OpenEduCat vs Xale

OpenEduCat is a modular education platform for institutions, available through cloud hosting or on-premise deployment. Institutions can select modules and add more as needed, with no per-student fees. Its systems connect student information with admissions, fees, library, hostel, and other institutional functions; the SIS supports real-time collaboration around student data. Community Edition supports standards and sign-on options including SCORM, xAPI, LTI 1.3, SAML, Shibboleth, OAuth2, Azure AD, and Google Workspace. The platform also lists assessments, certificates, API access, and Android and iOS apps. Its Free Edition has no learner cap or time limit, although capacity depends on hardware. The Free Edition uses the LGPL-3.0 license, with source code public on GitHub; institutions own their data and can self-host without student limits or license call-home. Self-hosting can use Linux, Python 3.10+, and PostgreSQL 14+. A 15-day trial is offered without a credit card. The listed Core plan is $489 a year, and the site lists a No Refund Policy.

Xale is a CRM for study-abroad consultancies and education teams, bringing leads, university applications, calls, WhatsApp conversations and payments into one workspace. Each university application is tracked as a deal with its own stage, owner and payments. Teams can also run parallel workflows for loans, interview preparation and visa filing, assigning steps, access, ownership and follow-up to each. The CRM lists 26 automation actions, with logged runs and automatic retries after failures. Its Custom Report Builder covers leads, deals, calls, follow-ups, activity and payments, and report cells open the underlying rows. Integrations include WhatsApp Cloud API with Coexistence, Wati, Gallabox, UrbanChat, Meta Lead Ads, Gmail sending and TeleCMI cloud telephony. The iOS and Android apps support offline use and sync after reconnecting; the Android app can attach phone recordings to synced counsellor calls. Xale says it uses database-level row isolation, rotating JWT refresh tokens, bcrypt password hashing and AES-256 encryption at rest. It describes itself as GDPR and DPDP compliant, with SOC 2 Type II in progress. Plans start at ₹499/mo, with 18% GST added.