Replace / BambooHR
Replace BambooHR with Frappe HR
The best open-source alternative to BambooHR is Frappe HR, self-hosted on Railway. People ops you host. Frappe HR is GPL-3.0 — BambooHR and Greenhouse without the employee or applicant seat.
Estimated save $2,400 a year.
Open the stackStart on Railway
How BambooHR compares
| BambooHR | Frappe HR | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Hosted subscription | Open-source or fair-code license; you pay the host |
| Hosting | Vendor cloud | Self-hosted on Railway or any VPS |
| Rough monthly cost | Public list price not verified this run | Hosting only — no SaaS seat meter in this repo |
- Frappe HR
GPL-3.0 HR, payroll, and recruitment (github.com/frappe/hrms)
FAQ
- Is it free?
- The Frappe HR licenses are open source or fair-code. You still pay hosting (Railway or any VPS) and any APIs the stack calls. There is no BambooHR seat or task bill on this path.
- Can I migrate from BambooHR?
- Yes. Start with the workflows or data you actually use, then cut over. The Frappe HR stack page has the agent prompt and the cost table; most teams rebuild the slice that matters and leave old BambooHR links until they expire.
- How do I deploy it?
- Open the Frappe HR stack, copy the agent prompt, and deploy on Railway (one service, PORT, and a volume when the app needs disk). Placeholder: Frappe HR + ERPNext (MariaDB, Redis, workers) plus a volume. This is several services. No one-click template in this repo yet — Start on Railway. CRM contacts stay on /stacks/twenty-crm.
- What does this replace?
- BambooHR / Greenhouse. The published small-team estimate on this stack is $2,400 a year.
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