2025: Business+ rose from $12.50 to $15/user/mo annual ($18 monthly), a new Enterprise+ plan was introduced, advanced AI moved inside Business+/Enterprise+ with the standalone Slack AI add-on retired from new sale, and AI summaries plus huddle notes extended to all paid plans including Pro.
The SPP read
For the installed base the renewal-transition date is the real effective date. AI moved from a paid add-on into the higher editions, the standalone add-on was retired from sale, and the edition price rose: a feature-level meter absorbed back into the edition, and the edition repriced for it.
Read revised Sep 15, 2026Reason: Read revised to describe the change without repeating the price points, which stay in the move record.
For the installed base the renewal-transition date is the real effective date. AI moved from a paid add-on into the higher editions, the standalone add-on was retired from sale, and the edition price rose twenty percent: a feature-level meter absorbed back into the edition, and the edition repriced for it.
The move
Salesforce raised list prices an average of 6% effective August 1, 2025 across Enterprise and Unlimited editions of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Field Service, and select Industries clouds (Sales Cloud Enterprise $165 to $175/user/mo; Unlimited $330 to $350), announced June 17, 2025; Foundations, Starter, and Pro editions were unchanged.
The SPP read
The rise landed on the premium editions with AI named as the justification, while the same announcement added a per-user Agentforce add-on with unmetered employee agent usage, sold beside the per-action credit meter in the same catalog. Unmetered is narrower than it sounds: the grant covers employee-facing workflows under fair use, with governor limits, API thresholds and platform guardrails still bounding it. A seat price holds only when something bounds what the seat consumes, and here the bound moved from a counter the buyer can see to a policy the vendor administers.
Claim revised Nov 05, 2026Reason: The Agentforce add-on sentence belongs to the June 17 entry; this keeps the list increase.
Salesforce raised list prices an average of 6% effective August 1, 2025 across Enterprise and Unlimited editions of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Field Service, and select Industries clouds (Sales Cloud Enterprise $165 to $175/user/mo; Unlimited $330 to $350), announced June 17, 2025; Foundations, Starter, and Pro editions were unchanged.
Read revised Sep 15, 2026Reason: Read revised to describe the change without repeating the price points, which stay in the move record.
A list action carrying an AI story, and the AI story is the one that matters.
The move
Salesforce made Agentforce Digital Labor add-ons generally available on June 17, 2025 at $125 per user per month for Enterprise and Unlimited Editions ($150 for Industry Clouds), alongside Agentforce 1 Editions at $550 per user per month.
The SPP read
Eight months after putting a price on the conversation, Salesforce put a price back on the seat. The Digital Labor add-ons and the Agentforce 1 edition introduce no new unit: they are per-user wrappers sold around the same meter, priced for buyers who could not underwrite a variable bill. The meter did not go away when the wrapper arrived. It moved behind a number the buyer could put in a budget.
The move
Salesforce introduced a new Flex Credits consumption-based pricing model for Agentforce on May 15, 2025, priced at $500 per 100,000 credits.
The SPP read
Seven months after pricing the conversation, the meter moved down a level: actions at a dime, denominated in credits sold in hundred-thousand blocks, with licenses convertible into credits on demand. A finer unit gives the vendor pricing precision and gives the buyer a forecasting problem; the conversion bridge keeps both instruments live, licenses and credits, with a rate between them.
The move
Salesforce announced the general availability of Agentforce on October 29, 2024, with pricing starting at $2 per conversation and standard volume discounts applying.
The SPP read
The arc opens with a price on conversation itself: agentic AI at a flat per-conversation rate at general availability, with standard volume discounts. A conversation is a surrogate for work the buyer cannot forecast, and every later Salesforce move on this ledger renegotiates what the meter counts: a conversation, an action, a credit, a resolution. The unit kept changing; what a customer is paying for never settled.
Read revised Sep 15, 2026Reason: Read revised to describe the change without repeating the price points, which stay in the move record.
The arc opens with a price on conversation itself: agentic AI at $2 per conversation at general availability, volume discounts standard.
The move
Slack AI is now available for purchase as an add-on for customers on all paid Slack plans in English, Spanish and Japanese.
The SPP read
This is the before-state of the Slack arc. In the spring of 2024 the AI features were sold separately, a per-user add-on a customer on any paid plan could switch on, so the seat and the AI charge sat side by side on the same invoice. The following year the add-on stopped being sold and the same features were folded into the paid plans themselves, which is the move the ledger already records. Read together, the two rows show the AI charge entering as a visible line and then disappearing into the seat price.
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| help.salesforce.com | primary ↗ | |
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| forrester.com | primary ↗ · archived | |
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