The self-hosted Eddy 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 Eddy every month.
Stop renting Eddy.
Onboardora1 month of Eddy costs what Onboardora costs once.
Buy onceHow we counted: Shown at 25 people — the same headcount the BambooHR row uses — so $50 base + 25 x $4 = $150/month. The base fee is what makes small teams expensive here: at five staff the same plan is $70/month, of which $50 buys nothing per head. Onboardora is $69 once, and a new starter costs nothing.
Eddy charges a monthly BASE FEE plus a per-person rate, and stacks a second base fee for payroll — so the meter starts before anybody is added and runs twice if you use both.
“$6/person+ $50/month base”, their own page, read 2026-09-03
Eddy is a whole small-business HR suite: hiring and job-board posting, onboarding, time tracking and full-service payroll with withholdings flowing straight through.
“$8/month per person+ $75/month base”, their own page
Stay with Eddy if you want hiring, HR records and payroll in one hosted account. Onboardora is the onboarding step alone — write a checklist once and every new starter gets their own plan, with every date worked out from the day they actually start — on your own server, with no base fee and no per-person meter.
What Onboardora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.
Why owning beats renting Eddy.
No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.
It never lives in Eddy's cloud.
Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
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 Eddy.
Is this an HR system?
Does it do right-to-work or background checks?
Can the new starter log in and tick their own tasks?
Does it handle people leaving?
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Sources
- Eddy: price checked 2026-09-03, source“$4/month per person+ $50/month base ... $8/month per person+ $75/month base ... $6/person+ $50/month base ... $199/month”
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.