A working comparison of Offrd, Zoho People, Keka, and greytHR. Built for founders and HR leads who want a clear read on cost and fit, not a pitch.
Most HR software decisions in India start with a feature spreadsheet and end with an invoice that looks nothing like the demo. The misses cluster in three places: minimum monthly commitments that swallow small teams, statutory compliance that needs manual setup before it works, and add-ons that were quietly behind the next pricing tier. The comparison below stays on those three.
Pricing reflects what each vendor publishes on its own pricing page at the time of writing. Models change. Always confirm before signing.
| Where it matters | Offrd | Zoho People | Keka | greytHR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Pay-per-use ₹99/doc or ₹50/active employee/mo |
Per employee/month, billed annually | Tiered monthly fee, banded by headcount | Tiered monthly fee, banded by headcount |
| Minimum commitment | None. 50 free credits at signup. | Annual billing typical | Monthly minimums apply | Monthly minimums apply |
| Built for | Indian SMEs up to ~250 employees | Wide range, India and global | Mid-size and growing companies | Established SMEs and mid-market |
| Offer letters & documents | Generate in minutes from templates | Template-driven | Template-driven | Template-driven |
| PF & ESI on payslips | Applied automatically with current ceilings | Configurable | Configurable | Configurable |
| Attendance | QR and geo-fenced check-in via Atndnz, no hardware | Mobile and biometric integrations | GPS, biometric integrations | Biometric and integrations |
| Time to first letter | Under 10 minutes from signup | Setup typically required | Implementation typically required | Implementation typically required |
| Free start | 50 free credits, no card | Free trial | Free trial | Free trial |
Sources: vendor pricing pages and product documentation. Last reviewed April 2026.
No single platform is right for everyone. Picking by team size and the actual work HR is doing tends to land better than picking by feature count.
Best for Indian companies under ~250 employees that want to send offer letters, run payslips, manage onboarding and exits without paying for seats they will not use.
Strong fit for teams already inside the Zoho ecosystem who value tight CRM and finance integration alongside HR.
Suits mid-size and growth-stage companies that want a single platform for HR, performance, OKRs and payroll, and have an HR team to run it.
Long-standing pick for established SMEs and mid-market companies whose payroll runs are complex and whose HR processes are well defined.
Outcomes the team usually points to in their first month, before any optimisation work.
50 credits land in your account at signup. That is enough to run a small team's onboarding for a month.
Offrd has two models. Pay-per-use is ₹99 per document with no monthly commitment. The subscription is ₹50 per active employee per month. New accounts get 50 free credits. Keka and greytHR charge a tiered monthly fee that starts to make more sense once headcount and HR process complexity are higher.
Offrd handles HR documents and operations end to end. Offer letters, onboarding kits, payslips, probation letters, increment letters, separation letters, full and final settlement, attendance and policy generation. It is built for Indian companies with up to about 250 employees.
For a 20 person team focused on letters, payslips, onboarding and statutory compliance, Offrd's pay-per-use and ₹50 per employee subscription tend to come out lowest on cost and fastest to set up. Keka and greytHR start to fit better once the team is past 100 and the HR process is more layered.
Yes. Payslips generated through Offrd apply the standard PF and ESI calculations including the ₹15,000 PF wage ceiling and the ₹21,000 ESI threshold. Reports can be exported for filing.