CharlieHR pricing
The full published headcount table, what Recruit and Advice add, and where each of us is genuinely the cheaper answer.
CharlieHR is priced by team-size band, from £45 a month for 5-14 people and £105 for 15-29. Core HR, onboarding, time off, performance reviews and engagement are all in the base price - which makes it a closer structural match to CoDash than most. The divergence is at the extremes: Charlie is cheaper for very small teams, and its recruitment and advice modules are priced separately.
Prices checked 9 August 2026 against CharlieHR's own pricing page (charliehr.com). Vendor pricing changes without notice - always confirm there before deciding. All figures exclude VAT.
What does CharlieHR cost?
| Headcount | Per month |
|---|---|
| 1-4 | £5 for the first 6 months, then £20 |
| 5-14 | £45 |
| 15-29 | £105 |
| 30-49 | £180 |
| 50-99 | £315 |
| 100-149 | £420 |
| 150-199 | £525 |
| 200-249 | £630 |
| 250+ | £735 |
The base plan covers onboarding, time off, employee records, performance reviews, engagement, perks and integrations. There's a 7-day free trial and no credit card needed to start it.
What costs extra on CharlieHR?
- Charlie Recruit - applicant tracking, interview scheduling, eSignature contracts, blind hiring, a careers site.
- Charlie Advice - unlimited HR support, compliance checks, a personalised handbook and annual policy reviews.
Both scale with headcount, which the "from" prices hide - so here is what they actually cost at each band:
| Headcount | Charlie Recruit | Charlie Advice |
|---|---|---|
| 1-9 | £55 | £179 |
| 10-14 | £55 | £299 |
| 15-49 | £85 | £299 |
| 50-99 | £100 | £299 |
| 100-199 | £100 | £499 |
| 200+ | £150 | £499 |
At 100 people that is £420 for Charlie, £100 for Recruit and £499 for Advice - just over £1,000 a month for the full set, which is a different conversation from the £45 headline.
Neither can be bought standalone. Charlie Advice is worth understanding properly before comparing: it isn't software, it's access to HR advisers - which is a genuinely different thing to buy, and for a company with no HR person it may be the most valuable line on the invoice.
CharlieHR vs CoDash: the honest comparison
| Team size | CharlieHR | CoDash Starter |
|---|---|---|
| 10 people | £45 | £99 |
| 20 people | £105 | £139 |
| 30 people | £180 | £179 |
| 50 people | £315 | £259 |
| 100 people | £420 | £459 |
Charlie is meaningfully cheaper under about 25 people; the two converge around 30; CoDash is cheaper through the middle. Add recruitment and the picture shifts again - Charlie Recruit is £55+ on top, while hiring is included in CoDash's base price. If you'd want Charlie Advice, add that too, and compare it against what you'd otherwise pay an HR consultant.
What else differs?
- Attendance and overtime. CoDash includes clock-in, rotas, timesheets, overtime and TOIL as standard - the sort of thing shift-based teams need and pure people-platforms often don't cover.
- Anonymous voice with k-anonymity enforced in code - no author column at all, and manager-facing aggregates gated behind a minimum group size.
- UK statutory depth - Employment Rights Act 2026-27 leave types, the statutory flexible working workflow, right-to-work tracking (see our compliance page).
- Charlie's polish and perks. Charlie is a well-designed product with an established perks marketplace and a strong reputation among London startups - if that's your world, it's a serious contender.
The feature-level view is in CoDash vs CharlieHR, the wider market in how much HR software costs, and our own numbers on the pricing page.
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: CharlieHR publishes its own terms - see their pricing page. Checked 17 August 2026. Prices and packaging move, and theirs are theirs to state, so confirm before you decide.
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