Microsoft Entra ID vs. Rippling

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Entra ID
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Microsoft Azure Active Directory or Azure AD) is a cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution supporting restricted access to applications with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) built-in, single sign-on (SSO), B2B collaboration controls, self-service password, and integration with Microsoft productivity and cloud storage (Office 365, OneDrive, etc) as well as 3rd party services.
$6
per user/per month
Rippling
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Rippling’s platform for HR, IT, payroll, and spend management automates the entire employee lifecycle, ensures compliance, supports device management, and provides real-time financial visibility from a central dashboard.
$8
per month per user
Pricing
Microsoft Entra IDRippling
Editions & Modules
Premium P1
$6.00
per user/per month
Premium P2
$9.00
per user/per month
Recommended
$8.00
starting price per user, per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Entra IDRippling
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFor additional pricing details visit the Rippling pricing page.
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Community Pulse
Microsoft Entra IDRippling
Features
Microsoft Entra IDRippling
Identity Management
Comparison of Identity Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
8.5
114 Ratings
3% above category average
Rippling
-
Ratings
ID-Management Access Control8.9112 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)9.1112 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Factor Authentication9.1113 Ratings00 Ratings
Password Management8.2107 Ratings00 Ratings
Account Provisioning and De-provisioning8.4106 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Management Workflow Automation7.785 Ratings00 Ratings
ID Risk Management7.989 Ratings00 Ratings
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
Rippling
9.1
1054 Ratings
12% above category average
Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.9747 Ratings
Employment history00 Ratings8.9771 Ratings
Job profiles and administration00 Ratings9.2877 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings9.2780 Ratings
Organizational charting00 Ratings9.3916 Ratings
Organization and location management00 Ratings9.2812 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings9.0629 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
Rippling
9.3
1102 Ratings
13% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings9.4989 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings9.1690 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings9.0967 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings9.5971 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings9.4742 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings9.3648 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
Rippling
9.3
988 Ratings
13% above category average
Approval workflow00 Ratings9.4953 Ratings
Balance details00 Ratings9.3908 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings9.3675 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
Rippling
9.2
1150 Ratings
12% above category average
View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings9.41088 Ratings
Update personal information00 Ratings9.51136 Ratings
View company policy documentation00 Ratings9.4944 Ratings
Employee recognition00 Ratings8.7626 Ratings
View job history00 Ratings9.1816 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
Rippling
8.9
489 Ratings
11% above category average
Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings8.9489 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
Rippling
9.0
595 Ratings
18% above category average
Report builder00 Ratings8.8576 Ratings
Pre-built reports00 Ratings9.1545 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings9.2492 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
Rippling
9.4
819 Ratings
16% above category average
New hire portal00 Ratings9.5797 Ratings
Manager tracking tools00 Ratings9.3621 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
Rippling
9.1
478 Ratings
12% above category average
Corporate goal setting00 Ratings9.2412 Ratings
Individual goal setting00 Ratings9.0441 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings9.2408 Ratings
Performance tracking00 Ratings9.0433 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
Rippling
9.3
549 Ratings
16% above category average
Performance plans00 Ratings9.2484 Ratings
Performance improvement plans00 Ratings9.2458 Ratings
Review status tracking00 Ratings9.2487 Ratings
Review reminders00 Ratings9.5515 Ratings
Multiple review frequency00 Ratings9.4447 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
Rippling
9.1
405 Ratings
15% above category average
Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings9.2337 Ratings
Candidate ranking00 Ratings9.2347 Ratings
Candidate search00 Ratings9.2362 Ratings
Candidate development00 Ratings9.0344 Ratings
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Entra ID
-
Ratings
Rippling
9.1
462 Ratings
17% above category average
Job Requisition Management00 Ratings9.1369 Ratings
Company Website Posting00 Ratings9.1355 Ratings
Publish to Social Media00 Ratings9.2312 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings9.0323 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings9.1324 Ratings
Applicant Tracking00 Ratings9.0356 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings9.1434 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft Entra IDRippling
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(170 ratings)
9.2
(1164 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.6
(16 ratings)
9.0
(20 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(28 ratings)
9.4
(1162 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
7.1
(21 ratings)
9.2
(877 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
Online Training
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.6
(3 ratings)
7.8
(9 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(1 ratings)
6.4
(3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
7.4
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft Entra IDRippling
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Microsoft Entra ID provides powerful and reliable identity and access management capabilities that enhance secure authentication and authorization for cloud systems. Offer modern security features, including MFA, conditional access, and threat intelligence, to protect identities and prevent unauthorized access. Single Sign-On allows us to access multiple apps with just a single login.
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Rippling
Hmmm, this is a tricky one, as I was only really in charge of the LMS function. It is very well suited in the LMS section for a business that just needs basic e-learning building and a repository for company video content, a go-to for all things learning and education.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Single Sign-on helps ease the user experience, allowing users to avoid typing multiple passwords.
  • The identity and management are straightforward to use and easy to connect to other applications, as well as third-party applications.
  • The support of remote work. Nowadays, many people work from home and need to access their accounts. Microsoft Enterprise ID gives secure access to the company data.
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Rippling
  • Three different options to view the hours you've worked in a pay period. All three are valuable in their own way! I love this and use each one every week.
  • Rippling has the option to retroactively log your hours later if you forget to log in before you start work. I love this because sometimes I take a work call on the go and don't have time to clock in first. Such a handy feature!
  • Rippling has also made putting in time-off requests (sick/PTO/etc) so much easier. I'm sure every HR team would appreciate this!
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Cons
Microsoft
  • For larger organizations the policy management user interface gets complex
  • Security group nesting limitations - you cannot always nest groups within groups depending on the group types and use case
  • Price gets high if you need the enterprise or P2 premium licenses
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Rippling
  • Could clarify what is being asked when creating expense reports.
  • It could make 2FA more intuitive on mobile, such as allowing iPhone users to use Face ID as an alternative if the device is locked.
  • Overall avoid using too much jargon when asking questions.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
MSFT Entra ID has been essential for managing our geographically dispersed team. We're confident that it will scale with us as grow, and we'll be able to take advantage of additional security and ID management features as they become necessary. Being able to centrally manage our user access from anywhere with a small support team is such a relief.
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Rippling
The AI assistant has always been able to direct me to the correct solution to any question i have about Rippling. Payroll is so easy, it takes about 10 minutes to go through the process.
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Usability
Microsoft
Simply because of what I mentioned earlier, the feature set sort of keeps changing and they do a lot of, they integrated with a lot of the other tools and so for users who are not as well seasoned, it may be a little bit more complicated for them to begin working within the tool.
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Rippling
The user interface is very intuitive most of the time. It is easy to see where and how to navigate, edit, and interact with the software. The leave approval notification system (and associated communications) were the one area where this was not the case. Those were difficult processes to address. To be fair to Rippling, that is likely the result of our initial configuration - so user error on our part.
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
There has been a handful of outages but they have been either minimal or rarely severe
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Rippling
I like that the availability in using Rippling at any given time is useful to me. Getting on the site freely when I need gives me security of knowing that I can be in control of viewing health insurance and hours information. I have yet to get any errors in using the Rippling app.
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Performance
Microsoft
I could probably rate this a 10 but I'm always conservative on giving out perfect scored bt performance has not been a problem for us using Entra ID.
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Rippling
Rippling's performance has been great, no errors or glitches yet so far. I am confident that Going from one page to the next and all its complexity usage does not lag or times out, it works effectively and efficiently. While using Rippling and other apps it does not tend to slow it down, works great. No complaints.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
I have not needed to engage support for anything at this time. I have been able to find the answers either online or in a knowledgebase. I tried to skip the question but it would not let me, so I rated a 9 based on other interactions with Microsoft support I have had
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Rippling
When I did have to reach out to Rippling for assistance I was able to get quick help and my problem resolved in a time efficient manner with out any type of hick up. The customer support team is professional, kind and always available. This makes Rippling more welcoming to use on a daily basis.
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In-Person Training
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Rippling
The trainer went slow and and answered our questions.
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Online Training
Microsoft
Most training was internally produced
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Rippling
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Microsoft
Make sure you use a good partner. Our implementation was a bit longer and more problematic than we expected. Our partner got it done, but, in my opinion, some of their inexperience and staffing issues were evident.
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Rippling
It's really easy to implement in comparison to other tools or applications. Different key points are easily configured and implemented as per need, having different configurations in systems. Implementation is something which binds the different parameters of an organization in a single row. Implementation of rippling is much easier, quicker, and error free than any other software. I recommend it strongly!
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Yeah, so basically that product to be honest, was more of a getting comfortable with cloud identification management. So that was a product I used. It has all the policies for desktops and doing updates and all that central directory identity provisioning stuff for users. Users and I will have an advantage because right now you get it from the time you get email, you get it, it is there, right? I mean you don't have to pay for anything. And then Microsoft, depending on your interest file license you have Access to Defender and all of those other nice products that compliment Entra ID. So I think that Entra ID is more rich. There's more potential as the business scales if that other product, you can't really scale as much as it was good because I deal with a lot of small medium size enterprises. I do a lot of more consulting type firms. They don't have more than 20 consultants and they just need a system whether it's for their legal activities, finance activities, et cetera. But in terms of having an email is very important to so many companies. So it's so easy to use the Entra ID and easy to expand more value for money for clients.
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Rippling
We selected Rippling because of its cost and ease of use. Our experience with Workday was not positive and we wanted to avoid a repeat of an expensive contract that ultimately does not serve our needs well. I also have a friend who works as an account manager for Rippling who provided early insight into the relatively new product.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Microsoft
The features are getting addresses per requirements and their value for Money. The proposed ROI and actual ROI build confidence.
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Rippling
No answers on this topic
Scalability
Microsoft
Scalability is pretty trival for Entra ID. It's not difficult to manage a few or many accounts.
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Rippling
I can go on here and see all my hours and pto plus health benefits. I like to have the work handbook handy to refer to legal things. How to work my role within it's limits. Being able to put in my hours and view when they are approved is a huge benefit for me.
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Professional Services
Microsoft
Microsoft Professional Services' technical knowledge is appreciable as consultants design the solution as per customer requirements. Mapping of features per user specifications and assisting Customer IT engineers to implement so they can manage and administer the services.
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Rippling
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • I think it's had positive. It's enabled us to make authentication easier and more streamlined across the organization from frontline workers to back office workers.
  • It's allowed us to really adopt authentication policies and methods that suit that user and their work environment.
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Rippling
  • Routine things like PTO requests and document uploads now take a few clicks instead of hours of email back‑and‑forth. I’d estimate I spend at least half the time on those tasks compared to before, which frees me up to actually help employees.
  • What used to drag on for days now gets done in a morning - I've just asked them this now. New hires can log in, set up their tools, and start training almost immediately, so they’re productive much sooner.
  • Payroll and benefits errors used to pop up regularly, but now I almost never have to fix things or follow up on missing info. That means less stress for me and for everyone involved.
  • Having everything in one platform cuts out the “where did you send that?” and “who approves this?” questions. It feels like we’ve reduced our back‑and‑forth by at least a third.
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ScreenShots

Rippling Screenshots

Screenshot of the Rippling Dashboard: Employees' home for their payroll, benefits, documents, devices, expenses, and apps.Screenshot of Rippling Payroll: Runs payroll in 90 seconds. Pays employees and contractors around the world. Automatic tax filing.Screenshot of Rippling Benefits Administration: For the management of employees' Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, FSA, HSA, and commuter benefits.Screenshot of Rippling Single Sign-On: Employees can access all of their SaaS apps in one click from their Rippling dashboard.Screenshot of Rippling’s Time & Attendance platform. This integrates with the rest of the product suite so that when employees clock in, their approved hours automatically synced with payroll and accounting systems.Screenshot of Rippling Mobile Device Management: To manage employees' computers and devices 100% remotely.