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European HR platform for time, talent, and payroll management, sold as modular add-ons.

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Alt Score · 89

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Verified coverage 90%88
Visibility 10%100

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#3 of 8 in HRIS

Factorial ranks #3 of 8 in HRIS, with an Alt Score of 89. It is proprietary, sold by subscription from $8/user/mo and available on Web, iOS and Android. 12 of 12 checklist rows are verified against a public source.

Factorial is a cloud-based HR platform, founded in Barcelona, covering time tracking, talent management, an ATS, and payroll/Compensation, used by more than 16,000 companies. Pricing starts at $8 per user per month (site geo-served USD pricing under an en-US Accept-Language header); payroll itself is a paid add-on module that, for country-specific calculation, relies on integrations with local payroll providers rather than a single native multi-country engine.

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Who it's for

Small and medium businesses, primarily in Spain and other European markets, looking for a single platform to manage time tracking, talent, and payroll administration.

What you get

Time-off and shift management, time and attendance tracking, an applicant tracking system, onboarding/offboarding workflows, an auto-generated organizational chart, 360-degree performance reviews, a Compensation/Payroll add-on module, Spain-centric flexible-compensation benefits, a mobile app, a public API, and SAML-based SSO.

How it works

Customers subscribe per user per month starting at Factorial Core, then add modules (Time, Talent, Payroll, Finance, IT); the Compensation module generates payslips and SEPA payment files directly but for country-specific payroll processing installs and matches third-party payroll-provider integrations (e.g., a3nom/a3innuva in Spain, DATEV in Germany, Silae in France) per legal entity.

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01

Rippling is a workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, payroll, and finance on one employee data model, so changes in one module (a hire, a role change) propagate automatically to the others.

Proprietary WebiOSAndroid
Alt Score

Alt Score · 93

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%92
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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02

Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) is an enterprise cloud HR suite covering core HR, benefits, absence, time tracking, org management, talent, and payroll on a single data model.

Proprietary WebiOSAndroid
Alt Score

Alt Score · 93

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%92
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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03

Gusto is a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and HR platform built for US small businesses.

Proprietary WebiOSAndroid
Alt Score

Alt Score · 85

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%83
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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04

HiBob (Bob) is a cloud HR platform for mid-market and enterprise companies, unifying core HR, hiring, performance, and workforce planning with native payroll for the US and UK.

Proprietary WebiOSAndroid
Alt Score

Alt Score · 78

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%75
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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05

BambooHR is a cloud HR information system for small and midsize businesses, sold on tiered per-employee-per-month plans (Core, Pro, Elite).

Proprietary WebiOSAndroid
Alt Score

Alt Score · 74

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%71
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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Namely is a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) platform bundling payroll, benefits administration, time and attendance, onboarding, and core HR records for US mid-sized companies.

Proprietary WebiOSAndroid
Alt Score

Alt Score · 74

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%71
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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07

Personio is an HR information system built by a German company, sold as a Core or Core Pro subscription plan with additional paid apps for payroll processing, recruiting, and performance management.

WebiOSAndroid
Alt Score

Alt Score · 17

How this alternative ranks. How it works →

Verified coverage 90%8
Visibility 10%100

Verified coverage = sourced yes and partial answers in the category checklist. Visibility = relative app-page views on AltCatalog over 30 days, neutral below 500 category views. Payment, votes, and vendor opinions are never score inputs.

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Feature comparison

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License
Platforms
Built-in payroll
Benefits administration
Time-off tracking
Time and attendance
Onboarding workflows
Org chart
Performance reviews
Built-in applicant tracking
Multi-country payroll
Employee mobile app
API access
SSO (SAML/OIDC)
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