Toku HR vs HiBob: price, features and which to choose (2026)

The core difference

HiBob describes Bob as an HR and payroll platform for mid-sized and multinational companies, and it also publishes a page for small businesses. Bob is sold in suites. Core is the base, every other suite needs it, and Talent, Payroll, HR Planning and Finance are added on top.

Toku HR is one HR product with three plans, for the people your company employs and pays itself. Toku is not their employer and Toku HR runs no payroll. It covers less than HiBob's suites do today. In return you get a price list you can read before you speak to anyone, from a company that also provides employer of record and global payroll when you hire abroad.

Price: a quote against a price list

HiBob does not publish prices. Its pricing page is a three-step form that asks for your headcount, in bands of 1-49, 50-199, 200-999 and 1,000+, and ends with a customised proposal from sales. The page shows no plan names beyond the suites, and the free offer it makes is a demo. Because a proposal is custom, treat any HiBob figure that is not in a quote from HiBob as unconfirmed.

Toku HR publishes its prices. Starter, Growth and Scale cost $125, $225 and $325 a month for up to 25 employees, then $5, $9 and $13 per employee per month. Contractors are free, and yearly billing costs ten months' price.

A fair comparison therefore starts with a quote. Ask HiBob for Core plus every suite you would use, at your headcount, in one proposal. Ask whether time and attendance is included, because HiBob's own pages describe it two ways. Then set the total against the Toku HR price for the same size of company:

• 25 employees: Toku HR Starter $125 a month, Growth $225 a month, Scale $325 a month.
• 50 employees: Toku HR Starter $250 a month, Growth $450 a month, Scale $650 a month.
• 100 employees: Toku HR Starter $500 a month, Growth $900 a month, Scale $1,300 a month.

What each one includes

The everyday HR layer overlaps. HiBob's Core holds the system of record: document generation and e-signature, onboarding workflows, approval paths and dashboards. It also describes joiner, mover and leaver workflows for on- and offboarding. Toku HR keeps employee records and a directory, documents with e-signature, expenses, IT equipment and reports, with roles, permissions and an audit trail.

Both manage time off. HiBob says leave policies can be set by location, department or employee group, and that local holiday calendars can be configured per region. Toku HR has leave types with accruals, requests and approvals, and adds the statutory holidays of each employee's country for you.

Time tracking is where HiBob's pages disagree. Its time and attendance page, which covers clocking in, project hours and timesheets, calls it an add-on to Core. Its platform overview lists time and attendance inside Core. Get the answer in writing. In Toku HR, time tracking and a web clock come with the Growth and Scale plans.

Where HiBob is ahead today

• Payroll. Bob runs native payroll for the US and the UK, and its US payroll files in all 50 states. Other countries connect through Payroll Hub to providers such as ADP WFN, Paylocity, TriNet and Xero. Toku HR runs no payroll, so you keep your own provider.
• Hiring. Applicant tracking sits in HiBob's Talent suite, with customisable pipelines, candidate self-scheduling and job posting to 2,300+ job boards. There is no applicant tracking system in Toku HR.
• Performance and surveys. The Talent suite has 360 reviews, goals, 1-on-1s, engagement and lifecycle surveys, calibration on a 9-box grid and succession planning. Goals and feedback are in Toku HR's Growth and Scale plans. Review cycles, 360 reviews and surveys are not included.
• Mobile and AI. HiBob has native iOS and Android apps and an AI assistant, Bob Companion, and its MCP server works with ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor. Toku HR does not have a mobile app or an AI assistant. Scale adds API access.
• Planning and compensation. HiBob sells HR Planning and Finance suites, and its compensation product handles multi-currency, multi-entity and multi-geo cycles. Compensation planning is not in Toku HR.
• Track record. HiBob's home page claims 5,500+ companies, and its security page lists ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27018:2025 and SOC 2 Type 2. Toku HR is new.

Where Toku HR is the better fit

• A price you can read. Three plans with published prices, a per-employee price with a 25-employee minimum, contractors free and yearly billing at ten months' price. HiBob needs a proposal first.
• HR without a payroll decision. If your payroll is already settled, Toku HR adds the HR layer and leaves your payroll provider alone.
• Time tracking inside a plan. Growth includes it. With HiBob you first confirm whether time and attendance is in Core or sold on top.
• Holidays for each country. Statutory holidays for every employee's country are added for you on every plan, which helps a team spread across several countries.
• Hiring abroad without an entity. Toku provides employer of record in 100+ countries as a separate service, and global payroll when you need it.

How to choose

Start from what you must have on day one. If it is payroll inside the HR system in the US or UK, an applicant tracking system, review cycles or surveys, HiBob covers those today and Toku HR does not. If it is records, documents, time off and time tracking at a price you can check, Toku HR covers that.

Whichever way you lean, ask HiBob these before you compare:

• Which suites does the proposal include: Core only, or Talent, Payroll, HR Planning and Finance as well?
• Is time and attendance in Core or an add-on, and what does it add to the total?
• What is the price at your headcount band, and how long is the term?
• Which payroll and benefits options does it cover in each country where you have employees?

Switching from HiBob

If your payroll runs on Bob's native US or UK payroll, decide where payroll will live first, because Toku HR runs no payroll. Then list what has to move: people, time off balances and policies, and documents. Keep both systems running through one pay period so you can check balances before you close the old one.

Toku HR's Scale plan includes free assisted migration and priority support. On the other plans, talk to Toku about what the move involves. For a competitor that does publish its prices to set beside a HiBob quote, see BambooHR pricing.