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Workday pricing
Workday publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- On request
- Model
- Quote
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Not on record
Workday 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small Business | On request | 4 | Entry tier |
| Medium Enterprise | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
| Large Enterprise | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
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.
Small Business
On requestThe entry tier. It covers core hr, payroll, time tracking, basic analytics.
Medium Enterprise
On requestOver Small Business, this tier adds:
- Full HCM suite
- Financial management
- Advanced analytics
- Planning
Large Enterprise
On requestOver Medium Enterprise, this tier adds:
- Complete platform
- Custom configurations
- Dedicated support
- Strategic services
What the product covers
The full Workday 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.
Core
- Human capital management
- Financial management
- Planning
- Analytics
- Payroll
- Time tracking
- Talent management
- Procurement
Integrations
- Salesforce
- Microsoft
- ADP
- Cornerstone
- ServiceNow
- Slack
Security
- SOC2
- ISO27001
- GDPR
- HIPAA
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Ios support
- Android support
Localization
- Multiple languages supported globally language support
People bring Workday in for hr management, financial planning, workforce planning, compliance, analytics. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Workday are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Workday
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: 3 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Workday against the tools that do have one before committing.
Workday runs on cloud/web, and is published by Workday Inc of Pleasanton, CA. The full record is on the Workday review.
Workday pricing questions
- How much does Workday cost?
- Workday publishes 3 tiers, from On request for Small Business up to On request for Large Enterprise. The cheapest paid tier is On request.
- Does Workday have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Workday is listed as quote. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Small Business and Medium Enterprise on Workday?
- Medium Enterprise costs On request against On request, and adds full hcm suite, financial management, advanced analytics, planning.
- What am I actually paying for with Workday?
- The record lists 24 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for hr management, financial planning, workforce planning.
- Does Workday charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 Workday 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 Workday against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Workday to make a useful price comparison.