Helia HR vs Hurma

Hurma is an established, Ukrainian-founded HR system that is widely used across Eastern-European IT-services companies. It offers a broad HR suite and is a genuinely popular, well-known choice in the region — if you are comparing options here, Hurma has probably already earned a place on your shortlist.

Helia HR is a modular HR system built specifically for IT-services and outsourcing companies of roughly 5–200 people. We start from the operational reality of that model — who is staffed on which project, what capacity is free, and what to invoice a client — and build the HR suite around it. This page is meant to help you pick the right fit, not to talk you out of a tool that works for you.

• Project assignment, capacity matrix, and client invoicing are first-class — not add-ons. You assign people to projects, see utilization and bench in a live capacity matrix with a multi-week forecast, and generate client invoices (with VAT, due dates, PDF and CSV) from the same data. This is the part generic HR suites usually leave to a spreadsheet, and it is exactly what an outsourcing business runs on.
• Modular, pay-only-for-what-you-use pricing — a $4/user/mo base, then per-pack add-ons (benefits, onboarding, 1-on-1s, reviews, career paths, engagement) you turn on as you need them.
• Engineer-friendly UX — fast, dark-mode by default, keyboard-first with a Cmd-K command palette. Built so the technical people who fill in timesheets and reviews do not dread opening it.
• Fast setup — paste a CSV of your team and you have a working directory, org chart, and capacity view in roughly ten minutes, without an onboarding project.

Hurma's biggest strengths are real and worth weighing honestly:

• Established and widely adopted in CEE. It is a known quantity with a large regional user base, which means a deeper support ecosystem and plenty of teams who already know it.
• A broad, mature HR suite. Hurma covers a wide span of HR needs and has been refined over years of real-world use.
• Regional familiarity. For teams already invested in it — with data, process, and habits built up — that continuity has genuine value.

Pricing shown is approximate and reflects publicly listed information as of 2026 — always confirm the current figures on Hurma's site. Where we can't assert a current detail with confidence, the table says so.

• You already run on Hurma, your team knows it, and switching cost outweighs any single missing feature.
• You want the reassurance of a long-established regional vendor with a large existing user base and support ecosystem.
• Your priority is broad general HR coverage, and project capacity or client invoicing simply isn't central to how you operate.

• IT-services and outsourcing companies (roughly 5–200 people) where staffing, capacity, and client billing sit at the center of the business.
• Teams outgrowing spreadsheets who want a professional HR system without a multi-week rollout.
• Newer companies that want to start small (base pack) and switch on more only as they grow.
• Engineering-led teams who value speed, a keyboard-first workflow, and software they actually enjoy using.