greytHR alternatives
Where Indian teams go when greytHR's compliance is solid but the day-to-day experience is not — with published pricing wherever the vendor shows it.
Why people look for greytHR alternatives
- The interface feels its age. greytHR's compliance record is not in question; employees simply do not enjoy using it, so self-service adoption stays low and HR keeps answering the same questions.
- Growth crosses a pricing bracket. Base plans cover up to 50 employees, so passing that line changes the bill in a step rather than a slope.
- Attendance and leave live apart from payroll, so a corrected punch means a re-import instead of a recalculation.
Head to head
SignHR vs greytHR
Pick SignHR if
Teams that want the full employee lifecycle — onboarding, attendance, leave, tasks and an AI assistant — priced per employee, so a 55-person company never pays a 50-seat block plus top-ups. SignHR has no bracket to cross and no tier that nearly doubles the base.
Pick greytHR if
Companies whose dominant problem is Indian payroll. greytHR's statutory engine for TDS, PF, ESI and professional tax has been tested across a far larger payroll customer base, and its compliance filings for Indian government submissions are deeper than SignHR's payroll-input computation. If payroll is the whole job, greytHR is the safer, more proven choice.
| Capability | SignHR | greytHR |
|---|---|---|
| Core HR | Yes | Yes |
| Time & Attendance | Yes | Yes |
| Leave Management | Yes | Yes |
| Onboarding | Yes | Limited |
| Payroll | Payroll-ready (compute inputs) | Full payroll engine |
| Agentic HR (AI Assistant) | Yes | No |
On price: greytHR brackets its plans at 50 employees, so a team of 55 pays the 50-seat block and then ₹45 (Essential) or ₹85 (Growth) per head on top — and the step from Essential to Growth nearly doubles the base before you add anyone.
Full comparison — 13 more rows, pricing and migrationWhat to compare on
- Compliance parity
- Nobody leaves greytHR to get worse at statutory filing. Anything replacing it has to hold PF, ESI, professional tax and gratuity properly.
- Employee-facing quality
- This is usually the actual reason for the search. A self-service portal people avoid pushes the work back onto HR.
- How cost scales
- Bracketed pricing bites at the boundary. Per-employee pricing is easier to forecast as headcount moves.
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
greytHR publishes its pricing: Essential is ₹2,495 a month for up to 50 employees with ₹45 per additional employee, and Growth is ₹4,495 a month for up to 50 with ₹85 per additional. Premium is quoted. Checked against greytHR's own pricing page on 6 August 2026.
Keka and SignHR both handle Indian statutory payroll as core functionality. greytHR has the longest track record of the three, so the sensible test is to run a parallel month before switching rather than to take anyone's word for it.
Zoho People's ₹48 per user per month billed annually is the lowest published figure, but it excludes Indian payroll. Comparing it to greytHR Essential without adding Zoho Payroll is not a like-for-like comparison.
Usually yes, as a bulk import of the year's earnings, deductions and statutory contributions. Do it before a filing deadline rather than after, and keep the greytHR account readable until the first run reconciles.
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