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Personio SE · HR software
A European HR suite for growing companies, sold through a demonstration.
Personio is a German HR software company that positions itself for HR teams across Europe. It has two tiers, Core and Core Pro, and add on apps for recruiting, performance, compensation and surveys, plus a Xero connection. It says more than 16,000 companies use it, gives its price in a demonstration, and does not mention South Africa.
Price
On request
Given in a demonstration
Tiers
2
Core and Core Pro
Add on apps
4
Recruiting, performance, compensation, surveys
Customers
16,000 plus
Personio's own count
Founded
2015
Personio SE
Figures marked as a vendor's own are that vendor's claims about itself and are not tested here.
Every plan Personio lists, in rand, with a button to Personio SE's own pricing page.
Quoted by the vendor
Employee profiles, documents, analytics, workflow automation, time tracking and preliminary payroll.
Quoted by the vendor
Adds position management, unlimited documents and e signatures, API access and workforce planning.
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Personio does not publish a price. Personio SE gives it after you contact them, and the quote is the product: ask for the monthly price with the VAT basis stated, what is charged once only, and which SARS returns it handles for you.
Personio gives its price in a demo. Used by more than 16,000 companies, by its own count.
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Price on request
Starting prices of the priced products in the same category, cheapest first. This is a price sort, not a ranking: the cheapest product is not the best one, and some are priced per user, some per month and some excluding VAT.
Bar lengths use a square root scale, so a very high price does not flatten the rest. The figures are exact.
The middle starting price of the paid products here is R66.
Price on request, so not charted: LabourNet, Personio.
Positions use a square root scale, so a very high price does not flatten the rest. The figures are exact.
A dot is one plan. Free plans and plans on request have no price to place. A per user price is the price of one user.
A founding year says how long a company has existed. It says nothing about how good the product is.
An official video from Personio on YouTube. Software Register did not make or edit them. They are the vendor's own account of the product, so read them beside the prices and limits on this page.
The intelligent HR platform
Overview, 0:51, published 25 April 2025. From the Personio channel on YouTube.
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Beyond the core product, Personio sells apps for each part of the employee lifecycle.
Strengths
Limits
Best for
Think twice if
In short
A capable suite for a company with European staff. For a South African team, ask for a demonstration of leave, statutory reporting and your payroll connection before you go further.
Start where the vendor sells it, and keep this page open beside you for the limits.
Price on request
Personio gives its price in a demonstration. Ask for the price per employee by tier, the price of each app and the VAT basis, in writing.
Personio gives its price on request, so there is no published figure to quote. Ask for the monthly price in rand with the VAT basis stated, and for any one off charges in writing.
An HR suite sold across Europe, with pricing given in a demo.
On this register the closest are BambooHR, LabourNet, PeopleHR, Sage HR. Each has its own page, and the compare tool sets any two side by side.
South African guides that help you weigh Personio: what the rules ask, what to test and what to put in writing.
Leave under the BCEA comes first
Many HR products are built in Britain, America or Europe. What a South African employer should check: leave under the BCEA, how HR meets payroll, the personal information it holds and what it costs for each employee.
Read the guideMinimum annual leave under the BCEA
21 days
The Basic Conditions of Employment Act sets minimum leave. HR software that accrues it wrongly will quietly misstate what you owe.
Read the guideSoftware Register
Where your customers' data lives, and who can touch it
Your customers' and employees' details sit in the software you choose. The law makes you responsible for them, and the vendor is acting for you. Here are the questions to put to a vendor before you hand over the data.
Read the guideEvery price and fact on this page was read from Personio SE's own pages, researched on 11 October 2026. A figure the vendor states about itself is marked as the vendor's. This review gives no score and no rank, and a vendor cannot pay to change it. Read how the register works.
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