Pricing
Priced by the number of departments you plan.
A genuinely free tier for five departments, flat annual pricing above it, and no implementation fee on any tier but Enterprise.
What it costs
You pay for the license, not the plumbing.
There is no integration project to fund, because there is nothing to stand up. PlanFoundry installs into the Salesforce org you already run.
| Feature | Free | Starter | Growth | Premium | Enterprise | What this means |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it costs | ||||||
| Annual license | $0 | $4,999 | $9,999 | $14,999 | From$24,999 | You pay for the departments you plan. Not seats, not records, not how much you use it. |
| How much you can plan | ||||||
| Departments you can plan at once | 5 | 15 | 50 | 100 | Unlimited | The only thing the price depends on. Enterprise stops counting. |
| Plans per department, each year | 3 | 5 | 10 | 10 | Unlimited | |
| Scenarios per plan | 3 | 5 | 5 | 10 | Unlimited | Try a leaner or larger version of the same plan without touching the one of record. |
| Steps in an approval route | 3 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 10, more by agreement | You name every step yourself, on any tier. Reordering them starts at Starter. Ten is the deepest chain we ship; longer routes are a conversation, not a setting. |
| Years of history you keep | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Nothing is ever aged out, on any tier. |
| A permanent record of what was approved | Permanent | Permanent | Permanent | Permanent | Permanent | Written when a plan is submitted, approved and finalized, and it cannot be deleted afterwards. That is the answer when procurement asks about retention. |
| What you can do | ||||||
| Budget and portfolio reporting | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Reports and dashboards ship with the package. There is nothing to build. |
| Bulk approval, and rate cards that arrive late | Not included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Clear a stack of plans in one action. A rate card that lands mid-cycle re-prices the lines already entered instead of leaving them stale. |
| Spending caps, checked as you plan | Not included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Per-department guidelines are evaluated as the plan is built, rather than policed after the fact. |
| Load your own rate cards and agreements | Not included | Not included | Included | Included | Included | Rate cards and bargaining agreements, imported by you rather than by us. |
| Compare scenarios across departments | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included | Included | The whole portfolio side by side, not one plan at a time. |
Department counts above a tier's limit can be added at a negotiated rate rather than forcing a move to the tier above.
Free, Starter, Growth and Premium carry no implementation fee: you install the package and configure it yourself. Enterprise carries a $10,000 implementation.
Enterprise removes every ceiling: departments, plans, scenarios and approval steps are all unlimited. It is for multi-campus systems and very large institutions, roughly 50,000 students and up. The annual license starts at $24,999 and is quoted from there, because what it settles at depends on the shape of the institution rather than on a department count. Contact us →
Positioning
A scheduling platform tells you what's being taught. PlanFoundry tells you what it costs.
Scheduling and curriculum-management suites are a real category, and PlanFoundry is not a cheaper way into it. It answers a different question, for a different office, from different data.
Questions about what is taught
- Which sections run, in which rooms, at which times
- Whether a proposed course or program change clears curriculum review
- What the student-facing catalog should publish
- Whether a section is under- or over-enrolled against forecast
- How a faculty member's workload sits against release-time rules
- None of these has a dollar answer.
Questions about what it costs
- What each staffing line costs against your own dated rate cards, with benefit load and tuition remission included
- Whether external funding reduces a department's ask, as institutional policy rather than a spreadsheet formula
- Whether a plan is over its cap in dollars at submission, rather than in workload units
- Who has signed off on a costed staffing plan, through the dean, budget office and provost chain
- What exactly was approved, frozen as a snapshot that any live plan can be checked against
Most of the time, what PlanFoundry replaces isn't a competing product. It is the spreadsheet a department already keeps, and the hand reconciliation that follows it.
What the license covers
The hard parts are already built, and staying current is included.
A license buys a finished system, and keeps it current on a platform that does not stop moving.
A real permission and sharing model, an approval router you configure, and a snapshot layer any live plan can be reconciled against. These are the parts that take years rather than quarters, and they ship in the box.
Salesforce ships three platform releases a year, forever. Keeping up with them is part of the subscription, so a release never becomes a project on your side.
Where the product is headed.
Everything below is planned rather than built, and targeted at 27Q1. None of it can be shown today.
27Q1
- Self-service onboarding, so a new campus could set itself up without an engineer
- Real course and enrollment data from the student information system
- Real salaries and appointments from HR/payroll
- Checking what was planned against what was actually paid
- A feed to the general ledger, multi-year forecasting, and a supported public API