Open Source Deel Alternatives
A curated collection of the 1 best open source alternatives to Deel.
The best open source alternative to Deel is Horilla. If that doesn't suit you, we've compiled a ranked list of other open source Deel alternatives to help you find a suitable replacement.
Deel alternatives are mainly Human Resources (HR). Browse these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Deel.
Horilla is a free HR management system covering recruitment, attendance, payroll, and performance for organizations that want to run HR on their own servers.
HR work tends to spread across a recruiting tool, a spreadsheet of leave balances, a payroll provider, and a shared inbox for questions, none of which agree with each other. Horilla collects those functions into one Django application that an organization installs and operates itself.
It runs on Python 3.11 or later with Django 5.0 or later. Official images are published for amd64 and arm64, and the documented approach is to pull a pinned version rather than latest, so a deploy cannot pick up a new major release unattended. First boot applies the full migration set before the web server binds, which takes a few minutes on an empty database. Building from source with Docker Compose or a plain virtualenv is also documented.
The modules track an employee from first application through to exit.
- Employee management: centralized workforce records with LDAP integration.
- Recruitment and onboarding: job posting through hiring, with structured onboarding and offboarding workflows.
- Attendance and leave: biometric integration, automated check-in and check-out, policy enforcement, and balance tracking.
- Payroll: salary processing, tax calculation, and compliance handling.
- Performance: goal setting, reviews, and continuous feedback.
- Assets and helpdesk: tracking of company resources plus a ticketing system for HR support.
Access is role based, sensitive fields are stored encrypted, and activity is logged for audit. Version 2.0 is the default branch and the one to deploy; contributions target a separate integration branch, and version 1 now receives fixes case by case rather than on a schedule.
