Keka

Keka describes PeopleOS as a unified platform for HR, payroll, and talent management. Its HR tools cover employee records, organizational structures, documents, and workflows spanning onboarding through exit. Payroll uses attendance, leave, and salary information to calculate TDS, PF, ESI, and PT, with filing-ready returns. Attendance tracking can cover offices, shifts, and field teams through biometric, GPS, and mobile check-ins. Talent capabilities include hiring, sourcing, screening, interviews, engagement, learning, performance reviews, goals, and recognition. Keka lists Android, iOS, web, API, and extension platforms, and offers mobile apps. Its marketplace includes more than 100 integrations, with Slack, Teams, Google Workspace, and accounting apps among the examples. API and webhooks are available as add-ons. Plans are paid, with pricing on request; a free trial is offered, but there is no free plan. Keka lists solutions for small businesses, enterprises, global companies, and several industries.

Keka combines employee administration, payroll, attendance, and talent features in one platform. Pricing requires a request, and the Pro hiring plan has a five-talent-pool limit.

Keka may suit organizations looking to manage HR, payroll, attendance, and talent workflows together. Its listed customer groups range from small businesses to global companies.

Keka is a broad people-operations platform for organizations that want HR records, payroll, attendance, and talent processes connected. It is best suited to growing, distributed, and multi-site employers that can work with custom pricing and implementation. Its main appeal is coverage in one system; its main trade-off is that buyers cannot compare published plan prices or buy only a narrow capability.

Overview

Keka’s PeopleOS combines employee administration, payroll, time and attendance, and talent workflows. The HR foundation holds employee records, organizational structures, documents, and lifecycle workflows from onboarding through exit. Leave management and time tracking sit alongside those records, reducing the need to reconcile separate employee and attendance systems.

Payroll uses attendance, leave, and salary inputs to calculate TDS, PF, ESI, and PT, with filing-ready returns. That integrated flow is particularly relevant to employers whose payroll depends on changing schedules and leave balances. Keka also covers hiring, sourcing, screening, interviews, engagement, learning, performance reviews, goals, and recognition, making it a wide platform rather than a specialist payroll or recruiting product.

Key features

Workforce administration

Employee records, org structures, documents, onboarding, and exit workflows provide the administrative core. Time and attendance can span offices, shifts, and field teams through biometric, GPS, and mobile check-ins. Mobile apps extend access beyond a desktop, which matters for distributed or on-the-go staff.

Talent and integrations

The talent suite runs from sourcing and screening through interviews, learning, reviews, goals, and recognition. A marketplace with more than 100 integrations, including Slack, Teams, Google Workspace, and accounting applications, can fit an existing software stack. API and webhooks are add-ons, however, so organizations that require platform-level integrations should budget for that separately.

Reliability and rollout

Keka says its cloud infrastructure providers hold SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications, with encryption in transit, firewalls, and DDoS defenses. It states availability above 99.9%, multiple online data replicas, and additional snapshots. Enterprise support includes help center, chat, support, email, and phone channels. A named implementation team, guided configuration, live training, and handover make the service a stronger fit for buyers that want structured deployment rather than a self-serve setup.

Pricing

Keka uses custom pricing and has no free plan, but a free trial is available. The Foundation plan includes core HR, employee onboarding, leave management, attendance tracking, payroll automation, and a mobile app. Strength adds advanced onboarding, asset tracking, people analytics, employee pulse, and advanced attendance features. Growth adds workflow automation plus goals and performance management to Strength. Pro adds project and timesheet features, revenue intelligence, and a lightweight CRM. These tiers suit organizations expanding from administration into analytics, performance, and commercial work, but the absence of prices makes direct budget comparison impossible.

A separate project-oriented lineup starts with Basic, which provides project and task management, timesheets, and client and project reports. Advanced includes those Pro project features plus smart resource allocation, advanced analytics, and approval flows. Basic is the narrower choice for project tracking; Advanced is for teams that need allocation and governance. Both remain custom-priced, and the Pro hiring plan limits buyers to five talent pools, while Advanced offers unlimited pools. A recruiting operation beyond five pools therefore has a clear reason to move up.

Platforms

Keka supports Android, iOS, web, API, and an extension. That combination covers browser-based administration, mobile workforce access, and integration work, while the API is an add-on rather than a standard entitlement.

Who it's for

Keka targets small businesses, enterprises, and global companies, with solutions for technology, healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, retail, and construction. It is a good match for employers needing payroll, attendance, employee lifecycle, and talent processes in one operating layer, especially where implementation guidance and enterprise support matter. It is less suitable for a small team seeking one inexpensive, narrowly focused tool or transparent self-serve billing.

Pros and cons

• Pros: Payroll connects attendance, leave, and salary inputs and produces filing-ready returns, reducing duplicated preparation.
• Pros: HR, hiring, learning, performance, and recognition cover a broad employee lifecycle in one platform.
• Pros: Biometric, GPS, and mobile attendance options support offices, shifts, and field teams.
• Pros: Named implementation, training, enterprise support channels, and stated security and backup measures support larger deployments.
• Cons: Custom pricing and no free plan make early cost comparisons difficult.
• Cons: API and webhooks are add-ons, which can increase the cost of integration-heavy projects.
• Cons: Pro hiring is capped at five talent pools, limiting recruiting teams with more complex pipelines unless they choose Advanced.

Alternatives

Choose Streamtime instead when a freemium option, free plan, and project-focused use across web, iOS, and API matter more than integrated HR and payroll. Deltek Maconomy is the alternative for professional-services firms seeking an enterprise ERP with pricing by demo request. FunctionFox suits teams wanting published per-user plans, including a $12.75 monthly Classic tier with a three-user minimum and unlimited clients and projects. Kantata is another paid PSA option with pricing tailored to company size, goals, and working style. Scoro fits buyers wanting a free trial and published time-billing pricing from $17 per user per month. TimeLog offers a $14 EUR-per-user monthly Starter plan with time, expenses, project management, and invoicing. Accelo provides a custom-quote full platform with implementation and onboarding support. BigTime is a paid professional-services option with Essentials starting at $20 per user per month for time, expenses, portfolio, billing, and invoicing.

For narrower comparisons, see HR Software, Talent Management Software, Candidate Experience Software, Interview Scheduling Software, HR Case Management Software, and Agency Project Management Software.

Verdict

Choose Keka if your organization wants HR administration, payroll, attendance, and talent operations joined with mobile access and guided implementation. Look elsewhere if published pricing, a free plan, or a specialist recruiting or project tool is more important than an all-in-one people platform.