- BFSIBanking, Financial Services & Insurance
- HealthcareComing soon
- ManufacturingComing soon
- Retail & E-CommerceComing soon
Keka HR
The modern India-built HRMS — Keka HR runs core HR, India-compliant payroll (PF/ESI/PT/TDS), attendance, performance and hiring in one employee-friendly platform.
How it’s rated
Full scoreboard ↓Quick answer
Keka HR is Keka’s all-in-one HRMS — the modern, India-built platform that runs the whole employee lifecycle for Indian businesses. It combines core HR (employee database, onboarding, documents, workflows, self-service), India-compliant payroll (salary processing with PF, ESI, PT, TDS and statutory compliance handled natively), attendance and leave management, performance management (goals/OKRs, reviews, continuous feedback), and hiring/recruitment — with people analytics throughout. Its defining strengths are that it is purpose-built for India (native payroll and statutory compliance, a core reason to choose homegrown over global HCM), genuinely modern and employee-friendly (a clean experience that drives adoption, unlike clunky legacy HR software), and all-in-one (HR, payroll and performance in one system rather than stitched tools). It’s especially popular with Indian IT/ITeS, professional-services and mid-market companies (roughly 100–500+ employees), and is priced by plan — Foundation (HR + payroll + attendance), Strength (+ performance) and Growth (+ hiring) — by employee band, in INR. TechBag right-sizes the plan, models the real cost and helps roll it out, in INR/GST.
The Keka HR platform family
This page covers Keka HR — the HRMS platform.
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Keka HR (HRMS)
- Vendor
- Keka — India-built (Hyderabad)
- Category
- HRMS — HR, payroll & performance
- Core HR
- Database, onboarding, documents, workflows
- Payroll
- India-compliant — PF, ESI, PT, TDS
- Also
- Attendance/leave, performance, hiring
- Edge
- India-built, modern UX, all-in-one
- Plans
- Foundation · Strength · Growth (INR)
- Popular with
- IT/ITeS, services, mid-market (100–500+)
- In India via
- TechBag — plan right-sizing, rollout, GST
Understand the HRMS platform before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is it?
Keka’s modern, India-built HRMS — core HR, India-compliant payroll (PF/ESI/PT/TDS), attendance, performance and hiring in one employee-friendly platform.
Legacy / global HR vs modern India-built Keka — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Legacy / non-India-native HR | Keka HR |
|---|---|---|
| Origin | Global / legacy | India-built (Hyderabad) |
| Payroll | Add-on / non-native | Native PF/ESI/PT/TDS |
| Experience | Clunky | Modern, employee-friendly |
| Scope | Point tools | All-in-one HR/payroll/PMS |
| Performance | Separate | Built in |
| Fit | Enterprise/global | Indian mid-market |
| Cost | High/complex | Plan-based, INR |
| Support | Offshore | Local (India) |
The modern India-built HRMS — HR, payroll and performance in one, plan-based.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Core HR
Employee database, onboarding, documents, workflows and self-service — HR’s single source of truth.
India-Compliant Payroll
Salary processing with native Indian statutory compliance — PF, ESI, PT (by state), TDS and filings, handled natively.
Attendance & Leave
Attendance, shifts, leave and time-tracking — feeding payroll accurately, reducing manual effort.
Performance (PMS)
Goals/OKRs, reviews and continuous feedback — modern performance management built in (Strength+).
Hiring
Recruitment and applicant tracking — hiring within the same platform (Growth), one HR estate.
One agent on every machine, one console over all of them — modules attach without a second operational world.
Twelve capabilities. Manage, pay, grow.
Keka HR delivers modern core HR, India-compliant payroll, attendance, performance and hiring — one employee-friendly, India-built platform.
Core HR
Employee system of record.
Onboarding
Smooth new-hire journeys.
Payroll (India)
PF, ESI, PT, TDS.
Statutory Compliance
Filings & reports.
Attendance & Leave
Time, shifts, leave.
Self-Service (ESS/MSS)
Employee & manager.
Performance (PMS)
Goals/OKRs, reviews.
Continuous Feedback
Ongoing, not annual.
Hiring / ATS
Recruit & track.
People Analytics
Data-driven HR.
Documents
Policies & letters.
Mobile App
HR in the pocket.
Watch Keka HR in action
HR, India-compliant payroll and performance.
Keka HR — HR & Payroll Software Loved by Businesses
Keka's own pitch — HR, payroll and performance for Indian teams.
Processing Payroll in 6 Simple Steps
India-compliant payroll run end-to-end in Keka.
Exploring the Core HR Module of Keka
Documents, org structure and the HR core, hands-on.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough on your own fleet?
Book a guided demo →HR software people avoid isn’t working. Make it modern.
Here’s what genuinely sets Keka HR apart from the alternatives.
Built for India — native payroll compliance
Indian payroll is complex (PF, ESI, PT by state, TDS, statutory filings), and Keka is purpose-built to handle it natively — a core reason Indian organisations choose a homegrown HRMS over global HCM that isn’t tuned to Indian statutory payroll. Compliant, accurate Indian payroll, out of the box. India-built compliance is Keka’s foundation.
Modern, employee-friendly — adoption matters
Keka’s clean, modern experience is a real differentiator versus clunky legacy Indian HR software — and adoption (employees and managers actually using self-service, performance, etc.) is what makes an HRMS deliver value. A platform people like gets used. Great experience drives real HR outcomes.
All-in-one — HR, payroll, performance
Keka brings core HR, payroll, attendance, performance and hiring into one platform — rather than stitching point tools — so data flows (attendance to payroll, HR to performance) and you manage the whole lifecycle in one place. Consolidation reduces tool sprawl and manual reconciliation. One HR estate, one source of truth.
Performance built in
Modern performance management — goals/OKRs, reviews, continuous feedback — is built into Keka (Strength and Growth plans), so you run performance where your HR and people data already live. For organisations moving beyond annual reviews, that integrated PMS matters. Grow your people on the same platform.
Right-sized by plan
Keka’s Foundation / Strength / Growth plans let you buy the modules you need (HR + payroll; + performance; + hiring) at a headcount-based price — so you match spend to needs. Getting the plan and the per-employee-beyond-100 cost right is the key buying decision. TechBag right-sizes it and models the real total cost.
The honest positioning
Keka HR is best when you want a modern, India-compliant, all-in-one, employee-friendly HRMS — for Indian IT/ITeS, professional-services and mid-market organisations. GreytHR is favoured by some for payroll depth; Zoho People suits Zoho-ecosystem users; global HCM (SuccessFactors/Workday) fits large multinationals at higher cost/complexity. For modern India-built HR + payroll + performance, Keka is compelling; TechBag brokers the honest comparison and right-sizes the plan in INR/GST.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Keka HR journey looks like
Scope & plan
Your modules (HR/payroll/performance/hiring) and headcount. TechBag right-sizes the plan free.
Configure
Set up core HR, payroll (PF/ESI/PT/TDS for your states), attendance and policies.
Migrate & onboard
Migrate employee data; onboard staff to self-service; run a parallel payroll.
Live HR estate
HR, payroll and performance running on Keka. TechBag models the plan in INR/GST.
Trusted by India’s IT/ITeS & mid-market
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Keka’s Indian payroll compliance was the clincher — PF, ESI, PT, TDS handled natively. Compliant and accurate, out of the box.”
“Employees actually use Keka — the modern experience drives adoption in a way our old HR software never did. Usability matters.”
“HR, payroll and performance in one platform — no more stitched tools and reconciliation. One source of truth.”
“Performance management (OKRs, continuous feedback) built in — we run reviews where our people data lives. Integrated PMS.”
“TechBag right-sized our plan and modelled the per-employee cost beyond 100 — we’d have mis-budgeted. Real TCO, not just list price.”
“We compared GreytHR — strong on payroll — and global HCM — complex and pricey. For modern India-built all-in-one, Keka fit our mid-market. Scope by priorities.”
“Self-service cut our HR team’s admin load hugely — employees and managers do more themselves. Modern HR at work.”
“TechBag handled licensing, rollout and GST — a modern homegrown HRMS, locally supported. Smooth go-live.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the the HRMS platform market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag HRMS Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Modern & India-fit — this page.
Modern Experience × India Fit
The grid nobody publishes — modern experience vs India payroll/compliance fit.
Modern UX + India payroll — the corner it fills.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Keka HR vs the field
The HRMS options and the spreadsheet baseline — honest lanes; the edge is modern UX plus India-native compliance.
| Dimension | Keka HR | GreytHR | Zoho People | Darwinbox | Spreadsheets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approach | Modern India-built all-in-one HRMS | India HR/payroll | India HR (Zoho) | India enterprise HCM | Manual |
| India payroll | Native, compliant | Strong | Good | Enterprise | Manual |
| Experience | Modern, easy | Functional | Zoho UX | Enterprise | None |
| Best fit | Indian mid-market wanting modern, all-in-one, compliant HRMS | Payroll-depth-first orgs | Zoho-ecosystem users | Large enterprise HCM | Nobody scaling |
Which HRMS fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Keka HR if…
- ✓You want a modern, India-compliant, all-in-one HRMS
- ✓Native Indian payroll (PF/ESI/PT/TDS) matters
- ✓Employee-friendly experience & adoption are priorities
- ✓You’re Indian mid-market (IT/ITeS, services, ~100–500+)
Choose GreytHR if…
- ✓You prioritise deep payroll above all
Choose Zoho People if…
- ✓You’re already in the Zoho ecosystem
Choose global HCM if…
- ✓You’re a large multinational (SuccessFactors/Workday)
Spreadsheets if…
- ✓Never past a handful of employees — they don’t scale or comply
What does clunky / non-compliant HR cost you?
Drag the sliders (employees; HR/admin-hour cost as loaded rate). Estimates assume ~8 hours per employee per year of manual HR/payroll admin, reconciliation and compliance effort on legacy/spreadsheet setups, with ~50% removed by a modern all-in-one HRMS — the adoption, accuracy and compliance value is the larger unpriced win. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models actual device counts and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Keka prices by plan (Foundation/Strength/Growth) and employee band, in INR (+ GST). TechBag right-sizes the plan in INR/GST.
Foundation
Best for HR + payroll
- ₹9,999/mo up to ~100 employees
- Core HR, payroll (PF/ESI/PT/TDS), attendance
- + per extra employee
Strength
Best for + performance
- ₹12,999/mo up to ~100 employees
- Adds performance (OKRs/reviews)
- + per extra employee
Growth
Best for full lifecycle
- ₹15,999/mo up to ~100 employees
- Adds hiring/recruitment
- TechBag models real per-employee cost
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your device counts and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every HRMS / payroll vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Scope HR + payroll, and whether you need performance/hiring.
Count employees (and growth) for plan sizing.
Right-size Foundation/Strength/Growth.
Confirm PF/ESI/PT/TDS for your states & structures.
Value the modern, adoption-driving UX.
Consider people-analytics needs.
Weigh GreytHR (payroll) / global HCM vs Keka.
TechBag models real cost, quotes in INR/GST.
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate Keka HR?
Get a plan right-sizing, real-cost model and rollout plan from a TechBag advisor — India-built, in INR/GST.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.