Every People plan includes every module and every AI capability. Plans differ in how much AI you use and which decision suites you unlock. Legal and Books are bought separately; their pricing is published here when they launch.
Recruiting · Onboarding · Performance · Compensation & payroll runs · Time & leave · Engagement · Career · Analytics, from 5 employees to 1,000+
Those minimums are a monthly dollar floor, not a seat minimum. Every plan is priced per employee above its floor, so a small team pays the floor and grows into per-seat pricing as you add people.
Prices are per user in USD. Applicable sales tax or VAT is added at checkout based on your location.
Every feature, every plan. Nothing is behind a sales call. Rows with an AI-class badge (Insights, Generative, Digest or Actions) show how Sparko governs that class of AI. "Metered" means included on Core, spending from the monthly pool.
Core $5 /user/mo Get started | Growth $10 /user/mo Get started | Business $16 /user/mo Get started | Custom Quoted from ~$1,000/mo Contact sales | |
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| People & Organization | ||||
| Core Features | ||||
Employee Directory, Profiles, Search & Advanced Filters | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Voluntary self-identification (EEO-1 gender/race, veteran, disability — employee-only, encrypted) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Bulk Employee Import (CSV/Excel, staged invitations, safe re-runs) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
HRIS Roster Pull (BambooHR / SAP SuccessFactors / Workday) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Guided Setup wizard (leave/holiday/work-week proposals, per-country overrides) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Announcements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Organization Chart, Reporting Chain & Team Views | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
My Hub + Configurable Dashboard Layouts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Employee Handbooks (PDF upload, visibility controls) | 3 docs | 10 docs | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Custom Employee Fields | 0 | 5 | 20 | Unlimited |
Departments & Teams (nested teams, multi-team FTE allocation) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Onboarding Plans, Task Library & Templates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Employee Change Requests (submit → approve from My Hub) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Employee Bank Accounts (encrypted, payroll-verified) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Termination Flow (reason taxonomy, role revocation) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
GDPR Data Self-Export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Bulk Edit | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
My Team Dashboard | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Probation Automation (auto 30/60/90-day check-ins + new-hire OKRs) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Document Search Across Other People's Documents | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Employee Document E-Sign (typed signature + evidence record) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Offboarding | ||||
Offboarding Plans & Checklists | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Exit-Interview Capture | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Equipment / Access-Return Tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
AI Exit-Interview Summary (HR-editable, Claude-attributed)Generative | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Cross-Exit Pattern Detection (recurring themes across departures, cohorts of 5+)Generative | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Analytics (People) | ||||
Headcount, Trends, Tenure, Locations, 12-Month Movement | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Data Export (CSV/PDF) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Recruiting | ||||
| Core Features | ||||
Active Job Postings | 3 | 10 | 50 | Unlimited |
Job Requisitions, Candidate Management & Pipeline Board | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Employee Referrals | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Candidate Email Templates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Interview Scheduling & Rescheduling (with reason + notifications) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Per-Job Interview Pipeline | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Offer Management (letter PDF, revision chain, re-approval) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Hiring Workflow & Offer Approvals | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Reusable Interview Pipeline Templates | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Candidate Portal & Offer Signing | ||||
Candidate Magic-Link Portal (no login, not a seat) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Offer Accept with Typed E-Signature / Counter / Decline | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Careers Page & Candidate Experience | ||||
Public Job Portal + Careers Page Builder (hero, culture, perks, SEO) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Candidate Privacy & GDPR Consent Capture (with audit trail) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Résumé Upload Scanning + Retention-Tagged Storage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hiring Plan & Headcount Approvals | ||||
Annual Hiring Plan, Position Tracking & Per-Position Budget | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Multi-Approver Workflow + Consolidated Approvals Dashboard | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Features | ||||
Job Description Generator (requirements derived from the career framework's competencies)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Résumé ParsingGenerative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Candidate Screening (rules first, AI on borderline cases)Generative | Overnight batch | Instant | Instant | Instant |
Match ScoringGenerative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Offer Letter GeneratorGenerative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Salary Recommendation on an Offer (band + comparators, not a model call) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Create a Job Posting (assistant proposes, a human confirms)Actions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Interview Plan Generator + Scorecard GenerationGenerative | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
AI Interview Brief per Interviewer (single or batch)Generative | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Interview Notes to Structured FeedbackGenerative | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Interview Synthesis & Candidate ComparisonGenerative | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Hiring Decision Dashboard (who decided what, on what evidence) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Backfill Lookup (assistant tool)Actions | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Hiring Plan Lookup (assistant tool)Actions | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Analytics | ||||
Pipeline Funnel, Open Requisitions & Department Breakdown | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Time to Hire / Source Mix / Stage Conversion / Offer Acceptance Rate | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Recruiter Performance + Cost per Hire | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Adverse-Impact Report on AI Screening (four-fifths rule) Screening oversight (auto-reject, override and flag rates) is on every plan | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Performance | ||||
| Core Features | ||||
OKRs, Check-ins & Goal Alignment Cascade | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Strategic Roadmap (items, gap analysis, convert to OKRs) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Performance Reviews (cycles, self + manager review, pause-to-edit) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Review Templates & Question Library | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Skip-Level Review Lane | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Growth Trajectory (rating trend across completed cycles) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
1-on-1 Meetings + Notes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Continuous Feedback (give, request, inbox, feed, reply) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Self-Reflections Journal | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Recognition & Kudos | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Calibration Sessions (distribution, adjustments, change log) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
360 Peer-Survey Workflow (in-flight rounds finish after a downgrade) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
360 Synthesis (AI themes, anonymity-preserving)Generative | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Calibration Budget Impact | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Merit Recommendation on a Review (staged, never touches live pay) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI in the Review Cycle | ||||
Manual Review Creation + Manager Approval | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
AI-Generated Draft Reviews (STAR format)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Multi-Source Synthesis (OKRs + 1:1s + 360 + feedback + recognition)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
AI-Drafted Review Template from a Plain-Language BriefGenerative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Plagiarism Detection + Uniqueness ScoringInsights | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Evidence Click-Through (every AI claim cites its source)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Cascading Achievements (manager review surfaces reports' wins)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Approve & Send for AI Drafts + My Hub Approvals | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Features (OKRs, Roadmap, 1:1s) | ||||
OKR Suggestions, Cascade Generator + OKR-to-Skill LinkingGenerative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Roadmap Suggestions, Roadmap-to-OKR Conversion + Gap AnalysisGenerative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
1-on-1 Agenda GeneratorGenerative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Performance InsightsGenerative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Feedback Coaching (rewrites a draft into behavioural feedback)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Reflection Prompt GeneratorGenerative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Write a Review / Approve / Request Feedback / Schedule a 1:1 / Create an OKR (assistant tools)Actions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Request a 360 Round (assistant tool)Actions | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Strategic Roadmap Lookup (assistant tool)Actions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Competency Assessment (predictive) | ||||
Competency Analysis with Per-Competency Gap StatusGenerative | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Promotion Readiness ScoringInsights | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Stretch Assignments + Development Plan RecommendationsGenerative | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Manager Validation Workflow + Team Readiness Overview | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Analytics | ||||
OKR Funnel, Review Completion & Calibration Distribution | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Cohort Comparison (heatmap + drill table) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
High Performer Identification + Performance Distribution | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Compensation | ||||
| Core Features | ||||
Salary Record & Compensation History | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Your Own Bonus, Equity & Total Rewards | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Compensation Transparency Setting (off / band / full) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Payroll Run: CSV export, 1 entity, 1 currency + Payslips (filed to the profile) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Paying Entities | 1 | 5 | 20 | Unlimited |
Salary Bands, Job Families, Band Occupancy & Compa-Ratio | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Band Market Refresh + Suggested Ranges | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
AI-Generated Salary Band Structure (build or refresh, reviewed before apply)Generative | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Sparko Global Salary Band Catalog (subscribe or replicate) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Locations with a Geo Multiplier | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Bonus Administration & Payouts | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Equity Grants with Vesting Schedules | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Total Rewards for Someone Else (in-profile view) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Merit Cycles + Worksheet (live budget burn bar) + CSV Bulk Edit | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Compensation Outcome Letters (merge-field allowlist, record freeze on send) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Payroll Run Full: multi-entity, multi-currency, GIRO/NACHA/SEPA | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Multi-Level Comp Change Approval Workflow | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Compensation Anomaly Inbox | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Features | ||||
Worksheet Advisory Reads (market comparison for a proposed salary)Generative | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
AI Merit Suggestion (staged next to the manager’s number, never auto-applied)Generative | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Pay Range for a Role (assistant tool — your salary band plus the benchmark stored on it, never researched)Actions | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Analytics | ||||
Compensation Summary & Hub Statistics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Band Coverage & Band Analysis | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Pay Equity (gender pay gaps by department/level, k≥5 floor — statistical)Insights | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
UK Gender Pay Gap Report (quartiles, bonus gap, 5 April snapshots; a management report, not a statutory filing) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time & Leave | ||||
| Core Features | ||||
PTO Requests, Balances & Approvals (+ propose alternate dates on decline) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Conflict Detection on Submit (rule-based team-coverage check) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Built-In Leave Types (13, with hide/unhide) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Accrual Policies, Approval Chains & HR Approval Requirements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Holiday Calendar + Sparko-Managed Global Holidays (7 countries, auto-import) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Timesheets, Clock In/Out & In-Place Edit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Configurable Work Week | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Team Calendar (PII privacy gating) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Approval Delegation | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Custom Leave Types | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Carryover Rules | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Overtime Thresholds & Per-Timesheet Overtime | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
iCal Calendar Subscription Feed | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Per-Country / Employment-Type / Department Rule Override Matrix | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Insights | ||||
AI-Generated Holidays for Non-Catalog CountriesGenerative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Approval Summary (what matters for this leave decision — never approve/deny advice)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Coverage Analysis (rule-based)Insights | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Team Leave Patterns (rule-based, manager’s own team)Insights | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Burnout Signal (time since last non-sick leave feeds the retention score)Insights | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reports | ||||
PTO Usage & Balances Dashboard | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Utilization, PTO Liability, Department Trends, Overtime & Approval-Speed Reports | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engagement | ||||
| Core Features | ||||
Recognition Wall with Reactions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Pulse Surveys (question library, save-as-template, edit-in-place, resume) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Survey Pause & Resume | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Survey Anonymity Tiers (k≥5 floor, de-identified open text, identified) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Lifecycle Surveys (onboarding day 7/30/90 + exit, pooled anonymity) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
eNPS Tracking, Survey Themes & Micro-Engagement Widget | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Milestone Celebrations + Awards & Badges | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Ad Hoc Audience Narrowing on a Survey | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
AI Tone Check on Recognition MessagesGenerative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Survey AI Analysis (sentiment + theme extraction)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Sentiment Aggregate in Survey Results | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Saved Audience Profiles | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Feedback Outcomes for Employees (themes raised → plans opened → score moved) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Engagement Intelligence (predictive suite) | ||||
Org-Level Retention Risk Mix (counts only, no names)Insights | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Retention Scoring (person-level)Insights | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Flight-Risk Detection with AI NarrativesGenerative | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Retention Model Accuracy (past predictions graded against who actually left)Insights | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Predict Then Act (open a retention comp review or schedule a 1:1 from a flag) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Key Driver Analysis (full depth + person-linked views)Insights The org-level key-driver summary reaches every plan inside the monthly Org-Health digest | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Contextual Coaching Feed (manager, HR and employee insights with a weekly budget)Insights | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Action Plans from Survey Data + Baseline Re-Measurement | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Attrition Contagion DetectionInsights | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Career | ||||
| Core Features | ||||
Unified My Development Page (career journey, skills, certifications, goals) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Career Framework Matrix View + Career Path Browsing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Career Assignment Planner (propose role level + track, deterministic) | Plan & preview | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Career Framework Editor (paths, role levels, competencies, scales) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Role Level Redesignation with Impact Preview | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Committing an AI-Drafted Career Assignment in Bulk | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Improvement-Plan Proposals (manager review in 1:1 or My Hub) + Team Development Attention Banner | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
AI Career Coach + Feedback-Based Improvement PlanGenerative | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Internal Opportunities (skills-matched open roles) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Succession Readiness (bench view + per-employee readiness card)Insights | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Features | ||||
Certification OCR (extract + verify, editable result)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
AI-Amend Onboarding Plan + Suggest Onboarding Tasks per StageGenerative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Career Path RecommendationsGenerative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Competency-to-Skill AI Mapping (human review before applying)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Create a Career Goal / Development Plan, Find a Mentor, Request Mentorship (assistant tools)Actions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reporting & Analytics | ||||
| Pages | ||||
R&A Home + Insights Hub (severity tabs, provenance chips, AI badges) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Performance, People & Recruiting Analytics (incl. internal mobility, cost per hire) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Period Selector with Server-Side Filtering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Turnover & Retention (cohorts, trend, department heatmap, exit reasons) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
DEI Analytics (gender, ethnicity, leadership, promotion rate, k≥5 floor) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Pay Equity | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Succession | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Governance (bias audit + LL144 export) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Report Builder | ||||
Report Library (system templates + reference reports, seeded at provisioning) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Custom Reports (chart-type picker + axis fields) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Build a Chart from Natural Language (assistant tool, permission-scoped)Actions | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Save / Pin / Share + Export (CSV/PDF) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Scheduled Delivery (cron-driven email or in-app link) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI Insights | ||||
Rule-Based Insights, Evidence & Recommendations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
AI-Generated Insights (confidence + badge, company-aggregate only)Digest | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Weekly Digests: Performance, People, Engagement, Recruiting & SkillsDigest | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Monthly Org-Health Narrative (carries the org key-driver summary to every plan)Digest | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
On-Demand Insight RegenerationGenerative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Platform & Security | ||||
| AI Assistant | ||||
The Assistant (explains, looks up, drafts, proposes mutations you confirm — same assistant and tools on every plan)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Omni-Search "Ask Sparko" (⌘K streamed, permission-scoped answers)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Document-Grounded Answers with Citations (your handbooks + policies, retrieval in-database)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Assistant Actions (14 mutating tools, permission-checked, human-confirmed: PTO, goals, OKRs, reviews, feedback, 1:1s, job postings, hiring locations, onboarding plan drafts, profile updates…)Actions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Persona Picker (HR partner, career, compensation, recruiting, performance) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Assistant Action Audit (every executed action in the security audit log) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
The /ai-chat Page (Core asks from the command palette instead) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Saved Conversation History in the Chat Rail | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Search & Discovery | ||||
Traditional Search Across 24 Sources + Deterministic NL Patterns (no model call) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Tier-3 AI Analysis (grounded, cited answer when no pattern matches)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Other People's Documents as a Search Source | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Salary Bands as a Search Source | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Security & Authentication | ||||
Google Workspace Sign-In (OIDC) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
MFA (TOTP) + Forced-MFA Admin Policy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Passkeys (WebAuthn) + Magic-Link Passwordless Login | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Session Management + IP-Binding Anomaly Detection + Login History | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Per-Field PII Permission Gating + PII Encryption at Rest | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Security Audit-Log Explorer with CSV Export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Your Own Compensation-PII Access Log (who looked at your pay data) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Someone Else's Compensation-PII Access Log | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Real-Time Notifications (WebSocket) + Company Logo Branding | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Governance & Compliance | ||||
GDPR Data Self-Export (the employee’s own record) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
DSAR Fulfilment (single access/export/deletion request, 30-day cooling-off — never paywalled) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Adverse Impact over AI Screening Decisions (four-fifths rule) Screening oversight is on every plan | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
DSAR Queue (managed list with status + type filters) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Data Retention Policies (CRUD, execute, retention report) | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Bias & Governance Audit (four-fifths across hiring, promotion & merit) + LL144-Shaped CSV Export | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
Workspace-Wide Compensation-PII Access Audit | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Administration & RBAC | ||||
User Management + 5 Global System Roles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Custom Roles | 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
Fine-Grained Permissions with Data Scopes (all / team / own) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Multiple Roles per User + Hierarchical Data Filtering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Step-Up TOTP + Privilege-Escalation Guard on Role Assignment | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Role Assignment Rules + Temporary Role Delegation | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||||
Public Read-Only Integration API (scoped keys, PII-omitting, rate-limited) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Outbound Webhooks (5 live events, HMAC-signed, retry + dead-letter) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
In-App API Key & Webhook Management | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Hosted MCP Server (mcp.sparko.app — OAuth 2.1 + PKCE, acts as the signed-in employee under live RBAC, read-only tools) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Slack + Microsoft Teams Notifications (Block Kit / Adaptive Cards) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Import | ||||
People Roster Import (dry-run preview, row validation, CSV template) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Live Roster Pull (BambooHR / SAP SuccessFactors / Workday) in Guided Setup | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Data Transformation (date, currency, name, boolean normalization) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
AI Field Mapping (maps leftover export headers from any HRIS)Generative | ✓ Metered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support | ||||
Help Center + Email Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Chat Support | Standard | Priority | Priority | Priority |
Phone Support | – | – | ✓ | ✓ |
SLA | Standard | Standard | Priority | 99.9% |
Onboarding | Self-service | Guided | White-glove | White-glove |
Dedicated Customer Success Manager | – | – | – | ✓ |
Counted in actions, never tokens, and cost is never shown to you. Both pools are shared across your whole workspace, so one heavy user never exhausts a colleague. When a pool runs out, nothing breaks: the manual path keeps working, and Sparko can raise either number for your workspace at any time.
| What runs | Core | Growth | Business & Custom |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI actionsDrafting, summaries, extraction, grounded Q&A, chat turns | 10 /employee/mo, pooled company-wide | Unmetered | Unmetered |
| Assistant actionsSpent only when a confirmed action executes; lookups are free | 3 /employee/mo, pooled | 5 /employee/mo, pooled | Unmetered |
| Insights & signalsStatistics from your own data, no model call | Unmetered | Unmetered | Unmetered |
| Scheduled digestsWeekly module digests + the monthly org-health narrative | Included | Included | Included |
Beyond the meter and the decision suites, these six numbers are the only limits on any plan. Hitting one never strands your data: closing, exporting and deleting stay open on every plan.
| Core | Growth | Business | Custom | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Custom employee fields | 0 | 5 | 20 | Unlimited |
| Custom roles | 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Paying entities | 1 | 5 | 20 | Unlimited |
| Active job postings | 3 | 10 | 50 | Unlimited |
| Handbook documents | 3 | 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Payroll rails | CSV | CSV | GIRO / NACHA / SEPA | Full |
Guided setup is part of the product, not a services invoice.
SSO, MFA, passkeys and RBAC on every plan, including Core.
We publish exactly how AI is counted. Ask any other vendor to publish theirs.
Every signup starts with everything unlocked. No credit card.
List prices as published, "est." where reported or quote-derived, dated August 2026. Sources on each comparison page. Add-on math matters: several "cheaper" tools charge separately for what Sparko includes.
| Sparko Growth | Shapes | Deel | Lattice | HiBob | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sticker | $10 all-in | $8 flat | HR free | $10-11 | quote (est. $8-14) |
| Performance + surveys + comp | Included | Included | +$20 Engage | +$4 +$4 +$6 add-ons | varies |
| Realistic all-in | $10 | $8 + unpublished minimum | est. ~$25 | est. $18+ & ~$4,000/yr floor | quote |
| AI usage terms published | Yes, the meter is on this page | No | No | No | No |
| Public pricing, self-serve | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | No |
Run the numbers against your own headcount and needs.
List prices as published or reported ("est."), dated August 2026. Quote-only figures are never estimated below their reported band. Sparko's floor ($100/mo) and Lattice's reported ~$4,000/yr floor are applied where headcount × rate falls under them. AI is included on every Sparko plan with a published per-employee action allowance, never billed by usage. Compensation management (bands, merit cycles, equity) is on Sparko Business at $16.