# Sesame HR > Modular HR from Spain built around clock-ins, time off and shifts Sesame HR is an HR platform from Spain built around time and attendance: clock-ins, time off, shifts and task tracking, with recruitment, internal communication, surveys and performance reviews in higher plans. Every plan includes Core, with documents, an org chart, onboarding, contracts and e-signatures. Each module comes in a Business or an Enterprise tier, and prices are per active employee with a 15-employee minimum. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** Sesame Labs, S.L. - **Website:** https://www.sesamehr.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Sesame HR is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $3.75 per employee / month, billed annually ($5.25 billed monthly), 15-employee minimum. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no commitment. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Essential | $3.75 per employee / month, billed annually ($5.25 billed monthly) | Core plus time tracking, time off and holidays, and shifts. Minimum 15 employees ($56.25 a month). | | Connect | $4.25 per employee / month, billed annually ($5.00 billed monthly) | Essential plus tasks, recruitment and internal communication. Minimum $63.75 a month. | | Growth | $6.25 per employee / month, billed annually ($6.75 billed monthly) | Enterprise tiers of Core, time tracking and time off, plus culture and performance modules. Minimum $93.75 a month. | | Scale | $7.00 per employee / month, billed annually ($8.00 billed monthly) | Growth with Enterprise internal communication and performance, single sign-on and the API. Minimum $105 a month. | | Custom plan | Custom | Pick the modules and add-ons you need with an adviser, and pay only for those. | Read from https://www.sesamehr.com/pricing/ on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Sesame HR before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Lower per-employee price with annual billing** (Annual discount): The page labels annual billing as saving 20%; the gap varies by plan, from $3.75 against $5.25 on Essential to $6.25 against $6.75 on Growth. Source: https://www.sesamehr.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Time tracking and clock-ins:** Employees clock in and out from the web or app, with overtime management and remote-work tracking, kept for legal compliance. - **Time off and shifts:** Holiday and leave requests with approvals, and shift planning for teams on rotas, included from the cheapest plan. - **Core HR:** Every plan has a 3 GB document manager, org chart and directory, onboarding and offboarding, contract management, team chat and desk booking. - **Digital signature:** Core includes one signature per employee a month for contracts and documents. - **Recruitment, surveys and performance:** Higher plans add a recruiting pipeline, internal communication, employee surveys and performance reviews. - **Payroll data and Sesame AI:** Gathers absences, advances and incentives for payroll and sends payslips to the app; Enterprise tiers add AI, automations and advanced permissions. ## Good for - Companies with 15 or more staff that must record working hours - Teams that plan shifts and need clock-in records - Employers in Spain, Latin America or elsewhere in Europe ## Worth knowing - Billing is per active employee with a 15-employee minimum; smaller companies are asked to contact sales. - It has country sites for the US, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Spain, France, the UK, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal. - The API and single sign-on come only with Scale or a custom plan; prices exclude taxes. - On monthly billing Essential costs more per employee ($5.25) than Connect ($5.00), as the page shows. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Sesame HR is built around clocking in: time tracking, time off and shift planning on even the cheapest plan, with documents, onboarding and e-signatures on every one. It's a good fit where hours have to be on record. But there's a 15-employee minimum, so smaller teams pay for staff they don't have. - **Value for money: C.** Essential is $3.75 an employee a month on yearly billing, but with a 15-employee minimum, a ten-person company pays at least $56.25 a month, for time tracking, time off and shifts. That's under this category's middle, and smaller firms are sent to sales. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but a 14-day trial with no commitment. - **Features: B.** Clock-ins with overtime and remote work, time off, shifts, documents, onboarding, contracts and e-signatures on every plan, then recruiting, surveys and reviews higher up. The whole job, with a lean towards time tracking. - **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record, and setting up shifts, clock-in rules and overtime takes time. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with an API on Scale or a custom plan. No integrations are on record, and there's no desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Sesame's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - Sesame HR's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 5 of the 9 other HR software we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on features (B, above 1 of 9) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $3.75 a month for each person, against a middle price of $9 for the category: 1 of the 6 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. ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Sesame HR you could make: time off, employee records and applicant tracking. What surrounds it you could not. The 7 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $45 a year. - You could make: Time off, employee records and applicant tracking: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when. - You could not: A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts. - 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: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions. - 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:** Time clock, Time off, Shift scheduling, Employee records, Applicant 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/factorial-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/sesame-hr-vs-zoho-people) - [Personio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/personio): European HR platform for records, absences, time and recruiting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/personio-vs-sesame-hr) - [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-sesame-hr) - [Breathe](https://toolgpa.com/tools/breathe): UK HR software for small firms, priced per business, not per person. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/breathe-vs-sesame-hr) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://www.sesamehr.com/pricing/ - https://www.sesamehr.com/ - https://www.sesamehr.com/payroll/ - https://www.sesamehr.com/about-us/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/sesame-hr Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).