India's accuracy-first HRMS & payroll
HRMS + Payroll
If you want PeopleOS-style ledger-grade payroll accuracy, transparent per-employee pricing, and a free tier that lets you start without a sales call, PeopleOS wins. Keka is the safer pick if you need a deeply-integrated 360° HRMS for 200+ employees and your team can absorb its higher PEPM and ₹9,999/mo platform fee. The two products overlap on core HR features but diverge sharply on pricing model, payroll architecture (event-sourced vs traditional), and AI guardrails (ORIS AI’s human-approval loop vs Keka Brain’s direct-action assistant).
PeopleOS wins Tie Competitor wins
Yes — PeopleOS Starter is ₹49/employee/mo + ₹499/mo platform fee, vs Keka’s ₹100+/employee/mo + ₹9,999+/mo. For a 50-person company, you would pay roughly ₹3,000/mo with PeopleOS Starter vs ₹14,999+/mo with Keka. PeopleOS also has a forever-free tier up to 25 employees that Keka does not match.
Yes. PeopleOS includes a Migration Studio that imports employee records, salary structures, leave balances, and attendance data via CSV or direct API. Most teams complete migration in under one week.
PeopleOS covers payroll, compliance, core HR, leave, attendance, ESS portal, performance & OKRs, recruitment & onboarding. Keka has a more mature mobile app and richer recruitment sourcing tools — those are PeopleOS roadmap items rather than current parity.
Both compute statutory deductions correctly under standard configurations. PeopleOS is designed event-sourced from day one with property-based tests guaranteeing net pay = gross − deductions, plus hash-chain audit trails for tamper evidence. If audit-grade accuracy is your top priority (especially under DPDP scrutiny), PeopleOS has architectural advantages.
For 1,000+ employee enterprises with mature HR ops teams that need deeply-integrated talent management, recruitment, and learning, Keka’s breadth and SSO/SAML maturity makes it the safer pick today. PeopleOS Scale tier targets the same enterprise space with white-label, on-premise, and SLA-backed 99.9% uptime — but is younger.