Quick summary
- OfficePortal Standard is free for the first 5 users, then ₹60 per user per month (about $0.62), with statutory payroll included.
- Zimyo has no permanent free plan, only a 14-day trial. Its published rates are ₹80 (Basic), ₹120 (Standard) and ₹160 (Enterprise) per user per month.
- Every Zimyo plan carries a 50-user minimum billing floor, so a team of 12 pays for 50 seats, roughly ₹4,000 a month before any add-on.
- Zimyo prices Performance, Learn, Engage, Trip Management and Timesheet as separate ₹40 per user per month add-ons each, and recruitment is ₹4,000 per recruiter per month.
Why teams compare OfficePortal and Zimyo
Both are HR and payroll platforms with genuine statutory compliance, so the comparison usually comes down to minimum billing and module pricing rather than whether either one can run payroll correctly. Zimyo is known for a broad module catalogue covering engagement, performance, learning and recruitment, each priced separately on top of its core HR plan.
OfficePortal is built around a lower published entry price with no minimum billing floor, which tends to suit smaller teams better than Zimyo's 50-seat minimum, which applies however small your actual headcount is.
Pricing compared
OfficePortal Standard costs ₹300 a month for a ten-person team, since the first five users are free. Zimyo's Basic plan, by contrast, bills a minimum of 50 users regardless of actual headcount, so a ten-person team pays roughly ₹4,000 a month (50 × ₹80) on Zimyo's lowest tier — over ten times OfficePortal's cost for the same team.
Past 50 employees, Zimyo's per-user rate starts to reflect actual headcount more closely, and its module catalogue (Performance, Learn, Engage, Trip Management, Timesheet, each at ₹40 per user per month, plus Recruit at ₹4,000 per recruiter per month) can add meaningfully to the total if you need several of them.
Payroll and statutory compliance
OfficePortal's payroll software calculates tax, social security, provident fund and other statutory contributions, generates year-end tax statements, and reads directly from attendance and leave, included in the base plan.
Zimyo also runs genuine statutory payroll as part of its core offering, and this is a real strength of the platform, not a weak spot. If compliance depth is your main concern, both products are capable; the deciding factor is more likely to be the 50-user minimum and module pricing.
Where Zimyo may suit you better
- You are at or above 50 employees, where its minimum billing floor stops being a penalty and its per-user rate applies more fairly.
- You want a wide catalogue of HR modules (performance, learning, engagement, recruitment) from a single vendor, even if each is billed separately.
- You are comfortable evaluating Zimyo during its 14-day trial before committing to a 50-seat minimum.
- You want advanced time tracking and trip management add-ons available within the same ecosystem.
Where OfficePortal fits better
- You are under 50 employees and don't want to pay for seats you don't have. This particularly suits startups and IT companies.
- You want a genuinely free start: OfficePortal is free for 5 users; Zimyo offers a 14-day trial only, with no permanent free tier.
- You want attendance with GPS and biometric check-in built into the core plan, through attendance tracking, not a separate add-on.
- You want to avoid per-module add-on pricing stacking up as you add performance, learning or recruitment features.
How to choose
- Work out your actual headcount against Zimyo's 50-user minimum before comparing headline rates.
- List which modules you actually need (performance, learning, engagement, recruitment) and price them in, since Zimyo bills each separately.
- Ask both vendors to demonstrate tax, social security and provident fund contributions output live, using your own data.
- Confirm Zimyo's current minimum billing policy directly, since terms can change.
- Run one month of payroll in parallel before you switch providers.