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
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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