# Buk review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Latin American HR and payroll suite with a free tier for 20 people Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Buk is an HR platform from Chile, also sold in Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Brazil, that covers payroll, attendance, digital signature and documents, onboarding, performance, recruitment, benefits and some finance tools. Its Chile site offers Buk Starter, a free payroll and records plan for up to 20 employees, and quotes the full platform through sales or a build-your-own-plan calculator. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** Buk - **Website:** https://www.buk.cl - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you're outside Chile, as the payroll and tax features are local. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Buk has a free plan, and paid plans start at Free for up to 20 employees (Buk Starter); full platform quoted on request. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Buk Starter: employee records, attendance, bonuses and deductions, payslips, Previred file, payment list, self-service portal, documents, and vacation and permissions, for up to 20 employees. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Buk Starter | $0 | Free payroll and records for up to 20 employees, with self-service support only, limited payslip calculation and predefined document templates. | | Buk Basic | Custom | Platform, payroll and digital signature for up to 20 employees, adding custom reports, bulk importers and DT-backed signatures; no price is displayed on the page. | | Buk Advanced | Custom | The same modules with no limit on employees; no price is displayed on the page. | Read from https://www.buk.cl/starter on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Buk before buying. ## Key features - **Payroll:** Payslip calculation, accounting reports, hourly, daily and weekly pay, bonuses, the DDJJ 1887 tax filing and Previred files for Chile. - **Attendance:** Shifts, permissions, vacations and overtime tracking. - **Digital signature and documents:** Document templates, automatic document generation and signatures backed by the Chilean labor directorate (DT). - **Talent modules:** Performance management, recruitment, training, surveys and recognition, listed in the product menu. - **Benefits and finance:** Benefit management and insurance plans, plus expense reports, supplier payments and collections modules. - **AI tools:** Buk AI, plus Buk Studio and agents for building HR flows and delegating tasks. ## Good for - Chilean companies of up to 20 people that want free payroll - Latin American employers that need local payroll rules in one tool - Companies that want HR, benefits and expense modules from one vendor ## Worth knowing - Buk Starter is limited to 20 employees, self-service support and limited payslip calculation. - The full platform price is not displayed: the pricing page is a build-your-own-plan calculator and a quote button leads to a contact form. - The Starter page's Basic and Advanced prices are in the page source but hidden from visitors, so they are not recorded here. - Payroll and tax features such as Previred and DDJJ 1887 are specific to Chile; the site has separate versions for other countries. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Buk is a Chilean HR platform whose Starter plan is free for up to 20 employees, with records, attendance, payslips and the Previred file. The full platform is quote-only, Starter's payslip calculation is limited, and the payroll is Chile-specific. - **Value for money: B.** Buk Starter is free for up to 20 employees, which sits inside the cheapest quarter. The Basic and Advanced prices aren't shown. - **Free plan and trial: B.** A free plan one small Chilean company could live on, capped at 20 employees, with self-service support only. - **Features: C.** Payroll, attendance, digital signature, talent, benefits and AI tools. Starter has limited payslip calculation and set document templates. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Payroll and records take set-up work. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web plus a mobile app. No integrations are listed and no desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Buk's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - Buk's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 96 of the 101 other HR software we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 95 of 101) and worst on features (C, above 1). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hr-software ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Buk you would be making payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 96 of the 101 other HR software we grade. - You could make: Employee records, time off, applicant tracking, surveys and expense tracking: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Employee records, Time off, Payroll, Applicant tracking, Surveys, Expense tracking, AI features ## Alternatives - [Factorial](https://toolgpa.com/tools/factorial): HR, time, shifts, expenses and IT for small firms, quoted by module. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buk-vs-factorial) - [Sesame HR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sesame-hr): Modular HR from Spain built around clock-ins, time off and shifts. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buk-vs-sesame-hr) - [Zoho People](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoho-people): Low-cost HR records, attendance, shifts and reviews from Zoho. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buk-vs-zoho-people) - [Kenjo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kenjo): HR and workforce management software for small and mid-sized firms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buk-vs-kenjo) - [Lucca](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lucca): French HR suite: records, absences, talent and expenses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/buk-vs-lucca) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.buk.cl/starter - https://www.buk.cl/precios - https://www.buk.cl/ - https://www.buk.cl/recursos/app Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/buk Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).