Personio vs Sprout HR comparison

Personio and Sprout Solutions are both solutions in the Cloud HCM category. Personio is ranked #19 with an average rating of 5.5, while Sprout Solutions is ranked #13 with an average rating of 10.0. Personio holds a 0.9% mindshare in CHCM, compared to Sprout Solutions’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 50% of Personio users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sprout Solutions users who would recommend it.

Personio

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50% willing to recommend

Sprout HR

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100% willing to recommend

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Personio

Ranking in Cloud HCM

19th

Ranking in HR Analytics Software

8th

Average Rating

5.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Applicant Tracking and Recruiting Software (6th)

Sprout HR

Ranking in Cloud HCM

13th

Ranking in HR Analytics Software

7th

Average Rating

10.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Talent Acquisition (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Cloud HCM category, the mindshare of Personio is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sprout HR is 0.7%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud HCM Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Sprout HR	0.7%
Personio	0.9%
Other	98.4%

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Ruben Tieken

Global Talent Acquisition Lead at Career Break

Offers strong HR features but recruiting module needs essential improvements

The analytics and reporting aspect in Personio for the recruiting part was below expectations compared to some other applicant tracking systems. It is clunky and cannot be tailored to specific needs. The reporting and analytics for the recruiting part are insufficient. The ability to filter applications based on filtering questions added to applications was missing in recruiting. Other recruiting software performs this function much better. Keyword searches within applicants' resumes in the database within recruiting were not possible. I brought this up with the Personio account manager and was told it was on the development list, but these are essential features for any recruiter. I would advise companies looking for an ATS and considering Personio to get a separate recruiting piece of software that can interface with Personio instead.

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reviewer2355699

Head of Competitive and Market Intelligence at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

Enables users to share curated content and helps schedule the best time to post content

The solution helped us get a fairly good footprint in our channel. It makes it very easy for many of us who have a lot of contacts in the channel. We can share curated content from the team on our social channels. It makes it easy. I could select what I want to share and choose the best time for it to be posted there, and it will. The product makes it very easy for many people dealing with different parts of our channel to push our content out to people in it. It works pretty well. There may be other capabilities that I do not know about. The solution works fine for my use cases. It's easy. It's not time-consuming. It takes 15 minutes to go through it. The solution uses AI to help schedule the best time for things to post to get the most reads and likes. It is pretty effective.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"As an HR tool, Personio is really good; it is straightforward adding your organizational structure through it with the accounting codes so you can interface with many accounting modules and payroll modules."

"Personio provides an opportunity to set up structure with certain steps, creating a clear interviewing process, which resulted in hiring better candidates faster because having a system in place is better than having none."

"The solution helped us get a fairly good footprint in our channel."

Cons

"The analytics and reporting aspect in Personio for the recruiting part was below expectations compared to some other applicant tracking systems."

"Personio is not scalable as an ATS, and I struggle to work with it."

"I don't have direct access to the performance statistics."

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Personio?

I cannot provide information about the setup costs as I am not responsible for the financial aspects.

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What needs improvement with Personio?

The screening of candidates in the ATS part is quite complicated. In Greenhouse, you can have a CV of one person on one page at a time, zoomed in immediately for easy screening. In Personio, it req...

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What is your primary use case for Personio?

I'm a consultant, so I do in-house recruiting, embedded recruiting for various clients, and one of my clients is using Personio as their ATS, so that's how I work with it. As a recruiter, I primari...

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What needs improvement with Sprout HR?

I don't have direct access to the performance statistics. I always have to ask for it.

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What is your primary use case for Sprout HR?

We design content for our social channels. People share it. We can use the tool to track the statistics and understand their usage. I have a task every day. I look at different curated content and ...

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What advice do you have for others considering Sprout HR?

I will recommend the product to others. Overall, I rate the product a ten out of ten.

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Overview

Personio is one of the fastest-growing HR software providers for small and midsize companies. Recruit, manage, pay and develop your employees - this software does it all! Personio becomes your HR cockpit: Access all people data at the push of a button and automate all your HR processes along the employee lifecycle.

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