Figures alternatives: 12 tools compared (October 2026)

beqom is a compensation management platform from Switzerland for HR and reward teams at large enterprises. It combines pay planning, pay equity analysis and pay transparency reporting with AI features that support individual compensation decisions.

Key functions

• Comp Navigator generates pay suggestions and visualizes proposed compensation
• Bias-Checker flags potential bias patterns in raise attribution
• Pay Gap Analyzer runs regression modeling on unadjusted and adjusted pay gaps

Compared with Figures

• Has a German interface; Figures does not list one.
• Names 6 security certificates, Figures 2.
• Strongest elsewhere: Switzerland, Germany.

Check before buying: Before buying, confirm current data hosting and residency options with beqom, and ask for a data processing agreement under Article 28 GDPR. Clarify pricing, since none is published, and confirm which beqom AI features are included in your package rather than sold separately. Because Bias-Checker and Comp Navigator evaluate pay tied to individual performance, German works councils have co-determination rights under Section 87(1) no. 6 BetrVG, and these uses may touch the EU AI Act's high-risk category for employment decisions.

Compa is a US compensation intelligence platform for enterprise HR and recruiting teams. It combines live market pay data with AI agents that analyze compensation trends and guide individual pay and offer decisions.

Key functions

• Analyst Agent produces market analysis and executive-ready reports on request
• Partner Agent gives recruiters in-policy pay guidance during offers
• Hallucination Guard reviews agent responses and cites source data

Compared with Figures

• Publishes a price (from $15,000 per year); Figures quotes on request.
• States no EU hosting option; Figures has one.
• Different pricing model: flat fee instead of per employee.

Check before buying: Before buying, confirm which tier includes the AI agents, since they sit only in Intelligence, priced separately from the data products. All data is hosted in the United States on AWS, and the market data excludes personal identifying information, according to the vendor. Because Partner Agent guides recruiters through offer decisions, test its pay guidance for bias, since Illinois bans AI that discriminates by protected class, including through proxies.

CompUp is a compensation management platform from Bengaluru, India, built for HR and total rewards teams. It combines salary planning, pay benchmarking, and offer communication tools, and is used by companies mainly in India's startup and growth-company ecosystem.

Key functions

• GPT-powered offer assistant chatbot (ARCI)
• Machine-learning based prediction of offer dropouts (HireSure)
• Automated bias detection in compensation decisions

Compared with Figures

• Targets companies under 50 employees, which Figures does not.
• States no EU hosting option; Figures has one.
• Strongest elsewhere: India.

Check before buying: Production data is hosted in India on AWS, with some sub-processors in the United States, so check this against your data residency requirements. Ask how the bias-detection guardrails are configured, since the system evaluates pay decisions about employees. India's DPDP rules on consent and privacy notices take full effect on May 13, 2027, so ask how CompUp will support them for candidate offers. Pricing is quote-based only.

Pave is a US compensation management platform for HR and total rewards teams, built around real-time market data from thousands of connected companies. It combines salary benchmarking, compensation planning, and an AI agent that automates parts of the merit cycle.

Key functions

• Pave Agent automates compensation workflows such as merit cycle simulation, grounded in company data and Pave's market benchmarks
• Predictive machine learning used to benchmark and price jobs from real-time compensation data
• MCP and API integration so external AI tools can query Pave's compensation data under permission controls

Compared with Figures

• Has a free plan; Figures does not.
• States no EU hosting option; Figures has one.
• Different pricing model: freemium instead of per employee.

Check before buying: Confirm which modules and countries your quote covers, since the free Market Data Lite tier covers the US plus one additional market. Pave's flight-risk flagging in Team View evaluates individual employees' pay position and retention risk, so decide who sees those flags and how they feed pay decisions. Illinois bans AI that discriminates by protected class, including through proxies like zip codes, and California's CCPA covers employee data like consumer data.

Payscale is an established US compensation data and planning platform that combines market benchmarking, merit cycle planning, and pay equity analysis with AI-assisted matching. It serves compensation teams and HR departments ranging from small companies to large enterprises.

Key functions

• AI match suggestions for market and survey data
• Peer Auto-Match uses deep learning to suggest high-confidence matches to Payscale's Peer data source
• AI-assisted mapping of compensation surveys across publishers

Compared with Figures

• Targets companies under 50 employees, which Figures does not.
• States no EU hosting option; Figures has one.
• Single sign-on in all plans; at Figures as an add-on.

Check before buying: Before buying, check the pricing structure closely, since Payscale publishes no amounts and negotiates each package individually. Verify which market data exists for your industry and region. Because the software feeds pay decisions, test AI-assisted matches for bias, since Illinois bans AI that discriminates by protected class, including through proxies.

CompLens is a pay transparency software tool from Alzenau near Frankfurt for German and EU reporting under Directive 2023/970. It is built for small, midsize and large employers, with AI features for data import, report drafting and a compliance chat.

Key functions

• AI drafts narrative report texts and initial assessments, labeled as drafts for HR review
• AI-assisted column mapping during data import
• AI-assisted compliance chat in natural language

Compared with Figures

• Publishes a price (from €1,690 per year); Figures quotes on request.
• Offers a free trial; we found none for Figures.
• Targets companies under 50 employees, which Figures does not.
• Has a German interface; Figures does not list one.

Check before buying: CompLens describes itself as fully aligned with Directive 2023/970, a claim to treat as the vendor's own assessment rather than settled law, since Germany's implementing legislation had not been finalized as its June 2026 transposition deadline passed. Confirm current reporting thresholds with legal counsel, and clarify a data processing agreement under Article 28 GDPR before importing payroll data.

Paygaps.de is a German pay transparency platform that analyzes gender pay gaps and evaluates roles against the four criteria of EU Directive 2023/970. It targets HR teams in Germany from roughly 100 employees preparing for the directive's reporting and documentation duties, which, according to the German government, had not yet been transposed into German law in July 2026.

Key functions

• AI-assisted job evaluation under the four EU criteria, proposed per role and approved by HR
• Paygaps-Assistent AI chatbot from the Business plan upward, disabled by default

Compared with Figures

• Publishes a price (from €208 per month); Figures quotes on request.
• Offers a free trial; we found none for Figures.
• Has a German interface; Figures does not list one.
• Different pricing model: flat fee instead of per employee.

Check before buying: Before buying, check data handling and data processing terms: according to the vendor, salary data is stored in Frankfurt am Main and a data processing agreement under GDPR Article 28 is available, but AI model calls may be processed outside the EU. Because the software evaluates roles and feeds that into pay decisions, co-determination on pay structures under Section 87(1) no. 10 BetrVG and on technical systems under Section 87(1) no. 6 BetrVG may apply, so involve the works council before rollout. For 2027, also confirm the pricing tier still covers your current headcount.

Syndio is a US pay equity and decision governance platform that checks compensation decisions against market, policy, and equity data using its own AI. It serves large enterprises whose compensation, finance, and legal teams need to vet decisions before they are finalized.

Key functions

• Syndi AI, trained according to the vendor on more than 10 million pay records
• Syndio Decisions checks individual pay decisions in real time before approval
• The AI provides reasoning behind its recommendations rather than a plain score

Compared with Figures

• Strongest elsewhere: United States.

Check before buying: Before buying, clarify pricing and scope, since Syndio does not publish amounts and licenses the Essentials and Decisions tiers separately. Syndi reviews individual pay decisions before approval, and the final decision stays with your team, according to the vendor. Where AI touches hiring or promotion, New York City requires an independent bias audit under Local Law 144, and Colorado's SB 26-189, which replaced its 2024 AI Act, takes effect on January 1, 2027.