HR software pricing: Horizontal System Price Index

The median published figure in the Horizontal System Price Index is 6 USD across 6 sources' own pages in USD (range 2 to 10 USD; 7 sources publish a figure), read 12 October 2026.

Siftvo sells its own paid plan in this category (our pricing). It is not counted here: every figure in this index is another provider's own published price, read from its own page.

6 USD Median published figure unchanged since 26 Sept 2026 middle half 5 to 7.75 USD
2 to 10 USD Range a 8 USD spread; quartiles 5 and 7.75
6 Sources with a figure of 28 read in full, 19 Oct 2026
7 of 28 Sources read that publish one 25% publish a figure at all
  1. BambooHR pricing10 USD
  2. QuickBooks Payroll pricing7 USD
  3. Gusto pricing6 USD
  4. Square Payroll pricing6 USD
  5. OnPay pricing6 USD
  6. TalentHR pricing2 USD
One figure per source, highest first.median 6 USD
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RowValue
BambooHR pricing10 USD
QuickBooks Payroll pricing7 USD
Gusto pricing6 USD
Square Payroll pricing6 USD
OnPay pricing6 USD
TalentHR pricing2 USD

7 of the 28 named sources read in full publish a figure; 21 publish none, read 12 October 2026.

The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 6 USD across 6).

Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.

SourceFigureRead
BambooHR pricing10USD2026-10-11
Freshworks CRM pricing9EUR2026-10-11
QuickBooks Payroll pricing7USD2026-10-12
Gusto pricing6USD2026-10-11
Square Payroll pricing6USD2026-10-12
OnPay pricing6USD2026-10-12
TalentHR pricing2USD2026-10-12
The sentence each figure was read from (7)
  • BambooHR pricing, read 2026-10-11: Depending on the plan you choose, BambooHR pricing starts at $10 USD per employee per month for Core, $17 USD per employee per month for Pro, and $25 USD per employee per month for Elite.
  • Freshworks CRM pricing, read 2026-10-11: Annually €9
  • QuickBooks Payroll pricing, read 2026-10-12: $44/mo + $7/employee/mo
  • Gusto pricing, read 2026-10-11: + $6/mo per person
  • Square Payroll pricing, read 2026-10-12: $6/mo
  • OnPay pricing, read 2026-10-12: Get everything we do starting at $49/month + $6/worker.
  • TalentHR pricing, read 2026-10-12: If you want to keep using advanced tools such as custom fields or performance reviews after the trial, paid plans start at $2 per user per month.

Read in full, publishes no figure

21 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.

Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).

7 of the 28 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 21 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.

The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 113 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.

The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the published price normalised to two units nobody publishes side by side - the true per-employee-per-month cost of an HR or payroll stack once the base fee is spread over a 5, 20 and 100 employee business, and the per-seat cost of a CRM at the same three sizes - showing the crossover where a base-fee-plus-per-person price beats a flat per-seat one, the share of vendors publishing at all, and the module stacking (each capability a separate subscription) that makes the advertised figure wrong; the vertical CRMs (law, accounting, automotive) are priced on the same two units so a practice can see what its industry premium actually is

113 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.

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The median published figure in the Horizontal System Price Index is 6 USD across 6 sources' own pages in USD (range 2 to 10 USD; 7 sources publish a figure), read 12 October 2026.

7 of the 28 named sources read in full publish a figure; 21 publish none, read 12 October 2026.

The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 6 USD across 6).

Cite as: "Siftvo Horizontal System Price Index", updated 2026-10-19, https://siftvo.com/datasets/horizontal-system-price-index/.

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6 USD

median published figure, Horizontal System Price Index, across 7 sources, read 12 October 2026

Source: Siftvo Horizontal System Price Index

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