# HR Partner review (2026): is it worth $86 a month, billed yearly?

> HR records, leave, onboarding and recruiting for teams of 20 to 500

Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA.

HR Partner is an HRIS for companies of about 20 to 500 employees. Core covers employee records, a self-service portal, leave and onboarding checklists; Premium adds applicant tracking, performance reviews, timesheets and e-signatures. Price depends on headcount, with a 14-day trial and no long-term contract.

- **Category:** HR Software
- **Made by:** HR Partner
- **Website:** https://www.hrpartner.io
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you have under 25 people and expect a lower price, as that is the smallest size shown.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 12, 2026, HR Partner is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $86 per month for up to 25 employees, billed monthly ($946 billed yearly).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Core | $86 per month for 25 employees, billed monthly ($946 billed yearly) | Employee records, self-service portal, leave and accruals, onboarding checklists, up to 5 admin users. Price rises with headcount: $360 a month at 100 employees. |
| Premium | $108 per month for 25 employees, billed monthly ($1,188 billed yearly) | Core plus applicant tracking, performance reviews and goals, timesheets and clock-in, e-signatures, 10 admin users. $450 a month at 100 employees. |
| VIP | $155 per month for 25 employees, billed monthly ($1,705 billed yearly) | Premium plus priority support, a dedicated account manager, a custom domain, unlimited admin users and 5 implementation sessions. $648 a month at 100 employees. |

Read from https://www.hrpartner.io/pricing.html on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with HR Partner before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Yearly billing at 11 times the monthly price** (Annual discount): The pricing page toggle shows a yearly price equal to 11 months of the monthly price, for example $946 against $86 a month for Core at 25 employees. Source: https://www.hrpartner.io/pricing.html

## Key features

- **Employee records:** Contact details, position and salary history, training records, skills matrix, assets, dependents, file attachments and an org chart.
- **Leave and PTO:** Requests, approvals, configurable policies, custom working-day schedules, balances and a leave calendar.
- **Onboarding checklists:** Unlimited checklists with reminders, admin tasks, verification and optional e-signatures.
- **Recruitment:** On Premium and above: an applicant tracking system with a job portal, application forms, stage pipeline and selection panels.
- **Performance reviews and goals:** Custom review forms, reminders, individual goals and team goal templates, on Premium and above.
- **Expense claims and e-signatures:** Online expense claims with approvals and reports, plus electronic signatures, appear in the plan comparison.

## Good for

- Growing companies of 20 to 500 people that want one HR system without contracts
- Teams using Xero that want approved leave sent to payroll

## Worth knowing

- Price is set by employee count; the figures here are for 25 employees, the smallest size in the page's price table, and rise with headcount.
- Yearly billing works out to 11 times the monthly price, so the saving is about one month.
- Applicant tracking, performance reviews and timesheets need Premium; Core has up to 5 admin users and extra admin users cost a fee.
- Prices can be shown in USD, GBP, AUD or EUR on the pricing page.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. HR Partner covers employee records, leave, onboarding checklists and, on dearer plans, recruitment, reviews and timesheets, with the price set by headcount. The smallest size shown is 25 employees at $86 a month. Applicant tracking, performance reviews and timesheets need Premium, and extra admin users cost more.

- **Value for money: C.** $86 a month for up to 25 employees on Core, about $3.40 each, and $946 a year if you pay yearly. Premium is $108 and VIP $155 for 25 employees.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** 14-day free trial with no card needed, and no free plan.
- **Features: B.** Records, leave and accruals, onboarding, recruitment, reviews and goals, expenses and e-signatures. The listing names no gap in the core HR work.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Records, leave policies and checklists need setting up, with three implementation sessions on Core.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with 7 integrations on record.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from HR Partner's own pages on 12 November 2026. Its pricing page fills in the figures by script, so we could not re-read them. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among HR software

- HR Partner's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 50 of the 63 other HR software we grade, and level with 9.
- It stands best on features (B, above 41 of 63) and worst on ease of use (C, above 1).
- Its paid plans start at $86 a month, against a middle price of $5.36 for the category: 35 of the 36 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hr-software

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** The plain part of HR Partner you could make: employee records, time off, applicant tracking, goals and expense tracking. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 50 of the 63 other HR software we grade. It costs $1,032 a year.

- You could make: Employee records, time off, applicant tracking, goals and expense tracking: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Xero, Slack and Merge among them.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Xero, Slack, Merge, Indeed, Talent.com, Virtlx, Canvass

**Tags:** Employee records, Time off, Applicant tracking, Goals, Time clock, Expense tracking

## Alternatives

- [Breathe](https://toolgpa.com/tools/breathe): UK HR software for small firms, priced per business, not per person. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/breathe-vs-hrpartner)
- [CharlieHR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/charliehr): HR software for UK small businesses, priced by team-size bracket. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/charliehr-vs-hrpartner)
- [BambooHR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bamboohr): HR records, hiring, time off and reviews, with US payroll as an add-on. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-hrpartner)
- [Factorial](https://toolgpa.com/tools/factorial): HR, time, shifts, expenses and IT for small firms, quoted by module. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/factorial-vs-hrpartner)
- [BrightHR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/brighthr): HR software with holiday, rota and absence tools and advice lines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/brighthr-vs-hrpartner)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026:

- https://www.hrpartner.io/pricing.html
- https://www.hrpartner.io/js/pricing.js
- https://www.hrpartner.io/
- https://www.hrpartner.io/features/integrations.html

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/hrpartner
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