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Humaans
API-first HRIS for fast-growing companies that treat employee data as a system of record other tools read from
As of 31 August 2026, Humaans's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A deliberately fast, keyboard-driven HR system built for 20 to 500 person companies that want clean employee data and a real API rather than an all-in-one suite. Softwr lists it under HR. Humaans is made by Humaans, part of Employment Hero, available on Web.
Overview
What Humaans does
Humaans is a London-built HRIS founded in 2020 covering employee records, onboarding, documents, time off, compensation history, custom fields and workflows. It was designed around speed and data structure: the interface responds instantly, records are modelled with typed custom fields, and everything in the product is available through a documented REST API and webhooks. The distinguishing decision is that Humaans does not try to be the suite. There is no payroll engine, no applicant tracking and no learning module. Instead it positions as the authoritative employee record that pushes into payroll, identity, finance and access management systems, which is exactly what a technically capable operations team wants and exactly what a company looking for one vendor does not. That choice made it fast to implement, typically weeks rather than months, and it made the integration and API quality load-bearing rather than decorative. In 2024 Humaans was acquired by Employment Hero, an Australian employment platform with its own payroll and hiring products. That is the fact that should change a shortlist: the standalone, integration-first positioning now sits inside a company whose commercial interest is selling a bundled employment platform. Buyers today are scale-ups of 20 to 500 employees, often with operations teams that will write against the API. The trade-off is that payroll, benefits and compliance in each country remain someone else to buy and integrate.
What people use it for
- A 150 person technology company that wants employee data clean enough to drive access provisioning automatically
- An operations team that will build against an API rather than wait for a vendor integration
- A company replacing spreadsheets and Google Drive folders in weeks rather than running a six month HRIS project
- A multi-country employer that already has payroll handled per country and needs one consolidated employee record
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Humaans.
- There is no payroll engine anywhere in the product, so every country you employ in still needs its own payroll vendor and a synchronisation that someone owns when it breaks.
- Applicant tracking, learning and benefits administration are absent, meaning a company wanting a single supplier will buy three or four contracts to match what a suite sells as one.
- Acquisition by Employment Hero in 2024 puts an independent, integration-first product inside a vendor that sells a bundled employment platform, and buyers should ask directly how long the standalone product will be sold on its own terms.
- Per employee per month pricing with tiered features means the cost rises with headcount growth at exactly the point a scale-up is least willing to renegotiate, and useful features such as workflows sit above the entry tier.
- Country-specific compliance depth is limited, so statutory leave rules, local document requirements and reporting obligations often need configuring by hand rather than arriving as a maintained country pack.
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What people choose instead of Humaans
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- HumaansvsPersonio
Personio: Stronger European compliance depth and native payroll options for companies employing across Germany and the DACH region
- HumaansvsCharlieHR
CharlieHR: Simpler and cheaper for UK small companies that need records and time off rather than an API
Pricing
What Humaans costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Humaans
On request
- Priced per employee per month with tiered feature sets
- Employee records, time off and documents
- Workflows and reporting on higher tiers
- API and webhook access
- Single sign-on and advanced permissions on enterprise terms
Capabilities
Features
Employee records
Typed custom fields, compensation history and document storage as a structured record
Workflows
Triggered task sequences for joiners, movers and leavers with owner assignment
Time off
Multi-country leave policies with accrual rules and calendar sync
Open API and webhooks
Every object addressable through a documented REST API with event webhooks
Onboarding
Pre-start data collection, document signature and equipment task tracking
Reporting
Headcount, attrition and compensation reporting with export
App directory
Native syncs to payroll, identity and finance systems rather than a bundled suite
Self service
Employee profile updates, org chart and directory
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Questions people ask
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Does Humaans run payroll?
No. It holds the employee record and pushes data to payroll providers. You buy payroll separately in each country.
Who owns it now?
Employment Hero acquired Humaans in 2024. It continues to be sold, but the parent company also sells a bundled employment platform.
Is the API genuinely complete?
Yes. It is the design centre of the product rather than an afterthought, with documented REST endpoints and webhooks across the core objects.
How long does implementation take?
Typically weeks. There is no configuration consultancy requirement, which is a large part of why teams choose it over a mid-market suite.
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