Open source HR
Your way

Hire, manage, and grow your team without expensive contracts or lock-in. Built for startups and small businesses.

OpenHR application form builder

OpenHR started as a simple frustration.

Nobody starts a company thinking they'll manage applicants in spreadsheets. But that's where many founders and small businesses end up.

This isn't a "you" problem — it's a market problem. Most HR solutions are built for big companies with bigger budgets and dedicated HR teams.

Leaving startups with two choices: an expensive platform full of features they'll never use, or a patchwork of forms, spreadsheets, and free tools that don't talk to each other.

Neither fits a 5-10 person team making its first hire or trying to stay compliant.

Frequently asked questions

  • Yes, licensed under AGPLv3, with a sustainable model behind it. Free for individuals, paid for organisations to keep development funded. Open HR will be priced around your server usage, storage costs and support with no markup on top.
  • Everything around people: hiring (jobs, candidates, interviews, workflows), onboarding, employee records and documents, compliance, and analytics. We don't do payroll — a lot of tools already do that well, and we'd rather be great at one thing than mediocre at five.
  • Yes. One active job post, up to 100 applicants, no credit card required, enough to make your first hire before you decide if OpenHR is right for you.
  • Yes, anytime. Your applicants, employees, and records are yours. No lock-in, no support ticket required.
  • Better core job, hiring, onboarding, employee management, compliance, without the price, the lock-in, or paying per module. Free to start, flat pricing as you grow, no sales call.
  • Not yet, and not by accident — we'd rather be excellent at hiring and people management than mediocre at five things. But payroll integrations are on the roadmap.
  • OpenHR grows with you. Past 10 people, it's a flat base plus a small per-seat fee, no forced migration, no re-negotiation, no surprise jump to enterprise pricing.
  • AI will be available across the product, but you bring your own key and pay that provider directly. We don't mark it up, meter it, or lock you into one model. Prefer not to use AI at all? Skip it, the core product works without it.

Built for Founders, Startups & Small Businesses