Looking for a HiBob Alternative for Performance Management?
HiBob is a strong HRIS for onboarding, payroll, and HR ops. Their Bob Talent module handles reviews, goals, and 9-box calibration. Confirm adds what's missing: behavioral data and ONA reveal who actually drives results, beyond what shows up in any self-review.
Why all-in-one HR platforms struggle with performance
HiBob (Bob) is a solid HRIS for payroll, onboarding, and HR ops. Their Bob Talent module adds 360° reviews, 9-box calibration, and goal tracking. The gap: none of it tells you how people actually work, who they rely on, or who's carrying the team in ways that never show up in a self-review.
Reviews capture opinions, not behavior
HiBob's performance reviews, including their AI-powered summaries, are only as good as the input. Self-reviews reward self-promotion. Peer reviews reflect relationships. Manager reviews reflect what managers can see. None of it captures actual collaboration behavior.
The 9-box doesn't solve the data problem
HiBob's calibration tool lets managers drag employees across a grid. But the data powering that grid still comes from manager ratings. Garbage in, garbage out. The cross-functional work, the mentorship, the decisions that kept a project alive: all invisible.
Performance is one module among many
Gartner reviewers flag HiBob's talent module as "less intuitive" and requiring "significant customization." It's not their core product. It's a module. Confirm builds nothing else. Every feature exists to answer one question: who's actually driving results?
What makes Confirm different
Confirm uses Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) to reveal true performance through collaboration patterns, not surveys, not manager opinions.
ONA: See performance HiBob can't
ONA analyzes real collaboration patterns: who people actually go to for help, who drives decisions, who connects siloed teams. This reveals impact that 360° reviews, 9-box grids, and engagement surveys don't capture.
- Identify hidden high-performers (the ones too busy to self-promote)
- Spot underperformers with great survey scores but low actual impact
- See collaboration health and team dynamics in real-time
- Make promotion decisions based on evidence, not manager bias
Purpose-built for performance
HiBob covers a lot of ground. Confirm covers one: understanding who's actually high-performing and why. Every feature in Confirm answers that question. In HiBob, performance is one module among payroll, onboarding, time tracking, and a dozen others.
Continuous signal, not point-in-time reviews
HiBob's Bob Talent captures performance at review time, once or twice a year. Confirm shows collaboration patterns as they emerge, so you spot flight risks and rising stars before the next review cycle.
Coaching based on actual behavior
Confirm gives managers AI-generated coaching recommendations tied to each employee's real collaboration patterns and impact. HiBob's AI generates summaries from what people write in reviews. A different starting point entirely.
Feature comparison
When to choose Confirm vs. HiBob
Choose Confirm when you need:
- Deep performance intelligence beyond manager opinions
- To identify hidden high-performers before they leave
- Data-driven evidence for promotion/comp decisions
- To spot collaboration bottlenecks and team health issues
- To catch underperformers early (even with good self-marketing)
- AI-powered coaching for middle managers
Best for: Companies prioritizing performance management and talent optimization
Choose HiBob when you need:
- All-in-one HRIS to replace multiple point solutions
- Integrated payroll and benefits management
- Time tracking and attendance workflows
- Document management and e-signatures
- 360° reviews, 9-box calibration, and goal tracking
- HR automation for onboarding/offboarding
Best for: Companies consolidating HR tech stack and prioritizing operational efficiency
💡 Use Both Together
Many customers use HiBob as their HRIS and Confirm as their performance intelligence layer. HiBob handles payroll, onboarding, and HR ops. Confirm handles performance insights that HiBob can't provide. They work together out of the box.
Hear from teams achieving true talent density
"We launched on a Monday, and by Saturday morning we had 98% of performance reviews done. I don't know that I've ever seen that level of completion in that amount of time."
"We reviewed Lattice, Rippling, and Culture Amp. Confirm was the only platform designed to be light-weight, fast, and easy to use."
"You don't realize how much you miss until you have a tool like Confirm."
"With Confirm, reviews were super quick, accurate and easy to edit. Probably saved me 80% of my time typically used in writing reviews."
"Confirm is the first tool that lets me see the behavioral side with holistic evidence. I can quickly get the information to make decisions."
"For the first time in my 10+ years in People/HR, 100% of team members completed their self evaluations."
"Confirm has transformed the way we do performance reviews, and helped us become a more data-driven HR organization."
"Confirm is a VITAL part of how we operate as a company. It helps us keep our team more engaged than they already were."
Key differentiators: Confirm vs. HiBob
Organizational Network Analysis
Confirm OnlyConfirm's ONA reveals who drives results through collaboration patterns, identifying hidden high-performers and underperformers that surveys and manager reviews miss entirely.
Behavioral data vs. self-reported input
Confirm OnlyHiBob's AI generates summaries from survey and review inputs. Confirm analyzes actual behavior: who people go to for help, who makes decisions, who connects teams. Different inputs, different signal, different answers.
Specialized Performance Focus
Confirm OnlyHiBob is a mile wide. Confirm is a mile deep on performance management, with AI coaching, real-time insights, and analytics purpose-built for identifying talent.
Full HRIS suite
HiBob OnlyHiBob covers core HRIS, payroll, time tracking, onboarding, benefits (US), and engagement. If you need a single platform to run HR operations, it's a strong choice. Confirm integrates with HiBob and adds the performance intelligence layer on top.
Common questions
Can I use Confirm with HiBob?
Yes. Many customers use HiBob as their HRIS and Confirm for performance intelligence. Confirm integrates with HiBob to pull employee data and org structure, then layers on ONA-powered insights.
Does Confirm replace HiBob?
Not for most use cases. HiBob handles core HR operations (payroll, onboarding, time tracking) that Confirm doesn't. But for performance management specifically, Confirm provides deeper insights than HiBob's review module.
How is ONA different from HiBob's surveys?
HiBob's surveys ask employees how they feel. ONA analyzes how they actually work, collaboration patterns, who they go to for help, who drives decisions. It's the difference between opinion and evidence.
What about pricing?
HiBob pricing is not publicly listed. They require a custom quote, and costs vary based on modules and headcount. Customer reports suggest the full platform (core HRIS plus Bob Talent) runs $6-15/employee/month or more. Confirm starts at $8/employee/month. Many customers find Confirm pays for itself by retaining just one top performer.
Is employee data safe?
Yes. Confirm is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant. ONA data is aggregated and anonymized, we never show individual communication content. All data remains encrypted.
How long does implementation take?
Confirm typically goes live in 5 weeks. HiBob implementation varies (8-16 weeks) depending on modules and payroll complexity. If you're already on HiBob, adding Confirm is a lightweight integration.
Hear from teams achieving true talent density
"We launched on a Monday, and by Saturday morning we had 98% of performance reviews done. I don't know that I've ever seen that level of completion in that amount of time."
"We reviewed Lattice, Rippling, and Culture Amp. Confirm was the only platform designed to be light-weight, fast, and easy to use."
"You don't realize how much you miss until you have a tool like Confirm."
"With Confirm, reviews were super quick, accurate and easy to edit. Probably saved me 80% of my time typically used in writing reviews."
"Confirm is the first tool that lets me see the behavioral side with holistic evidence. I can quickly get the information to make decisions."
"For the first time in my 10+ years in People/HR, 100% of team members completed their self evaluations."
"Confirm has transformed the way we do performance reviews, and helped us become a more data-driven HR organization."
"Confirm is a VITAL part of how we operate as a company. It helps us keep our team more engaged than they already were."
Ready to see who's really driving results?
See why forward-thinking companies layer Confirm on top of their HRIS to identify hidden talent, catch problems early, and make data-driven performance decisions.