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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.

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Stop renting Factorial.

Rented Factorial One figure renders to a plain fetch: "Factorial starts at $8 per month, per user". No plan ladder, allowance or billing term is published to a fetcher, so none is recorded here ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

Yours

Leavora

$99 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

13 months of Factorial costs what Leavora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: 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

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.

What Leavora deliberately doesn't do is on its 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 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 Leavora vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off Factorial.

Is Leavora payroll?

No — it tracks leave entitlement, requests, approvals, and balances only. It never calculates wages, touches cards or bank rails, or initiates a payment, so it has zero payroll and zero payment surface.

How exact are the balances?

Exact by construction: leave is stored in integer centidays (a hundredth of a day), so half-days and monthly accrual are precise and a full year's accrual lands exactly on the entitlement. The shipped test suite covers accrual, carryover and both DST transitions — run it yourself with php tests/run.php.

Can I use a fiscal leave year, not the calendar year?

Yes — the leave year is configurable (calendar or a fiscal start such as April 1), and carryover is capped at that boundary.

Does it handle half-days and public holidays?

Yes — requests can be half-days, and a company holiday list plus your configured weekend are excluded from every working-day count.

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Sources

Factorial: price checked 2026-09-03, source“factorial starts at $8 per month, per user”

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.

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