Feature comparison
As of June 2026. PerformYard pricing requires a sales call; estimates based on public analyst data.
| Harmny | PerformYard | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free / $8/user/mo | ~$5–10/user/mo (estimate) |
| 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 |
| Behavioral pulse analytics | ✓ Survey×behavior divergence (unique) | ✗ |
| Manager Coaching AI | ✓ Async pre-1:1 brief (behavioral data) | ✗ |
| AI assistance | ✓ Org Brain (reviews, plans, 1:1s) | 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 | ✓ Predictive flight risk + driver drill-down | ✗ |
| 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 — you need a separate tool for that. Harmny includes a full engagement suite: engagement index, statistical driver analysis, continuous heatmap, exit and regrettable-attrition classification, action uptake dashboard with outcome deltas, and a behavioral pulse layer.
PerformYard also has no Manager Coaching AI. Harmny's Manager Coaching AI generates async pre-1:1 briefing documents from behavioral engagement data — something only possible because Harmny has the gamification exhaust PerformYard lacks.
Career pathing is another gap: PerformYard's competency features are review-time tools for HR and managers. Harmny's career frameworks are employee-facing — every employee logs in and sees their current ratings vs. 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 analytics alongside performance management
- ✓ Career pathing employees can see year-round matters
- ✓ Manager Coaching AI (pre-1:1 briefs) is valuable
- ✓ Behavioral engagement data matters
- ✓ 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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