Quick comparison

Pricing as of September 2026. Leapsome pricing requires a sales call for firm quotes.

Harmny Leapsome
Starting price Free / $8/user/mo Modular, ~$8/user/mo est. bundle
Free tier ✓ Up to 10 users ✗
Self-serve ✓ Start today 14-day trial; quote needs sales
Performance reviews ✓ Full cycle ✓ Full cycle
Goals / OKRs ✓ Cascading goals ✓ Cascading goals
1:1 meetings ✓ Shared agendas + history ✓ Shared agendas
Competency frameworks ✓ Builder + career paths ✓ Framework builder
Career pathing (employee view) ✓ Live gap analysis Manager-facing
Engagement surveys ✓ eNPS + department heatmaps + lifecycle surveys ✓ Mature + benchmarks
AI 1:1 coaching prep ✓ Tone-selectable prep (Growth plan) AI features developing
9-Box talent calibration ✓ Built-in ✓ Built-in
Compensation management ✓ Salary bands, job architecture, merit adjustments, Total Rewards ✓ Full merit cycles
Time off management ✓ Custom policies + team calendar ✗
Attendance tracking ✓ Work hours + attendance ✗
Org chart ✓ Reporting structure visualization ✓
Automations / workflow automation ✓ Trigger-action rules on HR events ✓ Basic
Onboarding checklists ✓ Structured checklists ✗
Recruiting & offer letters ✓ Send + e-sign offers, auto-convert to onboarding ✗
Compliance (I-9, EEO-1) ✓ E-signatures + audit trail ✗
EU data residency EU infra on request GDPR-native, Berlin HQ, ISO 27001
AI assistance ✓ Org Brain + AI 1:1 prep (BYOK/hosted, Growth plan) AI features developing
Gamification + redeemable rewards ✓ XP, badges, streaks + redeemable perks catalog ✗
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 ✓ (compensation module)
Attrition Forecast ✓ Predictive flight risk + driver drill-down ✗
Meeting rooms ✓ Bookable rooms, duration, recurring ✗
Best team size 10–500 100–2,000

Where Harmny wins

Full HRIS operations, not just performance management

Leapsome is primarily a performance and engagement platform. Harmny now covers the full HRIS-adjacent stack: time off management (custom policies, one-click approvals, team calendar), attendance tracking, org chart, structured onboarding checklists, recruiting and offer letters (send, e-sign, auto-convert to onboarding), and compliance (I-9, EEO-1, policy e-signatures with audit trail). Leapsome has none of these. For teams that want one platform instead of stitching together multiple tools, this is the decisive difference.

Engagement surveys and AI-assisted 1:1 prep

Both platforms run engagement and pulse surveys with results by team. Harmny's survey tools include three anonymity modes (anonymous, confidential, or identified), a template library for engagement, eNPS, and onboarding pulses (or AI-generated from a single prompt), department heatmaps, and lifecycle surveys that fire automatically at 30/60/90 days after hire and on exit, all included from the $8/user/month tier. Leapsome's survey suite is mature and includes benchmarking data Harmny doesn't have (see below).

On the Growth plan, Harmny also offers AI 1:1 coaching prep: an AI button on the 1:1 screen reads the direct report's open goals, competency scores, and recent 1:1 history, then drafts talking points and suggested questions in a tone you choose. Leapsome's AI features are still developing and don't yet offer an equivalent.

Self-serve access

The most practical difference for most teams: Harmny is available right now with a free tier and no sales call. Leapsome offers a 14-day trial without a sales call, but final pricing and full onboarding go through a sales conversation and contract. For a 40-person company that wants to run a performance review cycle next month, this is the deciding factor, not features.

Career pathing as a self-service tool

Leapsome has competency frameworks, but they are primarily HR-facing and review-time tools. Harmny's career pathing is designed as an employee self-service feature: every employee logs in, sees their competency ratings compared to next-level requirements, and can explore alternative paths, without a manager having to pull a report. This drives development conversations continuously, not just during reviews.

Price for small teams

For a 30-person team, Harmny costs $240/month with no contract. Leapsome doesn't publish a flat price; third-party trackers put a typical bundle around $8/user/month, which would put a 30-person team near $240/month too, but Leapsome's actual quote depends on which modules you need and a sales conversation, plus the time cost of the sales and onboarding process.

Where Leapsome wins

Established European presence

Leapsome's strongest differentiator for European organizations: it's GDPR-native, headquartered in Berlin, and ISO 27001-certified, giving European buyers a vendor already built around EU norms and local expectations. If your legal team needs a specific contractual EU data residency guarantee, confirm the exact terms with Leapsome's sales team rather than assuming it's standard. This is a genuine advantage Harmny acknowledges.

External engagement benchmarks

Leapsome has accumulated industry benchmark data across its customer base. If comparing your team's eNPS or engagement scores to industry peers is a reporting requirement, Leapsome's benchmark dataset is more robust than Harmny's. For teams where "how do we compare to similar companies in our industry" is a board-level question, this matters.

Choose Harmny if:

  • ✓ Under 200 people
  • ✓ Don't want a sales process to get started
  • ✓ Want one platform for time off, attendance, onboarding, compliance AND performance
  • ✓ Career pathing visibility matters to employees
  • ✓ Want a free tier to trial the product
  • ✓ AI-assisted reviews, dev plans, and 1:1 prep are useful
  • ✓ You want engagement surveys with department heatmaps and lifecycle check-ins built in
  • ✓ You need recruiting, offer letters, and compliance without a separate tool
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Choose Leapsome if:

  • • 200+ employees with a dedicated HR team
  • • You want a GDPR-native, Berlin-headquartered, ISO 27001-certified vendor
  • • You need external engagement benchmark data (industry peer comparisons)
  • • Already in a Leapsome-compatible procurement process

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