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Sprout HR vs Workday comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Sprout HR
Ranking in Cloud HCM
34th
Ranking in Talent Acquisition
19th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
HR Analytics Software (9th)
Workday
Ranking in Cloud HCM
2nd
Ranking in Talent Acquisition
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
58
Ranking in other categories
Benefits Administration (1st), Talent Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Cloud HCM category, the mindshare of Sprout HR is 0.9%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Workday is 8.7%, down from 18.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud HCM Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Workday8.7%
Sprout HR0.9%
Other90.4%
Cloud HCM
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2355699 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Eslam Abo Elnaga - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior people and systems analyst at B_labs & Mylo
Has improved HR process efficiency through intuitive workflows and responsive support
There is something that could be improved in Workday, specifically in the time tracking module. While I am not working on Workday now, I was a regional HRIS working for Egypt, Malta, India, and China. I mention these countries to relate to high population countries and companies. In our company, we use assigned work schedules for our teams. Because we work with the time tracking module, we need to assign shifts. In the manufacturing industry, we might need to change shifts every day or week. Manufacturing teams are huge, approximately 50 to 200 people in one team. If this team has one leader, the leader needs to assign a work schedule for each person individually. While there is mass upload functionality where we can load shifts for all people or specific groups, we need to select multiple people and assign them to a schedule from the interface itself. I have requested this functionality many times. When extracting business processes awaiting actions report, I can select different processes in one box, hit okay, and the report comes up. However, the same functionality does not work for work schedule assigning. If implemented, it would help many people in companies with high populations and big teams.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution helped us get a fairly good footprint in our channel."
"It's actually a cloud-native solution and based on the community for development, with a very good open architecture that is able to interconnect with other systems, and it is very stable and very fast in terms of response."
"The solution was very good at reconfiguration and customization of their software. It helped us to meet federal regulations."
"It is more efficient than any methods/processes I have used in other companies."
"The business process framework is excellent."
"This is a reliable solution."
"I would say that we have definitely seen a return on investment."
"We use Workday for HR services and found the software to be very user-friendly compared to the previous software."
"It is easy to use and straightforward."
 

Cons

"I don't have direct access to the performance statistics."
"The solution has to work a lot on financial integrations, material management and CRM modules."
"Workday does have a community site where people can go on and off for suggestions. They call them Brainstorms, and you can vote them up. That is something that they do well, but oftentimes, they seem to be racing to deliver something based on what a competitor is delivering. For example, if they hear SAP has this new functionality and learning that's going to be coming out, they prioritize there, which makes sense, but unfortunately, some of these Brainstorms may get neglected where the product might not be improved as quickly or as needed for the customers. You might be waiting for a year or two to get a feature that you'd like released. They should pay more attention to customer feedback and ensure that customer feedback is an essential part of their product roadmap."
"One area that could be improved with Workday is the analytics side."
"Analytical tools have needed improvement. Workday has just released Prism Analytics, to replace the current analytical tools, so it’s in the early stages."
"The security console should be made less complex."
"They could provide a web chatbot feature in the dashboard for Workday."
"They do a great job of selling the tool, but for support, you are kind of on your own."
"This solution could be made easier to use by continuing to release new improvements."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing is good from an HR perspective, although management gets upset after spending $500,000 a year, every year."
"You have the license fee per module, and then you have a kind of annual training fee, which is a kind of add-on. I wouldn't say it is exhaustive; it is minor. Licensing is pretty transparent for most of the part."
"Its price is pretty high. It is more expensive than what is offered by other competitors in the market."
"I rate the product’s pricing a ten out of ten."
"Workday is an expensive solution."
"It has an annual subscription rate, but I'm not sure how it will work."
"I would rate the solution’s pricing a six out of ten."
"With a bigger budget, I would recommend SAP."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
University
6%
Government
6%
 

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Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise43
 

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