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The self-hosted BambooHR alternative

Onboardora: Self-hosted employee onboarding: write a checklist once and every new starter gets their own plan, with every date worked out from the day they actually start. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying BambooHR every month.

Own Onboardora for $69 Try the live demo

Stop renting BambooHR.

Rented BambooHR Core $10 USD per employee/month; Pro $17; Elite $25 - per the page's FAQ, for companies with more than 25 employees; every tier's button reads 'Get Quote'; '*Volume and non-profit discounts are available'. No price is stated for 25 employees or fewer ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

Yours

Onboardora

$69 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

1 month of BambooHR costs what Onboardora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: Stored at the smallest team the page still prices: 26 employees on Core, 26 x $10 = $260 a month, since the per-employee rate applies above 25. Re-read 2026-09-26: the flat rate for 25 or fewer 'starting at $250 USD/mo' that this row quoted on 2026-08-22 is gone from the page (rendered text and served HTML), so a small company's price is now quote-only. Above 25 the bill grows with every hire. Onboardora is $69 once.

How BambooHR pricing grows

BambooHR meters PER EMPLOYEE — every person you onboard is also every person you keep paying for, for as long as they work there.

“$10 USD* per employee/month”, their own page

Who should stay with BambooHR

Stay with BambooHR if you want an HR system of record — payroll, time off, documents, the lot. Onboardora is the first ninety days and says so; it holds no employment record after that.

What Onboardora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting BambooHR.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in BambooHR's cloud.

No plan ceilings

Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Onboardora vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off BambooHR.

Is this an HR system?

No. No payroll, no salaries, no contracts of employment, no holiday tracking. It is the first ninety days as one timeline, and it says so — the HR system of record is a different purchase.

Does it do right-to-work or background checks?

No verification of either. You can put right-to-work check on a checklist and tick it; the check itself happens wherever it happens today.

Can the new starter log in and tick their own tasks?

Not with an account. You send the starter a private link to their own page: their timeline, the tasks that are theirs to tick, the documents you need and the policies to acknowledge. It reaches their own plan only.

Does it handle people leaving?

No offboarding. Equipment tracks issue and return, which covers the common case, but there is no leaver flow.

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Sources

BambooHR: price checked 2026-09-26, source“'Core $10 USD* per employee/month' ... 'Pro $17 USD* per employee/month' ... 'Elite $25 USD* per employee/month' ... '*Volume and non-profit discounts are available' ... 'For companies with more than 25 employees, our HR software is priced on a per-employee, per-month basis.'”

Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.

Replace BambooHR with Onboardora.

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