HR & Recruiting · head to head
Breathe HR vs Productive
Productive
Professional Services
Run projects, budgets and resources in one place
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The short version
- Each has a real cost: Breathe HR pricing is banded by headcount, starting at £24 per month for 1 to 10 people, £44 per month for 11 to 20 and £99 per month for 21 to 50; Productive essential plan is capped at 5 account-level custom fields and 1 CRM pipeline versus 15 fields and 3 pipelines on Professional
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Breathe HR and Productive actually diverge.
| Attribute | Breathe HR | Productive |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | £13/month | On request |
| Pricing model | subscription | quote |
| Platforms | Web, Ios, Android | Web |
| Category | HR & Recruiting | Professional Services |
| Founded | 2012 | Unknown |
Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Breathe HR
- Employee Database
- Absence Management
- Document Storage
- HR Reporting
- Performance Management
- Training
- Slack
- Google Workspace
Only in Productive
Nothing recorded that Breathe HR does not also cover.
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Breathe HR
- Holiday, absence and sickness tracking for a UK small businessnot Productive
- Storing HR documents, contracts and e-signaturesnot Productive
- Performance reviews and onboarding workflows for small teamsnot Productive
Productive
No use cases recorded yet. See the Productive review.
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Breathe HR
- Pricing is banded by headcount, starting at £24 per month for 1 to 10 people, £44 per month for 11 to 20 and £99 per month for 21 to 50
- Plans are capped by band up to 151 to 200 people, so it is not sold to organisations above that range on the published ladder
- The free trial is 14 days
- Health and safety, e-learning and other modules are sold as add-ons on top of the core HR plan
- Pricing is quoted in pounds and the product is marketed to UK SMEs
Productive
- Essential plan is capped at 5 account-level custom fields and 1 CRM pipeline versus 15 fields and 3 pipelines on Professional
- Ultimate tier for complex organizations is quote-only, listed as Let's talk with no published price
Pricing, plan by plan
Breathe HR
£13/month- Core$13/month
- Employee Database
- Absence Management
- Documents
- People Management$18/month
- All Core features
- Performance
- Goals
Productive
On requestNo published plan breakdown. See the Productive review.
Which should you pick?
Choose Breathe HR if
- You need employee database.
- You work on Web, Ios, Android.
- You also want absence management.
Choose Productive if
Nothing in the data separates Productive from Breathe HR on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.
Questions people ask
- Is Breathe HR or Productive better?
- Neither clearly leads. Breathe HR starts at £13/month and Productive at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Breathe HR or Productive?
- Breathe HR starts at £13/month and Productive at On request.
- Does Breathe HR or Productive run on more platforms?
- Breathe HR runs on Web, Ios, Android. Productive runs on Web.
- What is Breathe HR best used for?
- Breathe HR is most often used for holiday, absence and sickness tracking for a uk small business, storing hr documents, contracts and e-signatures, performance reviews and onboarding workflows for small teams. Of those, holiday, absence and sickness tracking for a uk small business and storing hr documents, contracts and e-signatures are not what Productive is typically brought in for.
- What can Breathe HR do that Productive cannot?
- Breathe HR covers Employee Database, Absence Management, Document Storage, HR Reporting.
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