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Orbiz vs Lark

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Lark is a collaboration suite: messenger, meetings, mail, docs and a no-code database in one app, free for up to 20 users and $6 or $12 a user a month billed annually after that. Orbiz is nine operational tools on one account — hiring, attendance and leave, projects, files, an encrypted vault, screen recording, profitability, notes and payroll — at a flat price per organisation. They overlap less than the word all-in-one suggests. Choose Lark if the gap is how people talk and write together. Choose Orbiz if it is how you hire, track time, deliver projects and pay people.

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Orbiz against Lark, row by row

Read from Lark's own product and pricing pages. 6 rows are ones Orbiz loses; they are left in.

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Capability comparison of Orbiz and Lark
 OrbizLark
How it is pricedOne flat price per organisation, unlimited members, all ten toolsBasic: $6 per user a month billed annually, up to 500 users. Pro: $12. Monthly-billing figures render only after a toggle.
No per-user charge1YesNo
Free planNoYes
Attendance trackingYesYes
Approval flows2PartlyYes
Project boards and sprints3YesPartly
Hiring with a careers page on your own addressYesNot published
Payroll from attendance4YesNot published
Separate database per customerYesNot published
Messenger and video meetingsNoYes
Docs, sheets and slidesNoYes
Business emailNoYes
No-code database and automationsNoYes
Single sign-on with your identity provider5NoYes
Connector for Claude and ChatGPT (MCP)6YesPartly
  1. 1Lark Starter is free up to 20 users; Basic and Pro are per user.
  2. 2HRMS has a process and form builder for HR workflows such as probation and leave; it is not a general approval centre.
  3. 3Lark sells project management as Meegle, an add-on at $12 per user a month.
  4. 4Not listed on Lark’s plans page.
  5. 5SSO is on Lark Enterprise.
  6. 6Lark publishes an official open-source MCP tool that a team installs and runs with its own app ID and secret (github.com/larksuite/lark-openapi-mcp, read 2026-10-04).

Vendor prices are US list prices in USD as published on each vendor's own pricing page on , 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 Vendors change prices; if a figure here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.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.

In their own words

What each one is good at

Orbiz

  • Ten tools on one account model: one login, one set of roles, one database per organisation
  • Hiring, time and attendance, projects, files, passwords, screen recording, profitability, notes and payroll
  • A person entered once, in HRMS, and resolved by every other tool
  • One flat price per organisation with unlimited members
Every tool on the platform

Lark

  • Messenger with real-time translation and permanent chat history on paid plans
  • Video meetings up to 500 participants on Pro, with recording and webinars
  • Docs, Sheets and Slides with automatic document translation, and wiki spaces
  • Base: a no-code database with views, dashboards and 50,000 automation runs a month on Pro
  • No-code approval flows, attendance, tasks and OKRs
  • Business email with mail-flow rules and routing

From Lark's own pages. Best for: Teams that want chat, meetings, docs and email from one vendor, with no-code tools on top.

FAQ

Orbiz vs Lark: what people ask

Can Orbiz replace Lark for chat and meetings?

No. Orbiz has no messenger, video meetings, email or document editor, and does not plan them. Most teams on Orbiz keep a chat and meetings tool beside it; Lark is one of them, and its free Starter plan covers 20 users.

Does Lark do hiring, payroll or project profitability?

Its plans page lists attendance, approvals, OKRs and tasks under people management, and project management as the Meegle add-on; it does not list applicant tracking, payroll or project margin. Orbiz covers those in HRMS, Ledgr and Trackline, with hours from AMS feeding both payroll and cost.

Which costs less for 50 people?

Lark Pro is $12 a user a month billed annually — $7,200 a year for 50 people; Basic is $3,600. Orbiz is one flat price per organisation by headcount band: $4,188 a year for up to 50 people. Set it against the Lark tier you would actually need, plus the tools Lark does not replace.

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