# Keka HR review (2026): is it worth $9 a month? > HR, payroll and talent software for growing companies Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Keka is an HR and payroll platform organized into payroll, HR, talent and project-services suites. Its US pricing page lists three HR and payroll tiers priced per employee per month, with a free trial, and separate tabs for hiring and project timesheets. It also has plans for India and other regions. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** Keka - **Website:** https://www.keka.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you want reviews and feedback, which sit on the $22 Growth plan. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Keka HR is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $9 per employee / month; billing basis not stated. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** Free trial offered on every plan; length not stated. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Foundation | $9 per employee / month, billing basis not stated | Employee profiles, documents and letters, basic onboarding and exit, leave management, attendance, overtime and a mobile app. | | Strength | $16 per employee / month, billing basis not stated | Foundation plus advanced onboarding, exit surveys, employee pulse surveys, surveys and extra login options. | | Growth | $22 per employee / month, billing basis not stated | Strength plus 1-on-1 meetings, continuous feedback, public praise, cyclic performance reviews and selfie or GPS attendance. | Read from https://www.keka.com/us/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Keka HR before buying. ## Key features - **Core HR:** Employee profiles, org structure, document storage and letter generation, onboarding and exit workflows, and access roles. - **Time and attendance:** Leave management, attendance tracking, overtime automation and shift management, with leave data linked to payroll. - **Employee experience:** Pulse surveys, longer surveys, public praise and an employee expression wall on the higher tiers. - **Performance reviews:** Cyclic performance reviews, 1-on-1 meeting records and continuous feedback on the Growth tier. - **Hiring and project services:** Separate pricing tabs cover a hiring suite and a project services suite with timesheets and billing. - **Mobile app:** A mobile app for employees, linked from the pricing page to the Play Store and App Store. ## Good for - Companies of about 20 to 20,000 employees, the range the site states - Teams that want published per-employee prices for HR tiers - Companies hiring or paying staff in India, the US and other regions Keka serves ## Worth knowing - The US page does not say whether the per-employee price is billed monthly or annually; its FAQ says annual contracts and larger headcounts usually lower the rate. - The default pricing page showed rupee prices; the dollar tiers above are from the United States page. - Hiring and project services are priced on separate tabs, and their prices were not recorded here. - The trial length is not stated on the pricing page. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Keka is an HR system for records, leave, attendance, onboarding and reviews, at $9, $16 or $22 per employee a month on the US page. It doesn't say whether that is billed monthly or yearly, or how long the free trial lasts. Hiring and project tools are priced separately and weren't recorded. - **Value for money: C.** $9, $16 or $22 per employee a month on the US page, against a category middle of about $7. The page does not say if it is billed monthly or annually. - **Free plan and trial: D.** A free trial is offered on every plan, but the pricing page gives no length. - **Features: B.** Core HR, time and attendance, employee experience, performance and a mobile app. The listing names no gap in the core HR work. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Leave, attendance and payroll rules need setting up first. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web plus iOS and Android apps. No integrations list on record, and no desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Keka's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - Keka HR's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 72 of the 101 other HR software we grade, and level with 12. - It stands best on features (B, above 73 of 101) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 67). - Its paid plans start at $9 a month for each person, against a middle price of $5 for the category: 28 of the 40 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hr-software ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Keka HR 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 2.2 is higher than 72 of the 101 other HR software we grade. It costs $108 a year. - You could make: Employee records, time off, surveys and applicant tracking: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. - You could not: Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. 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, Time clock, Payroll, Surveys, Applicant tracking, AI features ## Alternatives - [Zimyo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zimyo): Indian HRMS with payroll, attendance and AI add-ons. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/keka-hr-vs-zimyo) - [HROne](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hrone): Indian HRMS covering core HR, attendance, payroll and hiring. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hrone-vs-keka-hr) - [Factorial](https://toolgpa.com/tools/factorial): HR, time, shifts, expenses and IT for small firms, quoted by module. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/factorial-vs-keka-hr) - [Zoho People](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoho-people): Low-cost HR records, attendance, shifts and reviews from Zoho. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/keka-hr-vs-zoho-people) - [BambooHR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bamboohr): HR records, hiring, time off and reviews, with US payroll as an add-on. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-keka-hr) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.keka.com/us/pricing - https://www.keka.com/pricing - https://www.keka.com/us Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/keka-hr Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).