European Alternatives to 15Five
Looking for a European alternative to 15Five? Its terms are a contract with 15Five, Inc. governed by California law with disputes heard in San Francisco County, and its privacy policy says personal data may be transferred to and stored in the United States.
The European tools below cover reviews, check-ins, goals and engagement surveys under contracts with EU, UK or Swiss vendors, several with published prices.
How we rank these tools — 4-step process
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European ownership, verified
The company is headquartered and incorporated in the EU, EEA or Switzerland, and processes customer data in Europe. A US parent company disqualifies a tool from this page regardless of where its servers are.
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Category fit and hands-on review
What the tool actually does, who it suits, and where it falls short — checked against the vendor’s own documentation, changelog and pricing page rather than its marketing copy.
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Compliance and pricing check
GDPR posture, hosting location and the prices quoted on this page are verified against the vendor’s public pricing before publication, and re-checked when we revisit the category.
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10 European Alternatives to 15Five
Leapsome
Berlin platform for reviews, OKRs and engagement with per-module prices
Small Improvements
Berlin performance reviews, 360s and 1:1s with published per-user prices
Dialog
Dutch platform joining performance, talent and engagement under Visma
Lucca
French HR suite with a separate performance module for review campaigns
Cezanne HR
UK HR platform with check-ins, agile goals and 360 appraisals
Perdoo
OKR and KPI platform with check-ins, reviews and an AI coach
Bizneo HR
Madrid HR suite with 360, competency and OKR evaluation
Factorial
Barcelona HR suite with performance reviews and OKR tracking
Sesame HR
Spanish HR suite with 360, 9-box and leadership evaluations
CharlieHR
London HR tool for small teams with performance reviews included
Frequently Asked Questions
Leapsome is widely considered the best European alternative to 15Five. Based in Germany, it offers berlin platform for reviews, OKRs and engagement with per-module prices. Other strong options include Small Improvements and Dialog.
Yes. Every provider on this page is established in the EU, the UK or Switzerland, which means GDPR (or its UK and Swiss equivalents) applies to them directly rather than through standard contractual clauses. In practice that gives you an EU-law data processing agreement, EU data residency and a supervisory authority you can actually complain to.
15Five is headquartered in San Francisco, California, so the data it processes falls under US jurisdiction and can be reached through instruments such as the CLOUD Act regardless of which region you select. A European provider keeps processing under EU law, removes the transfer impact assessment from your compliance workload, and keeps the money inside the European technology economy.
This page compares 10 of them, chosen for European establishment, GDPR compliance and genuine feature parity rather than for being merely available in Europe. See our full performance management software category for the wider list.
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