The honest comparison
Blackthorn is Salesforce-native event management: the app rides on top of Salesforce licenses, Salesforce administration, and a Salesforce implementation. If you already run Salesforce, that is a strength. If you do not, it is three bills pretending to be one. Here is the honest math, with sources.
Same jobs, different economics
Both columns are public figures: theirs from the sources linked below, ours from the pricing page on this site.
Public directories list Blackthorn Events from $4,800 per Salesforce org per year. Being Salesforce-native, it also needs the Salesforce org itself — commercial Sales Cloud seats list from $25 to $350 per user per month — plus whoever implements and administers the stack.
Registration forms, event pages, attendee records, sponsors, and follow-up run on one system from $0 a month plus 2% of paid registrations — Pro is $99 + 1%, Growth $249 + 0.5%, Scale $499 + 0.25% — with unlimited users and your public site included. Free events never carry a platform fee.
The structural difference
None of this is a discount or a promotion — the product is priced differently on purpose.
Blackthorn extends a CRM you must separately license, implement, and administer. Simply Events is the whole stack: database, registration, event pages, communication, and reporting in one product.
Plans follow paid-registration volume; attendees, contacts, tickets, and event rows are operational data with no headline quota. A big free event does not move your software bill at all.
Event weeks run on volunteers and seasonal staff. Unlimited users are included, so check-in helpers never cost a license.
Every published plan price is public, and the percentage shrinks as volume grows — 2% on Pay As You Go down to 0.25% on Scale. Verified tax-exempt organizations on a paid plan pay 0%, and a quiet season costs nothing on Pay As You Go.
Honest answers
If your organization already runs on Salesforce with an administrator who loves it, a native app like Blackthorn keeps events inside your system of record — that is exactly what it is for, and it does it well. If you would be buying Salesforce just to get event management, you are paying for a platform you did not need.
Sources: Capterra: Blackthorn Events · Blackthorn pricing · Salesforce Sales Cloud pricing
Figures are as published at the linked sources in July 2026 — pricing changes, so check the sources for current numbers. Our public plans and professional-service floors are on this site; Custom scope receives a written quote.
Blackthorn Events and all other third-party product names on this page are trademarks of their respective owners, named only for factual comparison. Simply Events is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by them.
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