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
1 month of Eddy equals this one-time price.
Assumption: 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.
How Eddy pricing grows with you
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
What Eddy does that we don't
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
Who should stay with Eddy
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. Full honest limitations are on the product page.
Why owning beats renting Eddy
- One payment. No monthly, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. It never lives in Eddy's cloud.
- No plan ceilings. Records and users are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
- It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset or price-hiked out from under you.
Fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up, and apply updates yourself — see the product page for honest limitations, and the full Onboardora vs Eddy comparison.
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 — 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.