B2skool vs Fedena: An Honest Comparison

B2skool vs Fedena

Fedena is one of the few school vendors in India that publishes a price, which deserves saying first. The questions worth asking are what the published number does not cover, and what their terms say happens on the day you stop paying.

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Everything stated here about Fedena comes from public sources, linked at the foot of the page and checked on 28 October 2026. Products change — if something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

B2skool · SCHOOL OS compared with Fedena
	B2skool · SCHOOL OS	Fedena
Published price	The desktop edition is free, uncapped and permanent — no quote needed. The cloud licence is quoted per school and names next session’s renewal price.	Published list prices, which is unusual and welcome: Standard ₹50,000, Premium ₹75,000 and Ultimate ₹1,00,000 a year, each "+ GST" and billed yearly. A fourth Enterprise tier shows no price.source
The parent and teacher apps	Part of the cloud licence. There is no separate app line on the quote.	A paid uplift. Switching their pricing toggle from "Web App" to "Both Web & Mobile App" adds ₹40,000 a year at every tier — ₹90,000, ₹1,15,000 and ₹1,40,000 respectively.source
Running it offline	The desktop edition runs on a local database with no internet at all, and it is the free half rather than a premium tier.	Cloud hosting is bundled with every plan. Self-hosting is documented, but the published server guidance was last modified in February 2020 and specifies CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, both now past end of standard support.source
Refunds	The free edition costs nothing to leave. The cloud licence terms are in the written quote before you sign.	Their terms state the service "is billed in advance on a yearly basis and is non-refundable", with no credit for partial months, upgrades, downgrades or unused months. The document’s stated last update is 24 May 2018.source
The day you leave	Export everything whenever you like, and keep running the free desktop edition on your own machine with your records still in it.	Their terms state that on cancellation "All of your Content will be immediately deleted from the Service" and that "This information can not be recovered once your account is cancelled."source
Support commitment	A support SLA, written into the quote, with scoped and recorded support sessions.	The entitlement bundled with every plan is described on the pricing page as "Email & Phone support" alongside one-to-one online training, with no hours, response times or service level stated there.source

What Fedena does well

They publish list prices on their own website. Almost nobody else in this market does, and it lets a school budget before it has spoken to a salesperson. We respect it enough to say so on a page designed to win against them.
Cloud hosting is included in every plan rather than sold as a line item.
They document self-hosting at all, which most cloud-era vendors simply refuse to discuss.

If this is what your school needs, they are a reasonable choice and we would rather you knew that now than after an onboarding.

What we could not verify

Which modules each paid tier actually contains. Their own pages give several different module counts and the plan cards repeat the same lines, so we do not state a figure.
Any price outside India. We retrieved rupee prices only; dollar ladders circulating on third-party sites could not be confirmed on their own page.
The Enterprise tier’s price or structure, and whether any AMC exists.
Whether self-hosting is available on the Standard, Premium and Ultimate subscriptions or only on Enterprise. Their own sources point both ways.
Whether the 2020-era server requirements still apply to the current release. No updated platform statement is published.
Any offline or offline-sync capability. No vendor source establishes it in either direction.
Where hosted data is stored, and any security certification. No country, region, provider or certification is named on their site.
Support hours or response times behind their "24/7 customer support" claim, and the basis for the satisfaction figure they publish.
Their school and user counts. These are undated marketing figures and we do not repeat them.

We have left these out rather than guessing. Ask Fedena directly — and hold us to the same standard.

The number on the pricing page is not the number for a school with parents in it

Their web-only tiers start at ₹50,000 a year. The moment you want the mobile apps — which is to say, the moment you want parents to see anything — their own toggle adds ₹40,000 a year at every tier. That is not a criticism of the pricing, which is theirs to set and at least visible. It is a warning about comparison: if you are weighing their headline against anyone else’s, weigh the web-plus-mobile row, because a school ERP without a parent app is an office tool, not a school system.

The free Fedena is not where it used to be

Fedena began life with a free open-source edition, and that history is still why many schools shortlist it. Their own support documentation names projectfedena.org as the place to download it. As of 28 October 2026 that address serves the stock "Welcome to nginx!" default page, and its install path returns a 404. We make no claim about what the company intends — only that a school going looking for the free edition today, on the strength of that reputation, will not find a working download at the address their documentation gives. Our free edition is the product we ship and support, not a lineage.

Read the cancellation clause before the feature list

Their published terms say that on cancellation all of your content is immediately deleted from the service and cannot be recovered. We are quoting, not characterising, and a school’s signed contract may differ from the posted terms — ask them. But a school’s fee ledgers, marks and admission records are the institution’s memory, and "immediately deleted" is a sentence worth reading twice before a renewal decision. Our position is the opposite: your data is exportable at any time, and when you leave you keep the free desktop edition running on your own computer with the records in it.

Straight answers

Switching from Fedena

Is B2skool cheaper than Fedena?

For the offline half, yes — ours is free at any strength and theirs starts at a published ₹50,000 a year. For the cloud half we cannot tell you without knowing your school, because we quote rather than publish a rate card. What we will do is put our number next to their published web-plus-mobile number in writing, which is a comparison you can actually act on.

We liked the idea of open-source Fedena. Is that still an option?

Not at the address their own documentation gives, as of 28 October 2026 — it serves an unconfigured web-server default page. If self-hosting is what attracted you, the honest comparison is between maintaining a server yourself and running our desktop edition, which installs on an office computer, needs no server and costs nothing.

Can we move our data from Fedena to B2skool?

Yes, and start the export before you cancel anything. Their terms describe immediate deletion on cancellation, so take your exports first and send them to us — our onboarding team cleans, maps and imports them, then hands the result back for you to verify.

Is this page fair to Fedena?

We have tried. Everything asserted is quoted from their own pricing page, terms or support documentation, linked and dated, and we lead by crediting them for publishing prices at all. What we could not establish is listed above rather than implied. If something here is wrong or has changed, tell us and we will correct it.

Sources, checked 28 October 2026

Fedena is a trademark of its respective owner. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or partnered with them. This page is our own comparison, written from public information.

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