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BambooHR alternatives: hiring and HR systems without a per-employee price
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BambooHR is a mature HRIS, priced per employee per month with a $250 monthly floor for the smallest companies and payroll, benefits and time tracking as add-ons. A company looking elsewhere usually wants three things: a careers page on its own domain with a real pipeline, employee records with documents and onboarding, and a bill that does not grow with every hire. Here are the options, with each vendor’s published price, and what BambooHR still offers that a small-team alternative does not.
Why teams look past BambooHR
Usually pricing and packaging, not the product
BambooHR is hRIS for small and mid-sized companies: employee records, hiring, onboarding, time off and performance, with payroll and benefits as add-ons. The reasons a team shops around are almost always about how it is sold.
- Per employee per month, with a flat starting rate of $250 a month for 25 or fewer.
- Payroll, benefits and time and attendance are quote-based add-ons.
- The Core plan allows five open jobs.
- Compliance training and benchmarks are the higher tiers’ reason to exist.
The shortlist
5 options, including BambooHR and Orbiz
Published prices from each vendor's page. Orbiz is one row, not the answer — the last column says when each one is the better pick.
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| Product | Small-team price | Free tier | Why it is on the list |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orbiz HRMSPeople & hiring · one of ten tools on the platform | No per-user price. One flat fee per organisation for all ten tools and unlimited members, from $99 a month billed annually. | No free plan; a working organisation to evaluate before any commitment. | A careers page, pipeline, interviews and employee records with no per-employee price, and payroll from Ledgr on the same login. |
| BambooHRPer employee per month in three tiers, with add-ons; a flat rate for the smallest companies. | Core: $10 per employee a month; Pro $17; Elite $25. Companies of 25 or fewer pay a flat $250, $425 or $650 a month. | No free plan on the pricing page. | The incumbent. Best for: US companies that want an HRIS with payroll and benefits from one vendor. |
| WorkableFlat monthly fee banded by headcount; three plans; 15-day trial; no free plan. | Standard for 1–20 employees: $299 a month billed monthly, $3,588 a year billed annually. Premier $599 a month. | No free plan. | If hiring volume is the problem: job-board distribution and sourcing, priced by headcount band. |
| FactorialPer user per month from a published starting price; modules are chosen and the plan is quoted. | From $8 per user a month; the plan for a given set of modules is quoted rather than listed. | No free plan on the pricing page. | Closest to BambooHR in shape, bought module by module from a published $8 per user. |
| RipplingQuote only: most products are per employee per month, some with a monthly base fee, on top of the required Rippling Platform. | No price is published; the page asks for headcount and sends a custom quote. | No free plan. | For a company that wants payroll, benefits and device management on the HR record, and will take a quote. |
Vendor prices are US list prices in USD as published on each vendor's own pricing page between and , annual billing where the vendor offers it, without first-year promotions. Each product name links to that page. Vendors change prices; if a figure here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it. Orbiz prices are on the pricing page, one flat figure per organisation by headcount band.
Orbiz HRMS
What HRMS covers — and what BambooHR does that it does not
What Orbiz HRMS does for a team leaving BambooHR, and the two things BambooHR does that it does not. Keep both in view when you decide.
Included in HRMS
- A no-code careers page on your own subdomain, with no cap on open jobs
- A candidate pipeline as list or kanban, scorecards, and AI screening with résumé parsing
- Interviews by Google Meet, video link, phone or on site, with feedback forms
- Employee records, document requests, onboarding checklists and asset tracking
Where BambooHR is ahead
- A compliance training library and HR benchmarks for turnover and engagement
- In-house payroll with tax filing and benefits administration as add-ons
If either of those is the reason you use BambooHR, keep it. The case for Orbiz is the platform around the tool, not a longer feature list.
FAQ
Questions about leaving BambooHR
Does Orbiz HRMS have a careers page and applicant tracking?
What about payroll and benefits?
Is HRMS suitable outside the United States?
Leaving BambooHR? Price the whole stack instead.
Tell us your team size and the tools you pay for today. You get one flat figure that covers all nine Orbiz tools, and a working organisation to try.