It depends on what sits around your HR. If you need payroll, compensation planning, workforce planning and learning in one platform, HiBob is a serious product and this page will not talk you out of it. If your HR sits next to customers, invoices and projects, Growee is the stronger alternative: employees, leave, timesheets, projects, onboarding, goals and evaluations are free for up to 3 people, €2 per person per month adds client invoicing, expenses, project budgets, eSignature and REST API access, and a sales CRM is free to start at 100 leads and one CRM seat, then €49 a month flat. Personio suits European HR-led teams wanting payroll, and BambooHR suits HR-led teams buying the rest separately.

HiBob does not publish a price. Its "Pricing" page is a three-step qualification form — organization size, the modules you want, your contact details — ending in a "Get Custom Pricing" button, and its older /pricing URL redirects to a demo-request widget. The FAQ on that pricing page answers the same question this way: pricing "is customized based on your company's size, needs, and the modules you choose", and it is "generally calculated on a per-employee basis" (as of September 2026). We found no per-employee figure, no tier prices and no published minimum seat count anywhere on hibob.com, so this page quotes none — a third-party estimate is not a price. Growee publishes its full price instead: free up to 3 people, then €2 per person per month or €20 per person per year, with the CRM at a flat €49 a month above 100 leads.

HiBob has no free plan and no free trial — there is no self-serve sign-up, only a demo request or a pricing request (as of September 2026). Growee's free plan has no time limit and no card: up to 3 employees, covering employee management and the org chart, leave tracking and planning with custom policies and exports, time tracking and timesheet approval, projects and teams, documents and templates, asset and client management, meetings, onboarding templates, goals and evaluations, automatic national holidays for 99 countries, a CRM free to start at 100 leads and one CRM seat, a Knowledge Base up to 10 documents and MCP access for AI assistants. Client invoicing, expenses and REST API access start at €2 per person per month.

No, and the gap is worth naming. Growee has no payroll module at all, while HiBob ships Payroll Hub plus US and UK Payroll. Growee also has no learning management system, no compensation-planning module and no workforce-planning module — HiBob sells Learning, Skills, Compensation and Workforce Planning, and its site puts it at 5,000+ customers across 170+ countries with 100+ integrations (as of September 2026). What Growee covers is the day-to-day: employee records, leave, timesheets, documents, onboarding, goals and evaluations, plus the sales CRM, client invoicing and expenses that HiBob's module list does not name.

Two are worth calling out. Time & Attendance — clock-in and timesheets — is an add-on at HiBob even though Time Off itself sits inside Core; in Growee, time tracking, timesheet approval and time reports are on the free plan. Performance sits in HiBob's Talent Management module; in Growee, goals and OKRs, feedback and evaluations are on the free plan too (as of September 2026). Beyond that, Hiring is our one pay-per-use add-on at €10 a job post plus €1 a candidate, with the applicant tracking and a public careers page included, so you pay for it in the months you are hiring and nothing in the months you are not.

Employees come across through their own sheet import, and your sales pipeline arrives as a CSV: download Growee's leads template from the CRM import dialog, match your columns to its headers and import in files of up to 200 rows, with every imported lead landing in your default stage for you to move from there. Contacts are not a separate import today, so company details ride along as fields on each lead. On the way out, time reports and leave data export as CSV on any plan, CRM reports export on the paid CRM add-on — the CRM is free to start at 100 leads and one CRM seat — and the €2 plan adds REST API access. Book a demo if you would rather have a hand with the move.

On September 1, 2026 HiBob announced a $166M investment led by Salesforce with participation from Farallon, and described the round as a step in its evolution into "an organizational intelligence layer for modern businesses" — its phrase, from its own announcement. Press reports have attached a valuation and a revenue figure to the round; neither number appears on HiBob's page, so this page does not repeat them as fact. What it means for a ten-person team is mostly this: HiBob is investing further up-market, and its own segmentation already starts at Growth (under 200 employees), Scale (200–1,000) and Enterprise (1,000+). If you are below that line and your HR sits next to a sales pipeline and client invoices, the size of the round is not the thing to decide on — the fit and the published price are.