Onboardora vs renting the software.
Onboarding checklists with dates that follow the start date, and a private page for each new starter.
Competitor prices on this page read between 2026-08-22 and 2026-09-26, each row dated, each one read on the vendor's own page and linked in Sources.
The subscription math.
1 month of Eddy costs what Onboardora costs once.
The fine print
How their pricing grows. 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” Read 2026-09-03.
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.
How 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.
1 month of BambooHR costs what Onboardora costs once.
The fine print
How their 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”
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.
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.
Work out your own numbers.
The rented figures use the cited plan price above; per-seat plans scale by the seat count from that same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.
Also in this category.
“We don’t have one-size-fits-all pricing—your quote is tailored to your company and goals.”
Why owning beats renting here.
No per-month, per-seat or per-location fees: the license does not expire.
Your data sits on a server you choose; customer records are not held in a vendor's cloud unless you put them there.
Records, users and usage are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
It keeps working if the vendor doesn't: no one can switch your copy off, and keeping it up to date is in your hands.
The fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply. The product page lists what Onboardora deliberately doesn't do.
Related on this site
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”
- 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.'”
- Enboarder: price checked 2026-08-22, source“‘We don’t have one-size-fits-all pricing—your quote is tailored to your company and goals.’”
Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown.