Is ADempiere or Holded better?

Neither clearly leads. ADempiere starts at Free and Holded at €7.5/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, ADempiere or Holded?

ADempiere has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for ADempiere and €7.5/month for Holded.

Does ADempiere or Holded run on more platforms?

ADempiere runs on Web, Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted. Holded runs on Web.

Can I use ADempiere for free?

Yes. ADempiere has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Holded starts at €7.5/month.

What is ADempiere best used for?

ADempiere is most often used for a manufacturer in latin america with an existing adempiere consulting partner that needs localised tax and accounting behaviour a global vendor will not build, a company that wants to modify erp screens and document workflows without a vendor change request, using the application dictionary rather than code, an organisation with a hard requirement to keep financial data on its own servers under its own control with no cloud dependency, a systems integrator building a vertical erp product on a permissive base it can fork and ship without paying a licence fee. Of those, a manufacturer in latin america with an existing adempiere consulting partner that needs localised tax and accounting behaviour a global vendor will not build and a company that wants to modify erp screens and document workflows without a vendor change request, using the application dictionary rather than code are not what Holded is typically brought in for.

What can ADempiere do that Holded cannot?

ADempiere covers Application dictionary, Financial accounting, Order to cash and procure to pay, Inventory and warehouse.

ERP · head to head

ADempiere vs Holded

ADempiere

ERP

Community-run open source ERP forked from Compiere, with no vendor behind it

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

Holded

ERP

Spanish cloud ERP for invoicing, accounting and business management for small companies

From: €7.5/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Only ADempiere has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
Each has a real cost: ADempiere there is no company behind it, so there is no support contract to buy, no SLA, no escalation path and no roadmap commitment; if your implementation partner leaves the market you own the problem entirely.; Holded prices exclude VAT
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which ADempiere and Holded actually diverge.

Attributes where ADempiere and Holded differ
Attribute	ADempiere	Holded
Starting price	Free	€7.5/month
Pricing model	Open source, no licence fee	subscription
Free tier	Yes	No
Platforms	Web, Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted	Web

Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated), category (ERP).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in ADempiere

Application dictionary
Financial accounting
Order to cash and procure to pay
Inventory and warehouse
Manufacturing
Point of sale
Workflow engine
Java and PostgreSQL stack

Only in Holded

Nothing recorded that ADempiere does not also cover.

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

ADempiere

A manufacturer in Latin America with an existing ADempiere consulting partner that needs localised tax and accounting behaviour a global vendor will not buildnot Holded
A company that wants to modify ERP screens and document workflows without a vendor change request, using the application dictionary rather than codenot Holded
An organisation with a hard requirement to keep financial data on its own servers under its own control with no cloud dependencynot Holded
A systems integrator building a vertical ERP product on a permissive base it can fork and ship without paying a licence feenot Holded

Holded

Managing bank reconciliation rules across multiple accountsnot ADempiere
Scaling from 250 to unlimited invoices annually as business growsnot ADempiere
Processing payroll and absences for teams of 5-50 peoplenot ADempiere
Managing stock across multiple warehouses for distributionnot ADempiere
Automating tax authority submissions for Spanish SMEsnot ADempiere

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

ADempiere

There is no company behind it, so there is no support contract to buy, no SLA, no escalation path and no roadmap commitment; if your implementation partner leaves the market you own the problem entirely.
The official website adempiere.net does not resolve, which strands most of the historic documentation and tutorials that search engines still point at and makes onboarding a new developer considerably harder.
The last conventional stable release, 3.9.4, is from January 2023, so despite ongoing GitHub activity a buyer evaluating on release cadence sees a project moving slowly.
iDempiere, a later fork of the same codebase, absorbed much of the developer community, so ADempiere competes for contributors with its own descendant and is the smaller of the two ecosystems.
The interface and the Java Swing heritage feel dated, and staff coming from a modern cloud ERP will need training and will complain; expect resistance from finance and warehouse users during rollout.

Holded

Prices exclude VAT
Annual limits reset January to December
Invoice limits cap usage per tier

Pricing, plan by plan

ADempiere

Free

Community editionFree
- GPL v2 licensed, no licence fee
- Full ERP, CRM, supply chain and POS modules
- Self-hosted on your own infrastructure

Holded

€7.5/month

Plus$7.5/month
- 250 invoices per year
- 1 connected bank
Basic$14.5/month
- 1,000 invoices per year
- 5 connected banks
- 2 users plus advisory
Standard$29.5/month
- 3,000 invoices per year
- Unlimited banks
- 4 users plus advisory
Advanced$49.5/month
- 10,000 invoices per year
- Unlimited banks
- 7 users plus advisory

Which should you pick?

Choose ADempiere if

You need application dictionary.
You want to start without paying.
You work on Web, Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted.
You also want financial accounting.

ADempiere review

Choose Holded if

Nothing in the data separates Holded from ADempiere on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.

Holded review

Questions people ask

Is ADempiere or Holded better?: Neither clearly leads. ADempiere starts at Free and Holded at €7.5/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, ADempiere or Holded?: ADempiere has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for ADempiere and €7.5/month for Holded.
Does ADempiere or Holded run on more platforms?: ADempiere runs on Web, Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted. Holded runs on Web.
Can I use ADempiere for free?: Yes. ADempiere has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Holded starts at €7.5/month.
What is ADempiere best used for?: ADempiere is most often used for a manufacturer in latin america with an existing adempiere consulting partner that needs localised tax and accounting behaviour a global vendor will not build, a company that wants to modify erp screens and document workflows without a vendor change request, using the application dictionary rather than code, an organisation with a hard requirement to keep financial data on its own servers under its own control with no cloud dependency, a systems integrator building a vertical erp product on a permissive base it can fork and ship without paying a licence fee. Of those, a manufacturer in latin america with an existing adempiere consulting partner that needs localised tax and accounting behaviour a global vendor will not build and a company that wants to modify erp screens and document workflows without a vendor change request, using the application dictionary rather than code are not what Holded is typically brought in for.
What can ADempiere do that Holded cannot?: ADempiere covers Application dictionary, Financial accounting, Order to cash and procure to pay, Inventory and warehouse.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

ADempiere: Should I choose ADempiere or iDempiere?

Look at iDempiere first. It is a later fork of the same codebase with a more active community and a modular OSGi architecture. Choose ADempiere if a specific partner or localisation you need only exists there.

Holded: Does Holded offer annual billing discounts?

Yes, Holded offers 50% discount for the first 3 months across all plans. Additionally, annual billing provides savings compared to monthly plans.

Source

ADempiere: Is ADempiere free?

The software is GPL licensed with no licence fee. The cost is implementation, customisation and permanent in-house maintenance, which for a real deployment is substantial.

Holded: What add-ons does Holded offer?

Holded offers optional add-on modules: Inventory (25 EUR/month), Team Pro (1.50 EUR per employee per month), Payroll (5 EUR per employee per month), and POS (25 EUR per store per month).

Source

ADempiere: Is the project still alive?

Development continues on GitHub with commits into 2026, but the official website is down and the last stable release is from January 2023. Treat it as maintained rather than actively advancing.

Holded: What are the invoice limits per plan?

Invoice limits vary by plan: Plus (250/year), Basic (1,000/year), Standard (3,000/year), Advanced (10,000/year), and Premium (unlimited).

Source

ADempiere: What is the application dictionary?

It is the metadata layer inherited from Compiere that stores the definition of every window, field and validation rule as data, so you can change the application without touching source code.

ADempiere vs Holded

ADempiere

Holded

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in ADempiere

Only in Holded

What people use each for

ADempiere

Holded

Where each one falls short

ADempiere

Holded

Pricing, plan by plan

ADempiere

Holded

Which should you pick?

Choose ADempiere if

Choose Holded if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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