# Deel vs Rippling (slim)

> Deel scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against Rippling's 60.8 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Rippling leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do hr employees. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Deel scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against Rippling's 60.8 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Rippling leads on agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do hr employees.

- Deel: B 69.1, rank #158 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.min.md
- Rippling: C 60.8, rank #341 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling.min.md
- Deel, good for A company that already runs HR, contractors, EOR or payroll on Deel and wants an agent to read the directory, update personal information, file and review time off, follow onboarding and fetch compliance documents. Ahead on Reliability, 88 against 62; Schema & documentation, 85 against 73; Payments & pricing, 30 against 5; Transparency & trust, 69 against 51. Also No incidents deducted, where Rippling loses 3 points for them.
- Rippling, good for An agent working for a company already on Rippling that needs scoped reads of people, organisation and time off data, and writes that wait for human review. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 75 against 65; Security & auth, 90 against 64.

| Category | Deel | Rippling |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 88 | 62 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 73 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 90 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 5 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 70 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Deel | Rippling |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Deel, Inc. | People Center, Inc. dba Rippling |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.letsdeel.com/rest` | `https://rest.ripplingapis.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Deel's platform terms. The Deel CLI on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary service under Rippling's customer terms and Developer Terms of Use. The JavaScript SDK on npm is Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 86 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-07 |
| Popularity | 17 npm/wk | 3.6k npm/wk |