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Rippling vs. TriNet: What's the difference?
Rippling is the only PEO provider that unifies all your siloed HR, IT, and Finance systems into one, easy-to-use platform—so you can fully automate your most repetitive busy work across every system, like payroll, benefits, time tracking, app and device management, and more.
Why do companies choose Rippling over TriNet?
The only PEO built for scale
Rippling is a technology company first, meaning we offer all the services of other PEOs while also providing automation software that seamlessly connects all of your HR and IT systems. And if you outgrow the PEO, you can switch to Rippling’s Unified Workforce Platform quickly and painlessly.
Transparent pricing and lower admin fees
Trinet is one of the most expensive PEOs in the industry, with some clients paying hundreds of dollars per W-2 per month in additional hidden fees. Rippling PEO keeps it simple: just pay a fixed-rate administrative fee and not a penny more.
More control over your employee experience
Unlike Trinet, which requires you show its entire suite of benefits plans to your employees, Rippling lets you curate a portfolio that makes sense for your business. Trinet also imposes its employee handbook on your employees—over your own handbook! Rippling, on the other hand, gives you the resources to build your own compliant handbook or use our prebuilt one.
We’re winning across the industry
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Rippling is rated higher across categories
According to 4,500+ real customers on G2 Crowd, Rippling ranks higher than TriNet across these categories.
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“I could spend 30, 60, 90 minutes pulling that together—or ask someone on the team to pull it together. Or I could spend 30 seconds writing a quick prompt and see what I get first.”
Brendan Woodroff
SVP People at Chess.com
30sec
To write a prompt for complex workforce report90min
saved for more strategic work
“Before Rippling, reporting on retention was basically inaccurate and manual. We could only make manual spreadsheet reports and filter out the transfers versus true terminated employees. Now we can just update their entity in Rippling and keep that data.”
Vanessa Sarne
Senior Director, Employee Relations at Barry’s
5min
employee onboarding5×
faster employee status changes
“The built-in AI feature is my smart personal assistant that helps me do my job. There’s also behind-the-scenes support Rippling provides that’s far superior to anything I’ve experienced before. I found myself saving 30-50% of my time spent on administrative tasks.”
Tatyana Veremyova
Director of Employment Compliance at Y Combinator
“What a lot of people forget is they just look at salaries and say, this is what it's costing our business. But when you add in the employer taxes, the benefits, provident fund contributions... I think people are surprised how much an employee really costs an employer.”
Sue Biglieri
CFO and COO at Kleiner Perkins
6hrs
saved building a fully burdened cost report with Rippling AI4
data sources consolidated into one
“If you're an HR professional at our size of company growth and don't have an in-house benefits team, the Rippling and Sequoia integration makes everything so easy… You make the decisions and leave it to the experts to figure all the details out.”
Gina Kim
Global Senior Director of People at Blank Street Coffee
40hr
saved every open enrolment
See how we stack up
See how Rippling compares to TriNet and learn how to get rid of your most tedious HR, IT, and Finance busy work with our unified system—from onboarding to offboarding, and everything in between.