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Alternatives to Spring Health
21 hr tools sit alongside Spring Health in this directory. Below is what separates each from Spring Health on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 21
- With a free tier
- 2
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Spring Health starts at
- On request
Why people look past Spring Health
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Spring Health entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Spring Health carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 2 of the 21 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Spring Health publishes a single plan, Spring Health employer programme at On request. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Digital mental health platform with coaching and therapy
- Publishes an entry price of Free, where Spring Health does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
Meditation and mindfulness made simple
- Publishes an entry price of $12.99/month, where Spring Health does not.
- 3 tiers to Spring Health's 1.
UK built workplace mental health platform combining therapy, coaching, manager training and a 24/7 helpline in one contract
Priced and rated the same as Spring Health on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Australian HR, payroll and recruitment platform for employment management
- Can be used without paying; Spring Health cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of 199/month, where Spring Health does not.
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
- 5 tiers to Spring Health's 1.
Employee recognition that builds culture
- Can be used without paying; Spring Health cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $5/month, where Spring Health does not.
- Sold on a freemium model rather than quote.
- 7 tiers to Spring Health's 1.
Employer and payer channel for Talkspace therapy, sold as an in-network benefit rather than a session block
Priced and rated the same as Spring Health on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Every Spring Health alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Health (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| GingerIf on-demand coaching with escalation to therapy fits the population better than a matched therapy model | Free | Subscription | - | vs Spring Health |
| HeadspaceIf the requirement is preventative content and mindfulness at low cost rather than clinical treatment | $12.99/month | - | 3 | vs Spring Health |
| UnmindIf the employer is UK or Europe headquartered and needs a provider whose network and data residency start there | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Spring Health |
| Employment Hero | Free, then 199/month | Subscription | 5 | vs Spring Health |
| Bonusly | Free, then $5/month | Freemium | 7 | vs Spring Health |
| Talkspace for Business | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Spring Health |
| Guild | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Spring Health |
| Humaans | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Spring Health |
| Sesame HR | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Spring Health |
| Cezanne HR | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Spring Health |
| Insperity | On request | Quote | 2 | vs Spring Health |
| Multiplier | $40/month | Subscription | 2 | vs Spring Health |
| Officevibe | $4999/year | Subscription | 3 | vs Spring Health |
| Motivosity | $3000/year | Quote | 3 | vs Spring Health |
| Darwinbox | On request | Quote | - | vs Spring Health |
| Nectar | $2.75/month | Subscription | 3 | vs Spring Health |
| Oyster HR | On request | Subscription | 3 | vs Spring Health |
| Achievers | On request | Subscription | 3 | vs Spring Health |
| Breathe HR | £13/month | Subscription | 2 | vs Spring Health |
| greytHR | 2495/month | Subscription | 2 | vs Spring Health |
| HiBob | On request | Subscription | 1 | vs Spring Health |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Spring Health badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (2)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Employment Hero , Free, then 199/month
- Bonusly , Free, then $5/month
What you would be giving up
Spring Health is most often brought in for an employer replacing an eap with two percent utilisation that cannot demonstrate any clinical effect to its board, a benefits team facing long external waiting lists for therapy that are showing up in absence and disability claims, a distributed workforce where the incumbent eap provider network is thin outside major metropolitan areas, a health plan wanting to add a behavioural health layer without building a provider network itself. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Spring Health is broadly right and the question is cost, the Spring Health pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the HR category lists everything the directory holds, and best hr tools ranks them.
Spring Health runs on web, ios, android. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Spring Health alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Spring Health?
- 21 other hr tools are listed in this directory, led by Ginger, Headspace, Unmind, Employment Hero. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Spring Health?
- 2 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Employment Hero, Bonusly.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Spring Health?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Spring Health?
- Spring Health is most often brought in for an employer replacing an eap with two percent utilisation that cannot demonstrate any clinical effect to its board, a benefits team facing long external waiting lists for therapy that are showing up in absence and disability claims, a distributed workforce where the incumbent eap provider network is thin outside major metropolitan areas, a health plan wanting to add a behavioural health layer without building a provider network itself. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Spring Health?
- None of the hr tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Spring Health alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, HR, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Spring Health against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Spring Health covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every hr tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the HR category, 21 tools beside Spring Health. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.