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Factorial pricing
Factorial publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 30 August 2026, Factorial pricing is free across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Factorial plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Business | $5/month | 5 | +$5/month, 5 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers basic hr, time off, documents, 10 employees.
Business
$5/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- All Free features
- Payroll
- Performance
- Shifts
- Recruiting
Where Factorial stops being free
Free, Free
- Basic HR
- Time Off
- Documents
- 10 Employees
Business, $5/month
The first thing you pay for:
- All Free features
- Payroll
- Performance
- Shifts
- Recruiting
What the product covers
The full Factorial feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- HR Management
- Time Off
- Time Tracking
- Documents
- Payroll
- Performance
- Recruiting
- Shift Management
Integrations
- Slack
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
- QuickBooks
- Zapier
Platform
- Web support
- Ios support
- Android support
People bring Factorial in for managing employee records, onboarding and offboarding, tracking time off, attendance and shifts, running recruitment and performance reviews alongside hr data. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Factorial are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Recruitment
Too few recruitment tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factorial (this page) | Free | subscription | - | |
| SeekOut | On request | Per user per month, self-serve entry tier then per seat by quote | - | vs Factorial |
| hireEZ | On request | quote, enterprise pricing set against the tool stack replaced | - | vs Factorial |
| ZipRecruiter | On request | Per active job slot per month, quoted individually | - | vs Factorial |
| Oracle Taleo | On request | quote | - | vs Factorial |
| Codility | On request | Per year by candidate invite volume, with platform user limits per tier | - | vs Factorial |
| Karat | On request | quote | - | vs Factorial |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Factorial badges page.
Before you pay for Factorial
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $5/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Factorial runs on web, ios, android, and is published by Factorial HR of Barcelona, Spain. The full record is on the Factorial review, and the rest of the category is under best recruitment tools.
Factorial pricing questions
- How much does Factorial cost?
- Factorial publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $5/month for Business. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Factorial have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers basic hr, time off, documents. Paying starts at $5/month for Business.
- What is the difference between Free and Business on Factorial?
- Business costs $5/month against Free, and adds all free features, payroll, performance, shifts.
- Which recruitment tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 recruitment tools listed alongside Factorial have a free tier: Indeed.
- What am I actually paying for with Factorial?
- The record lists 16 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for managing employee records, onboarding and offboarding, tracking time off, attendance and shifts, running recruitment and performance reviews alongside hr data.
- Does Factorial charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Factorial prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Factorial against before paying?
- The closest recruitment tools in this directory are SeekOut, hireEZ, ZipRecruiter, Oracle Taleo. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Factorial covering price, platforms and features.