Best HR Software in 2026

Rippling is a workforce management platform led by co-founder and chief executive Parker Conrad, with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Dublin, Bangalore, Sydney, Toronto, Singapore and other cities. Its HR information system serves as the employee record that other modules (payroll, benefits, time tracking, device and app management, and expense management) read from, so that a change such as a new hire or a termination propagates across connected systems. The company states that the platform integrates with more than 600 third-party applications. Rippling prices products individually: its pricing page states that plans start at US$8 per employee per month plus a monthly base fee, with payroll and multi-product bundles quoted on request. Eligible US venture-backed startups can receive free access for six months.

BambooHR was founded in 2008 in Lindon, Utah, by Ben Peterson and Ryan Sanders. The product centres on an employee database, onboarding and offboarding, time-off tracking, performance management and reporting, with payroll, benefits administration and time and attendance sold as add-ons. BambooHR is one of the few HR vendors in this list that publishes per-employee prices: for companies with more than 25 employees, the Core, Pro and Elite plans are listed at US$10, US$17 and US$25 per employee per month, while companies with 25 or fewer employees pay flat monthly fees of US$250, US$425 and US$650 respectively. Volume discounts apply by headcount, a 15% bundle discount applies to payroll and benefits administration for US employees, and nonprofits receive an additional 15% off. Add-on prices are not listed and require a quote.

Workday was founded in March 2005 by Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Its Human Capital Management suite is aimed at large and multinational employers and covers core HR, payroll in supported countries, talent management, recruiting, learning and workforce planning on a single data model shared with Workday's finance applications. The company reports more than 11,500 customer organizations, including more than 65% of the Fortune 500, and a global headcount above 20,800. Workday does not publish list prices. Its tenant datasheet describes pricing tiers by worker count (under 3,500, 3,500–10,000, 10,000–30,000 and over 30,000) and states that the products purchased determine cost.

HiBob was founded in 2015 by Ronni Zehavi and Israel David and markets its HR platform under the name Bob. The company opened a London office in 2016 and a US headquarters in New York in 2018, according to its own timeline. Bob combines core HR records with modules that HiBob lists as compensation, compensation benchmarking powered by Mercer, hiring, learning, payroll hub, time and attendance, workforce planning, employee surveys ("Your Voice") and UK payroll. The emphasis is on mid-sized companies with employees spread across several countries, where a single employee record must support local payroll providers through the payroll hub rather than through native payroll in every jurisdiction. HiBob does not publish prices; its pricing page is a demo-request form and pricing is provided by its sales team.

Gusto was founded in 2011 and launched in 2012 under the name ZenPayroll before renaming itself Gusto. It is built around US payroll and tax filing, with benefits, onboarding, time tracking and HR tools layered on top, and states that it serves more than 500,000 businesses. Gusto prices plans as a monthly base fee plus a per-person charge. According to Gusto's own published pricing guide, the Simple plan costs US$49 per month plus US$6 per person and includes single-state payroll, unlimited payroll runs, tax filings and payments, onboarding and basic PTO policies; the Plus plan costs US$80 per month plus US$12 per person and adds multistate payroll and time tracking. Pricing for the Premium tier is described inconsistently across Gusto pages and is not stated here.

Personio was founded in August 2015 in Munich; its co-founder Hanno Renner is chief executive. The platform targets small and mid-sized European employers and covers employee records, documents and e-signatures, time tracking, absence management, recruiting, workflow automation and payroll preparation. Its pricing page lists three tiers, Core, Core Pro and Core Enterprise, with Core Pro adding position management, unlimited legal entities and API access, and Core Enterprise adding premium support, a sandbox account and whistleblowing functionality. Personio prices per employee but provides figures by quote.

Deel was founded in 2019 by Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang and reports more than 40,000 business customers and coverage of 150 countries. It began as a way to hire and pay international contractors and employees through an employer-of-record (EOR) model and has since added an HR information system, global payroll and recruiting. Deel HR is sold in three tiers: Core at US$5 per person per month (including the HRIS), Advanced at US$19 (adding performance, learning and engagement) and Elite at US$29 (adding compensation and headcount planning). On the hiring side, Deel lists contractor management from US$49 per contractor per month and EOR employment from US$599 per employee per month, billed month-to-month without a long-term commitment.

UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) was formed on 1 April 2020 by combining Kronos, a workforce management vendor, with Ultimate Software, an HCM vendor; the company began using the UKG name in October 2020. It sells two main HR suites: UKG Pro for larger organizations and UKG Ready for small and mid-sized ones, both with a strong scheduling and time-and-attendance heritage from Kronos, which suits shift-based industries such as retail, healthcare and manufacturing. UKG Ready is offered in four tiers, Start, Core, Plus and Advanced, with Start aimed at businesses with fewer than 200 employees. UKG does not publish prices; each tier links to a personalised quote from a sales representative.

Paylocity has provided payroll and HR software since 1997 and is headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois; it reports more than 44,400 clients. The suite combines US payroll and tax with HR, benefits administration, time and labour, talent management and employee communication tools. Paylocity's customer base is concentrated among US mid-sized businesses that have outgrown basic payroll services but do not need a global enterprise suite. Paylocity does not publish plan prices on its website.

Factorial is a Barcelona-origin HR software vendor whose product is organised around a mandatory Factorial Core module (employee directory, onboarding and offboarding, and e-signature) with optional add-ons including time off, time tracking and payroll. The vendor publishes only a starting price: Factorial states that it starts at US$8 per user per month, with the final plan designed by a specialist based on the modules selected and provided as a quote. The product is aimed at small and mid-sized businesses that want to replace spreadsheets and paper processes for absence, time and document management. The company formerly operated at factorialhr.com, which now redirects to factorial.com.

Justworks combines HR software with a professional employer organization (PEO) model, under which Justworks becomes the co-employer of a client's staff for payroll tax, benefits and compliance purposes. This gives small US employers access to group health insurance and other benefits that are typically priced for larger groups. Justworks also sells a payroll-only product without co-employment. Its pricing page lists the Payroll plan at US$8 per employee per month plus a US$50 monthly base fee, and the PEO Basic plan at US$79 per employee per month with no base fee; a PEO Plus tier adds medical, dental and vision administration.