The self-hosted Factorial alternative
Leavora — Self-hosted staff leave & PTO — accruals, working-day requests, approvals, and live balances. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Factorial every month.
Stop renting Factorial
13 months of Factorial equals this one-time price.
Assumption: The vendor's own starting price, per user per month, and deliberately nothing more: the plan cards render nothing to a fetch, so no tier, allowance or annual discount is claimed. Read it as a floor rather than a price. Leavora is $99 once, for any number of staff, with no per-head meter above it.
How Factorial pricing grows with you
Factorial meters per user per month and publishes only where that meter STARTS — the rest of the ladder is not rendered.
“factorial starts at $8 per month, per user” — their own page, read 2026-09-03
What Factorial does that we don't
Factorial is a whole HR platform — leave, time, documents, onboarding and payroll in one hosted account.
“factorial starts at $8 per month, per user” — their own page
Who should stay with Factorial
Stay with Factorial if you want HR records, onboarding and payroll together. Leavora answers one question completely — who is off, what they have accrued, and what the balance is today — on your own server, bought once. Full honest limitations are on the product page.
Why owning beats renting Factorial
- One payment. No monthly, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. It never lives in Factorial'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 Leavora vs Factorial comparison.
Sources
- Factorial — price checked 2026-09-03 —
source “factorial starts at $8 per month, per user”
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.