The honest comparison
Education Cloud is built for universities and district systems with enrollment-technology teams. If you are four people running admissions, records, and the website for one school, you are the implementation project it was not priced for. Here is the honest math, with sources.
Same jobs, different economics
Both columns are public figures: theirs from the sources linked below, ours from the pricing page on this site.
Public listings put Education Cloud in the $80–$90 per user per month range for the Enterprise edition, billed annually, before any implementation partner is engaged. Certified partners bill $150–$300 an hour, and small-organization CRM implementations are documented at $15,000–$40,000 — with ongoing administration on top.
A 350-student school — students, siblings, guardians, applicants, and staff — usually lands in the 2,500-person band: $69 a month with unlimited users, the school website and admissions forms included, and setup help from $500 for data conversion to $9,500 for a standard implementation.
The structural difference
None of this is a discount or a promotion — the product is priced differently on purpose.
Education Cloud is priced per seat, so the registrar, the admissions assistant, and part-time staff all show up on the invoice. Simply Schools includes unlimited users on every plan — the price is set by the people you manage, not the people who help.
A partner-led Education Cloud build is measured in months and tens of thousands of dollars. Simply Schools ships with admissions, records, forms, and your website ready to configure — most schools launch in weeks, with help that starts at $500.
Big-platform schools budget for an administrator or a consulting retainer to change a form or add a field. In Simply Schools, adding the new after-care program is an afternoon in settings, not a change order.
Every Simply Schools price — bands, website, setup packages — is public. You can put a real number in next year’s budget before ever talking to us.
Honest answers
A university, a district, or a school system with a dedicated Salesforce administrator and complex system integrations is exactly what Education Cloud is built for — and in those hands it is excellent. If that is you, keep it. If you are being quoted a consulting project just to run one school’s admissions, talk to us first.
Sources: Salesforce education pricing · TrustRadius: Education Cloud pricing · Clear Concise Consulting: implementation costs · Clientell: consultant rates
Figures are as published at the linked sources in July 2026 — pricing changes, so check the sources for current numbers. Every price on our side is on this site’s pricing page.
Salesforce Education Cloud and all other third-party product names on this page are trademarks of their respective owners, named only for factual comparison. Simply Schools is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by them.
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