What are Standard Profiles in Salesforce?

Standard profile are those profiles which are provided by Salesforce to us. Standard profiles have the standard functionality. We only have limited number of settings in Salesforce as compare to custom profiles which we create by cloning standard profiles.

Several Standard Profiles which we have and are used mostly are:

1. System Administrator
2. Standard User
3. Read Only
4. Solution Manager
5. Marketing User
6. Contract Manager etc.