A CoachHub alternative for running your own coaching in the EU

CoachHub's strength is a large, managed network of external coaches across many languages and regions, delivered as a service. If your job is to give employees access to vetted external coaches at scale without sourcing them yourself, that network model is what CoachHub sells and Exantur does not compete on it. Exantur assumes the coaches are yours.

That managed-service model carries real advantages when you have no coaching capacity of your own and need reach quickly. The vendor handles sourcing, vetting, matching logistics and coach supply across regions, which is a substantial operational load lifted off your team. If that is the value you are buying, weigh it honestly, because Exantur deliberately does not try to be a coach supplier.

Exantur is for organizations that run coaching with their own people. You get team roles, admin, coach, observer and account manager, with explicit coach-to-coachee assignment, so admins keep oversight while individual coaching relationships stay confidential. Data is EU-hosted with row-level security and MFA, and a DPA is available. The coach relationships are yours, not the vendor's.

Because Exantur is software rather than a marketplace, it takes no commission on the coaching delivered through it. Your coaches stay your coaches, your organization remains the data controller, and the value of the program stays in-house instead of a share flowing to an intermediary. For organizations building lasting internal coaching capability, that ownership is often the whole reason to run their own platform.

Sponsors funding coaching want evidence it works. Exantur's sponsor ROI dashboard shows engagement analytics, sessions, attendance, check-in mood, and goal and program completion, aggregated to the cohort, with trending over time and CSV or PDF export. K-anonymity suppresses any cohort under five, so measurement never exposes an individual. 360-degree feedback with your own competency frameworks adds a structured development signal.

The measurement is credible precisely because it is built into the platform the coaching runs on. Engagement and goal data are captured as the work happens rather than reconstructed from surveys afterwards, and the confidentiality safeguards are structural, not a policy promise: observer and account-manager roles see aggregate outcomes but never session content, which stays between coach and coachee.

Both CoachHub and Exantur are serious about EU data protection, both structure coaching into governed programs with measurable outcomes, and both give sponsors reporting without exposing what is said in sessions. If your shortlist is these two, you are not choosing between a serious platform and an amateur one; both can support a professional, compliant coaching program in Europe.

The decision therefore comes down to the parts that differ rather than the parts that overlap: whether you want the coaches supplied or bring your own, whether the coach relationships and data sit with a vendor or with you, whether a marketplace commission applies, and whether pricing is published or quoted. Those are the questions worth putting to both vendors directly.

Choose CoachHub if you want a managed service that supplies and manages external coaches at scale so your team does not have to. Choose Exantur if you have or are building your own coaching capacity and want to run the program yourself, keep the coach relationships and data in-house, avoid a marketplace commission, and work with transparent, published pricing on EU-hosted infrastructure. A simple test: if the coaching capability is something you want to own and grow inside the organization, Exantur is built for that; if you want it delivered to you, a network provider fits better.

For scope, note that Exantur is not HIPAA-certified and its DISC-style profile is not a certified psychometric, so it is aimed at professional and workplace coaching rather than clinical use. Within that scope, the combination of published pricing, EU hosting and data you control tends to make procurement, IT and compliance review straightforward.

Rather than an opaque enterprise quote, Exantur's plans are published on the pricing page, so you can evaluate cost before a sales cycle. Together with keeping your own coaches, coach relationships and data, that keeps procurement, IT and compliance evaluation simple: you can see what it costs and know the program and its data stay yours. Exantur is EU-hosted under the GDPR as well.

When you do decide to move, treat it as a program transition rather than a bulk import. Set up your own coaches, recreate your program structures and note categories as templates, connect the roles your sponsors need, and pilot one cohort before scaling. Because the price is visible and hosting is EU-based from day one, you can begin without clearing a long negotiation or a hosting-terms review first.