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Langdock alternative for IT and HR
A Langdock alternative for IT and HR teams.

A Langdock alternative for IT and HR teams.

Langdock gives every employee a secure place to chat with GPT, Claude and Gemini. Workativ's AI agent books leave, onboards new employees and resolves issues, with EU data residency and pricing per session.

HR and IT teams trust Workativ to automate employee support.

Companies using Workativ: GoTo, Learnpath, MERIT, Lagardère, Kraft Heinz
Why teams switch

Where IT and HR teams outgrow Langdock workflows

These six points shape most Langdock vs Workativ decisions for IT and HR.

Seats for everyone, workflows extra

Seats for everyone, workflows extra

Langdock prices chat and agents per seat, and sells workflows as an add-on billed by monthly runs.

Token costs inside workflows

Token costs inside workflows

AI usage in Langdock workflows is billed per token, on top of seat prices.

A workspace first

A workspace first

Langdock's core is multi-model chat. IT and HR requests need actions in ITSM and HR systems.

Requests need sign-off

Requests need sign-off

Leave, access and hardware requests need a named approver and an audit trail for each request type.

Dedicated hosting at 5,000 users

Dedicated hosting at 5,000 users

Langdock's on-premise or private cloud option starts at 5,000 users.

One queue at a time

One queue at a time

Start with access or leave, measure the results, then add the next queue.

Conversational AI for IT and HR

Requests that end with something done

The agent answers in Teams or Slack, then acts in the system that owns the request.

Admin rights granted for a set time, after the manager agrees.

The request is checked against the IT policy first

Rights expire on their own when the time is up

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Software & access
IT and HR workflows

HR and IT workflows started by records and dates

A signed contract, an accepted offer or a due date sets each one going, with sign-off where you need it.

Accounts, equipment and a welcome plan from one HR record.

Starts when the contract is signed in Personio or Workday

IT and HR steps run side by side

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New hire onboarding
Customer proof

GoTo resolved 80% of queries automatically

80%

HR queries auto-resolved

Including Workday PTO, policy Q&A, benefits queries, and IT requests — one AI agent in Slack for 5,000 employees.

50+

Applications connected

Workday, Okta, Jira, ServiceNow, and 46 more all orchestrated through one Workativ deployment in Slack.

“ Our AI Bot Orion has become a critical enabler of employee self‑service. The quality of responses is fast, comprehensive, and highly reliable, allowing employees to find accurate answers without needing to escalate to HR or IT. What really sets Workativ apart is the visibility into question trends, resolution rates, and where AI is genuinely reducing operational workload. ”

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Vice President, HR Operations

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Getting started

Add Workativ next to Langdock, or move IT and HR over

Connect HRIS
Platform

One platform for IT and HR agents, hosted in the EU

Build, ground, automate, control and measure the agent in one no-code studio.

IT and HR teams build without code

IT and HR teams build without code

Pick the request types, the systems the agent may touch and the approvers

Edit a flow and publish the change the same day

Pass a chat to a person whenever the agent should stop

Head-to-head

Langdock vs Workativ for IT and HR requests

How the two compare when the goal is a Langdock alternative that closes requests.

What matters to IT
Workativ HR chatbot
Langdock
Built for
Resolving IT and HR requests
Resolving IT and HR requests
A multi-model AI workspace for chat, assistants and document questions
Where staff ask
Microsoft Teams and Slack
Microsoft Teams and Slack
Langdock's workspace and its integrations
Doing the work in IT and HR systems
Okta, Entra ID, ServiceNow, Jira, Freshservice, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Personio and BambooHR
Okta, Entra ID, ServiceNow, Jira, Freshservice, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Personio and BambooHR
Built through workflows and integrations you configure
Approvals
Named approver, reminders and a fallback approver
Named approver, reminders and a fallback approver
Configured inside workflows
Pricing
Charged per session, with plans published
Charged per session, with plans published
Per seat, plus workflow runs and token usage
EU data residency
Available
Available
Available
HR inbox problem same questions, 40 times a week

Last reviewed 27 October 2026. Langdock details come from Langdock's documentation. Costs are covered in our Langdock pricing guide, and user feedback in our Langdock reviews.

Workspace or agent?

What Langdock is built for, and where Workativ fits

Both run on large language models. They solve different problems.

The job
Better fit
Why
Drafting, research and document questions for every employee
Langdock
A multi-model chat workspace with assistants
Comparing answers from GPT, Claude and Gemini
Langdock
Model choice is a core feature
Resetting access or unlocking an account
Workativ
Acts in Okta or Entra ID after an identity check
Booking leave or changing an HR record
Workativ
Writes to Personio, Workday or SAP SuccessFactors with manager approval
Raising and tracking IT tickets
Workativ
Opens tickets in Jira, ServiceNow or Freshservice and keeps them updated
Onboarding and offboarding across systems
Workativ
Runs multi-step workflows with approvals, priced per session
HR inbox problem same questions, 40 times a week

You can keep Langdock for writing and research and use Workativ for the IT and HR queue.

Keep reading

More on Langdock

Looking at every alternative to Langdock? Our list of Langdock alternatives is the wider comparison. For plan costs, see Langdock pricing , and for what users say, Langdock reviews.

Integrations

Connects to the tools European IT and HR teams use

Personio, SAP SuccessFactors and Workday for HR. Okta and Entra ID for identity. Jira, ServiceNow and Freshservice for tickets. See all integrations.

Try this Langdock alternative
on your IT and HR requests

Bring your top requests and your systems. We demo in Teams or Slack, hosted in the EU, and the first queue can be live in 3–5 days.

Frequently
asked questions

frequently asked questions about
Langdock alternatives

What is the best Langdock alternative for IT and HR?

Workativ is a Langdock alternative for teams that need IT and HR requests resolved. The AI agent works in Teams or Slack, acts in Okta, Jira, Workday or Personio, and provides EU data residency.

What is Langdock used for?

Langdock is an AI workspace where employees chat with models such as GPT, Claude and Gemini, build assistants and run workflows. Langdock is built with European data requirements in mind.

Langdock vs Workativ: what is the difference?

Langdock gives every employee a multi-model chat workspace, priced per seat. Workativ is an AI agent that resolves IT and HR requests in your systems, priced per session.

How is Langdock priced?

Per seat for chat and agents, with Business and Enterprise subscriptions and volume discounts. Workflows are a separate add-on priced by monthly runs, and AI usage inside workflows is billed per token. Our Langdock pricing guide has the figures.

How does pricing work for this Langdock alternative?

Per session, counted by the conversations the agent handles. Plans are on the pricing page.

Can we keep Langdock and add Workativ?

Yes. Langdock can stay for writing, research and document questions, while Workativ acts as an alternative to Langdock for the IT and HR queue.

Does Workativ offer EU data residency?

Yes. Workativ can host your data in the EU, is GDPR compliant and provides a data processing agreement.

Does Workativ work with Personio?

Yes. Workativ connects to Personio, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors and BambooHR for HR requests, and to Okta, Entra ID, Jira and ServiceNow for IT.

Can Workativ replace Langdock workflows for IT and HR?

For IT and HR requests, yes. Onboarding, offboarding, access and leave run as workflows with approvals, with no separate run-based add-on.

How quickly can the first queue go live?

The first IT or HR queue is usually live in three to five days.

Is this Langdock alternative secure?

Workativ is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, meets GDPR and HIPAA, and provides EU data residency. Every action the agent takes is logged.

What results have customers seen with this Langdock alternative?

GoTo's agent, Orion, resolves 84% of employee requests in Slack. NMDC's agent handles 78% of IT tickets in Microsoft Teams and saves more than $37K a month in Level 1 costs.