A BrightHR alternative with prices on the website

HR, payroll, and health & safety in one platform, with per-user prices you can read without booking a call, monthly billing you can cancel at the end of any period, and a 14-day trial with no card.

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HR £6 and Health & Safety £9 per user per month, on top of the £29/month platform fee. Comms is free. Full pricing.

What OpSemble gives you

HR and payroll

Employee records, leave and absence, clocking in, shift planning, onboarding, recruitment with AI CV screening, UK PAYE payroll with payslips, expenses, reviews and e-signed contracts.

Health and safety

Incident reporting with RIDDOR deadlines, risk assessments and RAMS, COSHH, PPE, permits, contractors, visitors, toolbox talks and an ISO 45001 register.

Training

Video inductions with stop-point questions, SCORM, certificates and a training matrix that fills itself in, synced to the HR record.

Public pricing

Every module price is on the pricing page. Build your plan online and see the exact monthly figure in two minutes.

Monthly billing

Subscriptions run monthly and can be cancelled at any time, taking effect at the end of the current billing period.

Everything else, if you want it

CRM, projects, invoicing, inventory and team comms in the same tenant, switched on per module.

Switching from BrightHR

Import your people

Employees import from a spreadsheet. Leave balances, departments and job details come with them.

Switch on the modules you used

HR for records and leave, Health & Safety for the safety side, Training if you used e-learning. Nothing else is charged.

Run both for a fortnight

The trial is 14 days with no card. Keep BrightHR running until you’re sure.

Cancel the old one on its terms

Check your BrightHR contract for notice periods before you give notice. That’s the part we can’t change for you.

Side by side

Structural differences, not a feature scorecard. BrightHR is quote-based, so anything about its price or terms is what third-party reviews report, not a list price.

	BrightHR	OpSemble
Pricing	Quote-based; no public list prices. Reviews report roughly £4–£28 per employee/month depending on tier.	Published: £29/month platform fee plus £6 per user for HR and £9 for Health & Safety. Seats are per module.
Contract	Typically multi-year, per reviews and BrightHR’s own terms; check yours.	Monthly, cancel at any time, effective at the end of the billing period.
Trial	Demo-led.	14 days free, no card, keep your data if you subscribe.
HR	Records, leave, rotas, documents, clocking, expenses.	The same, plus UK payroll, recruitment with AI CV screening, reviews, e-sign contracts and pension auto-enrolment.
Health & safety	BrightSafe: risk assessments, incidents, e-learning.	Incidents with RIDDOR deadlines, RAMS, COSHH, PPE, permits, contractors, visitors, toolbox talks, audits, ISO 45001 and 14001 registers.
Employment law advice	Yes: an advice line backed by Peninsula.	No. OpSemble is software; you keep your own adviser.
Beyond HR and H&S	No.	CRM, projects, quality, training, invoicing, inventory and comms in the same tenant.
Data hosting	UK/EU.	UK (Azure UK South).

Competitor details are from public sources and third-party reviews at the time of writing and may have changed. If you spot something wrong, tell us at sales@opsemble.co.uk and we’ll fix it.

Should you leave BrightHR?

BrightHR has two things OpSemble doesn’t: an employment law advice line, and a decade of track record. If the advice line is the reason you pay for it, that’s a real benefit and you should price it against a standalone HR adviser before switching. If you’re paying for the software and never ring the line, the rest of this page is for you.

The reasons people search for a BrightHR alternative are consistent: they can’t find the price without a sales call, they discovered the contract length after signing, or they need something BrightHR doesn’t do, usually payroll, recruitment or a proper safety system rather than an add-on.

OpSemble was built for the size of business BrightHR sells to, with the opposite commercial model. Prices are public. Billing is monthly. There’s no implementation fee, and the first user is free until your team actually logs in. You switch on HR, and if you need it Health & Safety, and nothing else appears on the bill.

The safety side is where the gap is widest. BrightSafe covers risk assessments, incidents and e-learning. OpSemble Health & Safety is a management system: incidents with RIDDOR deadlines, RAMS, COSHH, permits, contractors and visitors, toolbox talks and an ISO 45001 register, sharing the same people as HR.

For a twenty-person business using HR and Health & Safety, that’s £29 plus £300 a month, before VAT, on a bill you can read and a term you can leave. See the full comparison for how that stacks up against a whole stack of tools, or build your plan for your own numbers.

Frequently asked questions

Does OpSemble include an employment law advice line?

No. OpSemble is software. If you rely on BrightHR’s advice line, keep an HR adviser or employment solicitor alongside OpSemble and compare the combined cost.

Can I import my employees from BrightHR?

Yes. Export your people to a spreadsheet and import them into OpSemble HR. Leave balances and job details can be set as part of the import.

Is there a minimum contract?

No. Subscriptions run monthly and can be cancelled at any time, taking effect at the end of the current billing period. Early customers lock in their rate.

Does OpSemble do payroll?

Yes. UK PAYE payroll with payslips, HMRC submissions and pension auto-enrolment is part of the HR module.

What does OpSemble cost for HR and H&S?

£29/month platform fee, plus £6 per user for HR and £9 per user for Health & Safety. Seats are per module, so only the people who need each one are charged. 14-day free trial, no card required.

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