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Rippling alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

frappe/hrms8,522GPL-3.0Open-source HR and payroll application providing employee management, payroll, and HR workflows.Open on GitHub horilla/horilla-hr1,313LGPL-2.1Open-source HR software for employee records, hiring, leave, and basic HR workflows.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Proprietary unified workforce data and context across HR/IT/Finance
Enterprise-grade compliance and tax filing services
Global payroll, Employer-of-Record, and other regulated services
Deep, production integrations and turnkey onboarding for many downstream systems
Vendor SLA, support, and managed services (engineers building custom apps)

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Rippling, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.