Top 7 Salesforce Experience Cloud Alternatives

Every alternatives list asks the same question: what does it cost, and what does it do. The question that actually predicts whether you will be happy with the choice in two years is different. How much of your organization's future is this decision willing to bet on Salesforce staying the only CRM in the building.

Experience Cloud alternatives split cleanly into two groups once you look past the feature lists. One group is built to work across more than one CRM, or with no CRM lock-in at all, so a change in your CRM stack later does not force a second portal migration. The other group is built to work inside Salesforce specifically, and one option is built so specifically for Salesforce that it still requires an Experience Cloud license running underneath it. Neither group is wrong. They answer different bets about where your organization is headed.

That is the axis this list uses: how much flexibility away from Salesforce lock-in each option actually gives you, ordered from the most flexible to the option that has no Salesforce connection at all and exists here only for the reader whose real plan is leaving Salesforce entirely.

Why flexibility matters more than the feature list

Two organizations can buy identical portal capability today, list views, forms, dashboards, case management, and end up in very different positions in five years, because one built it on a product that only exists inside Salesforce and the other built it on a product designed to survive a CRM change.

This is not hypothetical. Companies get acquired and standardize on the parent company's CRM. Companies outgrow one CRM's economics and move to another. Companies run Salesforce in one division and something else after a merger. None of those events touch a portal's feature list. All of them touch whether the portal still works afterward.

The seven products below are ordered by how much of that flexibility they carry, from the option built to work natively across the most CRMs, through products built for Salesforce specifically, to two edge cases at the bottom: one that requires an Experience Cloud license just to function, and one with zero Salesforce connectivity at all.

1. CRMJetty

CRMJetty runs the same portal product, and the same pricing model, across four CRMs: Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, SugarCRM, and SuiteCRM. Disclosure: CRMJetty is one of the seven products in this list, and the publisher of this article has a commercial interest in it.

• Real-time two-way sync to Salesforce standard and custom objects, with the identical builder and pricing available on the other three supported CRMs
• No-code drag-and-drop builder for pages, forms, and dashboards
• Role-based access control, SSO, and case management with knowledge-base deflection
• One flat monthly rate regardless of which supported CRM the portal connects to

Where it fits: organizations running Salesforce today that want the option to add, or move to, another supported CRM later without re-platforming the portal.

Limitations: four CRMs sounds broader than three, but the comparison is not clean. Impartner's third CRM is HubSpot, increasingly the CRM running alongside Salesforce in a modern stack, while CRMJetty's third and fourth are SugarCRM and SuiteCRM, a smaller and more legacy-leaning footprint. There is also no self-serve free trial, unlike Knack's no-credit-card signup, so evaluation runs through a sales conversation rather than a sandbox you start alone. And CRMJetty does not extend into general-purpose app building the way Nintex Apps does post-acquisition; it is a portal product, not an automation platform.

Commercial model: $399 per month flat, up to 500 portal users, the same rate across all four supported CRMs. No per-login or per-user surcharge. Enterprise and multi-CRM deployments are quoted separately.

Best for: organizations that want one portal vendor and one contract that survives a future CRM change, not the single deepest possible integration with Salesforce alone.

2. Impartner

Impartner is an enterprise partner relationship management platform with native, marketplace-listed integrations into three CRMs: Salesforce, AppExchange-approved for over a decade; Microsoft Dynamics 365, listed on Microsoft AppSource; and HubSpot. It is built specifically for partner and channel programs rather than general customer self-service.

• Full partner lifecycle coverage: recruitment, onboarding, training and certification, deal registration, MDF, and partner analytics
• Native integrations across three major CRMs rather than a single-platform build
• Long track record in large enterprise channel programs, positioned by the vendor as partner revenue management rather than a simple portal

Where it fits: enterprise channel organizations whose partner program has outgrown what Salesforce's native PRM or a general customer portal can support, especially where partners already sit across more than one CRM internally.

Limitations: this is a partner portal platform, not a customer or vendor portal, so it solves one of the three portal categories this list otherwise covers. Pricing is entirely custom and not published anywhere on the vendor's own site; industry reporting puts typical annual contracts in the $25,000 to $150,000-plus range, well outside SMB budgets before implementation even starts.

Commercial model: custom, quote-based; no public rate card on the vendor's site. Third-party reporting cites annual contracts commonly starting around $25,000 and scaling with partner count and modules.

Best for: enterprise B2B organizations running a serious channel program across more than one CRM, where partner-specific depth matters more than customer-portal breadth.

3. Skuid, now Nintex Apps

Skuid was a Salesforce-native no-code application builder, popular for internal tools and customer-facing apps built directly on Salesforce objects. Nintex completed its acquisition of Skuid in January 2024. By 2026 the product has been folded into Nintex's automation platform, and its old pricing page now redirects to Nintex's app-development product, which pulls from Salesforce alongside SQL, REST, and OData sources rather than treating Salesforce as its sole foundation.

• Originally purpose-built on the Salesforce data model, with demos still built on Salesforce data
• Now part of a broader automation and app-development suite under Nintex, not a single-purpose Salesforce portal product
• Multi-source data connectivity beyond Salesforce, new since the acquisition

Where it fits: organizations already invested in Salesforce-native app building who are comfortable inheriting a larger automation platform, and a changed pricing conversation, as part of that relationship.

Limitations: the acquisition is the limitation. What was once a Salesforce-specific product with its own roadmap is now one module inside a larger platform with its own priorities. Self-serve pricing tiers that were publicly listed before the acquisition are gone; the current path is a demo request into Nintex's sales process, with no published rate card.

Commercial model: demo-gated; no public pricing as of 2026. Pre-acquisition public tiers, roughly $9,900 to $24,900 per year, are no longer live on the vendor's own site.

Best for: teams that want Salesforce-native app building but are willing to buy into Nintex's broader automation platform to get it.

4. Higher Logic Vanilla

Vanilla is a purpose-built customer community platform: discussion forums, Q&A, private messaging, and role-based permissions, aimed at B2B and B2C companies that want a branded community space rather than a general-purpose portal. Its own vendor does not market it as a Salesforce Experience Cloud alternative, but it solves the same community use case Advanced Communities solves, from outside Salesforce rather than on top of it.

• Purpose-built community features: forums, Q&A, private messaging, moderation and gamification tools
• Connects to Salesforce through a direct connector or Zapier rather than living inside Salesforce as a managed package
• Broader third-party integration list beyond Salesforce, including Mailchimp, WordPress, and Zendesk

Where it fits: organizations that want a branded community, not a Salesforce-native one, and are fine running it as a separate system integrated back into Salesforce rather than built on Salesforce objects.

Limitations: the Salesforce connection runs through a connector or Zapier rather than a deep, native, real-time object sync, which matters if your community needs to reflect case status the instant it changes in Salesforce. Pricing is not published anywhere on the vendor's own site; every deal goes through a demo request.

Commercial model: not publicly listed; third-party coverage references three unnamed tiers (Essential, Corporate, Enterprise), quote-based through a demo request.

Best for: organizations whose Experience Cloud shopping is really community-platform shopping, and who do not need the community to live as a Salesforce object.

5. Knack

Knack is a no-code database and application builder, not a CRM portal product in the strict sense. It has its own record store and does not treat any CRM, Salesforce included, as its source of truth.

• No-code database with custom apps, forms, and workflows built on top of it
• Unlimited users on every plan; pricing scales by database record volume instead
• Free trial with no credit card required, the only vendor on this list offering self-serve evaluation without a sales conversation first
• Broad claimed integration count, roughly 450 systems, through its own automation layer and API, though Salesforce is not named as a native, direct connection anywhere in Knack's own documentation

Where it fits: organizations that want a portal-shaped application without being tied to any CRM's data model at all, including ones that may not be running Salesforce for much longer.

Limitations: the absence of a confirmed, named, direct Salesforce integration is the central fact about this option. If Knack connects to Salesforce today, it most likely does so through middleware such as Zapier rather than a native two-way sync, so real-time record updates are not guaranteed the way they are with a purpose-built CRM portal.

Commercial model: tiered by database records. Regular pricing lists Starter around $59/month, Pro around $130/month, Corporate from $300/month, Enterprise on request; a limited-time promotion currently discounts the first three months.

Best for: teams that want portal-shaped software with zero CRM lock-in and can tolerate loosely-coupled, middleware-based sync instead of real-time integration.

6. Advanced Communities

Advanced Communities is native to Salesforce Experience Cloud in the most literal sense: it is a set of AppExchange components and applications, including membership management, event tools, and knowledge management, that run as a layer on top of Experience Cloud rather than replacing it. Customers still need an underlying Experience Cloud license before Advanced Communities does anything.

• Purpose-built modules for membership organizations, associations, and nonprofits, including AC MemberSmart and AC Events Enterprise
• Deepest possible Experience Cloud integration, since the product is designed to extend it rather than sit beside it
• Strong reputation in the association and nonprofit segment specifically, where Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud adoption is already high

Where it fits: organizations that have already committed to Experience Cloud and want richer, purpose-built modules on top of it rather than a general-purpose portal.

Limitations: this is the one entry on this list that is not actually an alternative to Experience Cloud in the strict sense. It is an enhancement to it. You keep paying for the Experience Cloud license this product sits on, so if your reason for shopping is Experience Cloud's per-login cost, this option does not remove that cost, it adds to it. Public pricing is not published.

Commercial model: not publicly listed; sales-led, quote on request.

Best for: teams that are staying on Experience Cloud and want deeper vertical functionality, not teams trying to leave it.

7. Microsoft Power Pages

Power Pages is Microsoft's own portal builder for Dataverse and Dynamics 365. It appears on a Salesforce Experience Cloud alternatives list for one reason: it is the answer for organizations whose actual plan is not to replace Experience Cloud, but to leave Salesforce itself.

• Built directly on Dataverse, with access rules stored as table permissions
• No Salesforce connectivity of any kind; this product assumes Dynamics 365 or Dataverse as the system of record
• Backed by Microsoft's platform investment and a large Dynamics partner ecosystem for implementation

Where it fits: organizations migrating away from Salesforce to Dynamics 365 entirely, where the portal decision is really a Dynamics 365 decision wearing a Salesforce-alternatives headline.

Limitations: if your organization is staying on Salesforce in any capacity, this option does nothing for you. It is metered per authenticated user and per anonymous page view, per site, which behaves differently from every other pricing model on this list and needs its own usage-based math before you can compare it honestly.

Commercial model: $200 per month per site for 100 authenticated users, $75 per month per site for 500 anonymous users, both paid yearly.

Best for: organizations whose Experience Cloud shopping is really a symptom of a larger decision to leave Salesforce for Dynamics 365.