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

URL: https://www.orla.finance/en/vs-rise
Markdown twin of that page. Append `.md` to any Orla page URL to get one.

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.

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

#### What each one is, and who it counts

- What it is (In one sentence): Orla: A finance back office up to pre-accounting, with contractor payouts as one part of it; Rise: Global payroll, contractor management and compliance, with Agent of Record and Employer of Record
- Price (Their pricing page, this month): Orla: Free forever; Solo $25, Pro $69, Scale $199, Enterprise $499 a month, bought on the site without a call; Rise: 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 contractors (One month): Orla: 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; Rise: $490 on Global Contractor
- Legal employer (Who contracts the person): Orla: No: you do; Rise: Yes, through Agent of Record and Employer of Record
- Compliance and tax forms (The paperwork): Orla: None: Orla collects no tax forms and files nothing; it screens a crypto address and a counterparty before you pay; Rise: Compliance checks, compliant contracts and annual tax reporting; US payroll taxes, W-2s and 1099s on Direct Payroll
- Where money leaves from (Rails and reach): Orla: Your own bank as a payout rail (Revolut Business, Airwallex, Slash, Mercury), PayPal Payouts, and your own wallets on EVM, TRON and Solana; Rise: Rise's own rails: 190+ countries, 90+ local currencies and 100+ cryptocurrencies
- The batch (Payday): Orla: 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; Rise: Payroll runs; unlimited payrolls a month on Direct Payroll
- Accounting (The handoff): Orla: A journal CSV for Xero and QuickBooks from Pro, $69 for the company; no sync; Rise: Payroll data synced to QuickBooks and Xero, among others
- The rest of the book (Around the payroll): Orla: Bills by email, invoices paid by card, transfer or stablecoin, cards, exchanges and wallets with a cost basis, VAT periods and a tax centre; Rise: A payroll platform; the book stays in your accounting system
- Free plan (Before paying anything): Orla: Yes, with no card and no clock; Rise: None on the pricing page

#### 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.

#### 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.

#### 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.

#### 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.

The free plan has no clock on it, connections are read only, and when you leave, your books leave with you.