Compared

Orla vs Rise: $49 per contractor, or one price for the company

Rise puts contractors on compliant contracts, pays them in fiat or crypto and can be the legal employer. Orla keeps the book the payments belong to, and pays from your own wallet or bank under your rules.

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Rise's prices below were read on riseworks.io on 26 September 2026.

Side by side

What each one is, and who it counts

The honest version, including the rows where Rise wins.

	Orla	Rise
What it isIn one sentence	A finance back office up to pre-accounting, with contractor payouts as one part of it	Global payroll, contractor management and compliance, with Agent of Record and Employer of Record
PriceTheir pricing page, this month	Free forever; Solo $25, Pro $69, Scale $199, Enterprise $499 a month, bought on the site without a call	Global Contractor $49 per contractor a month; Agent of Record $299 per contractor; Employer of Record $399 per employee; Direct Payroll from $49; discounts for startups and non-profits
Ten contractorsOne month	Pro at $69, batch payouts and the breakdown of who was paid included; Scale at $199 when the team needs ten seats and several approval rules	$490 on Global Contractor
Legal employerWho contracts the person	No: you do	Yes, through Agent of Record and Employer of Record
Compliance and tax formsThe paperwork	None: Orla collects no tax forms and files nothing; it screens a crypto address and a counterparty before you pay	Compliance checks, compliant contracts and annual tax reporting; US payroll taxes, W-2s and 1099s on Direct Payroll
Where money leaves fromRails and reach	Your own bank as a payout rail (Revolut Business, Airwallex, Slash, Mercury), PayPal Payouts, and your own wallets on EVM, TRON and Solana	Rise's own rails: 190+ countries, 90+ local currencies and 100+ cryptocurrencies
The batchPayday	Up to 200 rows from a CSV, checked by the rule on its total and signed as one, on every plan; templates prepare the draft on schedule	Payroll runs; unlimited payrolls a month on Direct Payroll
AccountingThe handoff	A journal CSV for Xero and QuickBooks from Pro, $69 for the company; no sync	Payroll data synced to QuickBooks and Xero, among others
The rest of the bookAround the payroll	Bills by email, invoices paid by card, transfer or stablecoin, cards, exchanges and wallets with a cost basis, VAT periods and a tax centre	A payroll platform; the book stays in your accounting system
Free planBefore paying anything	Yes, with no card and no clock	None on the pricing page

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The arithmetic

What $49 per contractor buys

Not a payout fee: the contract, the checks and the tax reporting for that person.

On Rise: Ten contractors are $490 a month and twenty are $980, with the contract, the compliance check and the tax reporting for each, and the rails to pay them in 90+ currencies or in crypto. Agent of Record makes Rise the contracting entity, at $299 each.
On Orla: The batch is on every plan, and the breakdown of who was paid comes with Pro at $69 for the whole company, however many rows it carries; the money leaves from your own wallet or bank. Nobody stands between you and the contractor: no contract template, no classification check, no 1099.

If you need that paperwork, the $49 is the price of it, and it is not a price Orla competes with.

Fair is fair

Where Rise is stronger

A comparison you can trust has to be able to say this.

The legal side: compliant contracts, compliance checks, annual tax reporting, and on Agent of Record the misclassification risk moved onto Rise as the contracting entity.
Employer of Record: hiring an employee in a country where you have no entity, with benefits, insurance and HR support.
US payroll: federal, state and local taxes paid, IRS forms filed, W-2s and 1099s at year end. Orla files nothing anywhere.
Its own rails in 190+ countries, 90+ local currencies and 100+ cryptocurrencies. Orla pays what your wallet holds, or what your bank can send.

If your contractors need contracts and classification, or you are hiring abroad without an entity, Rise is the tool.

Where Orla is different

The book around the payroll, at one price

If any of this is your company, the comparison decides itself.

One price for the company: ten contractors or forty, the subscription is the same, and it is printed on the pricing page.
The batch under a rule: checked on the total so a payroll split into small rows needs the same signatures, and the proposer never signs their own batch.
The supplier's bill, the client's invoice paid in USDC, the exchange balance and the wallet in one ledger with the contractor payouts.
AML screening on an address before you pay it, and a cost basis kept through swaps for the accountant.
A company of one, anywhere: a sole trader paying two contractors is a customer, with no minimum roster.

The short answer

Who should pick which

Three honest cases, the third included.

Pick Rise if: contractors need compliant contracts and classification, you hire employees abroad without an entity, or you run US payroll with taxes and year-end forms.
Pick Orla if: your contractors are already in your address book with a wallet address or bank details, you pay them from your own wallet or bank in a batch you sign, and you want that batch in the same book as the bills and the exchanges.
Use both if: Rise carries the contracts and the compliance and Orla keeps the book: the Rise payout shows up on your bank statement or in your wallet history, and lands in Orla as a row.

Questions

The questions the table does not answer

Is Orla a Rise alternative for paying contractors in USDC?

For the payment, yes: a batch of up to 200 rows in USDT or USDC from your own wallet, checked by the approval rule on its total and signed as one, on every plan. For the contract, the classification check and the tax reporting, no: Orla does none of that, and Rise's $49 per contractor is what pays for it.

Does Orla handle contractor compliance, W-9 or 1099?

No. Orla is nobody's legal employer, collects no tax forms and files nothing anywhere. It screens a crypto address before you pay it and checks a counterparty, counted per plan, and it keeps the payment in the book for the accountant.

What does paying ten contractors cost on each?

Rise: $490 a month on Global Contractor at $49 per contractor, more on Agent of Record at $299 each. Orla: $69 a month on Pro for the company, batches and the breakdown of who was paid included, or $199 on Scale when the team needs ten seats and several approval rules; the money leaves from your own wallet or bank and carries that rail's own cost. Rise's prices as read on 26 September 2026.

Can Orla pay in 90 currencies like Rise?

Only what your connected bank or wallet holds. A batch from a bank pocket is in that pocket's currency; a batch from a wallet is in the wallet's coin or a token it holds. Rise converts and pays on its own rails in 90+ local currencies and 100+ cryptocurrencies.

Does Orla sync with QuickBooks the way Rise does?

No. Orla exports a period as double-entry journal lines in a CSV that Xero and QuickBooks import, with the account codes you mapped once; there is no login and nothing flows back. Rise syncs payroll data into QuickBooks and Xero.

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