Salesforce (NPSP) vs Little Green Light

Salesforce (NPSP) vs Little Green Light: the short version

Which is better for you: Salesforce NPSP or Little Green Light?

NP

Best if you want

Salesforce NPSP

• Quiz match for Salesforce Loyalist

LG

Best if you want

Little Green Light

• Publishes a price you can check (the other is quote only)
• Unlimited users (verified)
• No long-term contract (verified)
• Online giving forms included in the plan
• QuickBooks integration verified
• Free migration help into it (Self-serve import)
• Quiz match for Scrappy Grassroots, Relationship Builder, Salesforce Escape Artist, Open-Source Tinkerer, Custom Builder

How these are decided: our verdict rules. The price rule uses the contact count below.

How do Salesforce NPSP and Little Green Light compare on price and features?

Feature	NP Salesforce NPSP	LG Little Green Light
Price at your size (4,000 contacts)	QuoteQuote only	$54/moPublished tier, 10% annual prepay discount
Publishes prices	No No 'NPSP license' price: NPSP is a free package on Salesforce licenses. Since December 2025 new Power of Us orgs don't get it preconfigured; existing orgs keep their licenses.123	Yes Number of constituent records.7
Starting price	NPSP itself is a free, open-source package installed on Salesforce licenses; there are no 'NPSP licenses'. Since December 2025, new Power of Us orgs no longer get NPSP preconfigured (they get 10 donated Agentforce Nonprofit or Sales & Service licenses and can install NPSP themselves). Existing NPSP orgs keep their licenses and support.123	$45/month up to 2,500 constituents; $60 up to 5,000; $75 up to 10,000; $90 up to 20,000; up to $135 for 50,000 (10% off billed annually). No charge for additional users.7
Unlimited users	Unknown Not yet verified	Yes Unlimited users at no extra charge.7
No long-term contract	Unknown Not yet verified	Yes No contracts, no setup or cancellation fees; monthly billing, 10% off annual prepay.7
Online giving forms included	Unknown Not yet verified	Yes Yes: LGL online forms included; you pay only processor fees ('starting at 2.2% + $0.30').7
QuickBooks integration	Unknown Not yet verified	Yes Yes, QuickBooks Online: pushes gifts as Sales Receipts with Product/Service and Class mappings.89
Mailchimp integration	Yes Yes, via a third-party app: Mailchimp's integrations directory lists a Salesforce integration (developer: Beaufort 12) that syncs Salesforce Contacts and Leads, works with any object, and needs a Mailchimp account.4	Yes Yes; LGL says it adds no fees for its integrations.9
Data export documented	Yes Salesforce Data Export Service (Setup > Data Export) produces a zip of CSV files. Manual export every 7 days (weekly) or 29 days (monthly); weekly exports are available in Enterprise, Performance and Unlimited editions. Zip files are deleted 48 hours after the notification email. Data Loader is a separate installable client for targeted exports.5	Yes 'If you decide to close your account, you can export your data with no penalty or fees.' Givebutter's migration guide uses LGL's Constituent and Gift/Pledge Reports to export.710
Import docs	Yes NPSP Data Importer: fill Salesforce's NPSP import template as a CSV, upload it to staging records (NPSP Data Imports), do a dry run, then process. One pass can create household or organization accounts, contacts, donations, payments, soft credits, allocations and campaign members, with matching rules to prevent duplicates.6	Yes Documented three-step import (prep data, upload & map fields, review & save) with an import tool included in all subscriptions; a Consultant Network for complex migrations.11
Free migration offer	None verified No verified offer	Yes Self-serve import: Free documentation and an import tool included in all subscriptions; Consultant Network for complex data.11
Our switching guides into it	0 None yet	1 Salesforce NPSP to Little Green Light guide
Quiz personalities it fits	1 Salesforce Loyalist	5 Scrappy Grassroots, Relationship Builder, Salesforce Escape Artist, Open-Source Tinkerer, Custom Builder
Consultants in our directory	1 See consultants	7 See consultants

Yes verified with a cited source No a cited vendor page says no Unknown not yet verified (we don't guess)

Prices are vendor list prices from the cited pages, not quotes. "Starting price" means the vendor publishes a minimum only; your quote depends on your database. Payment-processing fees are not included here; the switching-cost calculator adds them.

How do you switch between Salesforce NPSP and Little Green Light?

NPLGSalesforce NPSP → Little Green Light

Read the migration guide Estimate switching cost

LGNPLittle Green Light → Salesforce NPSP

No guide for this direction yet. Export steps · import docs Estimate switching cost

How the verdict is decided

Why this pair: we publish a migration guide between them. We have no keyword search-volume data, so pairs are chosen by transparent signals instead: a vendor publishes its own comparison page for the pair, we have a migration guide between them, our quiz recommends both for the same personality, or Google autocomplete suggests the pair.

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