HR & Recruiting · head to head
Employment Hero vs Paragon
Employment Hero
HR & Recruiting
Australian HR, payroll and recruitment platform for employment management
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
Paragon
Automation & Integration
Embedded integration platform for SaaS
- From
- $299/month
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Employment Hero hR Essentials at AUD 10/employee/month requires a minimum of 10 users, so it cannot be bought for a team smaller than that even if actual headcount is lower; Paragon no price is published for either plan, and both require a quote
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Employment Hero and Paragon actually diverge.
| Attribute | Employment Hero | Paragon |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | On request | $299/month |
| Platforms | Web | Web, Embedded |
| Category | HR & Recruiting | Automation & Integration |
| Founded | Unknown | 2021 |
Identical on both: pricing model (subscription), 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 Employment Hero
Nothing recorded that Paragon does not also cover.
Only in Paragon
- Embedded workflows
- Native integrations
- Workflow builder
- Error handling
- Monitoring
- Analytics
- Webhooks
- 500+ apps
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Employment Hero
No use cases recorded yet. See the Employment Hero review.
Paragon
- Embedding third party integrations into a SaaS productnot Employment Hero
- Managing customer facing connectors without building each onenot Employment Hero
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Employment Hero
- HR Essentials at AUD 10/employee/month requires a minimum of 10 users, so it cannot be bought for a team smaller than that even if actual headcount is lower
- Core features like payroll, chat and rostering are unbundled add-ons billed separately per employee, for example Managed Payroll costs an extra AUD 20/employee/month with a AUD 400 monthly minimum
Paragon
- No price is published for either plan, and both require a quote
- Cost scales with the number of customer tenants using the integrations, so the bill follows an end customer count rather than the vendor's own usage
- SAML SSO, self hosting, dynamic field mapping and SLAs are all Enterprise only
Pricing, plan by plan
Employment Hero
On requestNo published plan breakdown. See the Employment Hero review.
Paragon
$299/month- Starter$299/month
- 50 integrations
- Basic support
- Growth$999/month
- 200 integrations
- Priority support
- Enterprise$5000/month
- Unlimited integrations
- Dedicated support
Which should you pick?
Choose Employment Hero if
Nothing in the data separates Employment Hero from Paragon on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.
Choose Paragon if
- You need embedded workflows.
- You work on Web, Embedded.
- You also want native integrations.
Questions people ask
- Is Employment Hero or Paragon better?
- Neither clearly leads. Employment Hero starts at On request and Paragon at $299/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Employment Hero or Paragon?
- Employment Hero starts at On request and Paragon at $299/month.
- Does Employment Hero or Paragon run on more platforms?
- Employment Hero runs on Web. Paragon runs on Web, Embedded.
- What can Employment Hero do that Paragon cannot?
- Paragon covers Embedded workflows, Native integrations, Workflow builder, Error handling.
Related pages
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