Dayforce vs Horilla-hr
Dayforce and Horilla-hr are both HR and payroll software. Dayforce is a commercial product from Dayforce. Horilla-hr is open source under LGPL-2.1, with 1.5k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Dayforce when
- A large employer with hourly workforces in North America and other regions wants payroll and time in one engine.
- Pick Horilla-hr when
- A small or mid-size company wants a free self-hosted HR suite and has someone to run Django.
Side by side
HCM suite with continuous-calculation payroll, HR, benefits, time and scheduling, and talent, across many countries.
An HR system with employees, recruitment, onboarding, attendance with biometric devices, leave, payroll, performance, assets and helpdesk.
Enterprise implementation effort, and global payroll coverage varies by country.
Payroll and tax logic need checking for your jurisdiction, and the interface leans on older jQuery.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server and mobile app
Not published
Python, Django, HTMX, PostgreSQL and Redis
Closed source, sold by Dayforce
Open source, LGPL-2.1 (weak copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can use it inside a product you sell; changes you make to its own files must be shared.
1.3k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
1.5k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 3 years ago, latest release 2.2.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.