# Talenox review (2026): is it worth $5 a month, billed yearly?

> Multi-country HR, payroll, leave and claims for small teams

Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Talenox is a cloud HR system sold as separate Payroll, Leave and Claims modules or as a bundle called Suite. Payroll can be tuned with country-specific pay items, and the site says it is localised for Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Pricing is a small base fee covering the first five employees plus a charge per extra employee.

- **Category:** Payroll
- **Made by:** Talenox
- **Website:** https://www.talenox.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you are outside its localised countries: it is a manual, basic system there.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 12, 2026, Talenox is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $5 per month for 5 employees, then $1 each, billed annually.

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 30-day free trial of the Suite plan.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Payroll | $5 per month for 5 employees, then $1 each, annual | Payroll with country-specific pay items, custom payslips and reports, and Xero or QuickBooks Online entries. Monthly billing: $10 base, $2 per extra employee. |
| Leave | $5 per month for 5 employees, then $1 each, annual | Leave requests and approvals with custom types, per-group policies and several approvers. Monthly billing: $10 base, $2 per extra employee. |
| Suite | $15 per month for 5 employees, then $3 each, annual | Payroll, Leave and Claims together, with unpaid leave and claims syncing into payroll. Monthly billing: $30 base, $6 per extra employee. |
| Pro | Custom | For teams of 50 to 1,000 or more people that want more customizable, enterprise-grade HR and payroll; sold through a demo. |

Read from https://www.talenox.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Talenox before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **50% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page shows annual billing at half the monthly price, for example Payroll at US$1 per employee per month against US$2 billed monthly. Source: https://www.talenox.com/pricing/
- **Startup pricing for 1 to 5 employees** (Startups): The pricing page says affordable options exist for new businesses with 1 to 5 employees, subject to eligibility, and asks you to contact sales. Source: https://www.talenox.com/pricing/

## Key features

- **Payroll processing:** Single or multiple pay runs a month, with pay items adjustable to each country's requirements and payslips that employees can view online.
- **Payroll reports and exports:** Management payroll, variance and pay-item reports, plus bank file exports and payroll entries pushed to Xero or QuickBooks Online.
- **Leave management:** Pre-loaded statutory leave types, custom leave types, different policies per employee group and a calendar view.
- **Expense claims:** Employees submit receipts for approval, and approved claims sync into payroll.
- **Employee profiles:** Employee and company records with job history, salary details, custom fields and cost centers, across multiple entities.

## Good for

- Small teams in Singapore, Malaysia or Hong Kong that need local payroll rules
- Companies with several legal entities that want one HR account
- Businesses that need only payroll or only leave, and want to pay for just that module

## Worth knowing

- Prices are listed in US dollars; Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong each have separate local-currency plans.
- The site says it is localized for selected countries only and works as a manual, basic HR system elsewhere.
- Teams above 50 employees are pointed to the custom-priced Pro plan.
- Annual billing is half the monthly price on the pricing page.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Talenox does payroll, leave and claims from $5 a month for five employees on annual billing. The site says it is localised for selected countries only and is a manual, basic HR system elsewhere, and teams past 50 are pointed to a custom-priced plan.

- **Value for money: A.** $5 a month for 5 employees, then $1 each, billed annually, so about $1 a head. Monthly billing doubles it.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** 30-day trial of the Suite plan. No free plan, and the card terms are not stated.
- **Features: C.** Payroll, leave, claims and employee profiles. The site says it is localised for selected countries and basic elsewhere.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You enter pay items and employees and connect Xero or QuickBooks, so it is a C.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, but with Xero, QuickBooks Online and Google Calendar listed.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Talenox's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among payroll services

- Talenox's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 35 of the 40 other payroll services we grade, and level with 3.
- It stands best on value for money (A, above 36 of 40) and worst on features (C, above 1).
- Its paid plans start at $0.08 a month when paid by the year, against a middle price of $29 for the category: 0 of the 24 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/payroll

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Talenox 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 35 of the 40 other payroll services we grade. It costs $1 a year.

- You could make: Time off, employee records, expense tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Xero, QuickBooks Online, Google Calendar

**Tags:** Payroll, Time off, Employee records, Expense tracking, Reports

## Alternatives

- [Employment Hero](https://toolgpa.com/tools/employment-hero): Payroll, HR and hiring for Australia, NZ, the UK and Asia. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/employment-hero-vs-talenox)
- [Payfit](https://toolgpa.com/tools/payfit): Managed UK payroll and HR with an AI assistant. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/payfit-vs-talenox)
- [greytHR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/greythr): HR and payroll software for businesses in India. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/greythr-vs-talenox)
- [BrightPay](https://toolgpa.com/tools/brightpay): UK cloud payroll with HMRC submissions and auto-enrolment. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/brightpay-vs-talenox)
- [Deel](https://toolgpa.com/tools/deel): Global payroll, contractor payments and employer of record. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/deel-vs-talenox)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026:

- https://www.talenox.com/pricing/
- https://www.talenox.com/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/talenox
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