# PerformYard review (2026): is it worth $5 a month, billed yearly? > Performance reviews, goals and talent development with AI help Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. PerformYard is a performance management platform sold in two product sets: Performance (reviews, meetings, goals, engagement, feedback and surveys) and Talent Development (compensation, coaching, competencies, succession planning and career pathing). Pricing is per person and billed annually, and an AI layer is listed as part of every plan. - **Category:** HR Software - **Made by:** PerformYard - **Website:** https://www.performyard.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you land at the top of the range, since $15 a seat is well above the category's middle. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, PerformYard is a paid product, starting at $5 per person / month, billed annually (the page shows a $5 to $15 range). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Performance | $5-15 per person / month, billed annually | Reviews, meetings, goals, engagement, feedback and surveys, with PerformYard AI. The rate within $5 to $15 depends on employee count and products chosen. | | Talent Development | $5-15 per person / month, billed annually | Compensation, coaching, competencies, succession planning, employee insights and career pathing, with PerformYard AI. Rate depends on employee count and products chosen. | Read from https://www.performyard.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with PerformYard before buying. ## Key features - **Reviews and check-ins:** Annual reviews, goal check-ins, 360 feedback, competency-based and project-based reviews, quarterly conversations and PIPs are listed as supported review types. - **Meetings and goals:** 1:1 meeting tools and goal management that aligns individual goals with company ones. - **Engagement surveys:** eNPS and custom pulse surveys, available in the Performance product set. - **Talent Development suite:** A separate set covering compensation merit cycles tied to performance, competencies and skills, AI coaching and career pathing. - **AI writing and coaching:** Writing assistance, summaries and coaching prompts for managers are listed as included in every plan. - **HRIS sync and SSO:** Employee data syncs from systems such as ADP, BambooHR, Gusto, Rippling, UKG, Workday and Paylocity, and SFTP covers others. SSO is included with every plan. ## Good for - HR teams that run several review types (annual, quarterly, 360, project) in one tool - Companies that want hands-on onboarding included in the price - Organizations that later want compensation and competency tools in the same system ## Worth knowing - Prices are a range of $5 to $15 per person / month; the page does not say which employee counts or product choices fall where. - Billed annually per seat, with volume pricing for larger organizations; there is no free plan or free trial on the pricing page. - Talent Development (compensation, coaching, competencies) is a separate product set from Performance, each priced in the same $5 to $15 range. - The vendor says onboarding, training and a dedicated success manager carry no extra fee. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. PerformYard handles reviews, check-ins, goals and surveys, with the price a range from $5 to $15 per person a month. The page does not say what puts you at which end, there is no free plan or trial, and compensation and coaching are a separate product. - **Value for money: C.** $5 to $15 per person a month billed annually. The bottom of the range matches the category's middle of $5, and the page does not say which team sizes pay what. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no free trial on the pricing page. - **Features: C.** Reviews, meetings, goals, surveys and an AI writing helper. Compensation, coaching and succession planning are the separate Talent Development set, priced on their own. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It syncs with HR systems and uses single sign-on, so there is setup before people use it. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, but it lists ADP, BambooHR, Gusto, Rippling, UKG, Workday, Slack and Microsoft Teams. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from PerformYard's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among HR software - PerformYard's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 13 of the 63 other HR software we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 22 of 63) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $5 a month for each person, against a middle price of $5.36 for the category: 16 of the 36 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 2 tools score higher and cost 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 PerformYard you could make: goals, surveys and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 5 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 34 of the 63 other HR software grade higher. It costs $60 a year. - You could make: Goals, surveys and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, ADP, BambooHR and Gusto among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: People on the other end: coaches. No app builder makes those. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with ADP, BambooHR, Gusto, Rippling, UKG, Workday, Slack, Microsoft Teams **Tags:** Goals, Surveys, Reports, AI features ## Alternatives - [Lattice](https://toolgpa.com/tools/lattice): Performance reviews, goals and engagement surveys for HR teams. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/performyard-vs-small-improvements) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.performyard.com/pricing - https://www.performyard.com/ - https://www.performyard.com/integrations Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/performyard Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).