How much does a Salesforce MCP server cost?

There is no single price, because three separate bills can sit behind one MCP request. Salesforce Hosted MCP access itself is included with Enterprise Edition and above, with no separate MCP SKU, per Help article 005360285. What moves a Salesforce bill is the service a call invokes: a standard Agentforce action consumes 20 Flex Credits, which Salesforce’s own press release states as $0.10, and credits list at $500 per 100,000 on the Agentforce pricing page. The usage type Salesforce registers for the work third-party agents do on the platform, Headless Platform Interaction, sits on the Flex Credits rate card, August 31, 2026 with TBA where the multiplier would be, and Salesforce says it is not metered today. The third bill is the connector, and it is the one this page prices: ApexGenius is $25 per user each month, and Salesforce calls through it never cost a credit. Credits cover your other connected apps: 1,000 free to start, then 20,000 a month on the paid plan.

They reach different surfaces of the same org, and the bill is shaped differently. Salesforce’s nine hosted servers are record-oriented: SObject read, write and delete, Data 360 queries, archive operations and Tableau Next analytics. Every one of them is disabled until an admin enables it, each ships a fixed tool set that cannot be modified, and each enforces per-user authentication with field-level security, object permissions and sharing rules, per the hosted MCP server reference. Access itself is included with Enterprise Edition and above with no separate MCP SKU, per Help article 005360285. That is a good deal for record work and this page does not argue otherwise. ApexGenius reaches the metadata surface, which is the admin and developer surface: read a Flow, search across the source by content, edit a validation rule, author an Apex class and deploy it through the Metadata API with a test level, then check the deploy status. That is a difference in kind rather than degree. On the bill: Salesforce’s Customer 360 Platform usage type for this work, Headless Platform Interaction, sits on the Flex Credits rate card, August 31, 2026 with TBA where the multiplier would be, and Salesforce says these usage types are not metered today and that it will give 30 days notice before metering begins. Where an MCP call invokes an Agentforce action, that action is metered at 20 Flex Credits, which Salesforce states as $0.10. Salesforce calls through ApexGenius never cost a credit, under fair-use rate limits.

An MCP server that reaches the admin and developer surface of an org rather than only its records: metadata instead of rows, so an agent can inspect and change how the org is configured instead of reading and writing table entries. Concretely that is these operations. salesforce_grep searches metadata by name and by file content and returns the path, the line number and the matching text. salesforce_list_live_metadata lists every component of a type in the live org, and salesforce_describe_object returns an object’s fields, relationships and permissions. salesforce_get_live_component pulls a Flow, Apex class, trigger, LWC bundle or object down from the org. salesforce_write_file and salesforce_edit_file author and revise it. salesforce_deploy puts it back through the Metadata API with a test level up to RunAllTestsInOrg, and salesforce_check_deploy_status reports what happened. Record work, SOQL and SOSL are all there too, but they are the table stakes rather than the difference.

Access itself is included rather than free-standing. Salesforce says basic MCP access comes with Enterprise Edition and above with no separate MCP SKU, so for many orgs there is no MCP licence to buy. You still need the applicable edition, authorised access, API capacity, and any licence the underlying service requires, and every user or service account calling in over MCP must hold a valid Salesforce license. The claim is Salesforce’s own, under Licensing Considerations in Help article 005360285, and it is corroborated by the hosted MCP GA announcement. What is not free is the service an MCP workflow invokes: an Agentforce action, a Data 360 query or Prompt Builder each draw on the meter for that product.

Salesforce has built the meter and not switched it on, and says so itself. The Flex Credits rate card, August 31, 2026 carries one Customer 360 Platform usage type for this work, Headless Platform Interaction, with TBA where the multiplier would be. Under Billing Considerations, Help article 005360285, published 29 July 2026, says the MCP usage types were added to track work third-party agents perform on the platform, that they are currently listed as TBA and are not metered today, and that Salesforce will give 30 days notice when a numerical multiplier is added and metering begins. Flex Credits already apply where an MCP workflow invokes an Agentforce action or a Data 360 query. Read the row itself on salesforce.com/agentforce/rates and confirm current terms with your account executive.

For Salesforce, there is no count to run out of: Salesforce calls through ApexGenius never cost a credit. Calls to your other connected apps use one credit per successful call, with 1,000 free to start and 20,000 a month on the paid plan, reset monthly. Finding tools, skills and failed calls are free. There is still a limit on everything, and it is a rate rather than a total. Fair-use rate limits apply, about 60 calls a minute per key, with heavier operations like deploys and metadata loads counting for more, so roughly sixty ordinary calls a minute or about six deploys. Salesforce API limits, your AI plan and any separately metered Salesforce service still apply on their own terms.

No, though Salesforce is much the deepest. Available today, alongside Salesforce: Gmail, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, Chat and People, Jira Cloud, n8n, Apollo, Upwork and HQ Rental, plus a custom MCP server of your own. Confluence is an Available connector whose live connection is currently failing while Atlassian provisioning is repaired, so it is shown with that status rather than as working. In private preview, and labelled preview until the connector registry says otherwise: Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Bing Webmaster, YouTube Analytics, HubSpot, HighLevel and Notion. Preview connectors are enabled per account and are not part of a general subscription. The shape is the same on every one of them: one authorization, one activity record, one credit per successful call, and the same approval gate on the operations that change something. Anything not named here is not connected, whatever a roadmap says.