Last verified: 4 October 2026Open-source ERP against commercial ERP

ERPNext vs Odoo: what running your own ERP actually costs an Indian business

Both of these will run accounting, inventory, purchasing, manufacturing, payroll, and a point of sale on one database for a mid-sized company. They are both mature, well-resourced products, and this page does not conclude that one of them wins. The real decision is a commercial one: Odoo prices per user per month and takes on the hosting, while ERPNext is genuinely free software that someone has to host, upgrade, back up, and keep running. That trade is the whole comparison, and it is a different question from which suite has more apps.

NoxOrigin publishes this page and is not one of the two products compared in it. We have no stake in which of these you choose, we make no recommendation between ERPNext and Odoo for our own commercial reasons, and we do not claim that either of them is better software. We have not run either product, so every statement below about them is read from the publishers’ own pages, not from hands-on use. We make no claim about how either one feels to work in, how either support team responds, or how reliable either is in practice, and we quote no review score, ranking, or funding figure for either. Where a vendor makes a claim about itself we attribute it to the vendor rather than adopting it. Where we appear: NoxOrigin is a small Indian operating record for service firms, and it appears at the end of this page as a brief, clearly-disclosed alternative for a business that does not want to run ERP infrastructure at all. It is not an ERP and we do not present it as one. Last verified: 4 October 2026.

Evidence and method

What we tested, and what we only read

What we tested

Neither product. We have not run an ERPNext trial and we have not run an Odoo trial for this page. Every commercial and capability statement about the two ERPs below is read from the publishers’ own published pages, and we make no claim about how either feels to use or how either support organisation responds in practice.

We publish no review score, rating, ranking, or user count for either product. Where a publisher makes a claim about itself, such as Frappe’s total-cost-of-ownership statement or Odoo’s contributor count, we label it as their claim.

What we source-verified, and what we could not

We verified Frappe’s ERPNext hosting tiers in dollars and rupees, the self-host and licence terms, the three implementation routes, the scope of what Frappe calls Product Warranty, and the enterprise hosting figures, all from Frappe Technologies’ own pages. We verified Odoo’s rupee plan list, its paying-user and Light User licence definitions, its included and excluded items, its implementation routes, and the Community-versus-Enterprise feature split, all from Odoo’s own pages.

Three gaps we are leaving open rather than filling. Odoo publishes no Enterprise edition price anywhere we could read, so this page compares on the published licence model and publishes no Enterprise price. Every Odoo India and Odoo Enterprise URL we tried returned HTTP 404, so we make no claim either way about either product’s Indian tax and e-invoicing scope. And the name of Frappe’s third hosting tier did not render as text in the version of the page we fetched, so we publish that tier’s price and its described capabilities but not a plan name.

Dimension by dimension

What each product actually commits you to

Most rows below are about commercial and operational shape rather than feature presence, because both products cover a genuinely comparable ERP surface. Where one of them is plainly deeper, we say so. Where we could not verify something, the row says that instead of guessing.

Dimension	ERPNext, by Frappe Technologies (source-verified)	Odoo (source-verified)
Who publishes it	Frappe Technologies. ERPNext is not a separate company: it is Frappe’s ERP, published alongside Frappe HR, Frappe CRM, and Frappe Framework, and the pricing page’s own structured data names Frappe Technologies as publisher.	Odoo S.A. The pricing page and the edition-comparison page are both first-party Odoo publications, and the Community edition is downloadable from Odoo as “The Open Source edition of Odoo”.
Licence model	Open source. The page records the licence as “Open Source” with a structured-data offer of price 0 in INR, and the self-host route is described as “AGPL-3.0 licensed”. Frappe states the source has been open source since 2009 and that it is 100% open source, and states that unlike other companies that make open-source claims and then require payment for enterprise features, it does not do that.	Two editions: Odoo Community, which Odoo describes as open source, and Odoo Enterprise, which it describes as licensed, with Community as the core Enterprise is built on and the ability to switch versions at any time. Hosted plans charge per user per month on a defined paying user.
How the hosted price is charged	Frappe Cloud is described as Frappe’s own managed hosting platform, and the page says you “pay only for what you use, and not per user!” The enterprise page describes pay-as-you-go with daily billing invoices at the end of the month and no upfront fees. Nobody is charged per seat.	Per user per month. Standard is Rs 580 yearly-billed and Rs 760 monthly-billed per user, Custom is Rs 1,080 yearly-billed and Rs 1,350 monthly-billed per user, and a Light User is listed at Rs 195 through a quote from an Odoo Advisor. The discount is valid for 12 months for initial users ordered.
Free tier	The software itself is free, with a 14-day free trial on Frappe Cloud before a plan is required. There is no free hosted tier described beyond that trial, and the licence fee is free while the hosting is not.	One App Free at Rs 0: one app, unlimited users, on Odoo Online, forever. The page says required dependencies come free too, that multiple companies are allowed on the free plan, and that Odoo Studio can be the app you choose for it.
Published hosting figures in INR	Frappe Cloud: Sites ₹410 onwards per month, Servers ₹1,800 onwards per month, and a third tier at ₹5,400 onwards per month. Sites is also available on AWS and OCI in plans starting ₹2,050 per month and on Hetzner from ₹410. Servers is available only for AWS and OCI in plans starting ₹4,100 per month. Enterprise hosting: Standard hosting ₹20,000 onwards per month, Enterprise hosting ₹80,000 onwards per month.	Hosting is included in the per-user price, and the page states all plans include unlimited support, hosting and maintenance, with Odoo Online storage unmetered up to 100GB. Odoo.sh hosting for custom developments is explicitly not included.
Who owns the server, the upgrades, and the uptime	Frappe Cloud: Frappe. Self-host: you. Frappe lists managed upgrades and backups on the entry tier, describes the middle tier as having limited uptime guarantees and only incident support, and states the enterprise tiers run at 99.9% uptime with multi-region hosting, monitoring, and backup and restore handled for you. Self-host the software and all four of those become your job.	Odoo. Standard sits on Odoo Online, Odoo’s cloud infrastructure, and the page includes 24/7 monitoring and incremental daily backups on two continents in the subscription. On the Custom plan you can host on Odoo Online at no extra cost, on Odoo.sh, or on-premise yourself, at which point the server becomes yours too.
Support: what is actually included	Frappe describes Product Warranty as support from Frappe engineers for fixing bugs in the Frappe apps and Frappe Cloud, raised from the support portal against a stipulated response time, and states explicitly that it “does not include functional support”. Priority SLA is faster response and resolution per Table II of Frappe’s SLA, and the enterprise tiers add a dedicated support agent, priority SLAs, and on-call support.	Unlimited support by email, Monday to Friday 24/5, in English, French, Spanish or Dutch, on every plan, with free eLearning access and upgrades included at no extra fee. Odoo does not state Hindi or regional-language support on the pricing page.
Accounting, payroll, and statutory depth	A full ERP surface including accounting. We did not read ERPNext’s accounting or tax documentation, so we publish no claim about its Indian statutory scope. On the pricing page we read there is no reference to GST, CGST, SGST, IGST, GSTIN, e-invoicing, or e-way bills.	On the edition-comparison page, Accounting and its Comprehensive Accounting sub-features are marked Enterprise only, as are Payroll, Documents, Spreadsheet, Sign, ESG, Barcode, PLM and Quality. Invoicing and its Payments sub-feature are marked available in both editions. We could not read Odoo’s India tax documentation, so we publish no claim about its Indian statutory scope.
Depth Odoo and ERPNext both have that a client-to-cash platform does not	Manufacturing (MRP), Purchase, Maintenance, Inventory with Barcode, Employees, Recruitment, Time Off, Fleet, Point of Sale, and Events are all named as part of the product family. This is a full ERP, not a CRM with invoices attached.	Manufacturing (MRP), Purchase, Maintenance, Inventory, Employees, Recruitment, Time Off, Fleet, Point of Sale, Expenses, Planning, Helpdesk, Field Service, Appointments, and VoIP appear on Odoo’s own edition-comparison page, most of them in both editions.
Implementation	Frappe states it does not provide implementation services directly and works through a network it describes as 200+ certified partners. Three published routes: self-implement with the documentation, a Starter Pack from a certified partner, or a partner for setup, support, customisations and integrations. The pricing page does not publish an implementation price, so we publish none.	Explicitly not included on any plan. Published routes: Success Packs for small companies with a project estimator, a partner for mid-size and large companies above 50 employees, and Odoo directly for organisations of 250 or more. No implementation price is published, so we publish none.
What the subscription still excludes	On self-host, everything operational: the server, the upgrades, the backups, the uptime, and the knowledge to hold it together. Frappe is candid that hosting and enterprise support are its primary revenue sources.	Implementation service and access to Odoo expert services, maintenance of custom code, Odoo.sh hosting for custom developments, and in-app-purchase credits such as SMS, contacts auto-complete, and lead generation.
Data ownership and exit	The strongest position of the two, and Frappe makes the lock-in argument explicitly: being 100% open source with a partner network is presented as a way to end vendor lock-in. Self-hosted data sits on infrastructure you control. Frappe Cloud data sits with Frappe, and Frappe publishes a backup and restore service rather than a per-seat export promise on the page we read.	Community is the core Enterprise is built on and you can switch versions at any time, which is a genuine portability argument, and self-hosting on your own infrastructure is a published Custom-plan option. We did not read Odoo’s data-export terms, so we publish no claim about contractual export guarantees.
Published discounts	Frappe states it offers discounts for education institutes and non-profits, on application. No figure is published and we publish none.	A footnote that the discount is valid for 12 months for initial users ordered, which is why a marked price of Rs 725 and Rs 950 sits above the discounted Standard per-user figures. We could not find a corresponding published marked figure for the Custom plan, so we do not state one.
Where it is the wrong purchase	Skip it if nobody in the business owns a server, or if you need accounting-grade statutory reporting in India and you cannot verify it yourself in a trial. Self-hosting ERPNext with no technical owner is how a free ERP becomes an outage.	Skip it if your real need is a connected record from enquiry to payment for a small service team, or if per-user pricing across a wide user base is the wrong shape. A Light User licence and portal users help, but they do not remove the per-user model.

Where ERPNext is the better buy

Licence cost, and not being rented

If the deciding constraint is licence cost, ERPNext wins that unambiguously and we will not soften it. The software is free under an open-source licence, you can read the source, and on Frappe Cloud nobody is charged per seat. A business with fifty internal users does not pay fifty licences on ERPNext. Frappe also states it is 100% open source and that it does not use open-source claims to hold enterprise features hostage, and that is a structural protection rather than a promise.

ERPNext is also the better buy where auditability and the ability to extend the product matter: it is customisable through its underlying framework, Frappe says small tweaks take seconds and complex changes need only simple scripts, and Community being the core Enterprise is built on is the same portability argument Odoo makes about its own editions. For a business with real technical capacity, a large paid partner ecosystem and no appetite for a per-seat line item, this is the stronger position.

Where Odoo is the better buy

A vendor who owns uptime, upgrades, and support

If the deciding constraint is operational risk, Odoo is the better buy and ERPNext is the worse one. On the hosted plans you buy hosting, monitoring, daily backups on two continents, 24/5 weekday email support in four languages, free eLearning, and upgrades at no extra fee, all inside one subscription. The price is per user per month, but the thing you are actually buying is that someone else is accountable when the database does not open at 9am on a working day.

Odoo is also the better buy where the ERP surface is wide and you do not want to assemble it: its own page names Sales, eCommerce, Sign, Website, Accounting, CRM, Inventory, HR, Project and POS as included for a single fee, and its app catalogue is far larger than that list. And Odoo is the better buy if you want to self-host later without losing a subscription you already paid for, because you can move between Community and Enterprise, and between Odoo Online, Odoo.sh, and on-premise.

In India

The India-specific version of this decision

Both products publish in rupees, which is rarer than it used to be and removes one avoidable headache. Frappe publishes ₹410, ₹1,800 and ₹5,400 onwards per month for Frappe Cloud hosting, ₹20,000 and ₹80,000 onwards per month for enterprise hosting, and rupee figures on its US-dollar tiers as well. Odoo publishes a full per-user rupee list from Rs 0 to Rs 1,350 per user per month, and carries an Indian contact number on its pricing page. We convert nothing, add no tax to any figure, and publish no rupee number neither vendor printed.

Statutory invoicing: what we can and cannot tell you

We read no GST, CGST, SGST, IGST, GSTIN, e-invoicing, or e-way bill reference on Frappe’s ERPNext pricing page, on Frappe’s enterprise page, on Odoo’s pricing page, on Odoo’s edition-comparison page, or on Odoo’s Community page. Every Odoo India and Odoo Enterprise URL we tried returned HTTP 404, so we could not read Odoo’s India tax documentation at all. That is a fact about the pages we read, not proof that either product cannot be configured for India, and it is not compliance advice. If Indian statutory invoicing decides the purchase, test it yourself: raise a real intra-state invoice, a real inter-state invoice, and a real B2B invoice with a GSTIN in a trial of each, and put the answer in writing. Read the GST billing software versus ERP comparison for the narrower question of a billing tool against an ERP.

The small-team reality, which is the honest catch on both

A four-person Indian business does not need manufacturing MRP, a payroll module, PLM, and a field-service app. It needs a customer record, a quote, an invoice, a payment, and an outstanding balance that somebody works. Both ERPs will happily sell you the first list anyway, and both will need implementation on top: Frappe states it does not sell implementation at all and routes you to partners, and Odoo states implementation and expert services are excluded from every plan. The cost of either product for a small team is therefore mostly the cost of getting it installed and kept running, not the licence line. Cost that before you compare features.

Who maintains the server, stated plainly

This is the question that decides self-hosted ERPNext, and it is a people question rather than a software one. Self-host and someone owns the server, the upgrade path, the backup schedule, the restore drill, the uptime, and the 9am incident, indefinitely, and that role has to be named before go-live rather than discovered after it. Frappe’s own copy supports this reading: self-hosting is described as great for companies with a tech team, the entry hosting tier lists managed upgrades and backups, and the middle tier explicitly carries limited uptime guarantees and only incident support. If you cannot name that person, buy the managed tier. If you also cannot name an implementation partner, ERPNext is not a purchase you are ready to make, and no amount of free licence fee changes that.

Where the money actually comes back

Both ERPs are built around invoicing through their accounting or invoicing modules, and neither of the pages we read describes UPI collection with the transaction reference recorded against the invoice, which is how a large share of Indian business invoices are settled. We are not claiming neither can do it. We are saying that we did not read it, so we publish no claim for either, and that you should verify the collection method your customers actually use rather than assume it.

Who should choose which

Match the product to the buyer situation

A business with a technical team and a wide user base

ERPNext. Nobody pays per seat, the source is readable, and a partner ecosystem of what Frappe calls 200+ certified firms exists to do the implementation. The trade is real: you now own the server, the upgrades, and the uptime, and Frappe is candid that it does not sell implementation itself.

A business that needs accounting-grade depth and a vendor answerable for uptime

Odoo. Accounting, Payroll, Documents, Sign, and Spreadsheet are all Enterprise-only on Odoo’s own edition table, and the subscription includes hosting, monitoring, daily backups, weekday support in four languages, and upgrades. Pay per user and stop thinking about the server.

A manufacturing or distribution business with real stock

Either, and the tie is genuinely close. Both name Manufacturing (MRP), Purchase, Maintenance, and Inventory. Decide on operating model, not features: Frappe Cloud with a partner if you want ownership of the licence and the code, Odoo if you want someone accountable for uptime.

A business that cannot name who maintains the server

Do not self-host ERPNext, and do not run Odoo on-premise either. Take Frappe Cloud or Odoo Online, accept the subscription as the cost of not owning infrastructure, and spend the money you saved on implementation, which neither vendor includes.

A business already running one of them

Stay. Both are mature with deep published feature surfaces, and switching an ERP is one of the most expensive projects a company can commission. The trigger to move should be a specific failure, not a licence renewal or a pricing change. Frappe offers education and non-profit discounts on request, and Odoo’s 12-month discount window applies to initial users ordered, so look at both before assuming the price is fixed.

A small Indian service firm with no ERP-shaped problem

Skip both. See the section below, and read it with the same scepticism you would apply to us: an ERP is a large instrument for a customer-to-cash problem, and buying one because it is impressive is how a business ends up maintaining software it does not need.

Disclosed alternative

If the real requirement is not an ERP at all

What NoxOrigin is, stated with its limits

We publish this page, so treat this section as ours rather than neutral. NoxOrigin is a commercial operating record for Indian service businesses: the customer who created the opportunity is the same customer attached to the quote, the project, the invoice, the payment, and the outstanding balance. It is priced per workspace in rupees on our own published platform plans, from Starter at ₹800 per month for 3 users up to Agency at ₹5,000 per month for 25 users across 3 workspaces. See the NoxOrigin plans in INR.

Here is what it is not, and we will not let this page imply otherwise. No NoxOrigin platform plan includes accounting, payroll, inventory, purchasing, manufacturing, or a point of sale, all of which both ERPs above do have. We have no timesheet record, no payroll, no change-request record, no milestone record, no deliverable record, no contract editor, and no e-signature. We do not file GST returns or any other return, and a scope change is handled as a new quote on the same project.

The one situation where it is the right answer

When you are a small Indian service firm whose problem is that the customer record is split across a CRM, a work tool, and a spreadsheet, and you have no intention of running ERP infrastructure, no manufacturing or stock to track, and no payroll to process. In that case an ERP is a larger commitment than the problem deserves, and paying per user for a suite of modules you will never open is not a saving.

That is the whole of the case, and it is a narrow one. If you need a general ledger you can defend to a bank, a point of sale that talks to stock, or a payroll run, buy ERPNext or Odoo and do not let a vendor talk you out of it. Read the wider NoxOrigin versus Odoo comparison for the operating-record-versus-suite question, and Zoho One versus Odoo for suite breadth against per-country pricing.

FAQ

Questions buyers ask us first

Is ERPNext really free, and what does it actually cost?

The software is free and the vendor says so. Frappe Technologies publishes ERPNext under a licence its own pricing page records as "Open Source", with a structured-data offer of price 0 in INR, and its FAQ states that ERPNext is "a free and open-source software and always will remain so" and that you can install it locally, host it on your own server, and "pay us absolutely nothing". What that does not include is running it. The same page says your cost has two components, Hosting and Implementation, and that the self-host route is "AGPL-3.0 licensed" and described as "Great for companies with a tech team". We publish no rupee figure for hosting a self-hosted ERPNext, because we could not read one: Frappe publishes hosting prices for its own managed platform, not for a server you run yourself. Your real number is a server, a backup policy, and somebody's time, and you have to cost that yourself.

How do Odoo Community and Odoo Enterprise actually differ?

Odoo's own edition-comparison page states that its software "is available in 2 versions: Odoo Community (open-source) and Odoo Enterprise (licensed)", that "Odoo Community is the core upon which Odoo Enterprise is built", and that you "can switch versions at any time". Reading the feature table on that page row by row, every capability is marked either as present in both editions or as Enterprise only. Not one row is marked Community only. The Enterprise-only rows include Unlimited Functional support, Version Upgrades, Hosting, Mobile for Android and iOS, Accounting and its Comprehensive Accounting sub-features, Payroll, Documents, Sign, Subscriptions, Rental, Barcode, PLM, Quality, Appraisals, Social Marketing, Marketing Automation, Timesheet grid view, timer, reminders and validation, Field Service, Helpdesk, Planning, Appointments, Approvals, VoIP, IoT, Knowledge, and Studio. The rows present in both editions include Invoicing, CRM, Sales, Point of Sale, Inventory, Manufacturing (MRP), Purchase, Employees, Recruitment, Project, Timesheet, Discuss and Calendar. Odoo publishes no Enterprise edition price on that page, and we publish none.

What does Odoo cost per user in India?

Odoo's pricing page publishes rupee figures. One App Free is Rs 0 for one app with unlimited users on Odoo Online. Standard is Rs 580 per user per month billed yearly, or Rs 760 billed monthly, with a marked price of Rs 725 and Rs 950. Custom is Rs 1,080 per user per month billed yearly, or Rs 1,350 monthly. A Light User licence is listed at Rs 195 and is obtained through a quote from an Odoo Advisor. Two footnotes matter more than the headline: the discount is valid for 12 months for initial users ordered, and the cost of Odoo.sh hosting is not included. Implementation is also not included on any plan.

Is self-hosting ERPNext cheaper than paying for Odoo?

Sometimes, and the arithmetic is not close to settled, so we will not hand you a number. Frappe publishes managed hosting on Frappe Cloud at Sites $5 or ₹410 onwards per month, Servers $20 or ₹1,800 onwards per month, and a third tier at $125 or ₹5,400 onwards per month, and for enterprise hosting it publishes Standard hosting at ₹20,000 or $250 onwards per month and Enterprise hosting at ₹80,000 or $1,000 onwards per month. Those are prices for Frappe running it for you. If you self-host, none of those figures applies to you, and instead of a subscription you take on the server, the upgrades, the backups, the uptime, and the one person who understands the stack when it breaks at 9pm on a Saturday. Frappe's own framing is the fairest summary: it says hosting and enterprise support are its primary revenue sources, which is a company telling you plainly that the service is the business. Do not treat a zero licence fee as a zero-cost ERP.

Which of these handles Indian GST invoicing better?

We cannot answer that from what we read, and we will not guess. Frappe's ERPNext pricing page publishes rupee prices and contains no reference to GST, CGST, SGST, IGST, GSTIN, Indian e-invoicing, or e-way bills. Odoo's pricing page, edition-comparison page, and Community page also contain no reference to GST, CGST, SGST, IGST, GSTIN, e-invoicing, or e-way bills, and the Odoo India URL and the Odoo Enterprise URLs we tried all returned HTTP 404, so we could not read Odoo's India tax documentation either. That is a statement about which pages we read, not proof that neither product can be configured for India, and it is not tax or compliance advice. If compliant Indian statutory invoicing decides the purchase, put that question to both vendors in writing, in a trial, against your own invoice formats, before you sign anything. For an Indian services firm whose commercial chain is the deciding requirement, our own GST invoicing and UPI collection are described further down this page.

Do I need a technical person to run ERPNext?

If you self-host, yes, and Frappe says so. The self-host option on its pricing page is described as deploying on your own server using their installation scripts and as "Great for companies with a tech team". The same page is explicit that Frappe itself does not sell implementation: it states "Frappe does not provide any implementation services directly" and works instead through a network of certified partners it describes as 200+. It offers three routes, self-implement using the documentation, a Starter Pack from a certified partner, or a partner for implementation, customisation and integrations. If nobody in your business can be that person, budget for Frappe Cloud or a partner rather than discovering the gap after go-live. Note also what Frappe calls Product Warranty: support from Frappe engineers for fixing bugs, which its FAQ explicitly says "does not include functional support".

When should I skip both of these?

When the problem is not an ERP problem. Both ERPNext and Odoo are strong choices for a business that needs accounting, inventory, purchasing, payroll, manufacturing, a point of sale, and multiple companies on one database, and both will cost you implementation effort plus ongoing operational ownership. If what you actually need is a connected record from enquiry to quote to project to GST invoice to payment to outstanding balance for a small Indian service team, an ERP is a large instrument for that job. Say so plainly and you will be right. That is the only situation in which a small vendor-operated platform is a defensible alternative rather than a compromise, and we are not going to pretend the two ERPs are short of things it does: neither NoxOrigin platform plan includes accounting, payroll, inventory, purchasing, manufacturing, or a point of sale.

Sources checked

What we read, and what we could not

Read on 4 October 2026. Every figure on this page is printed above in the currency and billing period the publisher’s own page displayed. We converted no currency, added no tax to any vendor figure, and derived no number. Three disclosures: Odoo publishes no Enterprise edition price on any page we could read, so this page compares on the published licence model and publishes no Enterprise price; every Odoo India and Odoo Enterprise URL we tried returned HTTP 404, so we publish no India tax claim for either product; and the name of Frappe’s third hosting tier did not render as text in the page we fetched, so we publish its price and its described capabilities but not a plan name.

Frappe Technologies

ERPNext pricing, hosting tiers, self-host, and the pricing FAQ

Read 4 October 2026 at frappe.io/erpnext/pricing, which is where erpnext.com/pricing redirects. ERPNext is published by Frappe Technologies, not by a separate ERPNext company, and the page's own structured data names Frappe Technologies as publisher with a licence of "Open Source" and an offer of price 0 in INR, category Free. The page states your cost has two components, Hosting and Implementation, and that ERPNext "is free and open-source, but needs to be hosted on cloud". On Frappe Cloud, its own managed hosting platform, it says you "pay only for what you use, and not per user!". Published tiers: Sites at $5 or ₹410 onwards per month, described as a single site with managed upgrades and backups on shared servers, and available on AWS and OCI in plans starting $25/mo or ₹2050/mo and on Hetzner in plans starting $5/mo or ₹410/mo. Servers at $20 or ₹1,800 onwards per month, described as shared or dedicated instances, unified or separate app and database, with limited uptime guarantees and only incident support, and available only for AWS and OCI in plans starting $50/mo or ₹4,100/mo. A third card at $125 or ₹5,400 onwards per month, described as "Everything in Hetzner, plus" with superior dedicated server isolation, server snapshots, autoscaling, stronger reliability guarantees, global data centre locations and product warranty. The name of that third card did not render as text in the version of the page we fetched, so we publish the price and the described capabilities and not a plan name. Self-host is offered as deploying on your own server using their installation scripts, "AGPL-3.0 licensed", and "Great for companies with a tech team". Implementation is offered three ways, self-implement, a Starter Pack from a certified partner, or a partner from what the page calls a global network of 200+ partners, and the FAQ states "Frappe does not provide any implementation services directly". The FAQ also states a 14-day free trial before a Frappe Cloud plan is required, that Product Warranty is support from Frappe engineers for fixing bugs and "does not include functional support", that Priority SLA is faster response and resolution per Table II of their SLA, that discounts exist for education institutes and non-profits on request, and that "we are 100% open-source. Our source code has been open source since 2009." Enterprise plans are not priced on the page: it says only "Need Enterprise plans? Speak to our solution consultants." The page contains no reference to GST, CGST, SGST, IGST, GSTIN, e-invoicing, or e-way bills.

Open the source

Frappe Technologies

ERPNext for Large Enterprises: enterprise hosting figures and Frappe's own TCO claim

Read 4 October 2026 at frappe.io/erpnext/enterprise. The page states that with Frappe Cloud's pay-as-you-go structure you pay for services used, on daily billing invoices at the end of the month, with no upfront fees. Published enterprise hosting: Standard hosting at ₹20,000 or $250 onwards per month, starting from 2 vCPUs, 4GB memory and 25GB expandable storage, with 99.9% uptime, multi-region hosting, monitoring, multiple environments, unlimited bench groups and sites, server analytics and alerts, server logs, managed installations, upgrades, backup and restore, incident and application support, and product warranty for up to 5 sites. Enterprise hosting at ₹80,000 or $1,000 onwards per month, starting from 4 vCPUs, 8GB memory and 50GB expandable storage, with the same list plus priority support, a dedicated support agent, priority SLAs and on-call support. Frappe's total-cost-of-ownership statement on that page, quoted as their claim and not as a verified result, is that customers who choose ERPNext lower the TCO of ERP from 2-6% of revenue to less than 0.5%, and Frappe defines that TCO as including licensing, customizations, implementation, hosting, training, support and upgrade costs. The page also says ERPNext has evolved over the past 17 years. This page names no customer figures we publish and we quote none.

Open the source

Odoo

Odoo pricing in INR, the licence model, and what the plans exclude

Read 4 October 2026 at odoo.com/pricing. odoo.com/page/pricing redirects to the same URL and the two fetches were byte-identical apart from a session CSRF token, so it is one page, not two. Published plans: One App Free at Rs 0 for one app with unlimited users on Odoo Online; Standard at Rs 580 per user per month billed yearly and Rs 760 monthly, with a marked price of Rs 725 and Rs 950; Custom at Rs 1,080 yearly and Rs 1,350 monthly; and a Light User at Rs 195. Standard and Custom include all apps for a single fee, the page naming Sales, eCommerce, Sign, Website, Accounting, CRM, Inventory, HR, Project and POS among others. Two footnotes: the discount is valid for 12 months for initial users ordered, and Odoo.sh hosting cost is not included. The page states all plans include unlimited support, hosting and maintenance, and its FAQ specifies unlimited email support Monday to Friday 24/5 in English, French, Spanish or Dutch, free eLearning access, and upgrades included at no extra fee, with hosting, incremental daily backups on two continents, and 24/7 monitoring. Excluded from the plans: Odoo.sh hosting for custom developments, with Odoo Online storage unmetered up to 100GB, implementation service and access to Odoo expert services, in-app-purchase credits such as SMS and lead generation, and maintenance of custom code. The paying-user definition is someone who has access to the backend to create, view or edit documents, or an employee record with no linked user, and external users such as customers and suppliers using the portal are explicitly not paying users. A Light User is an active account designated as such in the software, or an active employee record not linked to an active non-portal user, with capabilities limited to its own timeoffs, expenses, appraisals, attendances, referrals and planning, field services, inventory barcode operator, read-only Knowledge, payslips, Point of Sale and Manufacturing shop floor, and a Light User licence requires a meeting with an Odoo Advisor for a customised quote. Implementation routes named: Success Packs for small companies, a partner for mid-size and large companies above 50 employees, and Odoo directly for organisations of 250 or more. The page footer carries an Indian contact number, +91 79 4050 0100. The page contains no reference to GST, CGST, SGST, IGST, GSTIN, e-invoicing, or e-way bills.

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Odoo

Compare Editions: the Community and Enterprise feature split

Read 4 October 2026 at odoo.com/page/editions, reached from the Compare Editions link on the pricing page. The page states: "Our business management software is available in 2 versions: Odoo Community (open-source) and Odoo Enterprise (licensed). Odoo Community is the core upon which Odoo Enterprise is built - and you can switch versions at any time." The page groups features under General, User interface, Finance, Sales, Websites, Supply Chain, Human Resources, Marketing, Services, Productivity and Customization, each row marked for Community, Enterprise, or both. We read every feature row on the page: each is marked present in both editions or marked Enterprise only, and no row is marked Community only. Enterprise-only rows include Unlimited Functional support, Version Upgrades, Hosting, Mobile for Android and iOS, Accounting and its Comprehensive Accounting sub-features, AI, Payroll, expense digitalization and reimbursement in payslip, Documents, Spreadsheet, Sign, ESG, Subscriptions, Rental, Amazon Connector, Barcode, Shopfloor with Control Panel and Scheduling, PLM, Quality, Referrals, Appraisals, Social Marketing, Marketing Automation, Timesheet grid view, timer, reminders and validation, Field Service, Helpdesk, Planning, Appointments, Approvals, VoIP, IoT, Knowledge, and Studio. Rows present in both editions include Desktop and web browser, Invoicing, Payments, Expenses, CRM, Sales, Point of Sale, Website Builder, eCommerce, Blog, Forum, Live Chat, eLearning, Inventory, Manufacturing (MRP), Purchase, Maintenance, Employees, Recruitment, Time Off, Fleet, Email Marketing, SMS Marketing, Events, Surveys, Project, Timesheet, Discuss, To-Do and Calendar. Odoo publishes no Enterprise edition price on this page and we publish none.

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Odoo

Odoo Community download page

Read 4 October 2026 at odoo.com/page/community. The page states "Download Odoo Community" with the description "The Open Source edition of Odoo", and describes Odoo as "a suite of open source business apps that cover all your company needs: CRM, eCommerce, accounting, inventory, point of sale, project management, etc." It also carries Odoo's own claim that "20,000+ people contribute to the success of Odoo from around the world", which we attribute to Odoo rather than adopt. The page publishes no price for either edition.

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Odoo India and Odoo Enterprise pages, all of which returned HTTP 404

On 4 October 2026 we tried odoo.com/page/india, odoo.com/page/enterprise, odoo.com/page/community-vs-enterprise, odoo.com/page/compare-editions, odoo.com/compare-editions, odoo.com/compare-editions/community-vs-enterprise, odoo.com/page/compare-versions and odoo.com/erpnext-vs-odoo. Every one returned HTTP 404, and odoo.com/editions served the pricing page rather than a separate editions page. Because of that this page publishes no figure, no feature claim, and no India localisation statement from any of those URLs, and we make no claim either way about either product's Indian tax or e-invoicing scope. Those are questions to put to Odoo and Frappe in writing, not weaknesses we have confirmed.

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NoxOrigin

Our own published plan list

The INR figures in the brief NoxOrigin section come from our own pricing content: Starter ₹800 per month and ₹8,000 annually for 3 users in 1 workspace, Growth ₹1,600 per month and ₹15,000 annually for 10 users, and Agency ₹5,000 per month and ₹48,000 annually for 25 users across 3 workspaces. These are platform plans only. NoxCRM, Nox-Billings, and Nox-Tickets are scoped custom deployments and carry no list price. No platform plan includes accounting, payroll, inventory, purchasing, manufacturing, or a point of sale.

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