Rippling won't publish an EOR price, so what do you compare its quote against?

Summary

Compare it against the providers that do publish, over the same headcount and the same months. Rippling's pricing page gives no EOR fee, only a quote form and a platform price that "starts at $8 a month, per user." Its products are sold alongside a required core platform, so a quote can hold a platform charge as well as a per-employee EOR fee. Add both up for a year and set the total beside Deel at $599 and Remote at $699.

Three things the pricing page does tell you

1. The EOR is listed as "Global Employer of Record Services," with no price attached. The page asks you to pick services and says Rippling will "send a custom quote."
2. The only published number is the platform: "Rippling starts at $8 a month, per user."
3. Products such as payroll, expenses, benefits, and device management "can be purchased separately" alongside "the core, required Rippling Unity Platform." EOR is not named in that list, so the page leaves open whether an EOR-only buyer pays for the platform. Billing is mostly per employee per month, though some products "may be charged at (or include) a monthly base fee."

This site's provider table lists Rippling as quote only.

Turning a quote into a comparison

Take three hires for twelve months. Deel's published fee comes to $21,564 for the year. Remote's standard price comes to $25,164. A Rippling quote belongs in the same row only after you convert it the same way: the per-employee fee times 36, plus twelve months of any base or platform fee the quote includes.

The platform charge is what changes the answer. A company already running Rippling for HR or payroll is paying for the platform anyway, and can compare the EOR fee on its own. A company that only wants EOR has to count the platform, so the per-head figure on the quote is not the number to compare. None of these figures includes salary, employer contributions, or deposits.

What Rippling sells instead of a price

Rippling's product page says it handles local employment agreements, work authorization, benefits enrollment, and software provisioning automatically, and that payroll runs on its own in-house system. Its UK English EOR page puts the time to payday at 5 days in popular markets and 12 in less common ones, against "3+ weeks" for other EOR solutions. The pitch is speed and one system for HR and IT. Price does not come up anywhere on those pages.

Rippling's entity-versus-EOR calculator says a local entity "can cost anywhere from $25,000-100,000." The break-even between an entity and an EOR is covered in a separate article.

Sources

• https://www.rippling.com/pricing
• https://www.rippling.com/products/payroll/employer-of-record
• https://www.rippling.com/global/employer-of-record
• https://www.rippling.com/entity-vs-eor-cost-calculator
• https://www.deel.com/pricing/
• https://remote.com/pricing
• https://seatbill.com/employer-of-record/providers

Related on this site

• What an employer of record charges
• Who publishes an EOR price and who makes you ask
• Is the price on an EOR pricing page the price you'll actually pay?
• Employer of record or your own entity: where the number flips
• What does Deel's EOR cost once you look past the $599?
• Can you pay Remote less than $699 a month, and what's the catch?