HREvio vs BambooHR: an honest 2026 comparison for SMBs

We build HREvio, so read this knowing who wrote it. We'll still tell you where BambooHR is the better fit - a customer on the wrong tool churns fast and helps nobody, us included.

The short version: BambooHR is an established, US-born HR suite sold per employee through sales quotes. HREvio is flat-rate, EU-first core HR with public pricing. If you're an SMB, those two differences - cost model and where your data lives - are most of the decision.

The pricing difference

BambooHR prices per employee per month and does not publish public pricing - you talk to sales for a quote, and the figure depends on headcount, tier, and add-ons. We won't cite a specific per-employee number we can't verify; what matters is the model: the bill rises every time you hire.

HREvio's prices are on the page and flat. EUR 29/month up to 25 employees, EUR 49 up to 100, EUR 99 up to 250. No quote, no sales call, and hiring inside a plan never changes the bill.

BambooHR does not publish public pricing (as of June 2026); figures are quote-based and per employee. HREvio prices exclude VAT; annual billing saves ~17%.

There's a second difference around data residency: BambooHR is US-based. HREvio is hosted in the EU with GDPR built into signup. For any company processing EU employee data, where that data lives is not a detail.

What BambooHR has that HREvio doesn't

This list is real, so here it is without hedging.

• Hiring and applicant tracking (on our roadmap)
• Performance management and employee satisfaction surveys (a lightweight performance version is on our roadmap)
• Payroll for the US market and payroll integrations
• A mobile app for iOS and Android
• A large integrations marketplace and a long track record
• Reporting and analytics (ours renders a placeholder today, not shipped)

If you want a full HR suite with hiring, performance, US payroll, and a mobile app from an established vendor, and per-employee pricing is acceptable, BambooHR is a safe choice. This page will still be here if the quote comes back higher than the problem you're solving.

What HREvio does, and does well

Core HR that a 5-100 person company actually uses every week:

• Employee directory with profiles, manager hierarchy, and an activity log of every change
• Vacation and sick leave: requests, approvals, balances, accrual, carryover, and a full per-employee ledger
• A team absence calendar plus public holidays for 48 countries, imported automatically
• Compensation history with effective dating; salary amounts encrypted at rest
• Roles and permissions (25 granular permissions), audit trail across the system
• Self-serve billing by card, upgrade or cancel in-app, no sales call at any point
• Interface in English, Ukrainian, Polish, and German

GDPR isn't a checkbox here. Hosting is on Hetzner in the EU, the data processing agreement is part of signup rather than a separate sales artifact, salary data is encrypted at rest, and the audit log masks encrypted fields automatically. We process EU employee data, so we built the product the way we'd want our own data handled.

Who should pick which

Pick BambooHR if you're a larger or US-based company that wants a full suite, a mobile app, and an established brand, and you're comfortable with per-employee pricing and a sales process.

Pick HREvio if you're an SMB that wants core HR done well at a flat, public price, hosted in the EU, with no sales call. At 25 people you pay EUR 29, and you saw the price before you signed up.

Switching from BambooHR

Start a trial, bring your employee list, and set starting leave balances with the built-in onboarding workflow, so mid-year balances carry over correctly.

The trial is 30 days, full Standard features, no credit card. After it ends your data goes read-only, and we send reminders before anything changes state. Nothing is deleted without warning and time to act.

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