# Rippling > HR, IT and finance platform with US and global payroll, by quote Rippling is a workforce platform whose modules, from HR records and payroll to benefits, time tracking, expenses and IT, share one employee database. Its payroll files federal, state and local taxes in the US, and Global Payroll, an employer-of-record service and a PEO cover other set-ups. Each company picks its modules and gets a quote. - **Category:** Payroll - **Made by:** Rippling - **Website:** https://www.rippling.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing Rippling's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Ways to pay less - **6 months free for US VC-backed startups** (Startups): Rippling's startup program gives eligible US venture-backed startups free access for 6 months, depending on their funding status and stage. Source: https://www.rippling.com/pricing ## Key features - **Payroll fed by HR data:** New hires, salary changes and benefit deductions flow from the HR record into payroll, and taxes are filed with federal, state and local agencies. - **Pay run comparison:** Compare a pay run with earlier ones to catch changes in gross pay, taxes and deductions before approving it. Extra pay runs cost nothing more. - **Global payroll, EOR and contractors:** Pay employees abroad in their local currency, employ through Rippling's EOR where you have no entity, and pay contractors worldwide from invoices. - **Rippling AI:** Adds one-off bonuses, compares payroll costs across entities, answers employees' questions about pay changes and builds reports from a prompt. - **Workflows, policies and permissions:** Set who can view, create and approve pay runs, and automate HR and IT steps with custom triggers in Workflow Studio. - **Accounting and app integrations:** Links to Xero, QuickBooks and NetSuite for accounting, among more than 650 integrations. ## Good for - Growing companies that want HR, payroll and IT in one system - Teams with staff or contractors in more than one country - US venture-backed startups eligible for six free months ## Worth knowing - No payroll price is published: Rippling says plans start at $8 per employee a month plus a base fee it does not state, and quotes the rest. - Each product, such as payroll, benefits, time tracking or expenses, is priced separately, so the total depends on the modules chosen. - It runs US payroll and pays people abroad through Global Payroll and its EOR; the pages read give no list or count of countries. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Rippling puts payroll on the same employee record as HR, benefits, expenses and IT, so a new hire or a pay rise flows through everything at once. It also pays people abroad. But you build it from modules and get a quote, so there's no way to see the price up front. - **Value for money: C.** No payroll price is published. Rippling says plans start at $8 an employee a month plus a base fee it doesn't state, so five people are at least $40 before that fee, and each module is priced on its own. Quote only. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan or trial. Eligible US venture-backed startups can get 6 months free, but that's a program you qualify for, not a trial anyone can start. - **Features: B.** Payroll fed straight from HR records, pay-run comparisons, US taxes filed, global payroll, an employer-of-record service and contractor payments abroad, plus approval rules and workflows. The whole job, at home and abroad. - **Ease of use: A.** 4.71 from about 16,600 App Store ratings. New hires and salary changes flow into payroll without retyping, though choosing and pricing the modules takes a sales call. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with Xero, QuickBooks and NetSuite among more than 650 integrations. No desktop app, which keeps it off an A. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Rippling's own pages on 17 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among payroll services - Rippling's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 6 of the 18 other payroll services we grade, and level with 9. - It stands best on ease of use (A, above 9 of 18) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/payroll ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Rippling you would be making payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. - You could make: Time tracking and expense tracking: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## What people say - **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.7 out of 5 from 16,618 ratings in the United States, read Oct 17, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1231325957 ## Works with Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite **Tags:** Payroll, AI features, Workflow automation, Time tracking, Expense tracking ## Alternatives - [Gusto](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gusto): Payroll and HR for small businesses, with apps for owners and staff. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gusto-vs-rippling) - [Deel](https://toolgpa.com/tools/deel): Global payroll, contractor payments and employer of record. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/deel-vs-rippling) - [Justworks](https://toolgpa.com/tools/justworks): Pay, benefits and HR platform for employers, with an app for staff. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/justworks-vs-rippling) - [Paylocity](https://toolgpa.com/tools/paylocity): Payroll, HR, finance and IT platform for US employers, by quote. 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