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Rutba vs Odoo
The closest competitor by shape — modular, open core, and covering most of a business. The differences are the workspace, and how the modules are priced.
Checked 1 September 2026Odoo pricing ↗
What Odoo is
A modular business suite with an open-source community edition and a paid enterprise edition, covering CRM, sales, inventory, manufacturing, accounting and much else, with a large third-party app ecosystem.
Who it genuinely suits
- Businesses with the appetite to configure, or a partner to configure for them
- Anyone who wants an open-source core they could in principle self-host
- Companies whose requirement is unusual enough to need the app ecosystem
Where they win
What Odoo does better than us.
Every comparison page on this site has this section and none of them is empty. If it were, you would be right to discount the rest of the page.
The ecosystem is enormous, and ours does not exist
Thousands of third-party modules, a large partner network and a long tail of community work. If your requirement is niche, someone has probably already built it for Odoo. That is a real advantage and it is not one we can claim.
Maturity
It has been shipped, deployed and stress-tested for years across every kind of business. Every product we sell is younger than that, and several are labelled early access on our own site.
A genuine open-source path
The community edition is real software you can run yourself. Our platform is not open source.
Where we win
What Rutba does that this does not.
Argued from how the products are built rather than from a feature list, because feature lists are the part of a comparison that goes stale first.
The workspace is included rather than assumed
Odoo runs your business and expects your mail, files, documents and meetings to come from Google or Microsoft. Rutba ships those as part of the family, logging back to the business record they concern — so an email about an order is on the order.
No per-application arithmetic
Odoo prices by the applications you switch on, on top of a per-user platform charge, which makes the total a calculation you redo every time you add something. Rutba prices per product with one invoice, and adding a product is a subscription change.
The platform services stand on their own
Our sending, storage, publishing and video products are sold and used independently of the suite. In Odoo they are features of Odoo.
And the one that is not a feature
Odoo S.A. will not build what you ask for. We will.
That is not a criticism of them — a vendor at their scale has to weigh your request against every other customer it touches, and schedule it behind a roadmap set a year out. Your request is a rounding error in their planning, honestly so. We are small, and the people building the product are the people you talk to: what helps everyone goes into the product at no extra charge, what is specific to you is quoted as the work it is, and when the answer is no you get the reason.
Side by side
The same six questions the hub asks of everyone.
| Question | Rutba | Odoo |
|---|---|---|
| Runs the businessCRM, stock, orders, production and the ledger, from one vendor | Included | Included |
| Runs the dayMail, files, documents, chat and meetings, included rather than licensed separately | Included | Extra vendor or licence |
| One set of recordsDo the modules share the records, or integrate copies of them | Included | Included |
| Buy it yourselfCan you subscribe and start without a partner or a sales cycle | Included | Included |
| Parts sold separatelyCan you take one piece without committing to the platform | Included | Not covered |
| Run it yourselfIs there a path to your own hardware | Partly | Included |
On price: We do not reproduce Odoo S.A.’s prices here. A list price is published and fair to quote, and it is stale within a quarter — which would make this page quietly wrong in a way you could not see. Read today’s number from them, and ours is on our pricing page in full, tier by tier.
Moving
What leaving Odoo actually involves.
The question that decides this is not whether you should move but whether you can. This is the honest version, including the parts that do not come across.
- 1
Master data — customers, suppliers, products, chart of accounts — exports cleanly and imports cleanly. This is the easy half and it is most of the volume.
- 2
Open transactions — unpaid invoices, open orders, stock on hand — need a cut-over date and an opening balance rather than a full history import.
- 3
Custom modules do not come across. If you have paid for bespoke Odoo development, that is the real cost of moving and you should price it before anything else.
- 4
Historical accounting is usually best left in place, read-only, for the statutory retention period.
No customer has done this yet. The steps above describe the mechanism — what exports, what imports, what has to be rebuilt — rather than a migration we have run. When one has been run, this section will say whose it was.
Our actual recommendation
If you have a working Odoo installation with custom modules and a partner who knows it, stay. The reason to look at us is if you are also paying separately for a workspace, or if the per-app pricing has stopped being predictable.
If you did move
The products this comparison is about.
With their real availability labels, which apply inside a comparison exactly as they do everywhere else on this site.
Note before you compare: Rutba Mail is not generally available yet. Any row above that we win on it is a claim about what ships, not about what you can buy today.
Rutba CRM
Available nowCRM & sales pipeline software
Track leads from first contact to signed quote, keep every conversation attached to the customer it belongs to, and run your support desk off the same contact record your sales team uses.
- Lead capture, scoring, and pipeline stages you define
- Quotes and proposals that convert straight into orders
- Shared customer timeline — calls, emails, and tickets in one thread
Includes: CRM · Helpdesk · Customer Portal · Marketplace
From $18 per user / month
Rutba Inventory
Available nowInventory management & warehouse (WMS) software
Stock levels, multi-location transfers, stocktakes, and valuation — the single source of truth every other part of the business reserves and deducts against.
- Live stock across unlimited locations and bins
- Transfers with in-transit visibility
- Scheduled and rolling stocktakes with variance reporting
Includes: Stock · Warehouse Control
From $22 per user / month
Rutba Orders
Available nowOrder management (OMS) & delivery software
The order hub where web, counter, and phone orders all land — picked, packed, dispatched, delivered, and returned, with a rider app for the last mile.
- One queue for web, counter, and phone orders
- Pick and pack workflows with stock reserved automatically
- Delivery runs assigned to drivers, tracked live
Includes: Orders · Rider
From $19 per user / month
Rutba Manufacturing
Available nowManufacturing & MRP software
Bills of materials, work orders, and material planning that consume raw stock and produce finished goods against the same inventory everything else reads.
- Multi-level bills of materials with versions
- Work orders that reserve and consume real stock
- Material requirements planning against live inventory
From $32 per user / month
Rutba Books
Available nowAccounting & bookkeeping software
Invoicing, bills, banking and reconciliation on one side; the ledger, tax, budgets and the financial reports on the other — fed automatically by every sale, pay run and stock movement happening elsewhere in the business.
- Two apps on one ledger - the daily bookkeeping surface and the accountant’s workbench, neither hiding anything from the other
- Sales invoices, bills, receipts, supplier payments and credit notes, with per-line tax
- Bank statements read in whatever your bank emits - CAMT.053, MT940, OFX/QFX or CSV - and matched, with reconciliation that must reach zero
Includes: Books · Accounts
From $14 per user / month
Rutba Mail
Early accessBusiness email hosting
Real hosted mailboxes at your own domain — inbound delivery, storage, IMAP, and a web client — where every message can attach itself to the customer or order it concerns.
- Mailboxes at your own domain (@yourcompany.com)
- Web client, plus IMAP for Outlook, Apple Mail, or your phone
- Spam filtering and inbound delivery handled for you
Includes: Webmail · Mail Gateway
From $4 per mailbox / month
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Weighing this against Odoo?
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