Hiring and HR · head to head

Orbiz vs ZenHR

Zohaib KhalidPrices checked 4 October 2026

ZenHR is HR and payroll localised for 11 countries in the Middle East and North Africa, in Arabic and English, with Saudi payroll wired to Mudad, GOSI and Muqeem and WPS files per country; it is quoted per organisation by bundle, headcount and countries. Orbiz also prices per organisation, but prints the figure, and that price covers ten tools — hiring, attendance and Pakistan-ready payroll next to projects, files, a password vault and screen recording. Both connect to Claude over MCP. Choose ZenHR for Saudi, Egyptian or Jordanian payroll and an Arabic interface. Choose Orbiz for payroll in Pakistan, or when HR should share a login with delivery work.

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Head to head

Orbiz HRMS against ZenHR, row by row

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

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Capability comparison of Orbiz HRMS and ZenHR
	Orbiz HRMS	ZenHR
How it is priced	One flat price per organisation, unlimited members, all ten tools	No price is published: both bundle cards say Contact Sales, and the FAQ says the quote depends on bundle, headcount and countries.
Price published on the website¹	Yes	No
Applicant tracking included in the base price²	Yes	Partly
Candidate assessments included³	Yes	Partly
Attendance and leave tied to payroll	Yes	Yes
Loans recovered through payroll	Yes	Yes
Project timesheets	Yes	Yes
Pakistan income-tax slabs and EOBI as a built-in preset⁴	Yes	Not published
Files, a password vault and screen recording under the same login	Yes	No
Connector for Claude and ChatGPT (MCP)⁵	Yes	Yes
Saudi payroll through Mudad, GOSI and Muqeem	No	Yes
WPS salary files by country	No	Yes
Arabic interface⁶	No	Yes
Payroll for several countries and currencies in one account⁷	No	Yes
Geolocation clock-in from a mobile app	No	Yes
Earned wage access	No	Yes

¹Both ZenHR bundles say Contact Sales; the quote depends on bundle, headcount and countries.
²ZenATS is an add-on priced separately from the Value and Advanced bundles.
³ZenHR sells pre- and post-employment testing as the Testello add-on.
⁴ZenHR’s localisation is described for MENA countries; the pages read do not mention Pakistan.
⁵ZenHR’s Claude integration connects through MCP and runs inside Claude; its page does not mention ChatGPT (read 2026-10-04).
⁶Orbiz is in English only.
⁷Ledgr runs one country and currency per organisation.

Vendor prices are US list prices in USD as published on each vendor's own pricing page on 4 October 2026, 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 HRMS

Job postings with a no-code careers page builder on your own subdomain
Candidate pipeline with configurable stages, interview scheduling and Google Meet links
Online assessments from a question bank, structured feedback and optional AI screening
Employee records, departments and experience levels
Document requests, annotations and an org-wide document library
Onboarding, offboarding and probation checklists you design in a process builder
An asset register: assign, return and retire company equipment

Everything HRMS does

ZenHR

Multi-payroll localised for 11 MENA countries, with multi-branch and multi-currency setups
Saudi payroll through native Mudad, GOSI and Muqeem integrations, and WPS files per country
Attendance with geolocation, attendance-machine integration and work scheduling
Loans, air tickets, end-of-service benefits, vacation and STB encashments in payroll
An ESS and MSS mobile app for iOS and Android, with an Arabic and English interface
SSO, cost centres, company expenses and open APIs on the Advanced bundle

From ZenHR's own pages. Best for: Companies in Saudi Arabia and across MENA that need localised payroll in Arabic.

FAQ

Orbiz vs ZenHR: what people ask

Does ZenHR publish its prices?

No. ZenHR’s pricing page shows a Value and an Advanced bundle with Contact Sales on both, and its FAQ says the quote depends on the bundle, the employee headcount and the countries you operate in. Recruitment (ZenATS), performance (ZenPE) and assessments (Testello) are priced on top. Orbiz publishes its flat price per organisation by headcount band, with hiring and assessments inside it, so a written ZenHR quote can be compared line by line.

Which works with Claude, ZenHR or Orbiz?

Both. ZenHR’s Claude integration uses MCP so HR can ask Claude about workforce data, Saudization status and leave patterns. The Orbiz connector works with Claude and ChatGPT and acts as the member who connected it, with that member’s permissions, across hiring, attendance, projects, files and notes. The password vault is left out of it on purpose, and nothing can be deleted through it.

Can Orbiz run payroll in Saudi Arabia?

Not out of the box. Ledgr’s tax regimes and statutory schemes are tables an organisation can edit, and Pakistan’s are the ones built in, but there is no Mudad, GOSI or Muqeem integration and no WPS file. A Saudi employer should run payroll in ZenHR. Orbiz suits a team whose payroll is in Pakistan and whose hiring, projects and files should sit on one login.

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