Editions and Licensing in salesforce

What is Salesforce Editions?

Salesforce offers various editions of its customer relationship management (CRM) platform to cater to the diverse needs of different businesses, from small startups to large enterprises. Each Salesforce edition comes with different features, capabilities, and pricing to address specific business requirements.

Editions

1. Essentials

Tailored for small businesses, it offers a user-friendly setup assistant and admin tools for customizable growth in CRM, boosting sales and service productivity.

2. Starter

Your all-in-one solution for sales, service, and marketing, with user-friendly tools and built-in guidance, making it the quickest way to start with Salesforce CRM for first-time users looking to acquire, retain, and strengthen customer relationships.

3. Professional

Ideal for businesses needing comprehensive CRM capabilities, offering user-friendly customization, integration, and administration tools for small to midsize deployments.

4. Enterprise

Tailored for large and complex businesses, providing advanced customization, administration, and API integration tools, along with the capabilities of the Professional Edition, for large-scale deployments. It also includes access to Salesforce APIs, so you can easily integrate with back-office systems.

5. Unlimited

Elevates enterprise success with enhanced flexibility, full mobile access, unlimited custom apps, and additional features, in addition to all Enterprise Edition functionality and Premier Support.

6. Developer

Offers access to the Lightning Platform and APIs, enabling developers to extend, integrate, and build applications while providing many Enterprise Edition features.

Find your Edition
Setup > Company Information > Organization Edition

Step1: Go to setup and search company information

Step 2: Search for Organization Edition (My Org's Edition is Developer)

Salesforce Feature & Edition Allocations

Feature	Essentials	Starter	Professional	Enterprise	Unlimited	Developer
Active validation rules/object	20	20	20	100	500	100
Max tasks	-	-	-	-	75	75
Active lookup filter/object	5	-	5	5	5	5
Max custom profiles	2	-	3	1500/user license type	1500/user license type	1500/user license type
Max Custom permissions	-	-	-	1000	1000	1000
Max Sharing rules/object	300 [50 criteria-based rule]	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials
Static Resource [In total max 250 mb]	5 mb	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials
Custom settings: maximum fields per setting	300	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials
Custom labels	5000	-	5000	5000	5000	5000
Custom Apps [Managed packages on AppExchange don't count towards Salesforce edition allocations.]	9999	0	225 [To exceed this number, contact Salesforce.]	260 [To exceed this number, contact Salesforce.]	Unlimited	10
Custom big object	100	10	100	100	100	100
Max relationship/object [master-detail + lookup]	-	-	40	40	40	40
Max master-detail/object	-	-	2	2	2	2
Master-detail relationship: maximum child records	10,000	-	10,000	10,000	10,000	10,000
Custom object [3000/org regardless of edition]	0	0	50	100	2000 [1000 manage package]	400
Custom fields/object [900/object regardless of edition]	100	25	100	500 [400 manage package]	800 [100 manage package]	500
Max file size	2gb 38mb[soap] 10mb [bulk api] 150mb [bulk api 2.0] 10mb [vfpage]	-	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials
Max size in notes & attachments	25mb file attachment 2gb feed attachment	-	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials	Same as Essentials
Flows and Processes: total	5	-	5	4000	4000	4000
Flows and Processes: active	5	-	5	2000	2000	2000
Web-to-Case: maximum new cases generated in a 24–hour period	55,000	55,000	5000	5000	5000	5000
Web-to-Lead: maximum new leads generated in a 24–hour period	55,000	55,000	500	500	500	500
Max user create	5	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	2

What is Salesforce Licenses?
Salesforce licenses are thoughtfully assigned to individual Salesforce users, affording them privileged access to a diverse spectrum of Salesforce products and a comprehensive array of features, tailored to the specific editions they have purchased within the Salesforce organization.

User Licenses
1. Standard User 

•     Salesforce
•     Lightning Platform user licenses

2. Chatter User 

• Chatter External
• Chatter Free
• Chatter Only
• Lightning Platform Starter licenses

3. Experience Cloud User

• Customer Community
• Customer Community Plus
• Partner Community
• External Apps
• External Identity
• Channel Account