The Salesforce security review costs $999 per submission for paid apps, and it is free for free apps. The fee is charged again on each resubmission, so a failed review repeats the cost. This replaced the older model of a $2,550 review fee plus a $150 annual listing fee, which Salesforce retired in March 2023. Many published guides still quote the old number.

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TL;DR: The Salesforce security review costs $999 per submission for paid apps and $0 for free apps, charged again on each resubmission (Salesforce Trailhead). The pre-2023 $2,550 plus $150 model is retired; pages quoting it are out of date.

It costs $999 per submission for a paid app. Free apps are reviewed at no charge. Critically, the $999 applies to each attempt, including resubmissions after a failed review and any periodic re-reviews, so the real cost depends on how many cycles you need (Salesforce Trailhead).

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Our finding: The headline fee is $999, but the number that actually matters is how many submissions you need. Each failed review is another $999, which is why passing on the first attempt is the real cost-saver.

This is where most content is wrong. Before March 2023, Salesforce charged a $2,550 security review fee plus a $150 annual listing fee. In March 2023 it retired that model and moved to the flat $999-per-submission fee for paid apps (Salesforce Partner News). If a guide quotes $2,550, or a separate $150 annual listing fee, it is citing the retired model. Always confirm current fees in the Salesforce ISVforce Guide.

The $999 is only the review. It does not include the cost of building the app ($25,000 to $150,000+ if you hire developers), the 15% revenue share on paid sales, or the engineering time to fix findings between submissions. The review fee is usually the smallest line in the total cost of getting listed. See our Salesforce app development cost guide for the full picture.

The way to keep the fee at $999 is to pass on the first submission, which means meeting the requirements before you submit. The most common failures are predictable (CRUD/FLS, sharing, SOQL injection), so generating code to the security standard up front avoids the resubmission that doubles the fee. Appnigma AI generates managed-package code against the review's requirements for this reason.

$999 per submission for paid apps, and $0 for free apps (Salesforce Trailhead). The fee is charged again on each resubmission, so a failed review repeats the $999.

It is $999 per submission as of March 2023, when Salesforce retired the older $2,550 fee plus $150 annual listing model. Sources still quoting $2,550 are out of date.

No. Free apps are reviewed at no charge. The $999 fee applies only to paid apps, and it recurs on each resubmission.

Yes. Each resubmission of a paid app is another $999. Two failed attempts before passing would total $2,997, which is why passing on the first try is the main way to control the cost.

About the author. Sunny Chauhan is the founder and CEO of Appnigma AI, a no-code platform that generates Salesforce AppExchange-ready managed packages built to pass the security review. He helps SaaS teams avoid costly resubmissions.

The Salesforce security review costs $999 per submission for paid apps and is free for free apps, with the $999 charged again on each resubmission. It replaced the pre-2023 model of a $2,550 review fee plus a $150 annual listing fee, retired in March 2023. Appnigma AI generates code to pass on the first submission, avoiding repeat fees.

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1. Salesforce Trailhead, ISV Security Review module

2. Salesforce Partner News, AppExchange security review fee updates (March 2023)

3. Salesforce ISVforce Guide, security review fees