factoHR alternatives
A straight comparison with SignHR — what each costs, what moves if you switch, and where factoHR is genuinely the better answer.
Why people look for factoHR alternatives
- The free tier stops at twenty employees and the first paid plan is priced for fifty. A team of twenty-five pays ₹4,999 a month for capacity it will not use for a year.
- Selfie punch, face recognition, timesheets and recruitment are all add-ons, so an attendance-led team ends up above the plan price.
- Indian plans bill quarterly, which some teams prefer and others find lumpy.
Head to head
SignHR vs factoHR
Pick SignHR if
Teams past twenty employees — where factoHR's free plan stops applying — or teams that expect to grow, want a per-employee price that tracks headcount without a 50-seat bracket, and do not want punch, face recognition, timesheets and recruitment priced as add-ons.
Pick factoHR if
Very small teams under twenty employees who want core HR handled for free, forever. factoHR's free tier genuinely covers a small team at no cost, and its payroll engine has a long-standing Indian statutory track record. If you are under twenty people and staying there, SignHR would be money you do not need to spend.
| Capability | SignHR | factoHR |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Per employee | Free to 20, then ₹4,999/mo per 50 |
| Free tier | No | Up to 20 employees |
| Core HR | Yes | Yes |
| Time & Attendance | Yes | Yes |
| Leave Management | Yes | Yes |
| Onboarding | Yes | Yes |
On price: factoHR is free to 20 employees, but the first paid plan is priced for 50 — so a 21-person team crosses the free tier and pays for 50 seats. Selfie punch, face recognition, timesheets and recruitment are add-ons on top, and all paid plans are billed quarterly.
Full comparison — 14 more rows, pricing and migrationWhat to compare on
- What happens between twenty and fifty employees
- This is the specific gap that sends factoHR users looking. The useful question is what a rival charges at twenty-five, not at fifty.
- Attendance included or extra
- factoHR charges separately for selfie punch, face recognition and timesheets. If attendance is why you bought an HRMS, that belongs in the base comparison.
- Free tier that is actually usable
- Most free plans are demos with a headcount cap. A free tier is only relevant if it does the job you need at the size you are.
What you get with SignHR
23 modules on one platform, priced per employee with no headcount minimum. Punches arrive from ESSL, Hikvision, ZKTeco biometric devices, from the mobile app, or from on-device face recognition — and they feed the same record that leave, shifts and payroll inputs read from.
Core & AI
Your people data, self-service, and an Agentic HR on top.
Time & Attendance
Punches, leave, rosters, and the approvals they trigger.
Talent & Lifecycle
From first interview to final letter.
Pay & Operations
Payroll inputs, expenses, assets, and the work around them.
Platform
Reporting, integrations, access control, and multi-location.
Where SignHR is the wrong choice
- Younger product than the incumbents, with a smaller partner and consultant ecosystem.
- Global payroll is not run in-house — multi-country HR is supported, but statutory payroll computation is India-first.
- Some integrations named on our roadmap are not shipped yet; the integrations page marks which.
Frequently asked questions
factoHR publishes a free forever plan for up to twenty employees, then Core at ₹4,999, Premium at ₹5,999 and Ultimate at ₹6,999 per month for up to fifty employees, with additional employees at ₹69, ₹89 and ₹119, billed quarterly. International plans start at $125 a month. Selfie punch, face recognition and timesheets are ₹/$ add-ons; recruitment is priced per recruiter.
Yes, for up to twenty employees — it is one of very few genuine free tiers in the Indian market. The catch is the step up: the first paid plan is priced for fifty employees, so crossing twenty means paying for fifty. Kredily's free plan has no headcount ceiling, which is why it appears first on this list.
Kredily, sumHR and SignHR all price in a way that suits twenty-five people — free, per-employee-per-year, and per-employee-per-month respectively. The bracketed vendors here — greytHR, Pocket HRMS, HROne — all charge you for fifty at that size.
It markets a specific blue-collar segment, which is a genuine differentiator, though that plan's pricing is quote-only. If shift scheduling and biometric attendance are the core requirement rather than payroll, compare on attendance capability and device support rather than on plan price.
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