Hiring and HR · head to head

Orbiz HRMS vs Zoho People

Zohaib KhalidPrices checked 2 October 2026

Zoho People is among the cheapest HR systems with a published price: a free edition for three users and paid editions from a few dollars a user a month, five users minimum, with Recruit, Payroll and Expense sold as sibling Zoho apps or bundled in People Plus. HRMS is the people tool inside Orbiz — careers page, candidate pipeline with AI screening, interviews, records, onboarding and HR workflows — with attendance and payroll included in one flat price. Choose Zoho People for custom leave policies, rosters and an LMS. Choose HRMS if hiring and payroll should share one record without adding apps.

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Head to head

Orbiz HRMS against Zoho People, row by row

Read from Zoho People's own product and pricing pages. 5 rows are ones Orbiz loses; they are left in.

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Capability comparison of Orbiz HRMS and Zoho People
	Orbiz HRMS	Zoho People
How it is priced	One flat price per organisation, unlimited members, all ten tools	Professional: $2 per user a month billed yearly; Essential HR $1.25, Premium $3, Enterprise $4.50. People Plus from $3. Figures as shown where we checked.
No per-user charge¹	Yes	No
Free edition	No	Yes
Employee records and documents	Yes	Yes
Onboarding and offboarding	Yes	Yes
Attendance and timesheets	Yes	Yes
Careers page, candidate pipeline and interviews in the same app²	Yes	Partly
Payroll from the same attendance records³	Yes	Partly
Leave with custom types and policies	No	Yes
Shift rosters	No	Yes
Facial-recognition and mobile clock-in	No	Yes
Learning management and an HR help desk	No	Yes
Connector for Claude and ChatGPT (MCP)⁴	Yes	Yes

¹Zoho People’s paid editions are per user with a five-user minimum.
²Recruitment is Zoho Recruit, a separate app included in People Plus.
³Zoho Payroll is a separate Zoho app.
⁴Zoho People is among the apps the Zoho MCP platform connects (read 2026-10-04).

Vendor prices are US list prices in USD as published on each vendor's own pricing page on 2 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 Vendors change prices; if a figure here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.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

Zoho People

Employee database, self-service and multi-entity management
Onboarding, offboarding, resignations and exit interviews
Leave with custom types and policies, accrual by days worked, holidays and comp-off
Attendance by web, mobile and facial recognition; timesheets and rosters on Professional
Performance, compensation and engagement on Premium
An HR help desk, a learning management system and a sandbox on Enterprise

From Zoho People's own pages. Best for: Companies already on Zoho that want records, leave and attendance at a low per-user price.

FAQ

Orbiz vs Zoho People: what people ask

Zoho People is a few dollars a user. Why consider Orbiz?

On price per user for HR alone, Zoho People is hard to beat. The difference is what is inside the price: Orbiz’s flat fee covers hiring, attendance and payroll as well as records, plus projects, files, a password vault and screen recording, for unlimited members. Compare it against the Zoho apps you would actually add — Recruit, Payroll, Expense — not People on its own.

Does HRMS handle different leave policies per team?

Not yet. AMS has one organisation-wide leave policy with fixed leave types, entitlements, balances and single-step approvals; per-team policies are on the roadmap. Zoho People lets you define custom leave types and policies today, with accrual by days worked.

Is Zoho People’s price the same everywhere?

No. Zoho shows prices by the visitor’s region; the figures on this page were read from Pakistan on 2 October 2026, and the US list price may be higher. Open Zoho’s pricing page from your own country before comparing.

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