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Pega Sales Automation vs Salesforce Sales Cloud comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Pega Sales Automation
Ranking in Sales Force Automation
26th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.3
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
AI Sales & Marketing (143rd)
Salesforce Sales Cloud
Ranking in Sales Force Automation
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
118
Ranking in other categories
CRM (3rd), Opportunity Management (1st), Conversation Intelligence Software (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Sales Force Automation category, the mindshare of Pega Sales Automation is 1.1%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Salesforce Sales Cloud is 12.9%, down from 25.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Sales Force Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Salesforce Sales Cloud12.9%
Pega Sales Automation1.1%
Other86.0%
Sales Force Automation
 

Featured Reviews

MT
Rpa Lead Architect And Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
A scalable low-code platform with an easy initial setup phase
Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten. The stability of Pega Sales Automation depends upon how an IT architecture is built, and because of this, I can say that users would experience no downtimes in an IT environment with high-availability servers. With Pega Sales Automation, I haven't seen any downtimes.
Jonny Katz - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Business Operations at PeerSpot
Uses data-driven insights to improve workflows and highlights a need for simpler automation tools
Salesforce Sales Cloud can be improved in several areas. First, the UI is an area for enhancement. Even though they've launched Lightning, it's clunky at times with page load speeds. It also needs to be made extremely more user-friendly. For new people using Salesforce Sales Cloud, there is a steep learning curve. Additionally, giving non-admins the ability to make changes on the fly is something that I feel is necessary. Currently with Salesforce Sales Cloud, you need to have a consultant. It's hard to build the flows or workflows. Making it easier for that end-user who's not so technically minded to help themselves is essential. I choose seven out of ten because I think you need a consultant or a consulting company to help you build it out. Certain changes should be made much easier and more user-friendly where an admin can do it. The automation processes need to be much simpler. If you're looking at other tools out there, for example SalesLoft or HubSpot, it's much easier to build those workflows and do automation.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The initial setup of Pega Sales Automation was easy since it is a tool meant for sales-related activities, and moreover, it is a very low-code tool."
"The solution has the ability to run reports on the pipeline and understand the likelihood of the sales. The analytics tools are very good."
"The best features of the solution are its performance and stability."
"In terms of the return on that investment, a non profit that uses the system well should be able to raise more money with the data and time savings provided."
"Salesforce has made it so much easier to expedite the process of getting the information about our leads and clients."
"The scalability is good."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The entire organisation is now on the same page, with one source of truth."
"You can capture all the contacts that relate to an account or business, including personal details."
 

Cons

"I want Pega Sales Automation to provide users with more predictive and adaptive models and on how to get a forecast of upcoming leads since these two are areas where the solution lacks."
"Applications that can help with migrating data over from the sandbox to production would make it easier because sometimes change sets can be bulky and they're not always as effective. This can be frustrating when you make a lot of changes and try to put those changes into production."
"Salesforce is a powerful tool and you need specialists to create or to develop new functionalities. It is a difficult platform to learn to manage and you need years to know the whole product."
"Salesforce must build some connectors and features to make integrations easier."
"It could have a more user-friendly interface."
"Its license is expensive. It is probably a lot more than smaller solutions."
"The areas revolving around archiving and backup in Salesforce Sales Cloud are not as advanced as some of the other solutions in the market."
"Auto clean for duplicate leads, accounts, and contacts needs improving. When importing from other apps, it gets messy."
"Improvement, in my opinion, would be to include AI functionality in a simpler way; right now, it's not easy; it's cumbersome and requires some back and forth with different functionalities in the system, and it's a very complex integration."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"You need to pay for the license per user per month. For example, you need to pay $100 per user. If you have 200 users using your Salesforce, that would be multiplied by a hundred, that's $20,000 per month and a quarter million per year."
"The main thing is it is costly. Salesforce it is not cheap, it's costly. Some of our customers say it is a costly solution. So, we have lost some sale opportunities regarding the high price. This is the main thing that we are facing. It is sales per user and the user price is about $150 per month, per user for the Enterprise Edition. The other edition is less than this, but it is costly. A company that has 70 or 80 users would pay more than $8,000 USD yearly because it is cloud based."
"The price of the product is very high. I rate the product price a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one means low price, and ten means expensive."
"Its license is expensive. It is probably a lot more than smaller solutions. It is around £500 a month, but I don't know how many licenses we have."
"The main issue is the price. Because it's SaaS, you will have to pay on a monthly or yearly basis."
"The licensing fees are reasonable."
"Not the cheapest"
"It's expensive, storage being the most costly aspect."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

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Small Business56
Midsize Enterprise25
Large Enterprise43
 

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