ERPNext is a mature, genuinely capable open-source ERP published by Frappe Technologies, with a real community behind it, a full accounting core, manufacturing, stock ledgers, HR and payroll, and a published India compliance app. NoxOrigin is a narrower hosted product: one customer record carrying the opportunity, the agreed scope, the work, the GST invoice, the payment, and the balance for a small Indian business. The buying question for a five to twenty-five person company is not which product has more features. It is which operating model you can actually run. This page does not conclude that one of them wins.
NoxOrigin makes one of the products compared in this article. We describe NoxOrigin from our own shipped product and our canonical pricing file. We have not run ERPNext, self-hosted or on Frappe Cloud, and we have not bought a Starter Pack, so every ERPNext statement here is read from Frappe’s own published pages rather than from hands-on use. We make no claim about how ERPNext feels to work in, and the adoption, customer-count, and partner-count figures on those pages are Frappe’s claims which we have not independently verified. The honest cost picture: the ERPNext licence is free and AGPL-3.0, and Frappe states that self-hosting it yourself costs you nothing in licence fees. Frappe’s own pricing page says your cost has two components, hosting and implementation, and we have published the INR figures for both rather than describing them as free. Neither option is free of operational cost: self-hosting means someone owns upgrades, backups, security, and uptime, and NoxOrigin means a vendor dependency and a per-user platform price. Last verified: 4 October 2026.
NoxOrigin only. We use it daily, so our description of companies, leads, opportunities, quotes, projects, GST invoicing, UPI capture, receivables, and project economics is drawn from the product we ship. NoxOrigin is a young product with a small number of live deployments, and we say so wherever that matters to a buyer. See our current product status.
Four Frappe pages, all read on 4 October 2026: the ERPNext pricing page, the Frappe Cloud pricing page, the ERPNext Starter Pack page, and the ERPNext page for India, plus the ERPNext home page for its published module and feature lists. Two Frappe URLs we tried could not be loaded and are listed in the sources below with the exact failure, and we publish zero figures from them. We did not read Frappe’s product documentation, did not verify its support responsiveness, and quote no review scores, funding figures, or third-party customer counts for either product. Where two Frappe pages disagree with each other, we publish both and resolve neither.
These two products were not built to be comparable feature for feature. ERPNext is an ERP with an accounting core; NoxOrigin is a commercial operating record that stops short of one. Several rows below are therefore different jobs rather than one product being better, and where ERPNext is deeper we say so plainly.
| Dimension | NoxOrigin | ERPNext (source-verified) |
|---|---|---|
| What the product is | A commercial operating record for Indian businesses: companies, contacts, leads, opportunities, projects, quotes, invoices, payments, and receivables, with the profitability of each engagement visible against the customer who bought it. Delivered by us as a hosted product on published plans. | An open-source ERP published by Frappe Technologies and licensed AGPL-3.0 for self-hosting. Frappe describes it as a comprehensive enterprise resource planning system that works out of the box for almost any industry and country, with accounts, procurement, sales, CRM, stock, manufacturing, projects, point of sale, HR, payroll, and a no-code builder. |
| Pricing model | Per-workspace platform subscription published in INR. Starter INR 800 per month for three users in one workspace, Growth INR 1,600 per month for ten users, and Agency INR 5,000 per month for twenty-five users across three workspaces, with annual billing at INR 8,000, INR 15,000, and INR 48,000. Published add-ons are INR 500 per month per five team members and INR 750 per month per additional workspace. No implementation fee appears in the platform plan list. | No per-user price. Frappe states that you pay for hosting and for implementation, not for seats, and that ERPNext itself is free and open source. The recurring figure is hosting on Frappe Cloud, and the larger figure is a one-time implementation, published as fixed-price Starter Packs or quoted partner work. |
| Published hosting cost | Included in the plan price. There is no separate hosting line because there is nothing for you to host. | Frappe Cloud entry tier for a single site on shared servers with managed upgrades and backups: USD 5 onwards per month, INR 410 onwards per month. A server tier: USD 20 onwards and INR 1,800 onwards per month on the ERPNext pricing page, but USD 40 onwards and INR 3,600 onwards per month on the Frappe Cloud pricing page read the same day. A third tier: USD 125 onwards and INR 5,400 onwards per month. Two Frappe pages disagree on the server tier and we publish both. |
| Implementation cost | No implementation fee is published in the platform plan list. The trade is that the product is narrower and the configuration surface is smaller, and that dedicated or customer-branded deployments are scoped as quotes. | Published as fixed price. ERPNext Starter Pack: Core ERPNext covering finance, sales, purchase, and inventory at INR 80,000 for 40 hours; plus manufacturing at INR 1,40,000 for 70 hours; plus manufacturing and Frappe HR at INR 2,00,000 for 100 hours; Frappe HR alone at INR 60,000 for 30 hours. Lower entry cards: self-implementer consulting at INR 10,000 for 5 hours, Starter at INR 50,000 for 20 hours, Distribution at INR 1,00,000 for 50 hours. Frappe states these are for small businesses with fewer than 50 users, standard implementations with no customisations, and full advance payment before work begins. |
| Accounting core | Not provided, and we do not imply otherwise. NoxOrigin has no general ledger, no financial statements, and no fixed-asset register. Expense tracking sits in Nox-Billings and purchasing sits in a separate Commerce product, both scoped deployments rather than the platform plan. | A real strength, and the single clearest reason to choose ERPNext. Frappe publishes multi-subsidiary, multi-currency, general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, financial statements, fixed assets, and global tax and compliance. |
| Manufacturing and stock | No manufacturing and no MRP. The Commerce area covers catalog, stock, warehouses, purchasing, promotions, point-of-sale billing, and a day-end review reconciling expected cash, counted cash, payment mix, discounts, and variance. Day-end close and reconciliation are assisted-setup maturity rather than self-serve, and we would rather say that than imply a switch is enough. | Published modules for both. Manufacturing lists multi-level BOM, production planning, work orders, job cards, subcontracting, and quality checks. Stock lists item master, warehouses, serial and batch tracking, stock ledger, item defaults, and inventory reports. A business with a factory or a real stock ledger is not served by NoxOrigin. |
| Projects, time, and cost | Projects, tasks, task lists, assignments, and recurring follow-ups, scoped to work attached to a client and opportunity. There is no milestone record, no deliverable record, no change-request record, and no timesheet record. A scope change is handled as a new quote attached to the same project. | Projects publishes project and task tracking, revenue recognition, expenses tracking, timesheet tracking, inventory tracking, and cashflow management. Timesheets, labor cost, revenue recognition, and expense tracking are all areas where NoxOrigin does not compete. |
| HR and payroll | Not provided. No payroll module, and no patient or clinical record. | HR and payroll are published as modules, and Frappe HR is sold standalone at INR 60,000 for 30 hours as a Starter Pack and as an add-on module to the larger packs. |
| CRM and quoting | Companies, contacts, leads, opportunities, ownership, pipeline stages, dated next actions, and shared customer conversations in the Inbox. Quotes are raised against the client and project and convert to an invoice without re-keying. Multiple sales processes from Growth upward. | CRM publishes leads, opportunities, quotations, multi-territory sales, SLA management, and newsletters. Sales publishes an order-to-cash flow with sales orders, sales invoices, print formats, and pricing rules. Frappe also sells CRM as a separate app, which is worth knowing if CRM is all you need. |
| Indian GST | GST invoices with automatic CGST and SGST splits for intra-state sales and IGST for inter-state, HSN and SAC fields, B2B invoices carrying a GSTIN, and GST-wise tax reports for your accountant to review. | Per Frappe’s own claims, ERPNext is stronger here. The India Compliance app is described as automatically pre-configuring GST tax ledgers, HSN and SAC codes, and Item Tax Templates for in-state, interstate, and union territory transactions. |
| E-invoicing and statutory reports | Not provided. We do not claim IRN e-invoicing, e-waybill generation, or statutory return filing, and a tax report is not a filed return. | Frappe states that for businesses on Frappe Cloud, e-invoicing is fully integrated into the subscription, that the GST invoice print template converts the government-issued IRN into a scannable QR code, and that statutory reports including GSTR-1, GSTR-2, and GSTR-3B are generated. Those are Frappe’s claims, quoted as claims, and we give no compliance advice about what they mean for your business. |
| Payments and collections | Quotes convert to invoices, UPI payment capture with the transaction reference recorded, payment reports split across cash, UPI, card, and credit, payment promises, and receivables raised against the work that caused them. Razorpay payment links from Growth upward. | Sales publishes payments and payment modes, and point of sale publishes collections and invoicing. We read no UPI-specific capture claim on the Frappe pages we used, so we publish none for ERPNext. |
| Who runs the server | We do. NoxOrigin is a hosted service and we own the infrastructure, the upgrades, and the uptime. There is no self-hosted edition, which is a genuine limitation for an organisation with an infrastructure mandate or a data-residency requirement. | Your choice, and the decision is the whole comparison. Frappe publishes that a self-hosted deployment means manual upgrades, manual and error-prone backups, manual logs, manual disaster recovery, and no Frappe support, while Frappe Cloud means automated upgrades, offsite backups, monitoring, granular permissions, premium support, and Frappe support for first-party apps. Frappe also states you can host it on your own cloud. |
| Support model | Direct support from the NoxOrigin team. Dedicated and customer-branded deployments are scoped quotes, and day-end close and reconciliation are set up with assistance rather than turned on by a switch. | Frappe states that Product Warranty is support from Frappe engineers for fixing bugs in Frappe apps and Frappe Cloud, raised through a support portal, and states explicitly that it does not include functional support. Priority SLA is sold separately. Frappe states it does not provide implementation services directly and works through certified partners, so a self-hoster is largely on their own for anything functional. |
| Customisation | Custom fields, saved views, imports, and a smaller configuration surface. We do not offer a no-code builder, and deep custom development is a scoped project rather than a plan feature. | Frappe publishes a no-code builder and states that forms, reports, print formats, and dashboards can be designed and tasks automated on top of the Frappe Framework. This is a real advantage for an organisation whose processes are genuinely unusual. |
| Maturity and community | A young product with few live deployments. If your buying criteria include a long public operating history, a large user community, or an ecosystem of third-party modules, that is a real mark against us. See our current product status. | A long-lived project with an active open-source community. Frappe publishes its own ecosystem figures, 50,000+ customers, 20,000+ developers, 200 partners, and 50,000+ GitHub stars, and separately claims 30,000+ businesses have adopted ERPNext. We report these as Frappe’s claims and verified none of them. |
If you need a general ledger, financial statements, fixed assets, or multi-subsidiary accounting, ERPNext is the better buy and we say so without hedging. NoxOrigin has none of those, and no amount of invoicing polish substitutes for a ledger your accountant can rely on.
It is also the better buy if you manufacture, if you need serial and batch tracking or a genuine stock ledger, if you run HR and payroll, or if you bill on recorded time. Frappe publishes all of these as ERPNext capabilities. We have no timesheet record, no payroll, no manufacturing, and no stock ledger.
And it is the better buy if you have technical capacity and a preference for owning your infrastructure, or if you need e-invoicing and statutory reports from inside the system. If your requirement is compliance output rather than commercial paper, this page is telling you to skip NoxOrigin.
NoxOrigin is the better buy when the operational problem is the customer record rather than the company’s books. The customer who created the opportunity is the same customer attached to the agreed scope, the work, the invoice, the payment, the outstanding balance, and the profitability of that engagement. That chain is what lets you ask which clients owe money on work currently in progress and get an answer.
It is the better buy when nobody on the team wants to own a server. Frappe publishes its own comparison of the two models, and on the self-hosted side it lists manual upgrades, manual and error-prone backups, manual disaster recovery, and no Frappe support. Someone has to do that work, and in a five-person company that someone is usually the founder.
It is the better buy when the honest comparison is subscription against subscription. We publish INR 800, INR 1,600, and INR 5,000 per month with annual totals and no implementation fee in the plan list, and Frappe publishes hosting plus a one-time implementation that starts at INR 80,000 for Core ERPNext. The trade is real: you give up the ledger, manufacturing, stock, HR, payroll, timesheets, and the open-source community, and we do not pretend those are small things. See the NoxOrigin plans in INR.
Strip away the feature lists and the India question is mostly about four things: what the software licence actually costs you once hosting and implementation are counted, whether the invoice your customer needs is a compliant GST invoice, whether the statutory output you need is produced inside the system, and whether the money comes back over a method your customer actually uses.
Frappe is more forthcoming about this than most vendors, and we are quoting it rather than paraphrasing it. Its pricing page states that ERPNext is free and open-source but needs to be hosted on cloud, and that your cost will include two components, hosting and implementation. The published hosting entry tier is INR 410 onwards per month. The published implementation entry tier for a business that wants finance, sales, purchase, and inventory set up properly is INR 80,000, and it rises to INR 1,40,000 with manufacturing and INR 2,00,000 with manufacturing and HR. Add advance payment before work begins and the real question for a small firm is not whether the licence is free. It is whether you want a subscription or a project.
Do the arithmetic honestly, in rupees, before anyone talks about features. A self-implementer consulting pack is published at INR 10,000 for five hours, and if your team can genuinely run the system itself, that path is cheap and it keeps your per-seat software cost at zero. If it cannot, the Core ERPNext pack is INR 80,000 plus hosting, plus whatever your own time costs across a two to three month timeline. Against that, NoxOrigin publishes INR 1,600 per month for ten users and INR 5,000 per month for twenty-five users, with no implementation fee in the plan list. We are not claiming we are cheaper, because the two are not buying the same thing, and we are certainly not claiming ERPNext is expensive. We are saying the entry decision is subscription versus project, and that Frappe publishes enough of both numbers for you to decide.
Both products publish Indian rupee figures, which is rarer than it should be and worth noting. On the invoice itself, NoxOrigin generates GST invoices with the right CGST and SGST split for an intra-state sale and IGST for an inter-state one, carries a GSTIN on B2B invoices, and produces GST-wise tax reports. Frappe describes more on the compliance side: an India Compliance app that pre-configures GST tax ledgers, HSN and SAC codes, and Item Tax Templates, e-invoicing integrated into the Frappe Cloud subscription, the government IRN rendered as a scannable QR code, and GSTR-1, GSTR-2, and GSTR-3B reports. We publish that as Frappe’s claim about its product.
We give no tax or compliance advice on this page, and we are not going to tell you what Indian law requires of your business. Nor do we file your returns: NoxOrigin does not file GST returns and a tax report is not a filed return. If statutory output is the deciding requirement, that is a question for Frappe and for your accountant, and if it is a question for us, it is a question for a NoxOrigin deployment. Keep a competent accountant in charge of filing on either route. Read the GST billing software versus ERP comparison for the commercial-billing side of this.
UPI is how a large share of Indian business invoices settle. NoxOrigin captures a UPI payment against the invoice with the transaction reference stored, and reports collections split across cash, UPI, card, and credit, with payment promises for the ones that are late. Frappe publishes payments, payment modes, and point-of-sale collections on the pages we read, which is helpful, but we read no UPI-specific capture claim and we publish none for ERPNext. If UPI collection against a project invoice is your deciding requirement, ask Frappe directly rather than assuming it from a payments feature list.
The chain is broken across a CRM, spreadsheets, and a billing tool, and nobody is going to become a Linux administrator this year. NoxOrigin Growth at INR 1,600 per month with project economics is the proportionate answer, and the absence of a ledger is acceptable because your accountant already holds one.
Frappe publishes no per-user pricing and a self-implementer consulting pack at INR 10,000, and it publishes its own comparison of self-hosted against Frappe Cloud so you can see exactly what you would be taking on. If you genuinely want to own the stack, ERPNext is the better buy and you should skip NoxOrigin. Read the self-hosting column before you decide, not after.
Buy ERPNext. Frappe publishes multi-level BOM, production planning, work orders, job cards, subcontracting, serial and batch tracking, and a stock ledger, and publishes manufacturing implementations at INR 1,40,000 and INR 2,00,000. NoxOrigin has no manufacturing and no stock ledger, and this is not a gap we can argue our way out of.
Choose ERPNext. Frappe publishes general ledger, financial statements, fixed assets, multi-subsidiary accounting, and GSTR-1, GSTR-2, and GSTR-3B reports. NoxOrigin has no general ledger and we do not file returns. If the deciding requirement is statutory output rather than commercial paper, this is not the comparison that gives you permission to choose us.
If the work is client-facing and the failure mode is handoffs, NoxOrigin Agency at INR 5,000 per month covers twenty-five users across three workspaces with the published limits stated rather than negotiated. If the same firm also wants a consolidated ledger across three workspaces, ERPNext is the better buy and no amount of commercial-chain polish compensates for not having one.
There is usually no reason to move. ERPNext covers the accounting, stock, projects, and HR that NoxOrigin does not attempt, and its published India compliance work is ahead of ours. The trigger to look at something else is a specific collections or client-record failure, not a feature comparison. If that happens, running both side by side is a legitimate answer.
We have not migrated a customer away from ERPNext, so this is a description of the work rather than a case study with outcomes, and we publish no customer names here.
This is the part founders underestimate. An ERPNext implementation holds a chart of accounts, ledgers, fiscal-year history, and statutory references that NoxOrigin has no equivalent for. If your accountant works from those reports, moving the commercial chain into NoxOrigin does not remove the need for a ledger, it just splits it across two systems. Decide deliberately whether you are replacing the ERP or running both, and write down which one owns the books.
Frappe publishes the shape of the work: fixed-scope Starter Packs with stated hours, full advance payment before the engagement begins, standard implementations with no customisation, and implementation carried out by Frappe partners rather than by Frappe directly. If you take the self-implement path, Frappe states Product Warranty is bug support and explicitly does not include functional support, so the functional burden is yours. Budget for the timeline the page states rather than the software licence.
Two systems both claiming authority over the same client is the most common cause of duplicate invoices and duplicated follow-ups. Agree which system owns the customer list and which owns the invoice number before the first import, and write it down where the team can find it.
GST ledgers, HSN and SAC masters, and Item Tax Templates are pre-configured once and then depended on. If you are moving in either direction, agree who re-establishes those masters and who validates them with your accountant, because a tax report nobody trusts is worse than no tax report.
If ERPNext keeps the project or accounting record while NoxOrigin holds the commercial chain, something has to move data on a schedule. Agree the export format, the frequency, and the person who reconciles it. Automations do not carry over between systems and have to be rewritten against the new triggers rather than assumed to follow. .
The software is, and Frappe says so plainly. ERPNext is published by Frappe Technologies, and its own pricing page states that ERPNext is free and open-source, that you can install it locally and host it on your own server and pay Frappe nothing for running and managing it, that there are no paid features hidden behind paywalls, and that the source code has been open source since 2009. The self-host route is AGPL-3.0 licensed. What is not free is everything around it. The same page states that your cost will include two components, hosting and implementation, and Frappe describes hosting and enterprise support as its primary revenue sources. We are not going to tell a founder that a free licence makes a business system free.
Two figures, and the second one is what most discussions about free ERPNext skip. On the running cost: ERPNext has no per-user price, and Frappe's India page states this as a benefit, because you pay for hosting rather than for seats. On the ERPNext pricing page the published entry hosting tier is USD 5 onwards per month, INR 410 onwards per month, for a single site on shared servers with managed upgrades and backups. A server tier is published as USD 20 onwards, INR 1,800 onwards per month, and a higher tier as USD 125 onwards, INR 5,400 onwards per month with dedicated isolation, snapshots, autoscaling, and stronger reliability guarantees. One honest caveat: the separate Frappe Cloud pricing page, read the same day, prints the server tier as USD 40 onwards and INR 3,600 onwards per month. We have not resolved which is current, so we publish both and you should confirm with Frappe before you sign anything. On the setup cost, Frappe publishes fixed prices on the ERPNext Starter Pack page: Core ERPNext, covering finance, sales, purchase, and inventory, at INR 80,000 for 40 hours with 30 days of validity; plus manufacturing at INR 1,40,000 for 70 hours; plus manufacturing and Frappe HR at INR 2,00,000 for 100 hours; and Frappe HR alone at INR 60,000 for 30 hours. Lower entry cards sit below those, at INR 10,000 for 5 hours of self-implementer consulting, INR 50,000 for 20 hours with training, configuration, basic customisation, aided data imports, and three months of post go-live support, and INR 1,00,000 for 50 hours adding inventory and procurement. The page states these packs are only available for small businesses with fewer than 50 users, that they are standard implementations with no customisations, and that full advance payment is required before the engagement begins. Frappe also states it does not provide implementation services directly and instead works through a network of certified partners.
On Frappe's own claims, this is the strongest part of ERPNext's position in India, and it is stronger than ours. Frappe publishes an India Compliance app which it says delivers compliance with India's GST regulations, automatically pre-configures masters such as GST tax ledgers, HSN and SAC codes, and Item Tax Templates for in-state, interstate, and union territory transactions, integrates e-invoicing into the Frappe Cloud subscription, converts the government-issued IRN into a scannable QR code on the GST invoice print template, and generates statutory reports including GSTR-1, GSTR-2, and GSTR-3B. Those are Frappe's claims about its product, quoted from its page, and we have not tested them. We give no compliance advice here and we are not qualified to tell you what Indian law requires; that conversation belongs with your accountant. On our side, NoxOrigin generates GST invoices with automatic CGST and SGST splits for intra-state sales and IGST for inter-state, carries a GSTIN on B2B invoices, and produces GST-wise tax reports for review. We do not file GST returns.
For some small Indian businesses it plainly is, and we will name those buyers rather than hedge. Buy ERPNext if you have someone technical who genuinely wants to run the system, if you need a full accounting core with a general ledger, financial statements, and fixed assets, if you manufacture, if you need a real stock ledger with serial and batch tracking, if you need HR and payroll, or if your requirement is statutory reports and e-invoicing from inside the system. Frappe publishes all of those as ERPNext capabilities, and NoxOrigin has none of them. We also have no timesheet record, no payroll, no patient or clinical record, no milestone record, no deliverable record, no change-request record, no contract editor, and no e-signature. A founder who needs any of that should skip NoxOrigin.
You do, and Frappe publishes the difference rather than hiding it. On its own self-hosted versus Frappe Cloud page, a self-hosted deployment means manual upgrades, manual cron job setup, manual and error-prone backups, manual log configuration, manual and error-prone disaster recovery, unrestricted access control, and no hosting support, with Frappe support listed as not available. Frappe Cloud is listed as automated upgrades, automated offsite backups, automated logs and monitoring, automated disaster recovery, granular permissions at site, server, and bench level, premium support, and Frappe support available for first-party apps such as ERPNext and Frappe HR. One thing to read carefully: Frappe defines Product Warranty as engineers fixing bugs in Frappe apps and Frappe Cloud, raised through a support portal, and states explicitly that it does not include functional support. Faster response times are sold separately as a Priority SLA.
We are not going to convert this into a single number, because the honest inputs do not reduce to one. Frappe's entry hosting tier of INR 410 onwards per month is genuinely lower than any NoxOrigin plan, and Frappe publishes no per-user pricing at all, so your software cost does not rise as you add people. Against that, the implementation figures are large one-time sums: INR 80,000 for Core ERPNext through a Starter Pack, and INR 1,40,000 once manufacturing is in scope. On the other side, NoxOrigin publishes INR 800 per month for three users, INR 1,600 per month for ten users, and INR 5,000 per month for twenty-five users across three workspaces, with annual billing at INR 8,000, INR 15,000, and INR 48,000, and no implementation fee published in that plan list. We are not claiming we are cheaper. The honest statement is that you are comparing a subscription to a hosting fee plus a project, and the two products replace different amounts of what you currently run.
Yes, and for a business that needs the ERPNext accounting core but wants a lighter commercial chain it is often the right answer rather than a compromise. The rule that makes it work is deciding in writing which system owns the customer master record and which owns the invoice number, so the same client never gets two competing histories. Expect a periodic export or handoff between them, and name the person who owns that step. We have not migrated a customer away from ERPNext, so our migration notes describe the work rather than a case study with outcomes.
Read on 4 October 2026. Five Frappe pages were reachable and are cited above with the figures we took from each. Three things we deliberately publish no figure for: a resolved price for the Frappe Cloud server tier, where two Frappe pages contradict each other on the same day; anything from the two Frappe URLs that could not be loaded; and any claim about ERPNext’s support responsiveness, review scores, or funding. Every adoption, customer, developer, partner, and GitHub figure on this page is Frappe’s own claim, quoted as a claim. The NoxOrigin figures come from our canonical pricing file, and a divergence we found while verifying is disclosed in the sources below rather than quietly resolved.
erpnext.com/pricing redirected to frappe.io/erpnext/pricing when we fetched it. The page states that your cost will include two components, hosting and implementation, and that ERPNext is free and open-source but needs to be hosted on cloud. Frappe Cloud is described as Frappe's own managed hosting that eliminates the complexities of installation, setup, upgrading, monitoring, and maintenance, and the page states you pay only for what you use, and not per user. Published tiers: a site on shared servers at USD 5 onwards per month and INR 410 onwards per month with managed upgrades and backups; a server tier at USD 20 onwards and INR 1,800 onwards per month with limited uptime guarantees and only incident support; and a higher tier at USD 125 onwards and INR 5,400 onwards per month with superior dedicated server isolation, server snapshots, autoscaling, stronger reliability guarantees, and global data centre locations. Self-hosting is described as deploying on your own server using their installation scripts, great for companies with a tech team, AGPL-3.0 licensed. The page's FAQ states the software is free and always will remain so, that hosting and enterprise support are the primary revenue sources, that there are no paid features hidden behind paywalls, that the source code has been open source since 2009, that Frappe does not provide implementation services directly and works through a global network of certified partners, that a Frappe Cloud free trial gives 14 days of free ERPNext access, that Product Warranty is bug support from Frappe engineers and does not include functional support, and that faster response is sold separately as a Priority SLA.
Open the sourceThis page prints a site tier of USD 5 onwards per month and INR 410 onwards per month, which matches the ERPNext pricing page, and a server tier of USD 40 onwards per month and INR 3,600 onwards per month, which does not. The ERPNext pricing page read the same day prints the server tier as USD 20 onwards and INR 1,800 onwards per month. We could not determine which figure is current, so this page publishes both with their sources attached and resolves neither. The page also carries Frappe's own self-hosted versus Frappe Cloud table: for self-hosting it lists manual upgrades, manual cron job setup, manual and error-prone backups, manual log configuration, manual and error-prone disaster recovery, unrestricted access, and hosting support not supported, with Frappe support not available; for Frappe Cloud it lists automated upgrades, automated offsite backups, automated logs and monitoring, automated disaster recovery, granular permissions at site, server, and bench level, premium support, and Frappe support available for first-party Frappe apps such as ERPNext and Frappe HR. It also lists Product Warranty with priority SLA as an optional extra on server plans.
Open the sourceA published implementation price list for small businesses. The main table reads: Core ERPNext covering finance, sales, purchase, and inventory at 40 total hours and 30 days validity, INR 80,000; Core ERPNext plus manufacturing at 70 hours and 60 days, INR 1,40,000; Core ERPNext plus manufacturing plus Frappe HR at 100 hours and 90 days, INR 2,00,000; Frappe HR alone at 30 hours and 30 days, INR 60,000. The same page also prints a parallel English table with implementation hours of 60, 80, 120, and 60, a timeline of two, two, three, and two months, and implementation costs of $1800, $2500, $3500, and $1800. Three lower entry cards appear below, each with a price printed after its sign-up button: self-implementer consulting at INR 10,000 for 5 hours of consultation, a Starter pack at INR 50,000 for 20 hours of consultation with training, configuration, basic customisation, aided data imports, and three months of post go-live support, and a Distribution pack at INR 1,00,000 for 50 hours of consultation adding inventory and procurement. The page states the packs are only available for small businesses with fewer than 50 users, that they are standard implementations with no customisations for trading, manufacturing, and services industries, that Frappe recommends a no-frills, minimal customisation implementation, that full advance payment is required before the engagement begins, that a pack covers only the hours specified so more hours means buying a new pack, and that implementation is carried out by Frappe partners. The page also states that vanilla implementations are three times faster, which is Frappe's claim about its own method.
Open the sourceThe page states that the India Compliance app delivers compliance with India's GST regulations, automatically pre-configures masters such as GST tax ledgers, HSN and SAC codes, and Item Tax Templates covering in-state, interstate, and union territory transactions, that for businesses on Frappe Cloud e-invoicing is fully integrated into the subscription, that the system includes a pre-formatted GST invoice print template which dynamically converts the government-issued IRN into a scannable QR code, and that it generates statutory reports including GSTR-1, GSTR-2, and GSTR-3B. The feature chips on the page read E-invoicing, GSTR1, GSTR2 and GSTR3B, and Pre-configured Tax Templates. The page also states there is no per-user pricing and that you pay only for hosting, that ERPNext is ISO 27001 and GDPR compliant, that ERPNext comes with a default hosting option on Frappe Cloud but can also be hosted on your own cloud, and that you can implement it yourself or work with a certified partner. Its ecosystem figures, published by Frappe about the Frappe ecosystem rather than about ERPNext alone, read 50,000+ customers, 20,000+ developers, 200 partners, and 50,000+ GitHub stars, and a separate line on the same page claims 30,000+ businesses worldwide. We publish those as Frappe's own claims and have verified none of them independently.
Open the sourceerpnext.com redirected to frappe.io/erpnext. The page claims ERPNext is the world's best free and open source ERP, that it is 100% open-source with nothing hidden behind paywalls, and that 30,000+ companies have adopted ERPNext, which is Frappe's own adoption claim. The published module list with its feature lists is what we rely on for scope: Accounting with multi-subsidiary, multi-currency, general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, financial statements, fixed assets, and global tax and compliance; Procurement with procure-to-pay, material request, purchase orders, multi-level approvals, supplier scorecards, and supplier payments; Sales with order-to-cash, sales orders, sales invoice, print formats, pricing rules, and payments; CRM with leads, opportunities, quotations, multi-territory sales, SLA management, and newsletters; Stock with item master, warehouses, serial and batch tracking, stock ledger, and inventory reports; Manufacturing with multi-level BOM, production planning, work orders, job cards, subcontracting, and quality checks; Projects with project and task tracking, revenue recognition, expenses tracking, timesheet tracking, inventory tracking, and cashflow management; and point of sale, HR, payroll, quality, support, and a no-code builder. The page also states ERPNext v16 is current.
Open the sourceThe NoxOrigin figures in this comparison come from the canonical pricing file that renders our own pricing page: Starter INR 800 per month and INR 8,000 annually for three users in one workspace, Growth INR 1,600 per month and INR 15,000 annually for ten users, and Agency INR 5,000 per month and INR 48,000 annually for twenty-five users across three workspaces. Published add-ons are team members at INR 500 per month per five users and an additional workspace at INR 750 per month. NoxCRM, Nox-Billings, and Nox-Tickets are scoped custom deployments and carry no list price, and no implementation fee appears in the platform plan list. Verification note: a direct fetch of noxorigin.com/pricing on 4 October 2026 returned a different plan list with different plan names and different figures from the canonical file this site builds from. We have not reconciled which deployment is current, so this page publishes no figure from that fetch and treats the canonical file as the source. Read our pricing page directly before you rely on a number.
Open the sourceRequested to verify Frappe's own description of its managed hosting product. Both https://frappe.io/frappe-cloud and the same path returned HTTP 404 Not Found on 4 October 2026. The related paths linked from the ERPNext pricing page, https://frappe.io/cloud/pricing, https://frappe.io/cloud/servers, https://frappe.io/cloud/sites, and https://frappecloud.com, were reachable and the cloud pricing page is cited separately in this article. Because this page could not be loaded, it publishes no figure, no SLA band, and no plan name from it. If a published uptime or support commitment is deciding your purchase, ask Frappe for it in writing.
Open the sourceRequested as a cross-check on how Frappe positions ERPNext against commercial ERPs. On 4 October 2026 the URL returned HTTP 301 and redirected to https://erpnext.org/contribute, which is a community contribution page rather than a vendor comparison, and the follow-up request did not complete within our timeout. We therefore read no vendor-authored ERPNext-versus-anything-else comparison, and this page publishes no competitive claim, market position, or win-rate figure taken from one. Everything we say about ERPNext's scope on this page comes from the Frappe pages cited above.
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