{
  "$comment": "§New-2 Stage-2 extraction artifact for BambooHR. This file is the evidence behind every BambooHR number rendered anywhere on 0saas. If a field's confidence is not 'verified', the UI must render a link to the source, never a number.",
  "incumbent": "BambooHR",
  "source_url": "https://www.bamboohr.com/pricing/",
  "fetched_at": "2026-09-28",
  "extraction_method": "fetch official pricing page in-session (2026-09-28), extract plan cards + comparison table to strict JSON (no training-data recall)",
  "currency": "USD",
  "price_view_captured": "2026-09-28. All three plan cards and their feature lists read verbatim, including the per-employee asterisk, the volume-discount line, the compliance-training course counts (1 on Core, 15 on Pro) and the dated payroll promotion valid 1 August – 31 December 2026 for qualifying twelve-month commitments.",
  "plans": [
    {
      "name": "No free tier",
      "price": null,
      "price_period": "no standing free plan printed on the page",
      "highlights": [
        "Every card is a paid per-employee subscription",
        "Automatic volume discounts exist but no thresholds are printed",
        "A dated payroll promotion exists — see the note below"
      ],
      "confidence": "verified"
    },
    {
      "name": "Core",
      "price": "$10",
      "price_period": "per employee per month",
      "highlights": [
        "Employee records and custom report builder",
        "Job posting and candidate records",
        "Time-off and benefits tracking",
        "1 compliance training course"
      ],
      "confidence": "verified"
    },
    {
      "name": "Pro",
      "price": "$17",
      "price_period": "per employee per month",
      "highlights": [
        "Everything in Core",
        "360º review cycles, 1:1s, instant reporting",
        "Employee community and recognition",
        "15 compliance training courses",
        "Upgraded AI assistant for policies and handbooks"
      ],
      "confidence": "verified"
    },
    {
      "name": "Elite",
      "price": "$25",
      "price_period": "per employee per month",
      "highlights": [
        "Everything in Pro",
        "Compensation planning and salary benchmarking",
        "Levels and bands",
        "HR benchmarks for turnover, eNPS and wellbeing"
      ],
      "confidence": "verified"
    },
    {
      "name": "Payroll promotion",
      "price": "$0",
      "price_period": "through 31 December 2026, for qualifying customers on a minimum 12-month agreement",
      "highlights": [
        "Payroll subscription fees at $0 for eligible purchases",
        "Implementation, multi-state filing and service fees excluded",
        "Valid 1 August – 31 December 2026; the page reserves the right to change or end it"
      ],
      "confidence": "verified"
    }
  ],
  "free_tier_ceiling_for_displacement_brief": {
    "claim": "There is no free tier. The entry is $10 per employee per month, so the real figure is that rate multiplied by the headcount — twelve people on Pro is $204 a month — and the volume discounts the page mentions are not printed as numbers, so we do not quote them.",
    "confidence": "verified",
    "period_caveat": "The page carries a dated payroll promotion: subscription fees at $0 through 31 December 2026 for customers who commit to a minimum twelve-month agreement, with implementation, multi-state filing and additional payroll or service fees excluded, and with BambooHR reserving the right to modify or end it. It is recorded here with its dates and its exclusions because a promotion printed without its terms is a trap."
  },
  "field_confidence": {
    "free_tier_limit": "verified",
    "paid_tier_price": "verified",
    "per_feature_checkmarks": "unconfirmed"
  },
  "receipts": [],
  "next_check_due": "2026-10-28"
}