Feature comparison
As of September 2026. PerformYard's published pricing: Performance Management starts at $5/user/month, and an optional Employee Engagement module adds roughly $1-3/user/month more.
| Harmny | PerformYard | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free / $8/user/mo | $5/user/mo (+$1-3 for engagement module) |
| Free tier | ✓ Up to 10 users | ✗ |
| Self-serve | ✓ No sales call | ✗ Sales call required |
| Performance reviews | ✓ Full cycle + calibration | ✓ Highly flexible review forms |
| Review form flexibility | Flexible (moderate) | ✓ Best-in-class form builder |
| Goals / OKRs | ✓ Cascading goals | ✓ Goal tracking |
| 1:1 meetings | ✓ Shared agendas + history | Basic 1:1 notes |
| Competency frameworks | ✓ Employee-visible career paths | ✓ Competency ratings in reviews |
| Career pathing (employee view) | ✓ Live gap analysis, self-serve | ✗ Manager-facing only |
| Engagement surveys | ✓ Full engagement suite | ✗ No engagement module |
| Lifecycle surveys (onboarding, exit) | ✓ Automatic 30/60/90-day + exit surveys | ✗ |
| AI 1:1 coaching prep | ✓ Tone-selectable prep from goals, scores, 1:1 history (Growth plan) | ✗ |
| AI assistance | ✓ Org Brain: plans, summaries, chat (Growth plan) | Limited AI features |
| Compensation | ✓ Salary bands, job architecture, merit adjustments, Total Rewards | ✗ |
| Gamification & rewards | ✓ XP, badges, streaks + redeemable rewards catalog | ✗ |
| Announcements | ✓ Company-wide with read tracking | ✗ |
| Time off management | ✓ Custom policies, one-click approvals, team calendar | ✗ |
| Attendance tracking | ✓ Work hours and attendance | ✗ |
| Org chart | ✓ Visualize org and reporting structure | ✗ |
| Automations / workflow automation | ✓ Trigger-action rules on HR events | ✗ |
| Onboarding checklists | ✓ Structured checklists | ✗ |
| Recruiting & offer letters | ✓ Send, e-sign, auto-convert to onboarding | ✗ |
| Compliance (I-9, EEO-1) | ✓ Consent forms + audit trail | ✗ |
| 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 | ✓ 90-day forecast + flight risk scoring (Growth plan) | ✗ |
| Meeting rooms | ✓ Bookable rooms, duration, recurring | ✗ |
| Best team size | 10–500 | 50–2,000 |
Where PerformYard wins: review form flexibility
PerformYard's genuine edge is its form builder. If you need different review formats for engineers, sales, executives, and operations, each with different rating scales, section weights, and competency tables, PerformYard lets HR build and maintain those configurations without developer help. This is genuinely stronger than most competitors' form builders, including Harmny's.
For companies with complex, multi-population review programs where the form itself is a strategic HR decision (e.g., a law firm with different review criteria by practice area, or a manufacturer with union and non-union populations), PerformYard's flexibility is worth the trade-offs.
Where Harmny wins: a complete people platform
PerformYard's engagement module is absent. If you're using PerformYard, you have no engagement survey capability inside the platform, so you need a separate tool for that. Harmny includes a full engagement suite: anonymous, confidential, and identified survey modes, AI-generated survey questions, automatic lifecycle surveys for onboarding and exit, department heatmaps, and action plans tied to results.
PerformYard also has no equivalent to Harmny's AI 1:1 coaching prep, which drafts talking points from an employee's goals, competency scores, and recent 1:1 history with a selectable tone (supportive, curious, direct, or celebratory). This sits alongside Harmny's flight risk scoring and 90-day attrition forecast, both gated to the Growth plan.
Career pathing is another gap: PerformYard's competency features are review-time tools for HR and managers. Harmny's career frameworks are employee-facing, so every employee logs in and sees their current ratings versus next-level requirements today.
Beyond performance management, Harmny now covers HRIS-adjacent operations that PerformYard simply does not offer: time off management with custom policies and team calendar, attendance tracking, org chart visualization, trigger-action automations that fire on HR events, structured onboarding checklists, recruiting and e-signed offer letters that auto-convert to onboarding workflows, and compliance (I-9, EEO-1, policy e-signatures with audit trail). For a team choosing PerformYard, each of these requires a separate tool or manual process.
Choose Harmny if:
- ✓ You want engagement surveys alongside performance management
- ✓ Career pathing employees can see year-round matters
- ✓ AI-assisted 1:1 prep, flight risk scoring, and an attrition forecast are valuable (Growth plan)
- ✓ You need time off, attendance, onboarding, or compliance in one platform
- ✓ Automations to reduce manual HR follow-up are a priority
- ✓ Free tier to start, self-serve
- ✓ Review forms are relatively consistent across the org
Choose PerformYard if:
- • Highly differentiated review forms across many job families is the primary need
- • Complex weighting, custom rating scales, and form logic are required
- • You have a separate engagement tool and just need a best-in-class review engine
- • HR form configurability without developer help is the priority
- • You already have dedicated HRIS tools covering time off, onboarding, and compliance
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