CharlieHR pricing
The full published headcount table, what Recruit and Grow add, and where each of us is genuinely the cheaper answer.
CharlieHR is priced by team-size band, from £47 a month for 5-14 people and £108 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 HR-adviser modules are priced separately.
Prices checked 5 October 2026 against CharlieHR's own pricing page (charliehr.com). Every band has risen since our August check - the 5-14 band split in two and went from £45 to £47, and 250+ from £735 to £754 - and where the page listed Charlie Advice at £179-£499 in August it now lists Charlie Grow at £200-£1,253. The figures below are the ones published today. All figures exclude VAT.
What does CharlieHR cost?
| Headcount | Per month |
|---|---|
| 1-4 | £5 for the first 6 months, then £21 |
| 5-9 | £47 |
| 10-14 | £47 |
| 15-29 | £108 |
| 30-49 | £185 |
| 50-99 | £323 |
| 100-149 | £431 |
| 150-199 | £539 |
| 200-249 | £646 |
| 250+ | £754 |
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, though CharlieHR notes the two add-ons below are not included in it.
What costs extra on CharlieHR?
- Charlie Recruit - applicant tracking, interview scheduling, eSignature contracts, blind hiring, a careers site.
- Charlie Grow - a dedicated HR adviser, AskCharlie AI, growth strategy, urgent support, and compliance and policies. This is the line their pricing page carried as Charlie Advice when we checked in August, priced then at £179-£499.
Both scale with headcount, which the "from" prices hide - so here is what they actually cost at each band:
| Headcount | Charlie Recruit | Charlie Grow |
|---|---|---|
| 1-4 | £55 | £200 |
| 5-9 | £55 | £226 |
| 10-14 | £55 | £346 |
| 15-29 | £85 | £407 |
| 30-49 | £85 | £484 |
| 50-99 | £100 | £622 |
| 100-149 | £100 | £930 |
| 150-199 | £100 | £1,038 |
| 200-249 | £150 | £1,145 |
| 250+ | £150 | £1,253 |
At 100 people that is £431 for Charlie, £100 for Recruit and £930 for Grow - close to £1,500 a month for the full set, which is a different conversation from the £47 headline.
Neither can be bought standalone. The core subscription is monthly with no minimum contract, but Charlie Recruit is billed monthly for a minimum of 12 months and renews automatically, and cancelling the core plan takes 30 days' notice. Charlie Grow 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. Compare it against an HR consultant's retainer rather than against a software line.
CharlieHR vs CoDash: the honest comparison
| Team size | CharlieHR | CoDash Core |
|---|---|---|
| 10 people | £47 | £99 |
| 20 people | £108 | £99 |
| 30 people | £185 | £124 |
| 50 people | £323 | £174 |
| 100 people | £431 | £299 |
Charlie is meaningfully cheaper under 20 people; the two cross at 20; CoDash is cheaper through the middle, apart from a dip in Charlie's favour at 24-29 where its flat band sits just under our per-person line. 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 Grow, 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.
Frequently asked questions
How much does CharlieHR cost?
CharlieHR is priced by headcount band: £21 a month for 1-4 people after a promotional first six months at £5, £47 for 5-14, £108 for 15-29, £185 for 30-49, £323 for 50-99 and rising to £754 for 250+, all excluding VAT. Checked 5 October 2026 - CharlieHR raised every band since our August check, so confirm current prices on charliehr.com.
What is included in CharlieHR's base price?
Onboarding, time off, employee records, performance reviews, employee engagement, perks and key integrations. Recruitment and HR advice are separately priced add-ons.
What do CharlieHR's add-ons cost?
Charlie Recruit starts at £55 a month rising to £150 at larger headcounts. The advisory add-on is now published as Charlie Grow and starts at £200 a month, rising to £1,253 at 250+ people. Neither can be purchased without a Charlie subscription.
Is CharlieHR cheaper than CoDash?
Below 20 people, yes. From 20 people up CoDash Core is cheaper at most sizes - Charlie's flat bands undercut it briefly just under each band edge (roughly 24 to 29 people, the high 190s and the late 240s) and permanently above about 280, where Charlie's price stops rising. CoDash also includes hiring, attendance and overtime in its base price where Charlie prices recruitment separately.
Does CharlieHR have a free trial?
Yes - a 7-day free trial with no credit card required.
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 5 October 2026. Prices and packaging move, and theirs are theirs to state, so confirm before you decide.
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