Breathe HR pricing
The full published tier table, what the add-on modules cost, and an honest comparison - including where Breathe is simply cheaper than us.
Breathe HR starts at £24 a month for up to 10 employees and is priced per business, not per person - £99 a month covers 21-50 staff. It is cheaper than CoDash for core HR up to 100 employees. The comparison shifts above that size, and whenever you add the modules Breathe charges separately for - rota, expenses, recruitment, learning - which CoDash includes in the base price.
Prices checked 5 October 2026 against Breathe's own pricing page (breathehr.com). Vendor pricing changes without notice - always confirm there before deciding. All figures exclude VAT.
What does Breathe HR cost?
| Plan | Employees | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Micro | 1-10 | £24 |
| Starter | 11-20 | £44 |
| Regular | 21-50 | £99 |
| Pro | 51-100 | £175 |
| Premium | 101-150 | £419 |
| Plus | 151-200 | £579 |
There's a 14-day free trial, no setup fee and no minimum contract, with roughly 15% off for annual billing on the smaller plans (about 10% on Premium and Plus). Pricing by band rather than per head is a real strength: hiring your eleventh person doesn't change the bill until you cross into the next band.
What costs extra on Breathe?
| Module | 1-10 staff | 21-50 staff | 51-100 staff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rota, Time & Attendance | £11 | £34 | £57 |
| Expenses | £14 | £29 | £36 |
| Learn | £15 | £46 | £78 |
| Recruitment | £16 | £22 | £24 |
| Health and Safety | £12 | £36 | £60 |
Breathe also sells a discounted Business Essentials bundle of Health and Safety, Learn, Expenses and Recruitment. Its price depends on your plan and is shown by a calculator on Breathe's page, so read it there for your own size. An earlier version of this page quoted the bundle and the add-ons at the 1-10 rate for a 30-person company, which understated Breathe's price; the figures here are the ones for each plan.
Breathe vs CoDash: the honest comparison
Compare core HR alone and Breathe wins on price, clearly. Compare what you'd actually be running - leave, attendance and rota, expenses, hiring - and the order reverses:
| Setup | Breathe | CoDash |
|---|---|---|
| Core HR + leave only | £99 (Regular) | £124 (Core, 20 included + 10 × £2.50) |
| + rota & attendance | £133 (£99 + £34) | £124 - included |
| + expenses, recruitment, learning | £230 (adding £29, £22 and £46; less with the bundle) | £124 - included |
| Appraisals, objectives and goals | included in core | £124 - included, with 360 feedback |
So: for core HR alone, Breathe is cheaper at this size - £99 against £124 - and we would rather say that than dress the numbers up. Add rota and attendance and CoDash is the cheaper of the two; add expenses, recruitment and learning as well and the gap is wide, though Breathe's bundle narrows it. Breathe's core plan is not bare: appraisals, one-to-ones, objective setting and company goals are in it, and it lists employee NPS surveys and polls on some plans. If core HR is genuinely all you need, buy the cheaper one.
What else differs?
- Anonymous voice with k-anonymity - CoDash stores no author against anonymous feedback and gates every manager-facing aggregate behind a minimum group size. Breathe describes its employee NPS survey as anonymous; we could not find an equivalent of the minimum group size on its site.
- An AI manager coach that suggests what to raise in a 1:1, and never ranks managers against each other.
- Isolated instances - each CoDash customer gets their own database and subdomain.
- Breathe's maturity - a long-established UK SME product with a large customer base, a wide integration list, and a track record we're not going to pretend to match.
Our fuller feature-level comparison is in CoDash vs Breathe HR, and the general pricing landscape is in how much HR software costs in the UK. CoDash's own figures are on the pricing page, calculator included.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Breathe HR cost?
Breathe HR is priced per business by employee band, from £24 a month for 1-10 employees, £44 for 11-20, £99 for 21-50, £175 for 51-100, £419 for 101-150 and £579 for 151-200, all excluding VAT. Checked 5 October 2026 - confirm current prices on breathehr.com.
Does Breathe HR charge per employee?
No. Breathe charges a flat monthly fee per business based on which employee band you fall into, so adding a person does not change the bill until you cross into the next band.
What costs extra on Breathe HR?
Rota, time and attendance from £11 a month, expenses management from £14, learning from £15, recruitment tracking from £16 and health and safety from £12. Those are the prices for 1-10 employees and rise with each plan: at 21-50 employees rota is £34, expenses £29, learning £46, recruitment £22 and health and safety £36. A discounted bundle of four of them is also sold.
Is Breathe HR cheaper than CoDash?
For core HR alone, yes, up to 100 employees. Once you add the modules Breathe prices separately, the order reverses: for a 30-person company, Breathe core plus rota and attendance is £133 a month at list price against £124 for CoDash with everything included.
Does Breathe HR have a free trial?
Yes - 14 days with full feature access, no credit card required, and no setup fee or minimum contract.
Prices and features move. Everything here was checked on the date shown against each vendor's own published pricing, and we link to it so you can confirm rather than take our word for it. If we have a detail wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
Check it yourself: Breathe publishes its own terms - see their pricing page. Checked 5 October 2026. Prices and packaging move, and theirs are theirs to state, so confirm before you decide.
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