Orla vs Rise
$49 a contractor, or one price for the company
Rise puts each contractor on a compliant contract and pays them from a balance you fund, at $49 a contractor a month. Orla pays the whole roster inside one mandate you sign, straight from your own wallet or bank, at one price for the company.
Rise's pricing and product pages read on 8 October 2026.
The one difference
A payroll you fund and schedule
or one mandate on your own accounts
Rise holds the funds as a registered money service business in the United States.
- DDeliveryMira$11,400 of $18,000By itself to $2,000
- TToolsAlex$2,650 of $3,000By itself
- MMarketingSam$1,900 of $6,000Pilot · day 12
- Over $10,000
- Both founders sign
- New payee
- Sanctions check, then an owner
- Invoice to a client
- Sent at your press
- No balance to fund
- Orla pays straight from your own Airwallex, PayPal or the account inside Orla, and prepares the payment in your own Revolut Business. Nothing is moved in ahead of time.
- A budget, not a schedule
- A monthly payout inside its budget pays by itself on its date. A new contractor, changed bank details or a month past the budget waits for a person.
- One price for the roster
- Ten contractors or forty, Orla's price is the same. Rise's grows by $49 with each one.
On autopilot
What goes by itself
and what still waits for you
Goes by itself
- A bill or a payout inside its budget in the mandate
- From Airwallex, PayPal or the account inside Orla
- An agent's card or API spend inside its cap
Waits for you
- A new payee, and bank details that changed
- Anything past a budget or a limit
- Every payment from Mercury, Slash, a Safe or a wallet you sign
The brakes above both
- $2,000 a payment and $10,000 a day until you change them
- Loosening a limit waits 24 to 72 hours
- One pause stops every payment at once
Side by side
What each one is
including the rows where Rise wins
The price
At your roster's size
before a single payment fee
a month, before any payment fee; Orla adds 0.25% of what the autopilot moves, at most $25 a payment
Rise's $49 is not a payout fee: it buys the contract, the checks and the tax reporting for each person. If you need that paperwork, it is the price of it. If your contractors already invoice you, Orla pays them all at one price.
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Where Rise is stronger
and when to pick it
- 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.
- 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 already invoice you, and you want the roster paid each month from your own wallet or bank by itself, at one price, in the same book as the bills.
- Use both if
- Rise carries the contracts and the compliance and Orla keeps the book: the money you fund Rise with leaves your account as a row and lands in Orla with the rest of the month.
Questions
Orla and Rise
the short answers
Does Rise pay contractors by itself?
Yes, on a schedule you set: one time, recurring or by milestone, from the balance you funded. Orla pays inside a budget you sign, from your own accounts, and stops for a person on a new payee or past the budget.
Does Orla write contracts or file 1099s?
No. Orla files no tax forms and is nobody's employer. If that is the job, Rise is the tool.
Is Orla cheaper than Rise?
For paying, yes: ten contractors on Rise are $490 a month; on Orla, Pro is $69 for the company plus 0.25% of what the autopilot moves, at most $25 a payment. Rise's price also buys the contracts and tax reporting Orla does not do.
Can contractors be paid in crypto?
Yes: USDC on Base, Ethereum, Polygon or Solana, from your own wallet or the account inside Orla. Rise pays in 100+ cryptocurrencies from its own balance.
Bring last month's roster
and we write the mandate around it
On a thirty minute call we draft your first mandate and show which of your accounts would pay by itself.