Where Keka is strong
To be fair, Keka is a strong, modern product. It has been in the Indian HR market since around 2014, employs several hundred people, and is known for a clean, user-friendly experience across payroll, leave and attendance, hiring (Keka Hire), performance and OKRs, and an employee self-service mobile app. Reviewers on G2 and Capterra generally rate it well and praise the UX and the breadth of the suite. If you run an office-based company and want hiring, performance reviews and employee experience in one place, it is a sensible choice.
As with any platform, some users report that implementation and support can take time on larger rollouts. Those are user opinions, not our claims, so weigh them against your own trial.
Where ZeniaHR is different
ZeniaHR is not trying to be a broad employee-experience suite. It does one thing: run the workforce for businesses that deploy workers across client sites. That shapes every part of the product.
- Attendance is captured at the post, biometric and geo-tagged, then flows straight into payroll and PF/ESI with no re-keying.
- Per-client invoicing is built in. The same deployment data that drives pay also produces a separate invoice for each client.
- Contract-labour compliance (CLRA registers, man-day records) is a first-class workflow, not an afterthought.
- Free for your first 100 workers, so a growing staffing firm can run real operations before paying anything.
Office-first HR suites, Keka included, are built around a single workplace where everyone clocks in at one place. Manpower businesses are the opposite. See how it works for security agencies and facility management, or read the manpower software overview.
Which should you pick?
Pick Keka if you are an office-based small or mid-market company that wants a polished HR platform with hiring, performance management and employee experience, and you do not bill clients per deployed worker.
Pick ZeniaHR if you place workers across multiple client sites, need multi-site attendance feeding payroll and PF/ESI, want to invoice each client for the staff deployed there, and want to start free at real scale. See ZeniaHR pricing or book a demo.
Built only for manpower & staffing
Run multi-site attendance, payroll, PF/ESI compliance and per-client invoicing on one worker record. Free for your first 100 workers.
Frequently asked questions
Is ZeniaHR a good Keka alternative?
For manpower and staffing firms, yes. Keka is a broad, office-first HR platform; ZeniaHR is built for companies deploying workers across client sites, with multi-site attendance, payroll, PF/ESI compliance and per-client invoicing on one worker record.
Does Keka have a free plan?
Keka offers a free trial rather than a free plan. ZeniaHR's free plan covers up to 100 workers with no time limit.
What can ZeniaHR do that a general HRMS like Keka may not?
ZeniaHR captures attendance at each client site, flows it into payroll and PF/ESI automatically, and produces a separate invoice for each client based on the staff deployed there, along with contract-labour (CLRA) registers. Office-first HR suites are typically built around a single workplace rather than workers spread across many client sites.
Is ZeniaHR cheaper than Keka?
At the entry point, usually yes for a manpower business: ZeniaHR is free for up to 100 workers, while Keka has no free plan and is priced by employee band. Confirm Keka's current pricing on keka.com and compare against your own headcount.