How fast can we be live?
Answer
About five minutes. Sign in, name your portal, and it is online at yourcompany.myforumcat.com. Nothing to install.
Compare
Salesforce Experience Cloud pricing, and a simpler option
Experience Cloud builds a customer portal on top of your Salesforce data, as a project. We give you a public Q&A portal in about five minutes, at a flat price.
Free for 7 days. No credit card. Live in about five minutes.
5 minfrom sign-up to a live portal
0servers to run or patch
$9one time for a working portal
7 daysfree, no card needed
About Experience Cloud
What Experience Cloud is, and who buys it
Salesforce Experience Cloud is how Salesforce customers build portals and communities on top of their CRM. Admins or partners build the site, and it can show the right records to the right people.
Nothing else on this list reaches that far into a CRM. If the portal has to know who the customer is and what they own, buy it.
It is enterprise software. Sites are built as projects, with a scope, a budget, and people who know the platform.
Pricing
Experience Cloud pricing, in plain words
Salesforce quotes Experience Cloud rather than listing one price for everyone, and it is licensed through your Salesforce agreement. We will not print a number we cannot source.
So salesforce experience cloud pricing is a conversation with a sales team, and the license is only part of it. Build time and admin time are the rest, and they carry on after launch.
Ours is $9 one time, or $99 a month, published on the pricing page, with 7 days free and no card. One person can set it up without help.
What your customers see
The portal, in your brand
The build step is a name and an address.
Side by side
Experience Cloud and Forumcat, line by line
Our column is what we ship today. Their column is sourced or plainly descriptive, and says so when we cannot source it.
| Salesforce Experience Cloud | Forumcat | |
|---|---|---|
| Setup time | Built as a project, per scope | About five minutes |
| Price shape | Enterprise, quote based, licensed through Salesforce | $9 one time, or $99 a month |
| Who hosts it | Salesforce | We do |
| Your own domain | Check with the vendor | Yes, on Pro, with SSL set up for you |
| REST API and MCP on every plan | Check with the vendor | |
| Private questions and categories | Check with the vendor | |
| Roles for the support team | Check with the vendor | Five: owner, admin, agent, finance, member |
Sources as of Jul 2026. We only print a competitor number when a public source gives one. Otherwise the cell says "check with the vendor". Unlimited seats and questions on Pro carry a quiet fair-use backstop, lifted for any real portal that reaches it. Page views are fair-use limits, not a meter.
Fair to them
When Experience Cloud is the right pick
Stay when the portal has to sit on CRM data. Showing a customer their own records is not a job a public Q&A portal can do. Nor is opening content by account.
If you already have Salesforce admins and a partner, the build costs you less than it would anyone else. The data also stays in one place.
Why teams move
When teams pick Forumcat instead
Teams come to us when the need is public and simple. A place customers can ask, search, and read without an account, indexed by Google, on your own domain.
It is set up in an afternoon and paid for on a card. There is no project plan, no partner to hire, and no admin to book time with.
- Live in about five minutes, with nothing to build
- Customers read and search with no account
- Private questions when a case should not be public
- GDPR erasure as a self-serve action
A closer look
See it before you decide
What your customers see: questions, answers, search, and your brand on top.
Pricing
Two plans. Both flat.
The bill does not grow with traffic, questions, or seats. Pick a plan, and that is the price.
| Basic | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9 one time | $99 a month, or $990 a year |
| Portal address | yourcompany.myforumcat.com | Your own domain, SSL included |
| Team seats | 2 | Unlimited |
| Registered members | 1,000 | 10,000 |
| Questions | 10,000 | Unlimited |
| Media storage | 1 GB (≈2,000 images) | 50 GB (≈100,000 images) |
| Page views a month (fair use) | 100,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Search, votes, accepted solutions | ||
| Structured data, sitemap, markdown view | ||
| REST API and MCP server | ||
| Google sign-in under your brand | ||
| Analytics and search log | ||
| Free trial | 7 days, no card | 7 days, no card |
Unlimited seats and questions on Pro carry a quiet fair-use backstop, lifted for any real portal that reaches it. Page views are fair-use limits, not a meter.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask at this stage
What does it cost in month twelve?
Answer
The same as month one. $9 one time for a portal on a Forumcat subdomain, or $99 a month for your own domain. The bill never grows with traffic or questions.
Can the portal read our CRM data?
Answer
No. There are no integrations, no webhooks, and no CRM sync. The REST API and the MCP server are the only ways data goes in or out.
Can we import our old forum or help docs?
Answer
Not today. There is no importer. Most teams start fresh and let the new questions build the archive, which is live in minutes.
What happens to our answers if we leave?
Answer
They are yours. Every question and answer is readable through the REST API, so you can pull it all out any time.
Does it replace our help desk?
Answer
No. Keep your help desk for one-to-one work. Forumcat is the public place beside it where the answers many customers share get written once.
No build, no partner, no project
Create a portal this afternoon and see how much of the job it already covers.
Create your portalFree for 7 days. No credit card. Live in about five minutes.
