BuddyPress vs Salesforce Experience Cloud
BuddyPress
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| Figure | BuddyPress | Salesforce Experience Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $2/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 11 |
| Spec score · Community Building Platforms | 8.5 (#7) | 8.1 (#11) |
| Founded | 2008 | 1999 |
| Mobile apps | none | Mobile Publisher can create branded apps from Aura and LWR Experience Cloud sites and publish them to the Google Play and Apple App stores; a Mobile Publisher license is required. |
| Purpose | BuddyPress adds social networking features to WordPress sites so people with shared interests can connect and communicate. | Experience Cloud creates branded digital experiences such as portals, help forums, support communities, and sites for customers, partners, and employees. |
| Support | The project provides a community support forum for questions and troubleshooting. | The Standard Success Plan is included in all licenses and provides self-guided resources, knowledge articles, documentation, Trailhead, and the Trailblazer Community. |
Plans
Salesforce Experience Cloud
- Mobile Publisher for Experience Cloud (login)$2 a month
- Login Edition for Learners and Alumni$3.75 a month
- Employee Portal — Login$4 a month
- Login Edition for Partners$5 a month
- Mobile Publisher for Experience Cloud$5 a month
- Mobile Publisher for Experience Cloud (member or employee)$5 a month
- Employee Portal — Named User$8 a month
- Member Edition for Learners and Alumni$8.75 a month
- Member Edition for Partners$12.50 a month
- CRM Analytics for Community (Experience Cloud)$25 a month
In their own words
BuddyPress
BuddyPress is a free, open-source WordPress plugin that adds social networking features to websites. It supports campus networks, company communication tools, niche communities, and product-focused networks. Administrators can disable unneeded features, with the theme adjusting menus, pages, and buttons to match. Extended Profiles provides configurable fields, field groups, avatars, account settings, and visibility choices such as Everyone, Only Me, All Members, and My Friends. Activity streams combine site, member, and group activity with updates, comments, favorites, mentions, and RSS feeds. Members can create public, private, or hidden groups, while group administrators manage membership and invitations. Private messages work between people on a member’s friends list, with inbox and sent folders. Notifications cover activity, messages, friendships, and groups. WordPress.org plugins extend the system, and the BP REST API exposes community data and authenticated actions through JSON endpoints. BuddyPress requires WordPress, PHP 5.2.4 or later, MySQL 5.0 or later, and Apache mod_rewrite.
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Salesforce Experience Cloud creates branded digital experiences for customers, partners, and employees, including account portals, partner sites, help centers, support communities, and custom sites. Organizations can build with no-code tools and templates, low-code tools, or programmatic development. Sites use Salesforce org data and can connect with Sales, Service, Marketing, Commerce, and Industries applications. Salesforce describes adding Agentforce agents to automate workflows, answer questions, and guide visitors. The platform is available through web, Android, iOS, and APIs. Mobile Publisher can turn Aura and LWR sites into branded Google Play and Apple App Store apps, requiring its own license. Experience Builder sites do not run in the Salesforce mobile app, but work in supported mobile browsers or branded apps. Security options include authentication, encryption, clickjack protection, Content Security Policy, and Lightning Locker. Listed plans include prices from $2.00 per month, with annual billing terms; other editions and terms vary.