KI BMS vs HeavenHR: lean HR suite or dedicated ATS?

HeavenHR does one thing right that Personio doesn't: lean per-employee pricing without a 12-month enterprise contract. For a 25-person Berlin startup with two HR people, HeavenHR is often the more cost-aware suite. Files, leave requests, sickness tracking, DATEV handoff - all in, German legal grounding, German DPOs happy.

What HeavenHR does in recruiting is solid for 1-3 roles a year: create role, receive application, set status, send mail. That covers 50% of recruiting reality. What HeavenHR doesn't do in recruiting: KI pre-sort with reasoning, multi-voice scorecards for structured interviews, built-in retention windows with auto-anonymisation. If you need that, the HeavenHR recruiting module is at a point where a specialist alongside is cheaper and better.

Three out of four pilot teams running KI BMS for recruiting have HeavenHR or Personio or rexx HR alongside for HR admin. The tools don't need to talk much - on a hire, the person is created fresh in HeavenHR, the application record stays archived in KI BMS. Nobody misses deep integration; the clean separation between recruiting funnel and HR file is what makes the architecture work.

HeavenHR list price from ~€6 per employee per month (negotiated, depending on module bundle). 30 people = ~€180/month. KI BMS Power for recruiting is €10/month flat. Combined ~€190/month for 30 people - an HR suite + a recruiting specialist, both German, monthly cancellable (KI BMS) or annual (HeavenHR). Personio Standard on the same axis would be ~€250-350/month plus a 5-figure implementation cost.