Quick comparison

Pricing as of June 2026.

Harmny 15Five
Price $8/user/mo $14/user/mo
Free tier ✓ Up to 10 users ✗
Performance reviews ✓ Full cycle ✓ Best-Self Review
Review methodology Flexible Strengths-based (Best-Self)
Goals / OKRs ✓ Cascading ✓ Cascading
1:1 meetings ✓ Shared agendas + history ✓ Shared agendas
Competency frameworks ✓ Full framework builder Basic competencies in reviews
Career pathing ✓ Employee-visible gap analysis ✗ Not native
Manager Coaching AI ✓ Async pre-1:1 brief (behavioral data) Kona AI (real-time in-meeting)
9-Box talent calibration ✓ Built-in ✓ Built-in
Manager coaching content ✓ AI coaching briefs + talking points ✓ Coaching library + live Kona AI
Engagement suite ✓ Full index + driver analysis + heatmap Pulse check-ins
Behavioral pulse analytics ✓ Pulse + survey×behavior divergence ✗
AI assistance ✓ Org Brain + coaching briefs (BYOK/hosted) Kona AI (in-meeting coaching)
Gamification & rewards ✓ XP, badges, streaks + redeemable rewards catalog ✗
Compensation management ✓ Salary bands, job architecture, merit adjustments, Total Rewards ✗
Time off management ✓ Custom policies, one-click approvals, team calendar ✗
Attendance tracking ✓ ✗
Org chart ✓ ✗
Automations / workflow automation ✓ Trigger-action rules on HR events ✗
Onboarding checklists ✓ Structured checklists ✗
Recruiting & offer letters ✓ E-sign offers, auto-convert to onboarding ✗
Compliance (I-9, EEO-1) ✓ E-signatures + audit trail ✗
Self-serve setup ✓ Same day ✓ Same day
Total Rewards statements ✓ Base + benefits + bonuses + recognition value (PDF) ✗
Succession planning ✓ Nominee tracking with readiness levels ✗
Job architecture + salary bands ✓ Job families, salary bands, compa-ratio ✗
Attrition Forecast ✓ Predictive flight risk + driver drill-down ✗
Meeting rooms ✓ Bookable rooms, duration, recurring ✗
Best team size 10–500 50–1,000

The Manager Coaching AI comparison

Both platforms have shipped different flavors of AI-assisted manager coaching in 2026, and they serve genuinely different moments.

15Five's Kona AI is a real-time, in-meeting coaching assistant. During a live 1:1, Kona listens to the conversation and surfaces coaching suggestions in the moment — what to say next, when to ask a clarifying question, how to reframe a response. It is the AI equivalent of having a coach in your ear during the meeting.

Harmny's Manager Coaching AI operates the day before. It reads the direct report's behavioral data — their weekly pulse score, the gap between what they reported on their last survey and what their actual activity patterns show, any divergence signals, open talking points from previous 1:1s, and goal movement — and generates an async coaching brief the manager can read before walking into the room. The brief includes specific suggested conversation angles and talking points.

Harmny's version is only possible because of the behavioral engagement layer — recognition activity, streak cadences, goal movement. Kona has no access to that data. But Kona's real-time coaching during the conversation is something Harmny doesn't have yet. If the manager's pain point is preparation and context, Harmny wins. If the manager needs in-room coaching support, 15Five's Kona is currently the only option at this price tier.

The key difference: philosophy

Both platforms cover the same core performance ground — reviews, goals, 1:1s. The meaningful difference is what each bets on as the driver of employee development, and how much of the broader HR stack each covers.

15Five bets on review quality and in-room coaching. The Best-Self Review is designed by behavioral scientists to produce a review experience that employees don't dread — strengths-focused, forward-looking, with explicit manager coaching to make conversations productive. The review and the in-meeting Kona AI are the development drivers.

Harmny bets on continuous visibility, behavioral context, and operational completeness. Development happens between reviews, not during them. By making career paths and competency gaps visible year-round, arming managers with pre-meeting AI briefs drawn from behavioral engagement data, and handling HR operations (time off, attendance, onboarding, compliance, recruiting) in the same platform, Harmny aims to replace the stack of tools a growing team typically accumulates.

Neither is wrong. The right choice depends on where your managers struggle most: with what to say during the 1:1 (choose 15Five's Kona) or with knowing what to prepare, who needs attention, and managing the HR operations around those people (choose Harmny).

Pricing difference for common team sizes

Team size Harmny / mo 15Five / mo Annual savings
10 users Free $140 $1,680/yr
25 users $200 $350 $1,800/yr
50 users $400 $700 $3,600/yr
100 users $800 $1,400 $7,200/yr

Choose Harmny if:

  • ✓ Career framework visibility matters to your team
  • ✓ You want to start free and grow into paid
  • ✓ You want AI pre-1:1 coaching briefs built from behavioral data
  • ✓ You want full engagement analytics (not just pulse check-ins)
  • ✓ You want AI-assisted development plans and review drafts
  • ✓ Budget is a real constraint
  • ✓ You want review flexibility, not an opinionated methodology
  • ✓ You need time off, attendance, org chart, or onboarding in the same tool
  • ✓ You want compliance tools (I-9, EEO-1, e-signatures) without a separate HRIS
  • ✓ You want to send and e-sign offer letters and auto-convert hires to onboarding
  • ✓ You want a redeemable rewards catalog tied to recognition
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Choose 15Five if:

  • • You want real-time in-meeting coaching (Kona AI) during live 1:1s
  • • You want the Best-Self Review methodology (strengths-based, opinionated)
  • • Manager coaching quality during the conversation is your primary investment
  • • Review experience and in-room coaching are your primary pain points
  • • You already have a separate HRIS handling time off, compliance, and onboarding

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