# Humaans > HR system of record for growing companies, with AI agents, by quote Humaans is an HR system of record for growing companies, run from London, New York and San Francisco. It keeps the people directory, documents, absences, timesheets and onboarding workflows in one database and prepares payroll changes for outside providers. Performance reviews, an AI companion and headcount planning are add-ons, and Athena is a separate set of AI agents for HR requests. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** Humaans Inc. (since 2020) - **Website:** https://humaans.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Humaans's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **People directory and documents:** Employee profiles, an org chart, document storage and custom fields, with permission roles deciding who sees what. - **Absences and timesheets:** Staff request time away and managers approve it from any device, and timesheets log hours for compliance. - **Onboarding and workflow automation:** Automate onboarding and offboarding steps and route employee requests through approvals. - **Payroll-ready exports:** Tracks changes to pay, bank details, addresses and time off for each location, and sends them to payroll providers by export or SFTP. - **Athena AI agents:** Pre-built agents and a natural-language builder triage employee requests, run approvals and automate HR work, with an audit log of every action. - **Integrations and API:** Connects to Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Okta, Docusign, Carta, Lattice, Ashby and Greenhouse, with an API and webhooks. ## Good for - Venture-backed companies with staff in several countries - People teams that want a clean system of record linked to other tools - Companies that keep a separate payroll provider in each country ## Worth knowing - No prices are published: Growth, Enterprise and Athena are all sold through sales, and VC-backed firms can get a partner rate. - Performance reviews, the AI companion, headcount planning, DE&I analytics and data tables are add-ons on top of a plan. - It does not run payroll; it prepares changes for outside payroll providers. Its customers are in 28 countries, with staff in 106. - There is no app-store app: the mobile version runs in a phone's browser. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Humaans is a clean HR system of record for growing companies with staff in several countries, with time off, timesheets, onboarding and payroll-ready exports. It connects to the tools startups already use. But there's no price, no trial and no app, and reviews are an add-on. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published: Growth, Enterprise and the Athena agents are all sold through sales, and VC-backed firms can get a partner rate. So we can't say what a ten-person company pays, and with no figure to compare, it's a C. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial on record. You go through sales. - **Features: B.** A people directory, documents, an org chart, time off, timesheets, onboarding and approval workflows, and pay changes tracked and exported for payroll. The whole job, though reviews are an add-on and it doesn't run payroll itself. - **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record, and wiring it to your payroll providers and other tools is part of the setup. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Okta, Docusign, Lattice, Ashby and Greenhouse, plus an API and webhooks. No phone app, only the browser. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Humaans' own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - Humaans's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 1 of the 9 other HR software we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on features (B, above 1 of 9) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Humaans you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 5 of the 9 other HR software grade higher. - You could make: Employee records, time off and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: audit logs. - 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 Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, Okta, Docusign, Lattice, Ashby, Greenhouse **Tags:** Employee records, Time off, Workflow automation, AI agents, Public API, Reports ## Alternatives - [HiBob](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hibob): HR platform for mid-sized global firms, with US and UK payroll. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hibob-vs-humaans) - [Personio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/personio): European HR platform for records, absences, time and recruiting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/humaans-vs-personio) - [CharlieHR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/charliehr): HR software for UK small businesses, priced by team-size bracket. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/charliehr-vs-humaans) - [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-humaans) - [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-humaans) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://humaans.io/pricing - https://humaans.io/features/mobile - https://humaans.io/features/preliminary-payroll - https://humaans.io/about Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/humaans Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).